A Peculiar CrusadeFresh insights into the infamous Malmedy Massacrea Nazi war crime targeting American POWs In the wake of World War II, 74 members of the Nazi SS were accused of a war crimesoon to be known as the Malmedy Massacrein which a large number of American prisoners of war were murdered during the Battle of the Bulge. All of the German defendants were found guilty and more than half were sentenced to death. Yet none was executed and, a decade later, all had