General Richter's bunker under the Caen memorial

The Caen Memorial was sited where it is because it was over the bunker of General Richter the commander of the 716th division.



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00:00 Intro
00:23 Facade represents the Atlantic wall
00:44 The entrance is D-day
01:10 Medieval quarry
01:39 Protected from fire from battleships
01:58 Construction
02:45 Burried Mark IV panzer tank
04:09 Machine gun protected dog leg entrance
04:29 D-day starts
05:02 12th SS move in
05:15 Kurt Meyer
05:43 Hospital
05:55 Canadians take the bunker
06:15 Nobel peace prize gallery
06:42 Peace gardens British Canadian American





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