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81: 107: 114: 92: 182:, ordered troops to search and arrest all male members of the houses on both sides of the track. Altogether 70 men were shot beside the railway line, with another 16 killed in the village itself. Six more men were arrested and charged with the bomb attack after an investigation by the Gestapo; they were eventually ordered to be executed by firing squad. 189:
The population must know that any attack on German units or individual soldiers will be responded to by all means required by the situation. The example of Ascq must be a lesson. In the nature of things it is inevitable that innocent people will suffer when such things happen. Responsibility lies
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After the massacre, 60,000 workers started a strike in Lille — one of the most important demonstrations in France during World War II under German occupation. It is estimated that at least 20,000 people were present at the funerals in the village.
198:. They were sentenced to death; later their sentences were commuted to imprisonment. The last prisoner, Walter Hauck, was released in July 1957. Hauck also instigated 175:, a junction where three railroads intersected, when an explosion blew the line apart, causing two cars to derail. The commander of the convoy, SS 416: 411: 106: 441: 446: 164: 95: 350: 127: 431: 329:, Croix du Nord, Lille, 1944. Reedited by Société historique de Villeneuve-d'Ascq et du Mélantois (SHVAM) in 1996. 373:
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Die faschistische Okkupationspolitik in Frankreich (1940- 1944) Dokumentenauswahl
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At the end of the war, some SS men stood trial in a French Military Court at
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at the end of March, 1944. On 1 April, their train was approaching the
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The Oberfeldkommandant of Lille justified the massacre, stating:
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German occupation of France
Ascq
France
French
civilians
Nazi Germany

12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend
Map of France with mark showing location of Ascq
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massacre
Ascq
France
Waffen-SS
Second World War
12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend
Normandy
gare d'Ascq
Obersturmführer
Walter Hauck
Lille
a similar massacre
Leskovice
Lidice massacre
List of massacres in France
Putten raid in the Netherlands
"Resistance, Reprisals and Community in Occupied France"
doi
10.1017/s0080440103000070
ISSN

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