Normandy is a Land of Memory: it is this history on a human scale that the Falaise Memorial invites you to discover.
On June 6, 1944, the Battle of Normandy began, one of the largest military operations in history. It will only end after almost 3 months of fierce struggle, near Falaise.
With 35 million civilian deaths for 30 million soldiers, civilian populations were the first victims of the Second World War. This observation, unprecedented until then, will subsequently become the rule for all contemporary armed conflicts.
Normandy also paid the price of this liberation which forever marked its landscapes but also its inhabitants. Twenty Normans lost their lives following the fighting in the summer of 20, mainly in the bombing of towns.
