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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.