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I speak about this, but there were other incidents of Canadian POWs being murdered in Normmandy,
Who murdered Canadian pows in the Normandy? How many? When, where and who exactly did do so?
the Abbey killings were done by officers from the 12th SS Hitler Jugend young Nazi fanatics,
A fantasy name. Hitlerjugend and SS are two totally different organisations. In the Hitlerjugend every male German child and teenager had to be anbd the SS had been a private army of the NSDAP ... okay ... one moment ... I took a look now. "Hitlerjugend" was in this case a name ... how for example a ship which is named "London" is not London. The name was 12. SS-Panzer-Division „Hitlerjugend“. The main factor had been the so called Leibstandarte SS „Adolf Hitler“ (shorter: "LSSAH").
Here a summary from the German Wikipedia translated in English. They do not report about war crimes on Canadians but about war crimes on British and US-American pows.
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The LSSAH bears responsibility for numerous war crimes on the Eastern and Western Fronts. The unit began to do so only a few weeks after the invasion of Poland. Among other incidents, Hauptsturmführer Hermann Müller-John and his men went on a "Jew hunt" west of Warsaw on the night of September 18/19, 1939. In the process, 50 Jewish civilian prisoners were shot. The killing spree was so gruesome that Müller-John was subsequently arrested by a Wehrmacht unit and was to be court-martialed. Müller-John then sent a telegram to the commander Josef Dietrich, in which he on the one hand discussed his statements to the investigating authorities with him and on the other hand asked for help. Dietrich insisted on the release of Müller-John. The latter was finally released on Hitler's orders. Other known acts of murder include the shooting of some 80 to 100 British prisoners of war at Wormhout in 1940, the murder of 34 French civilians at Tavaux and Plomion (which also involved soldiers of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth"), and the Malmedy Massacre (December 17, 1944), in which 72 American prisoners of war were shot. Also, soldiers of the division murdered 11 African-American U.S. soldiers in the Wereth Massacre in December 1944.On the Eastern Front, the division killed a large number of wounded and prisoners during the recapture of Kharkov.
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source: Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler – Wikipedia
commander Kurt Panzer Meyer former officer from the 1st SS Div Leibstandarte. the POWs were killed one at a time with a bullet in the back of their heads.
"Panzer" means "tank", so his name had been Kurt Meyer, nickname: "Panzermeyer".
Ardenne Abbey massacre - Wikipedia
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Sorry: But I do not read English textes about world war 2. That's in very most cases only a waste of time for me because it is difficult in such textes to seperate truth, half-truth and nonsense. Here again a German text translated into English:
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In the Abbaye d'Ardenne massacre near Caen, 18 Canadian prisoners were executed by the Waffen-SS during Operation Overlord on June 7 and 8, 1944. As a result, there were further killings of prisoners of war on both the Allied and German sides.
One day after the Allied landings in Normandy, on June 7, SS-Standartenführer Kurt Meyer, commander of the 25th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth," moved into his headquarters at the Abbaye d'Ardenne, a medieval abbey near the village of Villons-les-Buissons. Meyer ordered a counterattack against the Canadians advancing in the Buron/Authie area by the North Nova Scotia Highlanders unit, supported by tanks of the 27th Canadian Armour Regiment (the Sherbrooke Fusiliers). In the battle, which was victorious for the Germans, the Waffen-SS took numerous prisoners who were removed from the battle area. 27 prisoners were then executed at the Abbaye d'Ardenne between June 8 and 17. The first executions took place as early as the night of June 7-8, when 11 Canadians selected from the group were shot; on June 8, another seven Canadians were shot after being questioned at Meyer's headquarters, all in succession by shots to the head. Before the execution, they all shook hands once again. The main witness to the executions was Polish SS soldier Jan Jesionek. Most of the bodies were not discovered until the spring of 1945. Probably two more Canadians were executed at the abbey on June 17. The Abbaye d'Ardenne was abandoned a month later, on the night of July 8-9, after a successful attack by Canadians of Meyer's Regina Rifles Regiment.
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To inform you: More than 30% of the SS had been since 1942 no Germans.
And here the curriculum vitae from Kurt Meyer. He was a real Nazi as far as I can see. He had been always only an SS member. I do not understand why you did not execute him in this murderous time.
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Kurt Meyer joined the Mecklenburg State Police in 1929, became a member of the NSDAP in 1930, and joined the Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler" in Berlin as a platoon leader on May 15, 1934. There he attended courses at the Army Tank Troop School in Döberitz. On October 1, 1936, as SS-Obersturmführer, he took over the formation of the Leibstandarte's tank destroyer company, which he led in Poland in 1939. In October 1939, as SS-Hauptsturmführer, he took over the 15th Kradschützenkompanie, which he commanded in France. In August 1940, he became commander of the reconnaissance division of the Leibstandarte. He led this division during the Balkan campaign. On April 12, 1941, after heavy fighting, the division stormed the Klidi Pass, and on April 20, 1941, the Greek Epirus Army surrendered to the Leibstandarte. For his services in this advance, he was awarded the Knight's Cross on May 18, 1941. From June 1941 he participated with his division in the Russian campaign. In February 1943, he again distinguished himself personally in the fighting near Kharkov, when he played a decisive role in the destruction of the Russian VI Soviet Guard Cavalry Corps. For this he was awarded the oak leaves as SS-Obersturmbannführer on February 23, 1943. In the summer of 1943 he was ordered to the SS Panzer Troop School, where he was promoted to SS-Standartenführer on 21 June 1943. From July 1943 he took part in the formation of the 12th SS Panzer Division in Belgium. Meyer became commander of SS Panzergrenadier Regiment 25, which was deployed to Normandy in June 1944. On 16 June 1944, he took over the 12th SS Panzer Division after the death of SS Brigadeführer Fritz Witt. He was awarded the Swords for the division's defensive achievements on August 27, 1944. At the same time he was promoted to SS-Oberführer. In the Falaise Cauldron the division was almost completely wiped out. On September 6, 1944, he was taken prisoner by the Americans in Namur, where he was promoted to SS-Brigadeführer on January 31, 1945. While in captivity, he was sentenced to death for war crimes by a Canadian court-martial. He was responsible for the shooting of prisoners near his command post at the Ancienne Abbaye Ardenne monastery. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he was released on September 7, 1954. He died of a heart attack on his 51st birthday.
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