Memorial Complex Ascq Massacre
On this platform, 92 men from Ascq were murdered in the night from 1 to 2 April 1944, by the 12. SS-Panzer-Division „Hitlerjugend", as reprisal measurement after a bomb-attack on the railway.
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Source
- Text: Fedor de Vries
- Photos: Jiel Beaumadier (1), Pierre André (2)
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