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	MALMEDY and McCARTHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But the public has been kept in almost complete ignorance of the U.S. Army trials at Dachau of minor German "war criminals," where both the methods of investigation and the trials were far worse than at Nuremberg; and which established a precedent for the mistreatment of our prisoners of war in Korea.
		The majority of the young men sentenced by the U.S. Army Court at Dachau for the Malmedy Massacre were neither Nazis nor officers, but teen-age enlisted men and young non-commissioned officers.
		In 1953, two of the Army's investigators at Dachau were arrested in Vienna as Soviet spies.
	www.fredautley.com /malmedy.htm (1871 words)

	Dachau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dachau is an attractive city in southern Germany, in the federal state of Bavaria.
		Dachau was founded in the 8th century, and was the home of many artists during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		Dachau is best known for the proximity of the relatively well-preserved site of the infamous Dachau concentration camp, the first large-scale concentration camp in Germany, converted from an old gunpowder factory by the Nazi regime in 1933.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dachau (169 words)

	Dachau massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dachau Massacre took place in the Dachau concentration camp, near Dachau, Germany, on April 29, 1945 during World War II.
		The incident happened following the surrender of Dachau concentration camp to soldiers of the 45th Division of the US Seventh Army.
		The last leader of the camp's prisoners was Oskar Müller (an anti-fascist), who later became minister of labor for Hessia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dachau_Massacre (427 words)

	The Malmédy Massacre Trial
		The most controversial of the Dachau proceedings, and the one that is still discussed to this day, is the infamous Malmedy Massacre case against the Waffen-SS soldiers who were accused of the murder of American Prisoners of War and Belgian civilians during the intense fighting of the Battle of the Bulge.
		Dachau was selected as the site for the German war crimes proceedings that were conducted solely by the American military, partly because of the abundant housing available at the former concentration camp and the huge SS Training Camp there, but primarily because it was the place most associated with German atrocities in World War II....
		Jochen Peiper, the main one of the 73 accused in the Malmedy Massacre Military Tribunal proceedings, was not a member of the Nazi party, although he joined the Hitler Youth as a young boy and then, at the age of 19, applied for admission to the elite Waffen-SS in 1934.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/ww2/malmedy2.html (3950 words)

	Dismal World \| Must-See: The Holocaust and Mass Murders in World History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Massacre at Hue was an incident in the Vietnam War that occurred during North Vietnam's occupation of the city of Hue during the Tet Offensive.
		The Bleiburg massacre was a massacre that happened near the end of World War II, during May 1945, near the village of Bleiburg on the Austrian-Slovenian border.
		Massacre of Praga (sometimes referred to as Battle of Warsaw of 1794) refers to the Russian assault of Praga, the easternmost suburb of Warsaw, during the Kosciuszko Uprising in 1794.
	www.fiscalstudy.com /2005-global-photo/0124-holocaust-and-mass-murders.php (3140 words)

	History of the Dachau Concentration Camp
		Prisoners and Dachau citizens revolting against the SS As the war goes on, other camps are established, such as the camp in Allach close to the BMW plant.
		Moreover, the old detainees of the Dachau camp soon need to fear for their own lives, although the front of the Americans does not seem to be far away and the thunder of the shells can be heard quite close: the typhoid fever is raging in the camp.
		They join with a group of citizens of Dachau directed by the previous camp inmates Georg Scherer and Walter Neff, who are trying to stop the planned death marches.
	members.aol.com /zbdachau/history/eng4.htm (945 words)

	Massacres: Selected Links to Resources
		The Daejon Massacre - At the outbreak of war in 1950, one of the first acts of the Rhee regime was to order the execution of political prisoners, whose deaths were in due course attributed to atrocities by the incoming northern forces.
		Massacre in West Papua A first-hand account By Mike Head 20 November 1998 Thanks to the efforts of two Australian aid workers, reports have begun to appear in the media of a ferocious massacre carried out by the Indonesian military regime in the West Papuan town of Biak on July 6.
		Massacre At Tunaja A Small Indian Village in the Department of Quiché, Guatemala C.A. MILITARY COURT BLOCKS MASSACRE PROBE: Prosecutor General Ramses Cuestas says a military judge is impeding the investigation of an October 5 massacre of 11.
	www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~dbertuca/Massacres.html (5666 words)

	Massacres and Atrocities of WWII in the Axis Countries
		Massacres and Atrocities of World War II - page 3 of 4 - within the countries of Germany and Italy.
		At the time of the massacres, a state of war existed between Great Britain and Croatia and therefore these victims should have been granted prisoner-of-war status after their surrender and entitled to proper treatment under the Geneva Convention.
		Many massacres of prisoners of war were committed by units of the American 45th (Thunderbird) Division during the invasion of Sicily in 1943.
	members.iinet.net.au /~gduncan/massacres_axis.html (11325 words)

	Post-Conflict Justice Symposium: The Idaho Connection
		The massacre had occurred on December 17, 1944, during Germany's last major offensive of the war.
		One posits that the orders given to the lead units in the offensive were to "take no prisoners." Another theory holds that the prisoners were being shuttled to the rear of the advancing German column, and that a chaotic, tense scene led to a regrettable accident of war.
		Ellis supervised the assembling of the alleged perpetrators of the Malmédy Massacre, and the gathering of evidence.
	www.law.uidaho.edu /default.aspx?pid=66263 (1718 words)

	CODOH /Bradley R. Smith / AnswerMan: Gas Chambers at Dachau?
		This is all laid out in grisly detail in Col. Howard A. Buechner's "Dachau: The Hour of the Avenger", which also makes it clear that this war crime was committed by American GI's after discovering what they thought was a "gas chambers" in the crematorium at the camp.
		Indeed, the proof of this contention is shown by the alterations to the crematorium that at first glance appear out of place: the gas-tight steel door to the shower room, the peephole in the wall adjacent to it, the window apertures with gas-tight shutters, and so on.
		In other words, the crematorium at Dachau, like the crematoria at Birkenau, had a potentially threefold function: cremation, delousing and disinfestation, and gas protection and decontamination in the event of a poison gas attack.
	www.codoh.com /answer/ansdachau.html (769 words)

	Document -- When ethnic cleansing is justified (1/9/2004)
		About half of the acts of massacre were part of Operation Hiram [in the north, in October 1948]: at Safsaf, Saliha, Jish, Eilaboun, Arab al Muwasi, Deir al Asad, Majdal Krum, Sasa.
		All told, if we take all the massacres and all the executions of 1948, we come to about 800 who were killed.
		In comparison to the massacres that were perpetrated in Bosnia, that's peanuts.
	www.historiography-project.com /documents/20040109bennymorris.html (2369 words)

	GIs Violate Geneva Conventions in Executions at Dachau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The German soldiers/guards at the Dachau, Buchenwald and Mauthausen camps were simply massacred after the camps were taken by the Americans in the final weeks of the war.
		Of the 560 German soldiers massacred at Dachau, 200 of them from the Waffen-SS Division Wiking, who were in Dachau resting from fighting the Red Army on the Eastern Front.
		At worst, the massacres at Dachau, Buchenwald and Mauthausen were ordered by senior US Army personnel so that there would be no voices able to tell the truth about what happened at these camps.
	www.the7thfire.com /new_world_order/zionism/holocaust/executions_at_dachau.html (1189 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Entertainment - Movies - Teacher jailed for making revisionist Nazi film
		Disputing evidence of eyewitness survivors, the former teacher denied that the SS deliberately killed more than 350 women and children after rounding them up and ordering them into the village church, arguing that the deaths were due to explosives concealed in the church by members of the French Resistance active in Oradour.
		A rusting bicycle, a flened iron bedstead and the charred wreckage of a baby carriage are still standing as a chilling reminder of the horrific events of that spring afternoon when Hitler’s troops razed the village to the ground and murdered its inhabitants.
		Among the 60 troops who perpetrated the massacre were 14 French nationals from the eastern region of Alsace, of whom all but one had been conscripted by force.
	news.scotsman.com /movies.cfm?id=658752004 (900 words)

	Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		An act of revenge for a partisan attack, this was an atrocity that was initially covered-up by the troops involved.
		According to Judge Eberhard Rinne of the Federal Supreme Court of Justice of Germany, “This massacre is one of the most despicable crimes of the Second World War.” However, the recent court ruling ruled that they would not grant reparation claims to the Greek civilians of Distomo.
		Dachau: April 29, 1945 –; An Orthodox Christian Memorial explores the historical event whereby hundreds of Orthodox Christian prisoners celebrated the Easter Resurrection service at Dachau, just days after the concentration camp was liberated by the U.S. military.
	www.hellenicmuseum.org /programs/distomo.html (587 words)

	Dachau - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Dachau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dachau is a city in southern Germany, in the federal state of Bavaria.
		Just 20 km away from Munich, it has become a popular housing area for people working in Munich, and now has roughly 40,000 inhabitants.
		Unfortunately, Dachau is best known for the proximity of the relatively well-preserved site of the infamous Dachau concentration camp, the first large-scale concentration camp in Germany, built by the Nazi regime in 1933.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Dachau.html (147 words)

	Alibris: Dachau
		"Justice at Dachau" is the story of William Denson and the trials at Dachau, written as a compelling narrative history that weaves in personal stories, courtroom drama, and firsthand documents and photos from the trials.
		Demonstrating how the past affects the present, Marcuse traces the history of Dachau from the beginning of the 20th century through its 12 years as Nazi Germany's premier concentration camp to the camp's postwar uses as a prison, residential neighborhood, and, finally, museum and memorial site.
		Journalist Timothy Ryback explores the surprising and often disturbing ways the citizens of Dachau go about their lives in a city the rest of the world associates with gas chambers and mass graves.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Dachau (613 words)

	The Holocaust Chronicle PROLOGUE: Roots of the Holocaust, page 519
		This SS Death's Head emblem found at the Dachau, Germany, concentration camp exemplifies the deadly cruelty of those who chose to wear it.
		The slaughter was in retaliation for a partisan attack that had resulted in the deaths of 33 German troops on Via Rasella in Rome.
		SS Captain Erik Priebke, who led the Caves massacres, was extradited from Argentina to Italy in 1996.
	www.holocaustchronicle.org /StaticPages/519.html (508 words)

	The Belmont Club: Dachau, 1945
		The entire point of the foregoing is to establish the fact that Jews were executed in Dachau and in such horrible numbers as to spark this spontaneous "war crime", if you want to call it that, occasioned by the sight.
		Having established that Dachau at least existed, I still cannot sympathize with the Holocaust Denial Laws under which historian David Irving was convicted.
		Dachau was one of the earliest camps established by the Nazis, used for dissidents and political prisoners.
	fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com /2006/02/dachau-1945.html (8827 words)

	War’s insanity afflicted soldiers - December 21, 2003
		The little-known massacre of unarmed noncombatants on April 29, 1945, is the subject of a book by former World War II Army intelligence officer David Israel, 76, of Medford.
		The thunderbird, a Native American totem of happiness, was the insignia of the 45th Infantry Division, whose I Company (of the 157th Infantry) members committed the act.
		The machine-gunner at the Dachau killings, John Lee, then 19, now dead, described the mental state of the soldiers (but not the massacre) in a newspaper story years ago.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/2003/1221/local/stories/05local.htm (1777 words)

	Axis History Forum :: View topic - Alleged massacre of POWs at Webling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His son and the grandson are still alive and can tell you the whole incident.If you take a trip to Dachau you may visit the farmers and speak to them, they will tell you what happened on their ground.Then you may visit the little memorial, build on the place the massacre happened.
		His son and the grandson are still alive and can tell you the whole incident.If you take a trip to Dachau you may visit the farmers and speak to them, they will tell you what happened on their ground.
		Georg Scherer (1906-1985) was a German and former KZ inmate of Dachau who later became the mayor of the town.
	forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=51148 (5092 words)

	Dachau Concentration Camp - Liberation April 29,1945 Timeline Dachau
		Buechner hears the sound of machine gun fire and arrives at the scene of the massacre just minutes after the photo above is taken.
		SS rifle range at Hebertshausen near Dachau where thousands of Soviet prisoners of war were executed in 1941 and 1942.
		In September 1986, more than 40 years after the massacre at Dachau, retired U.S. Army Colonel Howard Buechner published the first hardcover edition of his long-suppressed book, "The Hour of the Avenger," detailing the grisly events of April 29, 1945.
	www.humanitas-international.org /archive/dachau-liberation (1652 words)

	Edward Landau
		In February of 1944, this camp too was liquidated and Landau was fortunate enough to escape the ensuing Szebna massacre, one among the 105 people selected by the SS to be spared.
		In March of 1945, with the Allies closing in, Landau and others were moved to Dachau in Munich, Germany.
		From the time the Germans took over Poland in 1939, we Jews became their commodity, their possession and the SS and Gestapo could do with us whatever they wanted to do and that's exactly what they did.
	vm.uconn.edu /~ww2oh/el3.htm (1152 words)

	Croats jailed for Muslim massacre
		FIVE Bosnian Croats were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six to 25 years yesterday for their role in the massacre of 116 Muslims in one of the worst atrocities of the Bosnian war.
		The massacre in the village of Ahmici in 1993 was discovered shortly after it happened by Col Bob Stewart, the officer commanding British forces in the western Bosnian sector.
		Presiding Judge Antonio Cassese called the Ahmici massacre "not a combat operation, but rather a well-organised killing of civilian members of one ethnic group by the military of another ethnic group".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/01/15/wbos15.html (682 words)

	R. Aschenauer, Zur Frage einer Revision der Kriegsverbrecherprozesse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The trial records of this group of Dachau cases show that 74 of the accused were tried; 73 were convicted on the basis of confessions signed by the accused or statements by coaccused.
		It was called to the subcommittee's attention that everyone agreed that the Malmedy massacre occurred, that it was an atrocious and unexcusable war crime, and that those who were guilty of this atrocity should be punished.
		When his answers before our subcommittee appeared directly contradictory to those he made at Dachau and when he was questioned as to when he was telling the truth — at Washington or at Dachau — he retorted that he was telling the truth at both times.
	www.vho.org /D/zferdk/4.html (8706 words)

	Draft Lottery & Dachau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In late 1945 his battalion was moved near the notorious Dachau prison, former concentration camp where a quarter of a million people--Jews and other enemies of the Hitler regime--had been tortured, starved, and killed.
		After the surviving inmates were freed and taken under the wing of the Red Cross, the U.S. Army had moved 20,000 German S.S. officers to Dachau, turning it into a temporary internment camp until the Nuremberg Trials would decide whether these S.S. leaders were to be judged, collectively, as war criminals or not.
		As we drove toward Munich, he told me he would like to see the old prison and also see if we could find the castle in which he and his men had bivouacked while they were running the prison.
	www.stanfordalumni.org /travelswithrico/55Dachaufoto.htm (2803 words)

	New Statesman - Twentieth Century Statesman
		Every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday the grey police van collects the men bound for Dachau from the police prison at Ettstrasse and from the headquarters of the Political Police at Brienerstrasse.
		Another prisoner was beaten to death by SS men, while one of them burnt the victim in the face with his lighted cigarette.
		The uncertainty of the duration of their confinement in Dachau makes many prisoners try to commit suicide.
	www.consider.net /forum_new.php3?newTemplate=SS20CStatesman&Action=Display&newDisplayURN=199911290045 (870 words)

	Robert Fisk Article 07.04.02
		Tuesday is Holocaust Day in Israel: and the anniversary of a 1948 massacre that triggered the Palestinian refugee crisis at the heart of today's conflict.
		And here it was, 54 years ago, that up to 130 Palestinians were massacred by two Jewish militias, the Irgun and the Stern Gang, as the Jews of Palestine fought for the independence of a state called Israel.
		After his liberation by the Americans, Josef Kleinman made his way to Italy and then to a small boat which put him aboard a ship for Palestine, carrying illegal Jewish immigrants who were to try to enter the territory of the dying British mandate.
	www.robert-fisk.com /articles62.htm (1239 words)

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