Tulle murders
{'<entity_0>': 'Tulle murders', '<entity_1>': 'World War II', '<entity_2>': '09 June 1944', '<entity_3>': 'France', '<entity_4>': 'Tulle'}
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The <entity_0> was the roundup and summary execution of civilians in the French town of <entity_4> by the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich in <entity_2>, three days after the D-Day landings in <entity_1>. After a successful offensive by the French Resistance group Francs-tireur on 7 <entity_2> and 8 <entity_2>, the arrival of Das Reich troops forced the Maquis to flee the city of <entity_4> (department of Corrèze) in south-central <entity_3>. On <entity_2>, between 9 and 10 am, SS-Sturmbannführer Aurel Kowatsch declared to Prefect Trouillé and the Secretary General of the prefecture, M. Roche: "Your gesture will not be ignored by the German commander who will take this into account in favor of the population in the inevitable crackdown following the crime committed against our comrades of the <entity_4> garrison." After having equally denied, at a previous time, having been present in <entity_4> at all, he did change his story to confirm that he arrived there late in the afternoon, after the hangings: however the Division's war diary for 10 <entity_2> was written by Lammerding in <entity_4> and that dated <entity_2> first gave the time as 12:15 though this entry "was later overwritten to read 23:15." The presence of Lammerding in <entity_4> and its environs by noon on the <entity_2> is equally attested by the military doctor of the German garrison, Dr Schmidt. It was not until the civil proceedings, brought in Düsseldorf by Lammerding, against the Communist weekly Die Tat, who had accused him in their 17 July 1965 edition of having been condemned to death in <entity_3> for the murder of numerous hostages, that German courts established, though without real consequences, that Lammerding did bear responsibility in the massacre at <entity_4>.
['mass murder']