Bayeux Tapestry: the lost Nazi archive

Witness by BBC

Sep 9, 202610:40Society & Culture

In 1994, documents from a Nazi study of the Bayeux Tapestry were rediscovered after more than 50 years. Former curator of the tapestry, Sylvette Lemagnen, tells Helen Ledwick how the missing archive was found and returne...

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