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appalachiablue

(43,135 posts) Thu Dec 17, 2020, 08:02 PM Dec 2020

Last edited Fri Dec 18, 2020, 05:37 AM - Edit history (1)

Steve Domitrovich, age 90, last survivor of the Malmedy Massacre, Dec. 17, 1944, Battle of the Bulge, Belgium. (2014). In a field in Belgium, 84 American POWs were massacred by German Waffen SS troops.

SD Story & obituary, Jan. 14, 2017. https://www.timesonline.com/c1934608-df53-11e6-b72b-c7e4c1fced32.html

Read More, Malmedy Massacre, https://democraticunderground.com/1016280114

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Steve Domitrovich, Last Survivor Malmedy Massacre, Dec. 17, 1944, Battle of the Bulge WWII [View all] appalachiablue Dec 2020 OP

The SS also did this on the eastern front, desperate and vicious. appalachiablue Dec 2020 #2

IIRC, the USSR had not signed the Geneva Convention GopherGal Dec 2020 #6

Sounds right sorry to say appalachiablue Dec 2020 #10

One of the terms of the Geneva Convention gladium et scutum Dec 2020 #11

He passed at age 94. Surrounded by family. irisblue Dec 2020 #3

Thank you, he was in very good shape in the video appalachiablue Dec 2020 #8

Thanks. 90 wasn't adding up for me. yonder Dec 2020 #4

Another hero passes. TomSlick Dec 2020 #5

More and more, as the last heroes pass. My uncle just appalachiablue Dec 2020 #7

There yet remain heroes among us. TomSlick Dec 2020 #9

That's right, more heros from Vietnam, Iraq, Afgahnistan appalachiablue Dec 2020 #12