[3/3] The soldiers were almost certainly members of the I. Bataillon of SS-Sturmbannführer Richter, but the company cannot be identified, let alone individual perpetrators.
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[3/3] On the other side of the river, on the main road from Stavelot to Trois-Ponts, the truck abandoned by the local coalman when he came face-to-face with the gepanzerte Gruppe of SS-Obersturmbannführer Peiper.
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Dachau, the 16.07.1946, defendants Hennecke (23, death), Hillig (24, 10 years), Hofmann (25, life), Knittel (31, life), Kotzur (32, life) and Krämer (33, 10 years) anxiously await the verdicts.
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81 years ago today: remembering the Wéreth Eleven. Murdered by a scouting patrol from 3./SS-PzAA1 (Schnelle Gruppe Knittel) #battleofthebulge #wereth11 #leibstandarte #warcrime #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #ww2

04.10.2025: the German war cemetery in Bastogne-Recogne. 6807 soldiers fallen in the Battle of the Bulge including many men from Schnelle Gruppe Knittel.

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Merksplas, May 1944: temporary company commander Hstuf. Hennighausen trains new recruits for the 3. (gep.) Kompanie, SS-PzAA1 in the current Leopoldsstraat.

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[1/2] When in 1948 the captured members of schnelle Gruppe Knittel were to stand trial for the murders in Stavelot and the surrounding hamlets, 20-year-old Ernst Kilat was the odd one out as a former member of Kampfgruppe Peiper.

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The Antoine farm on the road from Stavelot to Trois-Ponts. From the 19th to the 22nd of December 1944 Knittel and his staff used the basement as command post.

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The death certificate for Marie-Jeanne Legaye who was murdered ten days before her ninth birthday.

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[2/2] Nicole lived in Trois-Ponts and her dad, Marcel Terf, visited the Petit-Spay farm from time to time to do some fishing in the Amblève.

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On the route of Gruppe Hansen between Recht and Logbiermé. 80 years later its still an unpaved track through the woods #battleofthebulge #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #ww2 #leibstandarte

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19-year-old Georg Kotzur, one of the prime suspects in the Wanne murders. He joined Panzer-Regiment 1 LSSAH in October 1944 and the Ardennes was the first time he saw combat.

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