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GERMAN ARMY SHOOTING OF BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR, 1940
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GERMAN ARMY SHOOTING OF BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR, 1940

  • MISC6
  • Collection
  • 1940

Collection consists of photocopies of a manuscript letter written by Col Günther Blumentritt, Senior Operations Officer, German Army Group A, relating to German operations in France, 25 May 1940; and Intelligence Branch, General Staff, German 26 Army Corps, memoranda and German Army witness statements relating to the killing of approximately 100 British prisoners of war from 2 Bn, Royal Norfolk Regt, at Long Cornet, France, by soldiers of the SS Totenkopf Div during the retreat of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 28 May 1940.