Catalogue description Wormhoudt and Le Paradis, France: killing of British PoWs ['the Wormhout massacre']....

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Details of WO 309/28
Reference: WO 309/28
Description:

Wormhoudt and Le Paradis, France: killing of British PoWs ['the Wormhout massacre'].

Includes 11 photographs depicting: HQ BAOR, War Crimes Group (NWE): killing of British prisoners of war at Wormhoudt, France, and Le Paradis-Lestrem, Pas de Calais, by German SS units; war criminals (named), two others not identified. Dated 1945-1948.

Date: 1945 Oct - 1948 June
Related material:

See also WO 309/27, 29-32, 1801, 1809, 1810, 1813
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: BAOR/WCG 15228/2/C101
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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