If you read German, there are some interesting collections of memories of the other side.
Pretty much everyone mentions how terrified they were of Allied white phosphorus.
Pretty much everyone mentions how terrified they were of Allied white phosphorus.
Despite this, because of the harsh sense of discipline inherent to the German Army during the war, they fought remarkably hard against the still largely inexperienced allied western soldiers and made the first weeks after the D-Day landings much harder then they should have been for the Anglo/British/Canadian and sundry forces.
https://www.dw.com/en/ticking-time-bombs-on-the-bottom-of-th...
It just struck me how dominant that memory was among people who served in all sorts of roles.