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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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Source

  • Text: Johan Spitaels
  • Photos: Johan Spitaels

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