The Wereth 11 Massacre
This video is a tribute to the 11 African American soldiers that lost their lives at Wereth, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. They are a symbol of hope and strength to all service members past, present and future. Their sacrifice will never be forgotten. As you strive for excellence in your military or civilian careers and strive for growth in your personal lives; let these men and others like them, be the catalyst that drives you to success. Continue to be empowered. Continue to be great!
Remembering the Wereth 11
More than 20 Spangdahlem airmen conducted a memorial roll call ceremony February 28, 2014, at Wereth, Belgium, to honor the legacy of 11 African-American soldiers murdered by enemy forces during the Battle of the Bulge.
Life in the 333rd | Never Surrender: The Wereth Eleven
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Wereth 11 Memorial
Memorial in the Ardennes for 11 (black) US-Soldiers.
The Wereth11: Video about the reason of this memorial by his founder Mr Hermann Langer(† 21/06/2013)
All copyrights of this video are owned by Mr Joseph Small (The Ardennes Group,LLC).
Edited and published with permission from: Robert Child - Film director The Wereth 11; Joseph Small -The Ardennes Group,LLC and Stephen Janson - Janson Media . Many thanks.
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It is always very emotional to watch this video. But very proud of what Matthias Langer did. What a risk of being killed for the whole family. They had been worried about their lives for weeks. Hermann Langer built the monument against the FORGET. He fought always for justice.
RIP Matthias Langer
* 02.10.1888 +14.05.1974.
RIP Hermann Langer
* 12.04.1933 + 21.06.2013.
Our association U.S. Memorial Wereth takes care of the monument erected by Hermann Langer in 1994 to immortalize the destiny of eleven African-American soldiers killed in WWII in Wereth/Amel.
Our goal is to increase awareness of their story and you find history, pictures and annual events on our website wereth.org
Next year we will have the 75th Anniversary and want to focus and honor these soldiers by reporting their lives until the fatal day of December 17th, 1944.
Through this message we try to contact some family members and research info especially on their lives before they entered the army. We are also looking for photos of the Wereth Eleven; these would strengthen our presentation.
The Eleven soldiers were:
PVT Adams Curtis, South Carolina, buried in Henri-Chapelle:Belgium
CPL Bradley Mager, Mississippi, buried in Fort Gibson.
PFC Davis George, Alabama, buried in Henri-Chapelle/Belgium.
SSGT Forte Thomas J, Mississippi, buried in Henri-Chapelle/Belgium.
TCPL Green Robert, Mississippi, buried in Highland Park, Cleveland.
PFC Leatherwood Jimmie Lee, Mississippi, buried in College Hill Pontotoc.
PVT Moss Nathaniel, Texas, buried in Henri-Chapelle/Belgium.
PFC Moten George W, Texas, buried in Henri-Chapelle/Belgium.
TSGT Pritchett William Edward, Alabama, buried in Mc Castar Cemetery, Wilcox.
TSGT Stewart James Aubrey, Piedmont, buried at Henri-Chapelle/Belgium.
PFC Turner Due W, Arkansas, buried in Henri-Chapelle/Belgum.
We know that these soldiers emerged from the shadow in the United States in 2011 through the movie “The Wereth Eleven”.
BUT, in Wereth, thanks to Hermann Langer’s memorial, they were remembered since 1994.
Our ceremony will take place on Saturday May 18th, 2019 at 11AM. Don’t hesitate to contact us for more details on dekeyser.solange@gmail.com
Pls help us in sharing this message.
THANK YOU.
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[WWII - 1945, BAstogne, Belgium Collection Point For Dead; Identification of Bodies, Malmedy 13-14Jan45]
LIB 2171 [M-1186] 13Jan45 US medic trying to identify remains in snow, looking at dog tags. Frozen body thrown on truck, next body carried to truck on stretcher. Further bodies moved - frozen solid.
22:36:32 00:36:40 LIB 2226 [M-1186] Identification of bodies at Malmedy - bodies frozen into contorted positions removed from transport trucks by White & Black soldiers, into building; man w/ notepad, another cutting open uniforms w/ large knife attempting to remove personal belongings. Slate refers to ‘Ravens atrocities case’ - unclear.
22:37:30 Line of jeeps & military vehicles parked along snowy road. George Stevens holds wire up to cameraman filming. Trucks moving; troops waiting. Jeeps & trucks w/ chains parked, soldiers walking around. US Army trucks past.
WW2; Battle of the Bulge; Severe Winter Weather; Death; Horrors of War;
NOTE: May be bodies from 17Dec44 murder of 84 American POWs by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper (part of 1st SS Panzer Division and subject of Malmedy massacre trial part of Dachau Trials of 1946.
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The Malmedy Massacre...
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Wereth 11 Documentary
Short documentary on the Wereth 11 and why it's important to remember.
Wereth 11, a group of African American soldiers whose memory has been kept alive by a Belgian family from a small hamlet in the Ardennes, has a powerful connection to Belgium and its history.
Malmedy
GI's massacred at Malmedy, by the 1st SS during the early phases of The Battle of The Bulge.
'The Americans in The Bulge' livingbattlefield.org
The Wereth Eleven
Winner: GI Film Festival - Founder's Choice award
Nominee: HPA Award - Outstanding Editing Television (Frederic Lumiere)
The Wereth Eleven recounts the heroic battle waged by the African American 333rd Field Artillery Battalion against the attacking German army at the start of the Battle of the Bulge and the dramatic escape made by eleven men of Battery C.
Produced by the Ardennes Group, LLC
Executive Producers: Joseph Small, Robert Child, Frederic Lumiere
Directed by Robert Child
Director of Photography: Jamie Hobbis
Edited by Frederic Lumiere
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The governments of the German Empire and Nazi Germany ordered, organized and condoned a substantial number of war crimes in World War I and World War II respectively. The most notable of these is the Holocaust in which millions of Jews, Poles, and Romani were systematically murdered or died from abuse and mistreatment. Millions also died as a result of other German actions in those two conflicts. The true number of victims may never be known, since much of the evidence was deliberately destroyed by the perpetrators in an attempt to conceal the crimes.
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 -- 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. Hitler planned the offensive with the primary goal to recapture the important harbour of Antwerp. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard. United States forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred the highest casualties for any operation during the war. The battle also severely depleted Germany's war-making resources.
The battle was known by different names. The Germans referred to it as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein (Operation Watch on the Rhine), while the French named it the Bataille des Ardennes (Battle of the Ardennes). The Allies called it the Ardennes Counteroffensive. The phrase Battle of the Bulge was coined by contemporary press to describe the way the Allied front line bulged inward on wartime news maps and became the best known name for the battle.
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Eric Fisher Wood
The lonely War of a US soldier in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge.
Doug Dillard 'The Americans in The Bulge'
Col Douglas Dillard 551st, Parachute Infantry Battalion, ret. describes how his unit was wiped out in The Bulge.