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Massacre of Verden
The Massacre of Verden, Bloodbath of Verden, or Bloody Verdict of Verden (German ''Blutgericht von Verden'') was a massacre of 4,500 captive Saxons in October 782. During the Saxon Wars, the Saxons opposed Charlemagne's invasion and subsequent attempts to christianize them from their native Germanic paganism. The massacre is recorded as having occurred in what is now Verden in Lower Saxony, Germany.
Some scholars have since attempted to exonerate Charlemagne of the massacre, but these attempts have been generally rejected. The massacre became significant among German nationalists in the early 20th century. In 1935, landscape architect Wilhelm Hübotter designed a memorial, known as the ''Sachsenhain'' ('Saxon Grove'), that was built at a possible site for the massacre.
==Attestations==
An entry for the year 782 in the ''Royal Frankish Annals'' records that, after Charlemagne lost two envoys, four counts, and around 20 nobles in battle with the Saxons, Charlemagne responded by massacring 4,500 rebelling Saxons near what is now Verden. Regarding this massacre, the entry reads:
When he heard this, the Lord King Charles rushed to the place with all the Franks that he could gather on short notice and advanced to where the Aller flows into the Weser. Then all the Saxons came together again, submitted to the authority of the Lord King, and surrendered the evildoers who were chiefly responsible for this revolt to be put to death—four thousand and five hundred of them. This sentence was carried out. Widukind was not among them since he had fled to Nordmannia. When he had finished this business, the Lord King returned to Francia.〔Scholz (1970:61).〕
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