When War Was the Answer
Posted on AllSides June 6th, 2019
From The Right
OPINION
Terrible yet inspiring traces of D-Day remain in the Normandy landscape.
On a bluff above the sand and a half-mile from the ocean’s edge at low tide, which was the condition when the first Allied soldiers left their landing craft, a round circle of concrete five feet in diameter provides a collar for a hole in the ground. On the morning of June 6, 1944, the hole was Widerstandsnest (nest of resistance) 62, a German machine-gun emplacement.
Hein Severloh had been in it since shortly after midnight, by which time...
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