Name one nazi german crime against civilians during the Battle of the Bulge?

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The question was german crime against civilians NOT crimes against soldiers or accidents. Malmady was the killing of soldiers.

Bande

During the Ardennes Offensive, the village of Bande was retaken. On Christmas Eve, a unit of the German SD (Sicherheitsdienst) set about arresting all men in the village. They were questioned about the events of September 5, then lined up in front of the local cafe. One by one, they were led to an open door and as they entered a shot rang out. An SD man, positioned just inside the door, fired point blank into the victims neck and with a kick sent the body hurtling into the open cellar. After twenty had been killed this way, it was the turn of 21 year old Leon Praile who decided to make a run for it. With bullets flying around him, he escaped into the woods. Meantime the executions continued until all 34 men had been killed. On January 10, 1945, the village of Bande was liberated by British troops and the massacre was discovered. A Belgian War Crimes Court was set up in December 1944. One man, a German speaking Swiss national by the name of Ernst Haldiman, was identified as being a member of the execution squad.

Stavlot

On December 18, the day after the massacre at Malmédy, the same SS unit of Kampfgruppe Peiper, systematically executed 130 Belgian civilians in the village of Stavelot. Charged with sheltering American soldiers, 67 men, 47 women and 23 children were brutally executed....Show more

Here is a review of a book written about that subject.
The Unknown Dead: Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge by Peter Schrijvers, a Belgium native.

It states around 3000 Belgium and Luxembourg civilians were killed during the Battle of the Bulge as a result of war crimes by German front line troops and German security services behind the lines, as well as some killed from Allied bombings....Show more

I remember visiting a cemetary in Belgium where a woman was buried. She had been asked to guide a party of German soldiers the night before the Ardenne Offenisive and later was found raped and murdered. Her brother, ironically enough, was a soldier in the Waffen SS unit raised in Belgium.

Sorry but this visit to the Ardenne was 15 years ago and I do not remember the family name....Show more

Known to have taken part in numerous violations of the laws of land warfare throughout the war, including the massacre of American POWs at Malmédy during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, members of the Waffen-SS earned a notorious reputation for brutal behavior.
The Malmedy massacre refers to a war crimeWar crime
War crimes are "violations of the laws or customs of war"; including but not limited to "murder, the ill-treatment or deportation of civilian residents of an occupied territory to slave labor camps", "the murder or ill-treatment of prisoner of war", the killing of hostages, "the wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages, and any devast...
in which about 90 unarmed AmericanUnited States
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prisoners of war were murdered by their German captors. The massacre was committed on December 17, 1944 by KampfgruppeKampfgruppe
In military history and military slang, the German language term Kampfgruppe can refer to a combat formation of any kind, but most usually to that employed by the Germany Wehrmacht and its Tripartite Pact during World War II and, to a lesser extent, in World War I....
PeiperJoachim Peiper
Joachim Peiper more often known as Jochen Peiper from the common German nickname for Joachim, was a senior Waffen-SS officer in World War II and a convicted war criminal....
(part of the 1st SS Panzer Division1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler founded in September 1933 was Adolf Hitler's personal Bodyguard Regiment . In 1939 the SS-LAH became a separate unit of the Waffen-SS aside the SS-Totenkopfverb?nde and the SS-Verf?gungstruppe....
), a GermanNazi Germany
Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
combat unit, during the Battle of the BulgeBattle of the Bulge
The Ardennes Offensive was a major German offensive launched towards the end of World War II through the forested Ardennes of Belgium , France and Luxembourg on the Western Front ....
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This massacre, as well as others committed by the same unit the same day and on the following days, was the subject of a trial during the Dachau Trials of 1946.

in the framework of plans developed by Hitler for what would become known as the Battle of the BulgeBattle of the Bulge
The Ardennes Offensive was a major German offensive launched towards the end of World War II through the forested Ardennes of Belgium , France and Luxembourg on the Western Front ....
, the principal objective of breaking through Allied lines had been given to the 6th SS Panzer Army under the command of General Sepp DietrichSepp Dietrich
Josef "Sepp" Dietrich was a Germany Waffen-SS general, an Oberstgruppenf?hrer, and one of the closest men to Adolf Hitler. For his wartime services, he was one of only 27 men to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds....
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http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-152512996/unknown-dead-civilians-battle.html...Show more

Battle of the Bulge?
Wasn't that fought in the middle of the desert?
Hmmm, not many civilians out there
... there were no whale casualties either during that battle....Show more