BBC - Great Crimes and Trials Series 3 Set 2 (1995) Part 11 The Malmedy Massacre and Other Nazi War Crimes

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Part 11 The Malmedy Massacre and Other Nazi War Crimes

The cold-blooded massacre during the Battle of the Bulge of 124 US troops by Germany's elite 1st SS Panzer Division was the worst atrocity suffered by American forces during the Second World War. The Malmedy Massacre, or the shooting of 84 American soldiers who had surrendered, took place on December 17, 1944, the second day of the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, during the summer of 1945, the U.S. occupation authorities rounded up over 1,000 former soldiers in the 1st SS Panzer Division and interrogated them. Seventy-five of them were originally charged as war criminals in the Malmedy case. One of those who were charged was 18-year-old Arvid Freimuth who committed suicide in his cell before the trial started. Charges were dismissed against Marcel Boltz after it was learned that he was a French citizen. That left 73 men who were ultimately prosecuted by the American Military.

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