Take No Prisoners (Rebroadcast)

Take No Prisoners (Rebroadcast)

By The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

This episode originally was broadcast July 28, 2018

In December 1944, Frank Hartzell was a young soldier pressed into fierce fighting during the Battle of the Bulge. He was there battling Nazi soldiers for control of the Belgian town of Chenogne, and he was there afterward when dozens of unarmed German prisoners of war were gunned down in a field. 

Reporter Chris Harland-Dunaway pieces together what led up to that event, who was responsible and why no Americans were held accountable for this war crime.

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