Ninety-nine members of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment who had surrendered to his unit in a cattle shed were stood in front of the barn wall, and Knöchlein ordered two machine-guns turned on them, followed by bayoneting and shooting any apparent survivors.
•
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.
Fritz Lang | Fritz Leiber | Fritz Kreisler | Fritz Weaver | Fritz Reiner | Fritz Haber | Robert Fritz | Robert C. Fritz | Fritz Gesztesy | Fritz Dreisbach | Chris Fritz | L'amico Fritz | Fritz London | Fritz Laves | Fritz Kranefuss | Fritz Grünbaum | Dennis Fritz | Fritz von Opel | Fritz | Fritz Wunderlich | Fritz Walter | Fritz Vahrenholt | Fritz Todt | Fritz Thyssen | Fritz the Cat (film) | Fritz Stern | Fritz Reuter | Fritz Odemar | Fritz Lenz | Fritz Kraemer |