December 17, 1944

According to various verified accounts, the Germans opened deadly fire on the unarmed prisoners in a field, a barbarous retaliation killing of more than 84 in what came to be known as the Malmedy Massacre, which was outside of the International  Geneva accords

This  Malmedy massacre was a German war crime committed by soldiers of the Waffen-SS on 17 December 1944, at the Baugnez crossroads near the city of Malmedy, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge. Soldiers of Kampfgruppe Peiper summarily killed eighty-four U.S. Army prisoners of war who had surrendered after a brief battle. The Waffen-SS soldiers had grouped the  U.S. POWs in a farmer's field, where they used machine guns to shoot and kill the grouped POWs; the prisoners of war who survived the g

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