Author: Steven P. Remy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067497722X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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During the Battle of the Bulge, Waffen SS soldiers shot 84 American prisoners near the Belgian town of Malmedy—the deadliest mass execution of U.S. soldiers during World War II. The bloody deeds of December 17, 1944, produced the most controversial war crimes trial in American history. Drawing on newly declassified documents, Steven Remy revisits the massacre—and the decade-long controversy that followed—to set the record straight. After the war, the U.S. Army tracked down 74 of the SS men involved in the massacre and other atrocities and put them on trial at Dachau. All the defendants were convicted and sentenced to death or life imprisonment. Over the following decade, however, a network of Germans and sympathetic Americans succeeded in discrediting the trial. They claimed that interrogators—some of them Jewish émigrés—had coerced false confessions and that heat of battle conditions, rather than superiors’ orders, had led to the shooting. They insisted that vengeance, not justice, was the prosecution’s true objective. The controversy generated by these accusations, leveled just as the United States was anxious to placate its West German ally, resulted in the release of all the convicted men by 1957. The Malmedy Massacre shows that the torture accusations were untrue, and the massacre was no accident but was typical of the Waffen SS’s brutal fighting style. Remy reveals in unprecedented depth how German and American amnesty advocates warped our understanding of one of the war’s most infamous crimes through a systematic campaign of fabrications and distortions.
Author: Danny S. Parker
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 0306811936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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From a leading expert comes the gripping tale of the largest single atrocity committed against American POWs on the Western Front in World War II.
Author: James J. Weingartner
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520036239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Author: John M. Bauserman
Publisher: White Mane Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781572492882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Experiences of soldiers and the German assault in the northern shoulder of the Battle of the Buldge.
Author: James J. Weingartner
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814793664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Willis M. Everett, Jr., a prominent Atlanta attorney, jeopardized his status as a member of the social elite to defend German members of the Nazi SS accused of a war crime in which a large number of American prisoners of war were murdered. Partially fuelled by an antisemitism that viewed the flaws in the investigation as signs of Jewish vengefulness, Everett was also deeply impressed by a major German defendant in the trial. Their bizarre relationship forms an intriguing component of this narrative. Includes bandw historical photos. Weingartner teaches history at Southern Illinois University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Steven P. Remy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674971957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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During the Battle of the Bulge, Waffen SS soldiers shot 84 American prisoners near Malmedy, Belgium—the deadliest mass execution of U.S. soldiers during World War II. Drawing on newly declassified documents, Steven Remy revisits the massacre and the most infamously controversial war crimes trial in American history, to set the record straight.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Congress. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governmental investigations
Languages : en
Pages : 1664
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Investigates WWII massacre of American soldiers at Malmedy, Belgium, and investigates allegations German soldiers confessed to the crimes under duress.
Author: John Bauserman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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This book describes the Malmedy Massacre in detail. Nine specially drawn maps, rare photographs, and unique information-packed appendices give the reader a special insight into the last months of the war in Europe and its aftermath.
Author: Charles Whiting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Drive on recklessly, give no quarter and take no prisoners; everything that comes into our sights should be mown down' - Jochen Peiper. Then the machine-guns started to chatter. The massacre had begun. The prisoners started to fall in groups, as other machine guns joined in the slaughter. They were completely defenseless. Some tried to make a break for it, but were mown down before they'd gone half a dozen yards. Wounded, dead and dying were everywhere in the bloody grass - still the machine guns went on. Ahrens summoned up the last of his strength and staggered off through the wet underbrush, dribbling blood behind him, heading for a town whose name would soon signify to the western world one thing only - massacre. The town called Malmedy. This is the story of the infamous massacre of World War II.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee Pursuvant to S. Res. 42
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Malmedy Massacre, 1944-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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