Ardenne Abbey massacre

متى

7 يونيو 1944

النوع

مجزرة

الوفيات

18

إحداثيات

49.20° N, 0.41° W

1944 execution of Canadian POWs by German troops near Caen, France

The Ardenne Abbey massacre occurred during the Battle of Normandy at the Ardenne Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery in Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe, near Caen, France. In June 1944, 20 Canadian soldiers were massacred in a garden at the abbey by members of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend over the course of several days and weeks.

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