In 1940, two soldiers miraculously survived a massacre of 99 British prisoners of war
During the chaotic British retreat to Dunkirk in 1940, 99 soldiers were lined up against a wall and fired upon by German troops, yet two men miraculously survived to tell the harrowing tale.
In the French village of Le Paradis, 99 members of the Royal Norfolk Regiment surrendered to an SS division after running out of ammunition. Despite the rules of war, the German troops marched the prisoners to a farm and opened fire with machine guns. Only Privates William O'Callaghan and Albert Pooley survived by hiding under the bodies of their comrades.
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