Ascq massacre

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The Ascq massacre is a massacre of 86 men on April 1944 in Ascq by the Nazis during the Second World War.

The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend set out on rail trucks for Normandy at the end of March, 1944. On April 1944, 1st, the train was approaching the gare d'Ascq when an explosion blew the line apart : two trucks had been derailed. The commander of the convoy, SS Obersturmführer Walter Hauck, ordered 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 and another 16 killed in the village itself. Six other men were arrested, charged with bomb attack after an investigation by the Gestapo, and finally executed by firing squad.

At the end of the war, some SS men stood trial in a French Military Court at Lille. They were sentenced to death, even though the sentences were later commuted to a period of imprisonment. Finally, Walter Hauck was released in July, 1957. Hauck was also the author of a similar massacre in Leskovice in May, 1945.

See also

• List of massacres in France

Bibliography

• Édouard Catel, Le Crime des nazis à Ascq, Croix du Nord, Lille, 1944. Reedited by Société historique de Villeneuve-d'Ascq et du Mélantois (SHVAM) in 1996.
• Louis Wech, J'accuse, Imprimerie Boulonnais, Ascq, 1945. Reedited by SHVAM in 1996.
• Jacob Louis, Crimes hitlériens : Ascq - Le Vercor, Éd. Mellotte, collection "Libération" 1946.
• Die faschistische Okkupationspolitik in Frankreich (1940- 1944) Dokumentenauswahl. Hg. und Einl. Ludwig Nestler. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1990

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• Docteur Jean-Marie Mocq La 12^e SS Hitlerjugend massacre Ascq, cité martyre (album historique), Éd. Heimdal, 1994
• Claudia Moisel, Frankreich und die deutschen Kriegsverbrecher: Politik und Praxis der Strafverfolgung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2004

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Coordinates: 50°37′16″N 3°10′03″E / 50.62111°N 3.1675°E / 50.62111; 3.1675