Leskovice massacre

Leskovice massacre
Part of the German occupation of Czechoslovakia
LocationLeskovice, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Date5 May 1945 (79 years ago)
Deaths25
PerpetratorsWaffen-SS led by Walter Hauck

The Leskovice massacre was the mass murder of twenty-five Czech civilians in May 1945 by Waffen-SS troops on the orders of Nazi officer Walter Hauck inside the village of Leskovice during the World War II.