Kurt Meyer | The SS General Canada Couldn't Execute

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Kurt "Panzermeyer" Meyer was one of the most decorated SS commanders of World War Two, and one of its most controversial. What happened in a medieval abbey outside Caen in June 1944 would follow him for the rest of his life. 📚 My WW2 book recommendations → https://linktr.ee/historyinside 🎖️ Subscribe to History Inside → https://bit.ly/sub2HI Research & script by Jordy Faijdherbe Narration by Benjamin Pemberton Chapters 00:00 Rise 02:49 Normandy 05:39 Trial 09:18 Legacy 📚 Sources: - Craig Forcese — Prosecuting Kurt Meyer: The Abbaye d'Ardenne War Crimes Trial" (SSRN, 2020) - P. Whitney Lackenbauer & Chris Madsen — Kurt Meyer on Trial: A Documentary Record (Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2007) - Howard Margolian — Conduct Unbecoming (University of Toronto Press, 1998) - Kurt Meyer — Grenadiere (1957) / Grenadiers (Stackpole Books, 2005) - Sönke Neitzel & Harald Welzer — Soldaten (2011) 🏛️ For broader history documentaries beyond WW2 — the Weimar Republic, Mussolini, the Ottoma

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