THE MASSACRE AT LE PARADIS - HELL IN PARADISE - MAY1940.
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Transcript of the above statement by Louis Creton:

"At the time of the events in May, 1940, I evacuated my home on 20th May, in order to flee from the advance of the German army. On my return on 2 June, 1940, I ascertained that a communal grave surmounted by a small cross had been dug in one of my meadows near my farm.

I also noticed bullet marks on the stable wall facing onto the meadow at man's height. By the wall bits of brains and pools of congealed blood were scattered on the ground.

At a distance of about 25 metres from the wall mentioned I found a pile of about 200 German cartridge cases. I learnt then from M and Mme Dieu that 97 British soldiers were shot by Germans belonging to the unit which had occupied the village.

After making enquiries, I believe that nobody could have watched the shooting.

All the same the Dieu couple as well as a woman by the name of Therese Zielinski might have seen the Germans carrying out the disarming of the 97 British soldiers in a field facing the meadow; that would have been some time before the execution. The equipment remained in that field for several months.

In 1942 I was present at the disinterment of the British soldiers and I noticed that many of the bodies still had bandages on them, either on their arms, legs or head; one of them still wore a dressing on his arm showing that this limb had been fractured.

I would add that when I returned from my evacuation on 2 June I found several buckets of blood and human brain which proves that the British soldiers had been shot from very close range."

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