| Padule di Fucecchio massacre | |
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| Part of War crimes of the Wehrmacht | |
 A memorial to the massacre at Ponte Buggianese | |
  Padule di Fucecchio massacre (Northern Italy) | |
| Native name | Eccidio del Padule di Fucecchio |
| Location | Padule di Fucecchio, Tuscany, Italy |
| Coordinates | 43°48′N 10°48′E / 43.800°N 10.800°E |
| Date | 23 August 1944 |
| Target | Italian civilian population |
Attack type | Massacre |
| Weapons | Machine guns |
| Deaths | At least 174 |
| Perpetrators | Ernst Pistor, Fritz Jauss, Johan Robert Riss, Gerhard Deissmann |
| Motive | Reprisal for Italian partisan activity |
| Inquiry | Sergeant Charles Edmondson |
| Convicted | Crasemann (1947) Pistor, Jauss, and Riss (2011) |
| Verdict | Crasemann: 10 years (died in prison in 1950)
Pistor, Jauss, and Riss: Life imprisonment (in absentia)
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| Charges | Murder |
| Website | L'Eccidio del Padule di Fucecchio |
The Padule di Fucecchio massacre (Italian: Eccidio del Padule di Fucecchio) was the murder of at least 174 Italian civilians,[a][1] carried out by the 26th Panzer Division at Padule di Fucecchio, a large wetland north of Fucecchio, Tuscany,[2] on 23 August 1944. After the war, the commander of the 26th Panzer Division was sentenced for war crimes, but the men who carried out the massacre were not convicted until 2011 and none served any jail time. The massacre has been described as "one of the worst Nazi atrocities in Italy".[3]
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- ^ "Padule di Fucecchio, 23.08.1944". Atlas of Nazi and Fascist Massacres in Italy (in Italian). Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ^ "History and nature in the Fucecchio Wetlands". Italian Ways. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
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