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French President Emmanuel Macron has emphasized Franco-German reconciliation as the foundation of a common Europe at the site of the worst Nazi massacre by SS troops in France during the World War II. “In this reconciliation lies the friendship between Germany and France and our Europe,” said Macron on Monday at a commemoration in Oradour-sur-Glane in western France, which was also attended by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. On June 10, 1944, members of an SS division killed 643 inhabitants and burned down the town in western France. “The massacres of Oradour belong to the realm of t…

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