Thread: Normandy Prisoner Exchange July/Aug. '44
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Old September 10th, 2000, 09:25 PM
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Right, time to get the ball rolling!
At the end of July 1944 Christian Tyschens headquarters of the 2nd SS Pz. Div. was overrun as the Americans began to break out of the Normandy bridgehead. Not knowing that Tyschen had been killed, the temporary CO of the remnanats of the division, Otto Baum, arranged a prisoner exchange to try and get him back. Did this exchange go ahead anyway? If so, how many were involved and from which units were they from?

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Rich
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