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mahatmakanejeeves

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Mon Aug 12, 2024, 06:08 AM Aug 2024

On this day, August 12, 1944, German troops ended the week-long Wola massacre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

• 1944 – World War II: In Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy, the Waffen-SS and the Brigate Nere murdered about 560 local villagers and refugees and burned their bodies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_12

• 1944 – Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people are killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.
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