Buchères () is a
commune in the
Aube
Aube ( ) is a French departments of France, department in the Grand Est region of northeastern France. As with sixty departments in France, this department is named after a river: the Aube (river), Aube. With 310,242 inhabitants (2019), department in north-central
France
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.
World War II
On 24 August 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
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Bibliography
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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
Communes of Aube
Aube communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
Massacres in 1944
Massacres in France during World War II
Massacres committed by Nazi Germany
Nazi war crimes in France
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