Mohnke led the 5th company of the 2nd Battalion of the '' Infanterie-Regiment Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler '' , at the outset of the Battle of France in 1940 . He took command of the 2nd Battalion on 28 May after the battalion commander was wounded . It was around this time that Mohnke was allegedly involved in the murder of 80 British ( of the 48th division ) and French prisoners of war ( POWs ) near Wormhoudt . Mohnke was never brought to trial over these allegations , and when the case was reopened in 1988 , a German prosecutor came to the conclusion there was insufficient evidence to bring charges . The case briefly resurfaced once again in late 1993 when it became evident that the British government had not revealed some pertinent files from its archives during the earlier investigation . However , nothing substantial came from this either
near Wormhoudt
Wormhoudt massacre
Wilhelm Mohnke