The Lancaster County man said he played dead during the WWII Malmedy Massacre as Germans checked for survivors.
“Anybody that showed signs of life, they would point-blank shoot them in the head to finish them off,” Billow said.
Billow said he stayed there for several hours before he and other survivors bolted. He made his way through hedgerows before reaching the safety of American lines. Kenneth F. Ahrens, of Erie, Pa., former U.S. soldier who survived the Malmedy massacre during the Battle of the Bulge, raises his arms to demonstrate how he and his comrades were mowed down by the Germans after their surrender, at War Crimes Court in Dachau, Germany, May 22, 1946. Ahrens and other survivors of the massacre testified at the trial of 74 SS troopers, some of whom are in the background, who are accused of the crime.
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