[TADSLOS]

Thanks, but no apology necessary. It was a fair question. The Germans made their bed with the Nazi Party and paid dearly for it. That being said, many of the German troops and their leaders assigned to Normandy were hardened veterans at that stage in the war. Normandy, to them, leading up to the invasion, was considered a comparitively easy assignment- away from the Eastern Front. They were highly skilled in small unit tactics and used the terrain of the bocage to their maximum advantage until they were attrited by a combination of Allied strength in numbers, some equally skilled troops in some units, logistics and air power.

[jmacusa]

‘Many of the German troops and their leaders assigned to Normandy were hardened veterans..’’ Not entirely. The only really capable German unit stationed in Normandy at the time was the 352nd. Infantry Division which was guarding the stretch of beach that would be code-named Omaha and where most of the causalities of the landing occurred. Other German units in the area, like the 716th. were made up largely of Poles and Russians more or less forced to serve. However I agree with your assessment of the fighting capability of the German army. I have spoken with many WW2 vets who told me to a man ''Them Krauts were tough son's of bitches. They didn't give up until you damn near wiped them all out and even then they still fought you''. But they couldn't have been all that good. We beat 'em Thank God.