Plomion
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{{Infobox French commune
|name = Plomion
|commune status = Commune
|image = Plomion église fortifiée (façade nord) 1.jpg
|caption = The church of Plomion
|image coat of arms =
|arrondissement = Vervins
|canton = Vervins
|INSEE = 02608
|postal code = 02140
|term = 2020–2026
|intercommunality = Thiérache du Centre
|coordinates = {{coord|49.8086|4.0189|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m = 200
|elevation min m = 132
|elevation max m = 226
|area km2 = 16.39
|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}
Plomion ({{IPA|fr|plɔmjɔ̃}}) is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
History
Plomion was the site of a massacre by retreating German forces on the evening of August 31, 1944 as the American army approached pushing toward the Belgian border. Sixty German Waffen SS members who had been quartered in the village for six days, murdered fourteen men rounded-up at random and shot them with machine guns after lining them up in a meadow prior to retreating. Five men from a single family were dragged from their home during supper. The ages of the victims ranged from 70 to 17. After murdering the men, they set part of the town on fire. American troops arrived the following morning and their early arrival was credited by residents with preventing further murders.{{cite news |last=Denny |first=Harold |date=1944-09-02 |title=Germans Kill 14, Burn 37 Houses As They Flee Before Americans |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/09/03/issue.html |work=New York Times |page=3 |publication-date=1944-09-03 | access-date=2020-08-21}}
Population
{{Historical populations
|source = INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/7633058?geo=COM-02608#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
|percentages = pagr
|align = none
|1968 |681
|1975 |630
|1982 |511
|1990 |527
|1999 |518
|2009 |482
|2014 |445
|2020 |468
}}
Sport
Plomion has been host to the French Sidecarcross Grand Prix in the past[http://www.thejohndaveypages.org/JD_GP/MIXXXVNVN.htm VENUES USED IN GP 1971-2005] The John Davy Pages, accessed: 2 November 2009 and hosted it again in 2010, on 2 May.[http://www.fim-live.com/en/sport/sidecarcross/events/ FIM Sidecarcross World Championship - 2010 Calendar] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812011944/http://www.fim-live.com/en/sport/sidecarcross/events/ |date=2011-08-12 }} FIM website, accessed: 30 October 2009
See also
References
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