On 26 May the German advance resumed . By 28 May the LSSAH had taken the village of Wormhout , only ten miles from Dunkirk . After their surrender , soldiers from the 2nd Battalion , Royal Warwickshire Regiment , along with some other units ( including French soldiers ) were taken to a barn in '' La Plaine au Bois '' near Wormhout and Esquelbecq . It was there that troops of the LSSAH 2nd battalion , under the command of SS - '' Hauptsturmführer '' Wilhelm Mohnke committed the Wormhoudt massacre , where 80 British and French prisoners of war were killed . Although it is unarguable that the massacre occurred , Mohnke 's level of involvement is impossible to know ; he was never formally charged and brought to trial
Wormhoudt massacre
Wormhoudt massacre
1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler