Juno Beach: Kurt Meyer Was Sentenced to Death for 18 Canadians. Why Did Canada Free Him in 1954?

[HOST] At noon on the eighth of June, nineteen forty-four, seven Canadian soldiers were taken into the garden of the Abbaye d'Ardenne, on the edge of Caen, and shot one at a time. They were North Nova Scotia Highlanders. A Polish conscript in a German uniform, Private Jan Jesionek, stood close enough to count them. Two days earlier those men had waded ashore on Juno Beach, on the coast north of the city, with the division that went deeper inland than any other on D-Day. The SS officer whose regiment held that abbey, Kurt Meyer, would be sentenced to death for the garden. Less than nine years later he walked out of prison a free man. That is Juno Beach as this channel tells it, as the second half of a bill that was opened at Dieppe two summers before. Here is the ground this covers. A tide that arrived late and put the landing craft onto their own obstacles. Four villages taken in one morning. The most famous film of Canada's war, and the argument over who is in the boat. The tank troop that reached its final objective and had to turn round. Then the Hitler Youth division, the garden, the witness, and Canada's first war crimes trial. There is a new piece of Canadian financial history on this channel every day. Subscribe and the next one finds you. Start with the debt, because every Canadian who planned Juno was carrying it. On the nineteenth of August, nineteen forty-two, the Second Canadian Division went ashore at Dieppe. It lost three thousand three hundred and sixty-seven of the four thousand nine hundred and sixty-three men who sailed. Dead, wounded or prisoners, on a beach the raid never got off. If you watched the Dieppe video on this channel you have seen that bill laid out line by line. Juno was the second time a Canadian division was sent at a defended French beach. Everyone in Ottawa and in London would judge it against the first. The division chosen was not the one that had bled at Dieppe. The job went to the Third Canadian Infantry Division. Its regiments carried the names of the places that raised them. The Royal Winnipeg Rifles. The Regina Rifles. The Queen's Own Rifles of Toronto. The North Shore Regiment from New Brunswick. The North Nova Scotia Highlanders. You will hear every one of those names again, because each got its own piece of the coast, or its own piece of the bill. ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 Juno Beach: The Debt From Dieppe 2:05 London 4:41 Juno Beach H-Hour: Late On The Tide 7:50 Courseulles, Bernieres And Saint-Aubin 10:50 The D-Day Film Nobody Can Place 15:05 Washington 15:54 The Deepest Advance On D-Day 20:02 12th SS Hitlerjugend At The Abbaye d'Ardenne 23:02 The Witness And The Inquiry 26:26 The Kurt Meyer Trial At Aurich, 1945 31:25 Germany 32:15 What Juno Beach Cost Canada 🔎 IN THIS VIDEO LONDON · WASHINGTON · GERMANY ❓ QUICK ANSWERS • Juno Beach: The Debt From Dieppe — At noon on the eighth of June, nineteen forty-four, seven Canadian soldiers were taken into the garden of the Abbaye d'Ardenne, on the ed… • Juno Beach H-Hour: Late On The Tide — The plan for Juno was written around a tide table. I want to show you what happened when the sea refused to keep the appointment. • Courseulles, Bernieres And Saint-Aubin — Take the villages from west to east, the way the planners drew them. Each regiment landed at its own, and each had a different morning. • The D-Day Film Nobody Can Place — If you have ever watched a D-Day documentary, you have seen this film. • The Deepest Advance On D-Day — Every D-Day story stops at the water's edge. The Canadian one goes further than any of them, and that is the measure worth holding on to. • 12th SS Hitlerjugend At The Abbaye d'Ardenne — The division that came up the road from Caen on the seventh of June was not the static one in the concrete. Canadian Wealth Architect tells the stories behind Canada’s money — the booms, the frauds and the fortunes that built the country. Subscribe:    / @thecanadianwealtharchitect   ▶ WATCH NEXT: Ted Rogers Bought Canada's Most Expensive Building for $25 Million. Who Paid the Other $545 Million? —    • Ted Rogers Bought Canada's Most Expensive ...   🔗 MORE FROM US British Wealth Architect:    / @thebritishwealtharchitect   American Wealth Architect:    / @theamericanwealtharchitect   Australian Wealth Architect:    / @theaustralianwealtharchitect   🖼 Original illustration, including AI-assisted artwork. #History #Finance #Economics