The Wereth Massacre
Currently in production, The Wereth Massacre, retraces the steps eleven black GI’s from the 333rd 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 333rd 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.