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Nazi troops under Joachim Peiper killed unarmed prisoners of war, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, with machine guns near Malmedy, Belgium.
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SS officer and war criminal
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Malmedy massacre
1944 German war crime
The 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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Battle of the Bulge
World War II battle, 1944–1945
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Malmedy
City in Liège Province, Wallonia, Belgium
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