page_title: Écouché in the Second World War
hierarchical_section_title: Écouché in the Second World War
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: fr:Pétain serre la main de fr:Hitler Deutsch: de:Pétain schüttelt die Hand mit de:Hitler English: en:Pétain shakes hand with en:Hitler
context_page_description: World War II for Écouché culminated with several days of street fighting by Free French forces under General Philippe Leclerc. This engagement was part of the encirclement of the remaining German army in the final engagement of the Battle of Normandy. This final carnage of the German army was later called the Falaise Pocket, the Argentan-Falaise Pocket or Couloir de la Mort as the local French named it.
  During World War II Écouché’s buildings and homes suffered 15% heavy damage from aerial bombing and street fighting during the liberation. Most of the destruction followed the heavy bombing of the targeted railroad tracks, although the targets were never hit during two attempts.
  Local residents think of the war years as divided into three phases:
  La Drole de Guerre - 1 September 1939, to June 1940
  General mobilisation
  The Drole Guerre or " False War"
  The exodus or "Exode"
  German Occupation - June 1940 to August 1944
  Military control, requisitions, restrictions
  Local and national upheaval
  Problems of supply shortages
  Liberation- summer 1944
  Aerial bombing and the Allied Landing on D-day, 6 June 1944
  Battles for Liberation -13–15 August 1944
context_section_description: World War II for Écouché culminated with several days of street fighting by Free French forces under General Philippe Leclerc.  This engagement was part of the encirclement of the remaining German army in the final engagement of the Battle of Normandy. This final carnage of the German army was later called the Falaise Pocket, the Argentan-Falaise Pocket or Couloir de la Mort (Corridor of Death) as the local French named it.
  
   
  During World War II Écouché’s buildings and homes suffered 15% heavy damage from aerial bombing and street fighting during the liberation. Most of the destruction followed the heavy bombing of the targeted railroad tracks, although the targets were never hit during two attempts. 
  	
  Local residents think of the war years as divided into three phases:
  La Drole de Guerre - 1 September 1939, to June 1940
  General mobilisation
  The  Drole Guerre or " False War"
  The exodus or "Exode"
  German Occupation - June 1940 to August 1944
  Military control, requisitions, restrictions
  Local and national upheaval
  Problems of supply shortages
  Liberation- summer 1944
  Aerial bombing and the Allied Landing on D-day, 6 June 1944
  Battles for Liberation -13–15 August 1944
caption: Marshall Petain meeting Hitler
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