{"id":26621,"date":"2015-06-08T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26621"},"modified":"2018-11-03T14:14:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T18:14:58","slug":"qotd-german-troops-on-the-atlantic-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/06\/08\/qotd-german-troops-on-the-atlantic-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: German troops on the Atlantic Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Formations transferred from the eastern front, especially Waffen-SS divisions, believed that the soldiers garrisoned in France had become soft. &#8220;They had done nothing but live well and send things home,&#8221; commented one general. &#8220;France is a dangerous country, with its wine, women and pleasant climate.&#8221; The troops of the 319th Infanterie-Division on the Channel Islands were even thought to have gone native from mixing with the essentially English population. They received the nickname of the &#8220;King&#8217;s Own German Grenadiers&#8221;. Ordinary soldiers, however, soon called it &#8220;the Canada Division&#8221;, because Hitler&#8217;s refusal to redeploy them meant that they were likely to end up in Canadian prisoner of war camps.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Beevor, <em>D-Day: The Battle for Normandy<\/em>, 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formations transferred from the eastern front, especially Waffen-SS divisions, believed that the soldiers garrisoned in France had become soft. &#8220;They had done nothing but live well and send things home,&#8221; commented one general. &#8220;France is a dangerous country, with its wine, women and pleasant climate.&#8221; The troops of the 319th Infanterie-Division on the Channel Islands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,62,1117,1118,7,5,230],"tags":[974,1095,1245],"class_list":["post-26621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-europe","category-france","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-ww2","tag-d-day","tag-fortification","tag-normandy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Vn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26623,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26621\/revisions\/26623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}