he was a SS officer in charge at Hamburg garrison It was in his capacity as a company commander that he gained notoriety, being responsible for the 27 May 1940 massacre of British prisoners-of-war at Le Paradis in the Pas-de-Calais. IN France at RotherbaumNinety-nine members of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment and few from other British units who had surrendered to his unit in a cattle shed when they ran out of ammunition were made to stand in front of the barn wall, and Knöchlein ordered two machine-guns turned on them, followed by bayoneting and shooting any apparent survivors. Two of the prisoners, privates Albert Pooley and William O'Callaghan, managed to escape the massacre, but the remaining 97 were hastily buried along the barn wall. According to the historians Murray and Millet: "The company commander, Obersturmführer Fritz Knochlein, lined the prisoners up against a barn wall and machinegunned the lot. Any survivors were bayoneted and shot. German military authorities brought no charges against Knochelien after the war he was arrested for the crime and charged for massacre . a The trial took place on 11 October 1948. once the charges were proved he appealed for clemency stating that he had four children and a wife who depended up on him.. it was turned down and he was hanged on 21 January 1949.
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he was a SS officer in charge at Hamburg garrison
It was in his capacity as a company commander that he gained notoriety, being responsible for the 27 May 1940 massacre of British prisoners-of-war at Le Paradis in the Pas-de-Calais. IN France at RotherbaumNinety-nine members of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment and few from other British units who had surrendered to his unit in a cattle shed when they ran out of ammunition were made to stand in front of the barn wall, and Knöchlein ordered two machine-guns turned on them, followed by bayoneting and shooting any apparent survivors. Two of the prisoners, privates Albert Pooley and William O'Callaghan, managed to escape the massacre, but the remaining 97 were hastily buried along the barn wall. According to the historians Murray and Millet: "The company commander, Obersturmführer Fritz Knochlein, lined the prisoners up against a barn wall and machinegunned the lot. Any survivors were bayoneted and shot. German military authorities brought no charges against Knochelien
after the war he was arrested for the crime and charged for massacre . a The trial took place on 11 October 1948. once the charges were proved he appealed for clemency stating that he had four children and a wife who depended up on him.. it was turned down and he was hanged on 21 January 1949.
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