1944 execution of Canadian POWs by German troops near Caen, France
Ardenne Abbey massacre
Part of the Normandy massacres
Abbaye d'Ardenne in September 2006, after extensive restoration
Location
Ardenne Abbey, Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe, France
Date
7–17 June 1944
Deaths
20 Canadians POWs from the North Nova Scotia Highlanders and the 27th Armoured Regiment (The Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment)
Perpetrators
12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend
The Ardenne Abbey massacre occurred during the Battle of Normandy at the Ardenne Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery in Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe, near Caen, France. In June 1944, 20 Canadian soldiers were massacred in a garden at the abbey by members of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend over the course of several days and weeks. This was part of the Normandy Massacres, a series of scattered killings during which up to 156 Canadian prisoners of war were murdered by soldiers of the 12th SS Panzer Division during the Battle of Normandy.[1][2] The perpetrators of the massacre, members of the 12th SS Panzer Division, were known for their fanaticism, the majority having been drawn from the Hitlerjugend or Hitler Youth.[3]
^Cite error: The named reference Abbaye d'Ardenne was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Normandy Massacres | World War II". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
^McNab, Chris (2013). Hitler's Elite: The SS 1939–45. Osprey Publishing. p. 295. ISBN 978-1782000884.
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