Collection MISC6 - GERMAN ARMY SHOOTING OF BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR, 1940

Key Information

Reference code

MISC6

Title

GERMAN ARMY SHOOTING OF BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR, 1940

Date(s)

  • 1940 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 file

Scope and content

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.

System of arrangement

Arranged chronologically

General Information

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre in 1978 by the Director of Central Library Services and Goldsmiths' Librarian, University of London

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Related descriptions

Note

Compiled Oct 1999

Alternative identifier(s)

Place access points

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Accession area