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Le Paradis Massacre: SS Murder of 97 Surrendered British Soldiers
The Le Paradis Massacre was one of the first major Waffen-SS war crimes in Western Europe during World War II. On 27 May 1940, during the Battle of France, ninety-nine soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment surrendered after being surrounded near the French village of Le Paradis. Expecting to become prisoners of war, they instead became victims of one of the most notorious atrocities of the campaign.
Led by SS-Hauptsturmführer Fritz Knöchlein of the SS-Totenkopf Division, the captured British soldiers were marched to a farmyard, lined up against a barn wall, and machine-gunned…
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