Heinrich Severloh | The German soldier who wiped out 1000 Americans in Normandy on D-Day 

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On June 6, 1944, a conglomerate of soldiers from various Allied nations landed along the Norman coast of occupied France in a difficult task aimed at opening a third front in Europe.
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Despite the superiority of men and equipment that initially indicated that the landing operation would be carried out without major setbacks, the truth is that the Allied forces immediately encountered fierce resistance from the German defenders as soon as the ramps of the landing craft were opened.
And a central element why the Normandy landing was by no means a simple task, especially for the Americans, was Heinrich Severloh, stationed in one of the 15 key defensive forts of the German fortifications along the beach.
Severloh's precision with his weapon that day was brutal, and what was intended to be a clean operation in which he hoped to avoid as many casualties as possible, ended up being a bloodbath that stained Omaha Beach red.
By the end of the day, and after the grim events of D-Day, Heinrich Severloh, a young man in his early 20s, had become “the Beast of Omaha.”
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