Courcelles Massacre

Name: Courcelles Massacre
Start: 1944

1944 CE.

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The Courcelles massacre (French: Tuerie de Courcelles), sometimes known as the Rognac massacre (Tuerie du Rognac), involved the killing of 27 civilians in a number of separate instances by a collaborationist militia associated with the Rexist Party in German-occupied Belgium during World War II. The killings occurred on 17–18 August 1944, shortly before the Allied liberation of Belgium, near Courcelles, a suburb of the industrial city of Charleroi in Hainaut Province, in revenge for the killing of a Rexist official by the Belgian Resistance.

Text from the Wikipedia article Courcelles massacre, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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