Detailed map of the Baugnez crossroads from the Malmedy investigation.
The red circled numbers are the tags that were placed on the bodies of the American soldiers as they were recovered near the crossroads. Note that the map has been drawn on and annotated by SS Sgt. Hubert Huber on 10 February 1946. Part of the SS 6th Panzer Company, Huber confessed to "mercy shots" against those lying in the field and traced his walking route (along with two others) on the inset map to the right.
See Fatal Crossroads, p. 153 and note 79 on pages 341-342.
Statement of SS Sgt. Willi Schaefer, 8 April 1946, and his detailed map of his recollection of the events at the crossroads on 17 December 1944. Schaefer was in an armored halftrack of the SS 3rd Panzer Engineer Company that was present when the shootings took place. See Fatal Crossroads, p. 153 and note 77 on page 341.
This is a wartime photo of T/5 Theodore J. Paluch, 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion who was one of the massacre survivors and is featured throughout Fatal Crossroads.
Click on the image below to read the statement made by Paluch after the massacre on 20 December 1944.
You can listen to the author's September 21st, 1995 interview with Ted by clicking on the audio file.
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Editor’s Cut: This is the original opening to Chapter 11 which was sensibly stripped in interest of length. However, the section is arguably interesting to those who might be looking for insight into the strange history of Belgium and how the charming area became so culturally confounded....
Fatal Crossroads uses the Americanized ranks for German SS troopers involved in the incident. Here are the equivalent Ranks of Waffen SS, German Army and U.S. Army in 1944. Note that there are a few ranks (such as SS-Oberführer) for which there is no direct equivalent.
