Maillé massacre

When

25 Aug 1944

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

124

Coordinates

47.05° N, 0.58° E

Description

episode of mass murder in France

Mass murder by Nazis in France

The Maillé Massacre refers to the murder on 25 August 1944 of 124 of the 500 residents of the commune of Maillé in the department of the Indre-et-Loire. Following an ambush a few days before and in reprisals against activities of the French Resistance, Second Lieutenant Gustav Schlüter and his men organized the massacre and burnt the village. Forty-eight children were among the dead.

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