High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre was a World War II atrocity in the village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy. On August 12, 1944, retreating SS-men of the II Battallion of SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 35 of 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS, commanded by SS-Hauptsturmführer Anton Galler, rounded up 560 villagers and refugees ? mostly women, children and older men ? shot them and then burned their bodies. In the aftermath of the massacre, the village was only partially rebuilt and stands today as a memorial.