List of massacres in France
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The following is a list of massacre
s that have occurred in France
(numbers may be approximate):
Massacre
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s that have occurred in France
France
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(numbers may be approximate):
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascq massacre Ascq massacre The Ascq massacre is a massacre of 86 men on April 1944 in Ascq by the Nazis during the Second World War.The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend set out on rail trucks for Normandy at the end of March, 1944. On April 1944, 1st, the train was approaching the gare d'Ascq when an explosion blew the... |
April 1, 1944 | Ascq Ascq Ascq is a former village in the Nord department in northern France on the Marque river. Today, it is part of the city of Villeneuve-d'Ascq. Ascq is unfortunately known for the Ascq massacre of 1 April 1944, where the Nazis massacred 86 men.-Heraldry:... , France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
86 | |
| Le Paradis massacre Le Paradis massacre The Le Paradis massacre was a war crime committed by members of the 14th Company, SS Division Totenkopf, under the command of Hauptsturmführer Fritz Knöchlein... |
May 27, 1940 | Le Paradis village, commune of Lestrem Lestrem Lestrem is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.-Geography:A small farming and light industrial town, situated some north of Béthune and west of Lille, on the D122, D178 and D975 roads, by the banks of the Lawe River.-History:The town was all but... , Northern France |
97 | 2 injured |
| Maillé massacre Maillé massacre The Maillé Massacre refers to the murder on 25 August 1944 of 124 of the 500 residents of the commune of Maillé in the department of the Indre-et-Loire. Following an ambush a few days before and in reprisals against activities of the French Resistance, Second Lieutenant Gustav Schlüter and his men... |
August 25, 1944 | Maillé, Indre-et-Loire Maillé, Indre-et-Loire Maillé is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.-History:On 25 August 1944, Nazi German soldiers killed 124 people and razed the village... |
124 | |
| Nanterre massacre Nanterre massacre The Nanterre massacre refers to an act of mass murder that occurred on March 27, 2002, in Nanterre, France. 33-year-old gunman Richard Durn opened fire at the end of a council meeting, resulting in the deaths of 8 councilors, and the injuries of 19 others... |
March 27, 2002 | Nanterre Nanterre Nanterre is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located west of the center of Paris.Nanterre is the capital of the Hauts-de-Seine department as well as the seat of the Arrondissement of Nanterre.... |
9 | 19 injured. Death toll includes perpetrator. |
| Oradour-sur-Glane massacre | June 10, 1944 | Oradour-sur-Glane Oradour-sur-Glane Oradour-sur-Glane is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.The original village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company... |
642 | |
| Paris massacre of 1961 Paris massacre of 1961 The Paris massacre of 1961 was a massacre in Paris on 17 October 1961, during the Algerian War . Under orders from the head of the Parisian police, Maurice Papon, the French police attacked a demonstration of some 30,000 pro-FLN Algerians... |
October 17, 1961 | Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... |
200-325 | |
| St. Bartholomew's Day massacre St. Bartholomew's Day massacre The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots , during the French Wars of Religion... |
1572 | Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... |
5,000-10,000 | |
| September Massacres September Massacres The September Massacres were a wave of mob violence which overtook Paris in late summer 1792, during the French Revolution. By the time it had subsided, half the prison population of Paris had been executed: some 1,200 trapped prisoners, including many women and young boys... |
Summer 1792 | Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... |
1,500 | Multiple massacres with varying death tolls |
| Massacre of Vassy | March 1, 1562 | Wassy Wassy Wassy , formerly known as Wassy-sur-Blaise, is a commune in the Haute-Marne department in north-eastern France.Population : 3,294.-History:... |
80 | |
| Wormhoudt massacre Wormhoudt massacre The Wormhoudt massacre was the mass murder of 80 British and French POWs by the Waffen SS during the Battle of France in May 1940.-Fighting:... |
May 28, 1940 | Wormhoudt | 80 | 15 injured |