{"id":57727,"date":"2020-06-08T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=57727"},"modified":"2020-06-07T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T15:47:33","slug":"d-day-the-last-german-holdouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/06\/08\/d-day-the-last-german-holdouts\/","title":{"rendered":"D-Day &#8211; The Last German Holdouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0KdhPy2kjUE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Mark Felton Productions<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 6 Jun 2020<\/p>\n<p>Some German coast defences managed to survive on D-Day and fought on behind Allied lines. One was the massive Douvres Radar Station bunker complex between Juno and Sword Beaches. 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