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Buchères

commune in Aube, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ753569 ↗
Source-derived summary

Buchères (French pronunciation: [byʃɛʁ]) is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.

World War II

On 24 August 1944 men of the 51st SS-Brigade massacred 68 people, of whom ten were children under ten year old, five were elderly above seventy years, including 35 women and three infants of 18, 11 and 6 months.

Population

See also

Communes of the Aube department

Bibliography

Crimes allemands : Le Martyre de Buchères (Aube) : 24 août 1944, Troyes : Grande impr. de Troyes, 1945, 48 p., ill.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Buchères” as commune in Aube, France. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1944, 1945—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Buchères, commune and Aube can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as commune in Aube, France. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q753569. VIAF identifies the subject as 359149294463680521803. The Library of Congress control number is no2017048942. Authority coordinates are 48.236, 4.111. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1944 and 1945.

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This entry incorporates text from “Buchères” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.