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[RubHer Yellow Ducky]

New Museum Opens in Belgium

Week of December 31, 2007
Stars and Stripes reports that a new museum called the Baugnez 44 Historical Center was recently dedicated near the city of Malmedy in eastern Belgium. The museum commemorates the massacre of 84 U.S. soldiers at the hands of a German SS Panzer unit during World War II. It also details other atrocities committed against U.S. forces and Belgian citizens. For more information on the Museum, visit the Baugnez 44 Historical Center - Baugnez (Belgium) webpage (http://www.pegww2.net/Pages/Baugnez.htm) and the Museum's website (in French). (http://www.baugnez44.be/fr/historique.php)
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[Big Dad]

This probably won't mean much to many, but thanks RYD, I'm planning a summer trip to Europe in a few more years. I'd like to visit as many of these as possible over that summer. This one's now on my list as well.

[KenP]

More:
This Museum is about the murder of 84 American POW's by SS men of Kampfgruppe Peiper during the Battle of the Bulge.
The defeat of the German troops was imminent.

Contrary to all expectations and the surprise of everyone, Hitler deployed all his troops in a powerful counter-offesnive on 16 December 1944 called the "Von Rundstedt Offensive".

The tanks of Colonel Peiper's Kampfgruppe (armoured battle group) of the 1st SS Panzer Division moved into the Region of Baugnez the very next day at the crack of dawn. The aim of this offensive was to gain possession of the bridges spanning the Meuse River in orderto reach Antwerp harbor via Li?ge city.

The Kampfgruppe's offensive in the Region has gone down as a terrible tragedy in the annals of history as a result of 84 American prisoners being machine gunned and killed at Baugnez/Malmedy crossroads.

The first momument to be built after the war was followed only a few years later by the present one.

Against the background of the region's duty to remember its past, the "Baugnez 44 Historical Center" has been inaugurated 63 years later on the actual site where the massacre took place. Materials, photographs, and films of the time brimming with history and feelings offer an insight into how the Battle unfolded.

[frenzy1]

Thanks for the info bro ! I'll definetely look up that place.

In my hometown, there's an WW1 american cemetary. Really worth a visit too !!

Flanders Field Cemetery :
http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/ff.php
http://www.abmc.gov/images/ff1w.jpg

[Agriv8r]

thanks for the post....