Das Reich (43 page)
2
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Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
– German Army High Command.
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. The
Sicherheitsdienst
, or security service, an arm of the Gestapo.
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.
Banden
– the customary Wehrmacht term for Resistance groups.
5
. Many historians of Resistance have mentioned a battle between local
résistants
and the Das Reich at Souillac during its advance. There was certainly a clash on 6 June. I have been unable to trace a further action on the eighth in German records, or from the information that I received from local Resistance sources. However, because of the uncertainty of evidence, it remains just possible that there was a minor brush that I have failed to discover.
During all the actions described in this chapter, the Germans suffered a total of around a dozen killed according to their casualty reports, which will be discussed below. It is impossible to determine which were caused in which battles on the road.
6
.
Noms de guerre
for AS agents.
7
. Some former
résistants
and members of SOE were irritated by the romantic popular accounts of Violette Szabo’s career which were published and filmed in the 1950s. They have suggested that she was in fact captured without having the opportunity to use a weapon. Neither German records nor surviving residents of Salon-la-Tour offer any decisive evidence one way or the other on the matter. I have therefore accepted the story of Mrs Szabo’s use of her Sten given in R. J. Minney’s biography
Carve Her Name with Pride
. I have been unable to find any record of German casualties from the incident in the Das Reich files, although I did locate the previously unpublished statement of the divisional interpreter concerning Mrs Szabo’s interrogation.
8
.
Jagdbomber
– fighter bomber.
9
. Montgomery’s emphasis.
Airvault
ref1Algeria
ref1Ambazac
ref1Andrews, Dick
ref1Argenton-sur-Creuse
ref1Arisaig
ref1Armagnac battalion
ref1rivalry with FTP
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ref7and Malraux
ref1D-Day
ref1attacks Das Reich on the march
ref1refuse to attack Brive
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ref2feud with Wheelwright
ref1reaction to Oradour massacre
ref1achievements against Das Reich
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ref2Army Group B (German)
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ref5Army Group G (German)
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ref3orders Das Reich to act against Resistance
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ref4Das Reich withdrawn from south
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ref3tries to regain control of Dordogne
ref1Arnhem
ref1Arnhouil, Maurice
ref1Arnold, Thomas
ref1Aron, Robert
ref1Astier de la Vigerie, Emmanuel
ref1Auch
ref1Aufklärungsabteilung
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ref4Auschwitz
ref1Austin, Captain Macdonald
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ref4Ayrshire
ref1Bach, Pierrette
ref1Bach-Zelewski, General von der
ref1Bad Tolz
ref1Bagnac
ref1Bardet, Denise
ref1Bardet family
ref1Barry, Colonel Dick
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ref4Barth, Sergeant
ref1Battle Group Lammerding
ref1Bayard, Roger
ref1Bayerlein
ref1Bayonne
ref1Bazata, ‘Baz’
ref1BBC
ref1messages personnels
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ref4Beaubreuil family
ref1Beauclerk, Roger (Casimir)
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ref2Beaulieu (France)
ref1Beaumont-de-Lomagne
ref1Beauvoir, Simone de
ref1Bellac
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ref5Bergerac
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ref7Berlin, Battle of
ref1Bernard, Colonel
ref1Binet, Mme
ref1Bismarck, Otto von
ref1Blaskowitz, General von
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ref2Bohmer, Colonel
ref1Boisseau, Pierre
ref1Boissou, Jacques
ref1Bony-Lafont gang
ref1Bordas, Jean
ref1Bordeaux
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ref7Bordes
ref1Borkmann
ref1Bormann, Martin
ref1Boucheteil, Louis
ref1Boucholle
ref1Bouganeuf
ref1Boulestin, Lucien
ref1Boulestin, Marcel
ref1Bourbon, Prince Michel de (Aristide Aspirant Maurice Bourdon)
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ref8Bourbon, Prince René de
ref1Bourne-Paterson
ref1Bradley
ref1Brault, Marcel (Jérome)
ref1Brenner, Herr
ref1Briat
ref1Brissaud, Martial
ref1British Army
First Airborne Division
ref121st Army Group
ref1Brittany
ref1Brive-la-Gaillarde
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ref4Peulevé captured in
ref1railway sabotaged
ref1Das Reich occupies
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ref5Brook, Robin
ref1Brooks, Tony
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ref4Brouillet, Charles
ref1Broussardier
ref1Brown, Sergeant
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ref4Buckmaster, Colonel Maurice
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ref6Buhle, General Walter
ref1Buissière-Poitevine
ref1Bundy, Lieutenant Lincoln
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ref2Bureau Central de Renseignements et d’Action militaire
(BCRA)
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ref6Busch, Joseph
ref1La Bussière
ref1Cadrieu
ref1Caen
ref1Cahors
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ref5Calvados
ref1Camburet
ref1Canou, Sergeant Jean
ref1Capetown Castle
ref1Cardaillac
ref1Carjac
ref1Carlux
ref1Carsac
ref1Castlenau-sur-l’Avignon
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ref2Cauquil, Louis
ref1Chamberlain, Neville
ref1Champion, Major James
ref1Chapelle, Abbé
ref1Chapou, Jean-Jacques (Kléber)
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ref4Château Chire
ref1Châteauneuf forest
ref1Châteauroux
ref1Châtillon-sur-Indre
ref1Chauty
ref1Chauvigny
ref1Cheissoux
ref1cheminot résistants
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ref3Cherbourg
ref1Chevalier, Maurice
ref1Chick, Corporal
ref1Chieze, Louis
ref1Chrétien, Marcel
ref1Churchill, Peter
ref1Churchill, Sir Winston
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ref6Clermont-Ferrand
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ref4CNT
ref1Colby, William
ref1Combat
Resistance movement
ref1Communists
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ref8Compiègne
ref1concentration camps
ref1Coombe-Tennant, Harry
ref1Cordeau, Mme
ref1Cordeau, Robert
ref1Cormeau, Yvette (Annette)
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ref2Corrèze
ref1Resistance in
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ref8Jesser column in
ref1Resistance attacks Das Reich
ref1Tulle attacked by FTP
ref1Germans retake Tulle
ref1Jedburgh teams
ref1achievements of Resistance in
ref1Resistance casualties
ref1Corrèze, river
ref1Corth
ref1Cournil, Bernard
ref1Cousteille, René
see
SoleilCrendon
ref1Crisp, Lieutenant Richard
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ref5Cromwell, Oliver
ref1D-Day
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