Massacre at the Ardenne Abbey – June 1944

In this episode we visit the garden of an ancient Abbey near Caen in Normandy, the scene of the murder of 20 Canadian soldiers in the days following D Day in June 1944. Who were these young men? We pay tribute to each and every one of them…and discover how a bereaved Mother refused to move from her home as she expected her son to come through the kitchen door one day. And we look into the story of the SS Officer, Kurt Meyer, who was held responsible for these murders. Who was he? Why was he released from a military prison after just 8 years and what happened when he returned home? And how did a Chestnut tree become the unmarked grave of some of these lads?