THE massacre of over 90 British troops at Le Paradis has, quite rightly, gone down in history as a major war crime. The machine-gunning of 97 soldiers, who had surrendered to the German forces, was exactly what it became known as - a massacre and mass murder in cold blood.
Investigations into the event were delayed until 1944 due to the fact that nobody believed the two survivors - Privates William "Bill" O'Callaghan and Albert "Bert" Pooley. At the end of the war, however, even Germans were asking questions about what had gone on in the small village of Le Paradis on 27th May, 1940. Much valuable information was acquired by the Americans and forwarded to the London interrogation centre known as The Cage.
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