The Vinkt massacre (Dutch: Bloedbad van Vinkt) was a war crime committed by German soldiers in the villages of Vinkt and Meigem in East Flanders on 26–28...

villages of Vinkt and Meigem on 26–28 May 1940 during the Battle of the Lys known as the Vinkt massacre. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vinkt. de Potter...

abandon Vinkt, which left the Germans in control. They had lost 39 men while managing to kill 170 Germans. In the subsequent Vinkt massacre, 86 civilians...

French and Belgian civilians by German troops on 28 May 1940. Vinkt massacre - Massacre of Belgian civilians by German troops from 26-28 May 1940. War...

Courrières massacre - massacre of French civilians (28 May 1940) Vinkt massacre - massacre of Belgian civilians (26-28 May 1940) German Propaganda Archive...

absentia. Siege of Lille (1940) Vinkt massacre - massacre of Belgian civilians (26-28 May 1940) Le Paradis massacre - massacre of British prisoners of war...

children) 1940 May 25, Vinkt Massacre (Vinkt, East Flanders; 86-140 people, including children) 1944 August 18, Courcelles Massacre (Courcelles, Hainaut...

French and Belgian civilians by German troops on 28 May 1940. Vinkt massacre - Massacre of Belgian civilians by German troops from 26-28 May 1940. War...

occupation power Vinkt massacre: In May 1940 at least 86 civilians in Vinkt were killed by the German Wehrmacht. Heusden: A town hall was massacred in November...

the former 225th Infantry Division, which was implicated in the 1940 Vinkt Massacre in Belgium. Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which...

resistance at Deinze and Vinkt provoked reprisal attacks against local civilians by the German 225th Infantry Division in the Vinkt massacre. As the historian...

soldiers in the villages of Vinkt and Meigem on 26–28 May 1940 during the Battle of the Lys known as the Vinkt massacre. Wikimedia Commons has media...

civilians being victims of German war crimes (see: Rape of Belgium, Vinkt massacre). The territory currently comprising the German-speaking community in...

This is a list of massacres which have occurred in the territory now covered by the modern country of Belgium. "The massacre of Bande". www.liberationroute...

civilians were killed by the German Wehrmacht in an event known as the Vinkt Massacre, when the Germans took 140 civilians and used them as shields to cross...

Lys. On 25 May 1940, soldiers of the 377th Regiment carried out the Vinkt Massacre, taking 140 Belgian civilians hostage and using them as human shields...

however, there were incidents of massacres against Belgian civilians by German forces, notably the Vinkt Massacre in which 86 civilians were killed....

(Wehrmacht), part of the 208th Infantry Division in World War II; see Vinkt massacre 337th Independent Helicopter Regiment, Russian Air Force (formerly Soviet...

he will remain with his troops and share their fate 25 to 28 May – Vinkt Massacre 26 May – Dunkirk evacuation begins 28 May – Leopold III capitulates...

hands of the French. This belief persisted in 1940 when 80 inhabitants of Vinkt in Flanders were shot, the Ardennes hunters had just defeated a German regiment...

were taken. In all, eighty-six civilians were executed. Besides Vinkt, other massacres and shootings happened with estimates of 600 victims. In the course...

May: 86 Belgian civilians are murdered by German forces in the village of Vinkt. 26 May The Patrol vessel A4 arrives in Plymouth, evacuating the final 40...