By 28 May , the '' Leibstandarte '' 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 '' Leibstandarte '' 's 2nd Battalion committed the Wormhoudt massacre , where 80 British and French prisoners of war were killed
Wormhoudt massacre
Wormhoudt massacre
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