It was now Tuesday, June 6, 1944. Lieutenant Colonel Fritz Ziegelmann, intelligence officer on the staff of Division Commander Lieutenant General Dietrich Kraiss, had gone to bed just before midnight,[1] but before he fell asleep, the phone on his nightstand rang. A staff officer of the 84th Army Corps told him enemy paratroopers had landed in the area …
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