Actor Ken Arnold, Exec. Prod., Joseph Small, Director, Rob Child

Fort Frederick, Maryland – A very successful four -day Wereth Massacre location shoot was just completed on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. The cast and crew, which swelled sometimes to more than 80 people, persevered through 90 degree temperatures with humidity to match.

The Wereth Massacre is the story of eleven men who became separated from their unit, the 333rd Field Artillery Battalion and headed northward back towards the American lines. Subsequently a patrol from the 1st SS Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion crossed their path and all were American soldiers were killed in one of the least understood as well as unknown war crimes of WWII.

Local newspaper covers our production filming this coming week.

Maryland: WWII film being shot at Fort Frederick.

Currently in production, The Wereth Massacre, retraces the steps eleven black GI’s from the 333^rd Field Artillery Battalion took when their unit was overrun by Germans at the start of the Battle of the Bulge.  Their 10-mile trek from their battery position to Wereth, Belgium would be the last journey of their lives as a local resident turned them in to an SS scouting party.

Subsequently all eleven were butchered and killed.

The film begins with a recreation of the German artillery barrage and the attack on the 333^rd then immediately brings us up to modern day where descendents of members of the 333rd retrace the journey of the “Wereth 11”. Some of the relatives had never been to Belgium nor seen the place where their uncles and fathers fought. The emotions are quite compelling.

The film closes with a wreath laying at the memorial and emotional remembrance of the eleven men who were murdered so senselessly in a war crime that is all but unknown to most Americans today. The film will be released in February, 2011 for Black History Month.

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