During the Second World War, there were a huge number of war crimes and atrocities committed by the different armies. One of these took place during the Battle of France and the fierce fighting against the German Wehrmacht and the British Expeditionary Force. The Germans were pushing the BEF back towards Dunkirk, and because of this the men were to be evacuated from the beach back to Britain to fight another day. But there were a small group of soldiers who were tasked with protecting the beach to allow the evacuations to take place. The soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment were dug in near a farmhouse near to Le Paradis, and they fought valiantly against the SS Division Totenkopf, but were overwhelmed eventually despite inflicting heavy casualties.

99 British soldiers surrendered to the German SS division commanded by Fritz Knöchlein, and his group were known for committing massacres and war crimes in France. The Prisoners Of War were gathered and marched towards a barn after their equipment was confiscated and then they were shot brutally by a machine gun, being mown down and falling in a shallow grave which had been done. Firing continued until all the men were hit, and then the Germans jumped into the pit and finished off most of the men. There were only two survivors of the Le Paradis Massacre, and they later told the brutal story of the German Army's barbaric mass killing.

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