On the night of the 6th April 1945 members of the Wehrmacht 822nd Battalion, based on the Dutch island of Texel, entered the quarters of their officers and other members of the unit and murdered some 400 of them with knives and bayonets.
Employed on coastal defences most members of the battalion had hoped that the war would pass them by. But when they l…
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