What the records say
- When
- 18 Aug 1944
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 19
- Coordinates
- 50.43° N, 4.36° E
- Description
- Episode of mass murder in Belgium
3 sources record it
- Wikidata: shootings and murdersWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Courcelles Massacre in retaliation for the assassination of the collaborationist mayor of Charleroi by the Belgian Resistance”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “tuerie de Courcelles”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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