In my last post, I wrote about the death of Harold Billows who is believed to be the last living survivor of what is known today as the Malmedy Massacre. I had never heard of this before, so further research was necessary.
From Wikipedia.
THE MALMEDY MASSACRE
This was a German war crime committed by soldiers of the Waffen-SS on 17 December 1944 at the Baugnez Crossroad near the Belgium city of Malmedy, during the Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945).
Soldiers of the Kampfgrippe Peiper summarily killed eighty-four American prisoners of war who had surrendered after a brief battle. The Waffen-SS troops had grouped the U.S. POWs in a farmer's field, where they used machine guns to shoot and kill them. Those surviving the shootings were then shot in the head to finish the job.
Fortunately, there were 43 Americans who survived.
--GreGen
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