"The Enlightenment" wrote in message
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The "Malmedy Massacre" is argued by others to be a hoax invented by
wartime
sensation-mongers. During the Battle of the Bulge, a unit of the 1st
Panzer
Division killed over 80 GIs during a fire fight. The American dead were
laid
out in rows in the snow, but the Germans were forced to withdraw from
Malmedy before the dead soldiers were buried. Allied propagandists blew
this
event up into a major atrocity story, claiming that the Americans had been
taken prisoner and then lined up and shot. Several Germans were tried
after
the war for their participation in this war crime.

Found guilty, then?

A rather poor decision to strand 2 SS Panzer divisions on the wrong side of
enemy lines out of fuel, especially when having murdered Americans on the
way West.