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D-Day Battles in the Shadows

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14/06/2014 GMT

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As D-Day is remembered, Robert Hall tells the little known story of the French resistance 

As D-Day is remembered, Robert Hall tells the little known story of the French resistance battle to stop a German Division reaching the landing beaches.

As the world remembers the largest seaborne landings ever seen, ceremonies have marked the loss of life on the D-Day beaches.

But little is said about another operation to prevent Das Reich, a powerful and brutal German division, reaching the landing zones. French resistance teams fought alongside British and American agents; two thousand people died, many of them civilians massacred by the Nazis. Yet they succeeded in their mission. Robert Hall followed the road to Normandy to hear eye witness accounts from those who survived.

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