The malpierre

Municipality of Champigneulles

A cursed place with a predestined name, it was chosen by the Nazi occupiers as the culmination of their sinister operations. This deserted spot, lost in the forest but not far from Nancy, where a firing range already existed, was the setting for the firing squad, the final horizon for those who died alone, without any comfort, without any words of farewell. How many fell there, far from their family and friends? No one will ever know for sure. La Malpierre would ultimately be the setting for the tragic end of at least 62 resistance fighters. A stele was erected there after the war, and every year a commemorative ceremony commemorates the victims. The monument reads: "Here the Germans shot the Resistance soldiers who hoped and fought. Passerby, collect your thoughts."