Editing Malmedy massacre (section)

=== Responsibility ===
In 1949, a US Senate investigation concluded that in the thirty-six-day Battle of the Bulge the soldiers of {{lang|de|Kampfgruppe Peiper}} murdered between 538 and 749 U.S. POWs.<ref name="Senate">{{cite book| title=Malmedy massacre Investigation–Report of the Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services |publisher=U.S. Senate Eighty-first Congress, first session, pursuant to S. res. 42, Investigation of action of Army with Respect to Trial of Persons Responsible for the Massacre of American Soldiers, Battle of the Bulge, near Malmedy, Belgium, December 1944 |date=13 October 1949}}</ref> Other investigations claimed that the {{lang|de|Waffen-SS}} killed fewer U.S. POWs, and put the figure of the dead as being between 300 and 375 US soldiers and 111 civilians executed by the {{lang|de|Kampfgruppe Peiper}}.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hall |first1=Tony |title=March to Victory: The Final Months of WWII from D-day, June 6, 1944 to the Fall of Japan, August 14, 1945 |date=1994 |publisher=Crescent Books |isbn=978-0517103111 |page=115}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=James |first1=Clayton D. |last2=Wells |first2=Anne Sharp |title=From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day: The American Armed Forces in World War II |date=1 February 1995 |publisher=Ivan R. Dee |isbn=978-1-4617-2094-2 |page=100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZUAAAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA100}}</ref>