Dortan massacre | |
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Part of World War II | |
Commemorative plaque to the victims | |
Location | Dortan, France |
Coordinates | 46°19′06″N 05°39′35″E / 46.31833°N 5.65972°E |
Date | 12–21 July 1944 |
Attack type | Mass shooting, war crime |
Deaths | 35–36 killed[nb 1] |
Victims | French civilians |
Perpetrators | German military, Freiwilligen-Stamm-Division |
The Dortan massacre was a massacre in which approximately 35 French civilians [nb 1] were killed by Wehrmacht volunteers in the village of Dortan, Ain during World War II. It was perpetrated by Volunteer Cossack-Stamm-Regiment 5, part of the Freiwilligen-Stamm-Division, in 12–21 July 1944 during Operation Treffenfeld. It was part of a wider German anti-partisan offensive against the French Maquis de l'Ain et du Haut-Jura, which staged a massive uprising in mid-1944 along with other French resistance groups.
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