Execution Wall Le Paradis

Against the wall of this farm, after their surrender on 27 May 1940, 99 soldiers of C Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Norfolk, were executed by troops of the 14th Company of the SS Totenkopf commanded by Hauptsturmführer Fritz Knöchlein.

Only two of them, Albert Pooley and William O'Callaghan, survived the massacre and managed to escape. They were recaptured but survived the war.

After the war, they testified in a trial against Knöchlein, who was found guilty and hanged in 1949.

Since the 1970s, a plaque has hung on the wall of the Creton farm recalling this horrific event.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Corin Gelderblom