Sendling's Night of Murder

Sendling's Night of Murder
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Sendling's Night of Murder (German: Sendlinger Mordweihnacht) was a massacre which occurred in 1705 in Sendling, located 2km south west of Munich. An army of peasants, protesting the Austrian regime, had marched on Munich, but was betrayed from within and massacred.

This event has been a well-known cultural motif in German culture.

Sources

  • Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince. Frommer's Munich & the Bavarian Alps Volume 349 of Frommer's Complete Frommer's Series. Frommer's, 2007. ISBN 0470100907, 9780470100905 [1]

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