Episode 21 - D-Day + One
The Canadian stand against the 12th SS Division immediately after D-Day allowed the Allies to switch to the offensive and truly begin the liberation of Europe.
The Canadian stand against the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend immediately after D-Day allowed the Allies to switch to the offensive and truly begin the liberation of Europe.
From 7-11 June, in a serious of vicious close quarters battles – and the subsequent murder of 158 Canadian prisoners of war by the 12th SS – the Canadians cut apart the Nazi armoured troops and safeguarded the Anglo-Canadian beachhead. In D-Day + One, Canadian, French, and German witnesses revisit the desperate summer of 70 years ago.
