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December 1943, Ortona, Italy. German intelligence officers stare at casualty reports that make no sense. In sectors facing Canadian troops, German losses are 40% to 60% higher than anywhere else on the Italian front. The elite 1st Parachute Division, veterans who stopped British tanks and American infantry assaults, are being systematically destroyed by soldiers from a peaceful nation with limited military tradition. Canadian forces clear fortified rooms in 85 seconds while British units need 140 seconds and Americans 160. They pioneer mouse holing, blasting through stone walls to advance through buildings without using streets where German machine guns wait. During the 8-day Battle of Ortona, Germans lose 1,372 men while inflicting only 502 Canadian casualties, the exact reverse of their predictions. By February 1944, German Tactical Directive 447 orders all defensive positions facing Canadians reinforced with 50% additional troops. Wehrmacht soldiers begin calling them Maple Leaf Devils. Operation Totalize in August 1944 sees 720 Canadian tanks advance 14 kilometers in 12 hours through darkness, destroying two-thirds of the elite 12th SS Panzer Division in 72 hours. German commanders admit Canadians represent a disproportionate threat requiring 2.5 German soldiers for every 1 Canadian. This is the true story of how discipline, aggression, and unpredictability created the most feared Allied soldiers of World War 2.