![]() ![]() Having gone to the front with 19,618 men, the LSSAH lost 25% of its men and all its tanks. As with the other German units of the area, they essentially fought a defensive battle until the Avranches breakthrough at the end of July and beginning of August. On 28 June, the 1st SS Panzer Regiment of Peiper arrived at the front and was immediately engaged in combat. The whole division did not reach its rally zone before 6 July 1944. Furthermore, the move of the division was made under difficult conditions due to the trains transporting Hungarian Jews to the concentration camps and Allied air attacks which caused disruptions in the rail traffic. On 17 June, the division began its move to the area of Caen, but some parts of the panzer regiment had to stay in Belgium awaiting new tanks. The Allied landing in Normandy necessitated the return of the LSSAH to the Western Front.
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