GERMAN SOLDIERS IN NORMANDY STRUGGLE 1944 | WW2 4K Colored Combat Footage

Of the 850,000 German troops awaiting the invasion, many were Eastern European conscripts; there were even some Koreans. There were sixty infantry divisions in France and ten panzer divisions, possessing 1,552 tanks, but not all were combat ready. In Normandy itself the Germans had deployed eighty thousand troops, but only one panzer division. Approximately fifteen thousand French civilians died in the Normandy campaign, partly from Allied bombing and partly from combat actions of Allied and German ground forces. #WWII #worldwar2 #zweiterweltkrieg