Heinrich "Hein" Severloh (23 June 1923 – 14 January 2006) was a soldier in the German 352nd Infantry Division stationed in Normandy in 1944. He became infamous for a memoir WN 62 – Erinnerungen an Omaha Beach Normandie, 6. Juni 1944, published in 2000. In the book, the authors claim that as a machine gunner, Severloh inflicted over 1,000 and possibly over 2,000 casualties to the American soldiers landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day. However, Severloh's claim is not viewed as credible by either US or German historians. Total US casualties (killed, wounded, and missing) from all sources along the five-mile length of Omaha Beach on D-Day are estimated at about 2,400.
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00:00 Intro
00:45 Early life
00:54 Service in the Wehrmacht
01:47 Omaha Beach
02:50 Widerstandsnest 62
04:29 Surrender and captivity
05:08 Later life and death
06:00 Skepticism
07:03 Widerstandsnest 62 today
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