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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
I missed the first 5 minutes, so I'm recording it when its replayed later this week. I thought it was a fantastic show, it was definitely difficult to watch at a few parts. The tank battle show that followed was about the Canadian tank company that landed on Juno. They had a pretty good battle with the SS for Caen. Pretty sad parts in that one as well. When they talk about the Canadians taken prisoner by the SS being murdered.
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Kurt Meyer was the SS officer who executed the Canadians', he was considered to be one of the great Tankers of the war, but the man was a completely commited Nazi.
He was tried for War Crimes after the War and spent 9 years in prison.
As an add on there's another exceptional show on the history channel called Tank Battles, and this week covers the Normandy invasion, and they did a excellent job of recreating the battle using CGI