Берт Эванс - воевал в в Уорвикширском полку под Вормут (Wormhout), который задержал прорыв дивизии СС.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/10181164.stm
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..."Мы слышали про СС и знали, что они не берут пленных"...
...ССовцы загнали меня и ещё 80 пленных в маленький в сарай, потом забросали гранатами, и открыли беспорядочный огонь по сараю. Выжил потому, что завалило телами убитых... После расстрела в живых осталось 20 человек из 80.
После расстрела сумел ночью пробраться к своим.
К вопросу о гуманности Ваффен СС. И это в мае 40-го.
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Bert Evans, serving with the Warwickshire Regiment, was facing an elite German SS division near the town of Wormhout.
"We were the ones who stopped them breaking through," said the 89-year-old from Redditch, Worcestershire. "And we suffered for it.
"We'd heard about the SS and we knew they didn't take prisoners."
Mr Evans's fears were well-founded: after he and 80 other soldiers were herded into a small barn, the SS threw hand grenades into the building before firing indiscriminately.
"I was saved because I was under a pile of bodies," he told me. "I thought I was lucky to be alive."
Fewer than 20 of the men forced into the barn came out alive.
