The Wormhout massacre memorial

The barn in which the massacre took place at La plaine au bois in Esquelbecq

1km from the cottage

Dunkirk Veterans street - Memorial of the World War Two Wormhoudt Massacre

On May, 28th 1940, during the fighting which preceded the fall of France, about 100 British prisoners-of-war were herded into a barn near the French town of Wormhoudt by a company of Waffen-SS troops commanded by SS-Hauptsturm führer (Captain) Wilhelm Möhnke. The Germans then proceeded to throw hand grenades into the barn and to shoot its occupants. There were about sixteen survivors.

Free visit. Commented visit on booking  (info : 03.28.62.88.57)
(Office de Tourisme**/Maison du Westhoek)