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Tag : Attrocity

1944-08-12Sant'Anna di Stazzema

SS troops commanded Anton Galler, surrounded and entered Sant'Anna, rounded up approximately 560 men, women and children, murdered them and burnt their bodies.

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1944-06-10Oradour-sur-Glane

Troops from the 1st battalion, 4th Waffen-SS Panzer-Grenadier Regiment led by Sturmbannfuhrer Adolf Diekmann murder 190 men, 247 women and 205 children in retaliation for "partisan activity".

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1944-06-10Distomo Massacre

218 greek men, women and children are murdered in their homes by troops from 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division under the command of Fritz Lautenbach.

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1944-06-09Tulle Reprisals

Troops from the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich arrest, torture and hang 99 people in Tulle in reprisal for resistance activity in the area. 213 residents of Tulle are killed over the following days.

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1944-06-07Abbey Ardennes Massacre

18 captured Canadian soldiers of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders and the 27th Canadian Armoured Regiment were taken to Ardennes abbey and killed by members of the 12th SS Panzer Division.

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1944-03-24The Great Escape

76 prisoners of Stalag Luft III escape. 73 are subsequently recaptured and 50 are murdered by the Gestapo on Hitler's orders.

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1944-03-24Ardeatine massacre

335 civilians are led to a system of caves a rural suburb of Rome and murdered by SS troops. The massacre was in reprisal for a partisan attack on the previous day.

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1944-01-29Koniuchy massacre

Soviet partisan units attacked the village of Koniuchy. Men, women and children were massacred indiscriminately. According to the findings of the Institute of National Remembrance at least 38 people were killed and about a dozen injured

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1943-12-13Kalavryta Massacre

Extermination of the male population and the subsequent total destruction of the town of Kalavryta, in Greece, by German occupying forces.

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1943-11-19Janowska

Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.

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