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The Malmedy Massacre: One of WWII's Darkest War Crimes
On December 17, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, over 80 American POWs were brutally executed by Kampfgruppe Peiper, an SS Panzer unit, in what became known as the Malmedy Massacre. This horrific ...
The atrocity came to be called the Malmedy Massacre after its location at crossroads near the Belgian town. Its victims mostly were from Battery B, 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion.
One of the most shocking incidents of World War II for Americans -- a cold-blooded Nazi massacre of surrendering American troops -- gets weaponized against the United States by surviving Nazis ...
What happened next would become known as the infamous Malmedy Massacre. Just outside the ancient city of Malmedy, Belgium, a stone and wooden roadside memorial greets you, stark in its simplicity.