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« on: March 15, 2009, 09:25:57 AM » |
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« edited: March 15, 2009, 09:30:28 AM by Euskadi Aurreko »
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A strategically useless atrocity.
The US did the same in my hometown, Saint-Malo. However, the Germans read the writing on the wall beforehand and left the walled city for a smallish island off the coast of Saint-Malo, Cézembre. The historic walled city was destroyed, but it was entirely useless to the liberation of Saint-Malo. Cézembre was taken after the Americans surrounded the island and bombed it (one of the first uses of napalm, IIRC). The Germans surrendered in September 1944 since they were starving.
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