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The infamous massacre of American soldiers by Joachim Peiper's 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte occured during the Battle of the Bulge on December 17th. Taken prisoner by the panzer division near Malmedy, 71 men from Battery B of the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion were gunned down and clubbed to death in a nearby field. Twenty-one men survived to testify about the massacre by playing dead or escaping. The conservative talk-show host Bill O'Reilly has on two separate occasions stated on his show that it was American troops who had massacred German troops at Malmedy in his defense of American atrocities in Iraq.<ref>http://mediamatters.org/items/200606030002</ref>

The infamous massacre of American soldiers by Joachim Peiper's 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte occured during the Battle of the Bulge on December 17th. Taken prisoner by the panzer division near Malmedy, 71 men from Battery B of the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion were gunned down and clubbed to death in a nearby field. Twenty-one men survived to testify about the massacre by playing dead or escaping. The conservative talk-show host Bill O'Reilly has on two separate occasions stated on his show that it was American troops who had massacred German troops at Malmedy in his defense of American atrocities in Iraq.<ref>http://mediamatters.org/items/200606030002</ref>

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[[Category:Battles]]

[[Category:Battles]]

[[Category:World War II]]

[[Category:World War II]]