I read the article on World War II magazine also, and applaud the French for leaving the village in it's devastated condition as a reminder of the great evil that enveloped Europe in the 20th century. Horrors like this (and even worse) occurred in Belorussia and Ukraine...and in the Pacific islands during WWII and many times over, but were often not reported until after the war ended in 1945. One in particular comes to mind. In late 1943 as the Soviet army began to push the Nazis out of Russia one village at a time, they came upon a horrible scene in one town, where they discovered the corpses of many small children who had been used to provide blood transfusions to wounded german officers. They literally bled them to death. I saw this story on a DVD entitled 'The Road to Berlin.'
This is not something that is easily grasp by a rational human mind, so once again I am glad that there were cameras to witness such events for historical purposes.
Dogdaddy