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On this day, August 12, 1944, German troops ended the week-long Wola massacre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page• 1944 – World War II: In Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy, the Waffen-SS and the Brigate Nere murdered about 560 local villagers and refugees and burned their bodies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_12
• 1944 – Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people are killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.