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1/ In this week’s episode, reporter @ChrisHDeee investigates an American war crime that the history books largely forgot.

Here’s what he turned up … revealnews.org/episodes/take-…

2/ During the Malmedy Massacre in Belgium, German troops killed more than 80 American prisoners of war. That story was splashed across U.S. headlines:

3/ Yet two weeks later, U.S. troops committed a similar massacre against about 80 Germans who had surrendered in Chenogne, Belgium. That incident didn’t get the same sort of coverage.

4/ Historian Roger Marquet spent years piecing the incident together. He even embedded with veterans of the American unit responsible. Here’s what he says transpired.

5/ After the war, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered a full investigation into Chenogne. The unit responsible claimed they’d already sent a report.

They hadn’t.

Then, they said it was too late to produce one.

6/ As part of his reporting for this episode, @ChrisHDeee also found this detail about how the incident was recorded:

7/ He took some of his findings to Ben Ferencz, a lead prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials, who is still alive. He asked about the war and the Americans who fought it.

Ferencz's response:

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