Chapter 7 - Parachute Regiment 6

Normandy 1944 - The First Crucial Days

At the Hotel de Ville[1] in Périers, approximately 12 miles south­west of Carentan, thirty-seven-year-old Major Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, the commander of Parachute Regiment 6, had his head­quarters. The Major was an intellectual and well-educated man with degrees in both economics and law. He had combat experience from Crete, Russia, an…