There have been so many moving articles written to mark the 75th anniversary of D Day it is hard to know where to start. The following BBC interviews with survivors might be as good a good place as any. Below is a brief interview with Colette Marin-Catherine. She was 16-years-old when the Allies landed on 6th June 1944. She was one of the volunteers at Bayeux Military Hospital who helped with the 14,000 civilians killed or wounded by the bombings.
Perhaps what D Day meant to the oppressed of Nazi-occupied Europe can be best understood by reading Anne Frank’s reaction. She wrote “my dearest Kitty. This is D-Day, the BBC announced at 12. This is the day. The invasion has begun. Is this really the beginning of the long-awaited liberation?”
You can listen to this for yourself in this BBC Radio programme.
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