Take No Prisoners

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🗓️ 8 January 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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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 travels to Belgium to tour Chenogne with Belgian historian Roger Marquet. Then he sits down with Bill Johnsen, a military historian and former dean of the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to ask why the Patton Papers don’t accurately reflect Gen. George S. Patton’s diary entries about Chenogne.

The massacre at Chenogne happened soon after the Malmedy massacre, during which Nazi troops killed unarmed American POWs. The German soldiers responsible were tried at Dachau, but the American soldiers who committed the massacre at Chenogne were never held accountable. Harland-Dunaway interviews Ben Ferencz, the last surviving lawyer from the Nuremberg Trials, about why the Americans escaped justice.

And finally, Harland-Dunaway returns to Hartzell to explain what he’s learned and to press Hartzell for a full accounting of his role that day in Chenogne.

This episode was originally broadcast July 28, 2018.

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1:40.0	Back in 2016, Chris Harlan Dunway was between two worlds.
1:45.0	Well, I just finished my first year in journalism school and I had been a semi-pro bike racer for six years.
1:53.0	Chris was in his mid-20s. He was thinking more seriously about his career in journalism, but he also wasn't quite ready to give up on bike racing.
2:01.0	I had always dreamt of racing my bike in Europe because that's the heartland and I decided, well, this is my opportunity.
2:09.0	So in the middle of grad school, Chris made a go of it. He flew to Belgium and got a little apartment and began testing himself against the elite riders in a place where bicycle racing is a really big deal.
2:21.0	It's full of traditions and idiosyncrasies like the Rodania car that drives ahead of Belgium bike races, blaring an ad for Rodania watches.
2:30.0	It's the ice cream truck of Belgium. Everyone hears that call and they hear the Rodania and they know there's a bike race happening just out their front door.
2:45.0	And so they gather along the sides with their paper cones of fries and beer and watch the racing.
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