As many as 156 Canadian prisoners of war are believed to have been executed by the 12th SS Panzer Division (Hitler Youth) in the days and weeks following the D-Day landings. In scattered groups, in various pockets of the Normandy countryside, they were
taken aside and shot.
20 of these were shot in the garden at the Ardenne Abbey, a religious site where Nazi Kurt Meyer had made his command post. The small memorial garden at the Abbey pays tribute to the men originally killed and buried there, as well as the other Canadians
executed during the Normandy Campaign. Photo dated 2017.
