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Memorial Execution Le Paradis

On this location, after their surrender on 27 May 1940, 99 soldiers of C Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Norfolks were executed by SS troops. Only two of them survived the massacre.

Near Creton farm stands along the side of the road a monument which commemorates the victims.

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Related books

Encyclopedia of the Third Reich
Battle of the Bulge 44-45