Case of Wormhoudt massacre reopened

Title

Case of Wormhoudt massacre reopened

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

29 Jun 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:03:30

Description

Peter Spencer reports from Westminster on the re-opening in Germany of the case into the massacre of UK troops in Wormhoudt by the SS in the Second World War. Includes Commons speech by Armed Forces Minister Roger Freeman detailing the massacre and previous investigation which came to nothing as evidence against former SS General Wilhelm Mohnke was insufficient.

Contributors

Peter Spencer; Roger Freeman

Keywords

UK; Homicide; Germany; Nazis; War crimes; Second World War (1939-1945); Nazism; Army personnel; Adolf Hitler; Germany FR; Wilhelm Mohnke

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