Body Count

During and after the battle for Normandy ( after D-Day in WWII) and up to the liberation of Paris, Germans and their allies killed 20,000 civilians. Also 61,000 people and 76,000 Jews were deported to concentration camps. Added to human suffering was the fate of a massive number of (dead) draught horses “pitiful, rigid in the shafts with their upper lips drawn above their teeth as if in continuing pain.” How high the price of war - man’s inhumanity to man and animal. How low you will feel reading and understanding the course of history.