While the bulk of the Waffen-SS was now on the Eastern Front or in Normandy , the 4th SS '' Polizei '' Panzergrenadier Division was stationed in Greece on internal security duties and anti-partisan operations . On 10 June , they committed the Distomo massacre , when over a period of two hours they went door to door and massacred Greek civilians , reportedly in revenge for a Greek Resistance attack . In total , 218 men , women and children were killed . According to survivors , the SS forces " bayoneted babies in their cribs , stabbed pregnant women , and beheaded the village priest . " On the Italian Front , the 16 SS '' Reichsführer-SS '' , conducting anti-partisan operations , is remembered more for the atrocities it perpetrated than its fighting ability : it committed the Sant ' Anna di Stazzema massacre in August 1944 and the Marzabotto massacre between September and October 1944
Marzabotto massacre
Marzabotto massacre
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