A Peculiar Crusade : : Willis M. Everett and the Malmedy Massacre / / James J. Weingartner.
In the wake of World War II, 74 members of the Nazi SS were accused of a war crime--soon to be known as the Malmedy Massacre--in which a large number of American prisoners of war were murdered during the Battle of the Bulge. All of the German defendants were found guilty and more than half were sent...
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