World War II. June 6, 1944. For the German soldier Hein Severloh, the "Longest Day" was shot with a machine gun for about nine hours, without intermission, in American soldiers who landed at Omaha Beach, the American sector of the D-Day Severloh was safe in an almost impregnable concrete bunker watching the beach. His vision of the Allied forces that landed was totally clear of obstacles. He was the last German soldier firing a shot on the beach and it is estimated that accounted for more than 3,000 American casualties, almost three quarters of all Allied casualties at Omaha Beach. The Americans call it "The Beast of Omaha" ... He was saved from the waves of Allied bombing by bad weather. The American pilots were afraid, soltandos the bombs early, set your own landing ships and so most of them fell beyond the German bunkers. Alerted by the bombs, and another 29 soldiers Severloh in his bunker rushed the machine gun nests and prepared for the onslaught. Then 20 years old, the young German soldier gasped when she saw the ocean. He saw a wall of American ships. "My God, how am I gonna get through," she thought. H oje their victims are buried at the American cemetery above Omaha Beach. A quarter of the 9,368 white stone crosses that cover the lawn were their victims. The Severloh done on D-Day was, until today, regarded as confidential by the Wehrmacht. The Allied invasion was his first real taste of action. Today it is a fragile and respected pensioner aged 81 living on a farm in the village of Metzingen near Hamburg. Say no have recovered from the sufferings that the war caused him. "I never thought I would live there ... I fought for my life ... It was them or me, so I thought."
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