What the records say
- When
- 19 Sep 1943
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 23
- Coordinates
- 44.33° N, 7.55° E
- Description
- world War II war crime
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Boves massacre
World War II war crime
The Boves massacre was a World War II war crime that took place on 19 September 1943 in the comune of Boves, Italy. The event took place following the Italian surrender on 8 September 1943. Twenty-three Italian civilians were killed and several hundred houses were destroyed by artillery fire of the Waffen-SS under the command of Joachim Peiper.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “massacre de Boves”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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