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German POW Massacre Memorial

Salina, UT

A memorial at the former Salina POW camp commemorates German prisoners killed in 1945 when an American guard fired into their tents. It preserves one of Utah's least-known World War II tragedies.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: historytogo.utah.gov/salina-pow-camp/

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