Tag: Battalion 43
How Foreign Conscripts Helped Hitler Defend ‘Fortress Europe’ on D-Day
Published Date: 2 June, 2014
(Originally published in MilitaryHistoryNow.com on June 6, 2012) ONE OF THE ironies of the June, 1944 Normandy campaign is that Third Reich, a regime so deeply obsessed with racial purity, would hold its Atlantic Wall in Europe…