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Enclosure of the Shot at Dawn, Liège Citadel

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Enclosure of the Shot at Dawn, Liège Citadel

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Enclosure of the Shot at Dawn, Liège Citadel

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Location: Liège, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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Viviane

October 31, 2024

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The Enclos des fusillés de Liège is a small cemetery located in the park of the citadel which contains 415 graves of people shot or killed by the Wehrmacht or the Waffen-SS during the Second World War as well as that of the chaplain of the citadel of Liège Mathieu Voncken.

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Martin SWART

November 28, 2020

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In 1946, a memorial was erected to those who had been executed in the citadel during World Wars I and II. The Enclos des Fusillés ("enclosure of the shot by firing squad") was dedicated in 1947, with 197 crosses commemorating the death.

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Maurice 53

August 5, 2023

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