Memorial Complex Ascq Massacre

Rue Mangin, Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Hauts-de-France, France

On this platform, 92 men from Ascq were murdered in the night from 1 to 2 April 1944, by the 12. SS-Panzer-Division „Hitlerjugend", as reprisal measurement after a bomb-attack on the railway.

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Text by: Fedor de Vries

Photo(s): Jiel Beaumadier (1), Pierre André (2)

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