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 (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945).

In World War II, Nazi Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940 and rapidly defeated and occupied Belgium for a second time. On 18 May, Eupen-Malmedy was re-integrated into Germany while the rest of the country remained under military occupation. [19]

It was the German paratroopers' only nighttime drop during World War II. The pilots dropped some behind the German front lines, others over Bonn, and only a few hundred behind the American lines, in widely scattered locations.

Eupen-Malmedy is the name given to the two districts that Germany ceded to Belgium in 1920 as a consequence of the Treaty of Versailles. This cession and the semblance of a “referendum”, organised in 1920, turned the territory into a Belgian-German conflict space during the …

In the winter of 1944-1945, within Belgium’s Ardennes Forest, better known as the launching pad of the Battle of the Bulge, two war crimes were committed. The better known one—the “Malmedy Massacre”—resulted in the deaths of at least 85 defenseless GIs who surrendered.

2017年12月5日 · This book examines the history of Belgium’s annexation of the former German territories of Eupen and Malmedy during the interwar period.

Through the winter forest, Colonel Smythe set out in a jeep and soon he ran into roads with American troops and guns retreating into Eupen. The Colonel speedily organized these retreating troops around the center of his own 47th Regiment and was given unqualified command of all the troops in the area.

Mai 1940 annektierte das „Großdeutsche Reich“ das Gebiet der 1920 an Belgien abgetretenen Kantone Eupen, Malmedy und Sankt Vith. Ein Verwaltungsdekret vom 29. Mai 1940 brachte zusätzlich die Annexion von „Zehn Gemeinden“ (im Nordosten der Provinz Lüttich sowie in der Provinz Luxemburg), die zuvor nie zu Deutschland gehört hatten.

On December 17, 1944, after a short battle, 150 American GI’s were taken prisoner just outside the Belgian town of Malmedy and herded into a field by an infamous German SS division led by one of the Nazi’s most brutal commanders. The unarmed American POWs were gunned down. It was the largest single massacre of American troops in Europe in WWII.

Mit dem Einmarsch der alliierten Truppen in Eupen endeten am 11. September 1944 vier Jahre Besetzung durch das NS-Regime. Im Laufe der folgenden Monate wurde die Region zum wichtigen Schauplatz der Westfront. Sowohl während der Besatzungszeit als auch im Jahr danach blieb Eupen von Zerstörung verschont.