On this day 1940, Waffen SS troops shoot 99 British POWs at the village of Le Paradis, France. Two of the victims survive and will go on to identify the officer in charge of the massacre: Fritz Knöchlein. He will be executed for the crime in 1949. pic.twitter.com/LfDxpBcgm1
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