A series of death notices of SS men killed in France from a German newspaper.
Two of the men were recorded as being killed at Le Paradis. These are presumably troops of the SS Totenkopf Division, whose surviving comrades murdered 97 Royal Norfolk Regiment soldiers in retribution for the heavy losses which they had suffered during the battle for the village. There is also mention of the loss of three members of the SS Polizei Regiment, two of them at Voncq in the Ardennes region on the 10th June. On the 9th and 10th June, the German 39th and 78th Infantry Regiments suffered exceptionally heavy losses in attempting to storm French positions held by the 1st Battalion of the 57th Regiment d'Infanterie. Having beaten off the Germans, the French, supported by tanks, then counter-attacked. The Germans lost 1,100 men killed, wounded or captured and this section of the front was only stabilised by the arrival of the SS Polizei Regiment.
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