Memorial Execution 22 October 1941
This memorial (Monument aux 50 otages / Cours des 50 otages) commemorates the 50 hostages who were executed by the Germans on this location on 22 October 1941, as reprisal measurement for the killing of a German officer by the resistance.
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- Text: Fedor de Vries
- Photos: Adam Bishop
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