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Buchères () is a
commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...
in the
Aube Aube () is a French department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France. As with sixty departments in France, this department is named after a river: the Aube. With 310,242 inhabitants (2019),department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in north-central
France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
.


World War II

On August 24, 1944, men of the 51st SS-Brigade massacred 68 people, of whom ten were children under ten year old, five were elderly above seventy years, including 35 women and three infants of 18, 11 and 6 months.


Population


See also

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Communes of the Aube department The following is a list of the 431 communes of the Aube department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Crimes allemands : Le Martyre de Buchères (Aube) : 24 août 1944
', Troyes : Grande impr. de Troyes, 1945, 48 p., ill.ÉGO 1939-1945 - Centre de Recherche d'Histoire Quantitative (CRHQ)/ par Françoise Passera
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References

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