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Mystery- The Haunted Town Of St. Nazianz, WI

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Mystery- The Haunted Town Of St. Nazianz, WI St. Nazians was founded by a priest who wholeheartedly believed to helped cursed the town. Over the years, the town has been hit with natural disasters and unexplained phenomena. Father Ambrose Oschwald was fled to Wisconsin in 1854 from religious persecution. The Roman Catholic Church had suspended him from his duties due to “mystical, prophetic, and heretical works.” Already, the scary history of the town is starting to make sense! Oddly enough, the congregation followed him. Once they got to Wisconsin, a “divine white heifer” lead them to the site of his new home which would become St. Nazianz. The community actually thrived. They titled themselves “The Association” and created an entirely functional society. Tragically, Father Oschwald became sick in 1873. Anton Still, a loyal follower, stayed with Father Osc...

The deadliest mass execution of US soldiers during WWII occurred at the Baugnez crossroads, near Malmédy Belgium


 The deadliest mass execution of US soldiers during WWII occurred at the Baugnez crossroads, near Malmédy Belgium

 The deadliest mass execution of US soldiers during WWII occurred at the Baugnez crossroads, near Malmédy Belgium on December 17,1944 in what became known as the Malmédy Massacre.  



On that day, a convoy of the US Army's Battery B, 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion was traveling from Schevenhutte, near Aachen, Germany to St. Vith Belgium, having just been transferred from VII Corps to VIII Corps.  


Around 1 pm., the leading elements of Kampfgruppe ("battle group") Peiper, commanded by SS Sturmbannführer Joachim Peiper observed the American convoy moving south at the Baugnez crossroads.  The jeeps, weapons carriers, and 2 1/2 ton trucks of the American convoy were an inviting target and came under fire from the lead Panzerkampfwagen (PzKw.) Mk. IV tanks.  The lightly armed Americans quickly surrendered to the German tank force.  


As the Kampfgruppe continued to move west, 120 American prisoners were gathered in a field near the crossroad.  Unexpectantly, the soldiers of KGr. Peiper opened fire on the American prisoners killing them where they stood.  The SS troops even walked among the bodies shooting any who appeared alive.  


Despite the efforts of the Germans, 43 POWs survived and escaped to Malmedy which was still in American hands.   The bodies of those who died at the Baugnez crossroads lay in what was to become a no man's land until January 14, 1945.  


Peiper's unit stood accused of killing other Allied prisoners and Belgian civilians during the course of the Ardennes offensive.  In May 1946, Peiper and 72 members of his Kampfgruppe stood trial for war crimes before a US Military court at the former concentration camp Dachau.


 Forty-three of the defendants, including Peiper, were sentenced to death by hanging, 22 to life imprisonment, and the rest to between 10 and 20 years imprisonment.  None of the death sentences were ever carried out and all of the prisoners were released by December 1956.  Sadly, the last casualty of the Malmédy Massacre was justice.


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