MASSACRE AT NANTES
HOW HOSTAGES WERE EXECUTED. Details of the massacre of hostages at Nantes have reached England. “Germans shot the hostages in groups of five.” said an eye-witness. “Twenty-seven came from Chateaubriant, the others from Paris and Nantes. Among them was the Mayor of Concarneau, who fought in the last war and had lost a leg, and a boy of seventeen. The boy fainted, and it was while he was lying on the ground, that he was shot. The executions were carried out by machine-gun fire. “The Germans do not always take the trouble to make public announcements of executions. “The mother of a young Breton boy who had joined a de Gaulle group received the visit of a German officer. “You are Madame X . . . Your son was shot yesterday. Good day!”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1942, Page 4
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