Why Germans Feared This Canadian General More Than Any American Commander

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Part 2 is out now! Know that this is members-only: https://youtu.be/aELEpdSb6ww August nineteen forty-four, Normandy, France. The Allied invasion was dying in the French countryside, and everyone knew it. This is the story of General Guy Simonds, the Canadian commander who became the one Allied general German officers privately admitted they feared above all others. Six weeks had passed since D-Day, and the great breakout from the beaches had turned into a nightmare. British and Canadian forces were stuck fighting around the city of Caen, trapped in a grinding battle that killed two thousand men every single week. They weren't moving forward. They weren't winning. Every day brought more death for a few hundred yards of bombed-out farmland. American troops faced the same horror in the hedgerow country to the west, where every field hid German machine guns and every lane became a killing zone. The Allied advance was measured in yards, not miles. German defenders were killing three Allied soldiers for every German casualty. Generals were starting to whisper the word nobody wanted to say out loud: stalemate.