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Monument Victims Reprisal Herne

On 3rd September 1944 resistance fighters fired upon retreating Germans. A German officer was hit. As a reprisal the German troops executed 23 randomly selected men and boys from the village

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Text: Johan Spitaels
Photos: Johan Spitaels

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50.70385, 4.030558

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