Cologne school massacre

When

11 Jun 1964

Kind

Murder

Killed

11

Coordinates

51.02° N, 6.89° E

Description

June 1964 school massacre in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany

Injured

22

1964 mass murder at an elementary school in Cologne, West Germany

The Cologne school massacre was a mass murder that occurred at the Catholic elementary school located in the suburb of Volkhoven in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, on 11 June 1964. The perpetrator, Walter Seifert, also known as "Der Feuerteufel von Volkhoven", attacked the people at the school with a home-made flamethrower and a spear, killing eight pupils and two teachers, and wounding twenty-two othe…

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• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Ein Frührentner verübt in Köln an einer Schule das Flammenwerfer-Attentat von Volkhoven, das zwei Lehrerinnen und acht Schülern das Leben kostet”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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