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

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Details of WO 309/32
Reference: WO 309/32
Description:

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

Includes 12 photographs depicting: HQ BAOR: War Crimes Group (NWE); killing of ninety seven members of 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment following capture by SS Totenkopf Regiment no 2, 1st Battalion; scene of atrocities in village of Le Paradis-Lestrem, Pas de Calais. Dated 1946.

Date: 1946 Oct - 1948 July
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: BAOR/WCG 15228/2/C101/Legal Part 4
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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