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...afternoon last week trucks loaded with troops of a Waffen SS (armed elite guard) unit drove up to the farm village of Oradour-sur-Glane, in central France. In a few moments the town crier made the rounds, ordered everyone to assemble at the fair grounds...
...Germans stayed three days finishing up, throwing the scorched bodies into a ditch, burning everything that stood. Then, on June 13, the Führer Regiment of the Reich Division left Oradour-sur-Glane...
...Germans were not quite finished; there was a last, ironic twist of the screw. Reported the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung: German officials were horrified, too. The elimination of Oradour-sur-Glane was a ghastly mistake -it was really intended for Oradour-sur-Vayres, 15 miles away. Some Germans had been killed there in a Maquis attack...
...Germans had excellent defensive positions, along ridges and on the banks of the Odon River, which lies like an outer bastion to the west of the Orne. But the Allied attack stormed through southeast of Tilly-sur-Seulles, crossed the Odon and established a respectable bridgehead. Then they set methodically to work widening the salient. The first push of the drive was all but complete. The Germans began a series of violent counterattacks...
...Allies will have driven out of the broken, hilly, difficult Norman country and into open, fairly level ground. The next arena of battle might well be the Plain of Caen, an area about ten miles wide and extending some 21 miles south to Falaise and southeast to St. Pierre-sur-Dives...