After the Dutch surrender , the LSSAH was moved south to France . On 24 May the LSSAH , along with the SS-VT division were positioned to hold the perimeter around Dunkirk and reduce the size of the pocket containing the encircled British Expeditionary Force and French forces . On 27 May , a unit from the '' Totenkopf '' , the 4 Company , committed the Le Paradis massacre , where 97 captured men of the 2nd Battalion , Royal Norfolk Regiment were machine gunned after surrendering , with survivors finished off with bayonets . Two men survived . By 28 May the '' SS-Leibstandarte '' had taken the village of Wormhout , from Dunkirk . There , soldiers of the 2nd Battalion were responsible for the Wormhoudt massacre , where 80 British and French soldiers were murdered after they surrendered
Wormhoudt massacre
Wormhoudt massacre
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