One of the survivors of a notorious massacre of a British unit by the Nazis in the Second World War has died aged 100. Private Bob Brown was among 100 troops from 2nd Battalion, the Royal Norfolk Regiment, who were forced to surrender during an effort to stop German forces advancing at Dunkirk.
Most of the soldiers gave themselves up to an SS unit in the village of Le Paradis in May 1940. After being searched, 97 of them were mown down with machine guns beside a barn.
Pte Brown and two other soldiers dodged execution because they slipped out of a burning farmhouse and hid in a ditch. They gave themselves up to a different German unit and spent the rest of the conflict as prisoners of war.
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