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The crimes began as Dunkirk was being evacuated. On May 28, the SS Totenkopf Division marched about 100 members of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, which had just surrendered, to a pit in a farm in Le Paradis and murdered them with machine gun spray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A similar atrocity unfolded on the same day with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, which had been captured\u2028 near Wormhout. They were forced into a barn and massacred with grenades. Two men survived, only because the volume of bodies they were buried under shielded them from both the explosives and from detection by guards who were looking for survivors.<\/p>\nTime-Life, 2008<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Twelve months earlier<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The nights at this time of year were still pleasant. It was summer and many a sunny day slipped gently into a clear night. In one particular period in one particular English county even the moon shone. Didn\u2019t it know there was a war on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2am was an interesting time of night in most counties of England in the early days of World War II. For one thing, there were exceedingly few people about\u2014only bakers, milkmen, drunks unable to find their way home, and giggly lovers. Anyone with the intention of doing something illegal just about had the village or town to themselves. Certainly, there were no police around at that time; all the good policemen and their wives, girlfriends and mistresses were tucked up in bed, dreaming of promotion and polite, quiet children. So, for a three-week period in the Spring of 1940 no one was around to witness this: Someone<\/em> breaking into a jeweller\u2019s shop and re-emerging eight minutes later. They would be carrying a black Gladstone bag and although it looked like it didn\u2019t weigh much when they entered the shop, it certainly looked heavy when they carried it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For three weeks this certain someone<\/em> enjoyed complete freedom to plunder asunder in this particular Home County and surrounds. All jewellers stored their valuable items in safes, of course, but effective safes were expensive to purchase, so most jewellers settled for a safe that looked<\/em> secure. To the professional thief they were extremely easy to crack. So, for three weeks this someone<\/em> plundered their way across the country and amassed a very sizeable haul of fine jewels and expensive watches, all up worth around \u00a334,000. That\u2019s \u00a32million in today\u2019s money. And they\u2019d been making a living from quietly, nightly entering jeweller\u2019s shops up and down Britain for quite a few years now, so no safe was unbreakable. And the someone <\/em>was now rich\u2014very, very rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day they received an official letter from London letting them know that in a month\u2019s time they were to report to the station at ___, catch the 8.45am to Norfolk and report to the Britannia Barracks. So, they did. Upon arrival, they and their new companions were marched to the Quartermaster\u2019s barracks and issued with their kit, wherein they were then members of the prestigious Norfolk Regiment. The someone<\/em> didn\u2019t know how long they were going to be in the army, or for how long the war would last, but they had taken the precaution, after the last jewellery store adventure, of storing their latest haul in an abandoned, heavily rusted open-top Armstrong Siddeley Cotswold Tourer. They had managed to hide it deep inside a forest, where ramblers and locals were so unlikely to find it that the large stash of goods was only lightly hidden underneath the wreck. Sure, still hidden from the amateur and innocent, but not impenetrable by a fellow professional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Twelve months later<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Damn! We\u2019re bloody sitting ducks, lad!\u2019 swore Lance Corporal Harry Giles to the man lying at his side. That very young soldier, from the Norfolk Regiment, was lying face up, tears streaming down his face and neck, softly murmuring to himself. \u2018Mother\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fear of the men stranded on the beach, under intense fire from the Germans, was written in blood on their faces. The warm blood of their comrades and friends was splashed across the faces of the nearby living. Well, living-for-now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you could certainly smell Dunkirk. Death. Seaweed. Sea. Shit. Lots of shit. Piss. The metallic odour of blood as it mixes with oxygen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sand on which the men lay cowering, gathering what shelter they could, was cold to the touch, and of course wet. Wet from the sea and wet from the blood that lay in pools before slowly sinking into the sand. The threat that the next bullet or shell would have their name on it kept the dread of a bloody and painful death very much alive. The men were far away from the calming voice of Vera Lynn and her promise to meet them again on the white cliffs of Dover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up from the cold, wet sand of the beach lay the hillocks that offered such little protection from the German guns that pummelled and pushed the expeditionary force back to the ocean. Slightly higher up the surrounding hills, German soldiers and snipers sat in bunkers, relatively comfortable. All the Allied men\u2014some 338,000 of them\u2014were convinced that this was the beach on which they would finally get to meet their maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within the deafening noise, they mouthed their bravado to each other, scared to admit they were scared. Scared of what? Well, of dying of course. But not just dying\u2014how<\/em> they were going to die. Was it by a sniper rifle? Or was it a larger shell that was going to break their bones and shatter their existence, blast apart their insides? Were they going to bleed to death slowly and in pain, or quickly and almost pain free? Were their bones going to be smashed irrevocably, or would they be taken out by a sniper splitting their skulls with a bullet slicing through the useless tin helmets?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some mustered up the courage to fight on anyway, even though they were pinned down by ceaseless and relentless fire. Accurate fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here and there, brave souls who probably figured out they had nothing to lose crawled inch by inch to the bedded-in Germans. Most of these Allied soldiers were killed just feet from their target. A few threw hopeful grenades into the small units that housed equally scared but better positioned German soldiers, soldiers that wielded rifles that spat hellfire and delivered a burning hot and permanent exit from the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lance Corporal Harry Giles, \u2018Lance Jack\u2019 to his mates and subordinates, was definitely a \u2018glass half full\u2019 kind of soldier, but not so enthusiastic and optimistic as to be unrealistic and deemed a fuckwit. \u2018Jack\u2019 was military slang for someone who didn\u2019t carry their weight. British military banter being what it is, calling Harry \u2018Jack\u2019 was the highest praise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry certainly carried his weight. Especially on a heavily overcast day like today, when morale had been shot to bloody pieces, just like his men. He shouted out encouragement, offered sympathy and, for humour, attempted to replicate the bearing of his Second Lieutenant\u2019s stiff upper lip and \u2018Carry on, chaps\u2019 tone-deaf speeches. Officers were on much safer ground than the \u2018sweats\u2019, who were currently pinned down by German guns and Stuka pilots who strafed them relentlessly and were probably thoroughly enjoying themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry turned his head to Gunner Mulligan, the comedian of the barracks. \u2018Spike, can you push this section of pipe a little further up the embankment?\u2019 Spike raised his head as much as he dared and peered over the hillock they were all hiding behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018What? I can\u2019t hear you,\u2019 he replied above the bullets zipping just above their heads. Harry bloody well knew he could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018You heard. Do you reckon you can push the pipe further up the embankment towards Jerry?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018I\u2019m happy to push my pipe up most things, Jack, but I draw the line with Jerry right at this moment.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Oh, go on, there\u2019s a good chap,\u2019 Harry responded in his best \u2018Clueless Posh-Git Officer\u2019 voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Fuck. All right, I\u2019ll have a go.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Well done, that man. Tally ho!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spike slid slowly back, keeping his head down. In his left hand he held onto the long piece of pipe that needed screwing onto the much longer piece of pipe that lay just out of reach. I\u2019ll have to move to my left and try to hook my foot around it and somehow drag it towards me. That\u2019s going to put me in sight of Jerry and his guns. Fuck.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spike thought for a moment, then figured if he was going to die it might as well be on a French beach with real sand, unlike Brighton in the south of England where he would holiday with his young family every year. Bloody awful pebble beach there. Don\u2019t know what anyone sees in it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spike remembered the \u2018knee trembler\u2019 he\u2019d quickly but thoroughly enjoyed with his young wife against the rear wall of their local pub. It happened on the eve of his deployment when the next morning he and several hundred other conscripts would leave from the train station to an unknown destination to eventually board ships to somewhere. No one knew where except the senior officers and they weren\u2019t telling. \u2018Loose lips sink ships,\u2019 said all the posters up, down and across Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stanley reached into his left breast pocket and pulled out a crumpled packet of Woodbines\u2014bloody awful cigarettes but all he could afford. His hand dove back in and returned with a broken box of matches. That knee trembler could be my last, might as well have one last \u2018gasper with Jasper\u2019 before I die<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leaving Dunkirk. Or not.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Dunkirk myth tells us that around 230,000 Allied men made it off the beach and onto a tiny boat heading for Blighty. This is true. What the myth doesn\u2019t divulge quite so readily is that around 55,000 Allied men stayed behind, to give the others a chance to escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And didn\u2019t the Germans have fun with those who remained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In amongst the remainers was that mysterious someone<\/em>\u2014Corporal Harry. The memory of his jewels stashed in both the forest and also in various hiding spots around England and Scotland gave him an extra incentive to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He ended up captured by the Germans after being denied an escape off the beach and was locked inside an empty fortified German bunker with no avenue of escape. His tongue was cut out by a particularly cruel German SS officer, because Harry repeatedly wouldn\u2019t divulge any information other than name, rank and serial number. So even when, days later when it seemed like the Germans had left for other parts of the countryside, and he heard some of his men, including Mulligan, searching for him, he was unable to let them know where he was. He had tried desperately to get off the beach, but each time he was denied by either German fire or his own superiors. So, he sat with ten other tongueless Allied soldiers in a dank bunker. Before the Germans left the area, he heard them round up other remainers and shoot them dead or march them off to God knows where. Harry couldn\u2019t help but think that maybe it would have been better to die on the beach than to face whatever fates still awaited him in this dark place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After three days of no guard appearing, he was hungry. Very hungry. The best he had received, even on good days, was three pieces of bread and a cup of water. Until there was no one left to give him the bread and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I\u2019m going to live, I had better find a way out of this bunker.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He dropped to his knees and started searching the floor for a rock, or anything that could scratch into the concrete bunker. His best hope was for finding something that could be used as a lever, but he knew as soon as he had the thought that it was impossible, the Germans would have cleared the floor of any such implement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait, what\u2019s this? There\u2019s light seeping through a crack in the wall. If I can find a large stone or rock, maybe I can\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, deep in a forest, a young man who was running away from the war and refusing to join the Army as he had been directed, a man who was not Harry but was just starting out in the same extracurricular night-time profession, stumbled upon a broken down, rusty open-topped car while searching for somewhere to securely hide from the Military Police. He lay under the car as a way of hiding and as a way of catching his breath\u2014both physically and mentally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was when lying under the rear of the car that he noticed something odd\u2014a bulging black Gladstone bag locked in a metal cage attached to the underside of the car. He removed the bag from its cage and had a crack at opening the lock. Ordinary mortals would have no chance, but the Conscientious Objector had few problems opening it. He found himself stunned at what was inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For every seven soldiers who escaped through Dunkirk, one man became a prisoner of war. The majority of these prisoners were sent on forced marches into Germany. Prisoners reported brutal treatment by their guards, including beatings, starvation, and murder. Of the Allied troops left behind by Operation Dynamo, 11,000 died and 40,000 were captured and imprisoned (a handful were able to evade capture and eventually make their way back to Allied or neutral territory).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018We shall fight on the seas and oceans\u2026 we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be\u2026 we shall never surrender\u2019<\/p>\nWinston Churchill<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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