Not all elements of the battalion suffered similar problems, however; on the same day, 9 January, B Company destroyed eleven German tanks advancing on the village of Rittershoffen, with four more the next day, while another section working with the 813th Tank Destroyer Battalion in Hatten nearby accounted for nine.
In 1939, Hatten being on the Maginot Line, the authorities arranged for the town's 1,500 inhabitants to be evacuated to Châteauponsac in the Limousin region six hundred kilometres to the southwest.
The rolling dunes of the Osenberge are located in the northwest of the Wildeshausen Geest Nature Park, on average about 14 km (as the crow flies) south of Oldenburg, directly south of Sandkrug and immediately northwest of Sandhatten, both of which lie within the municipality of Hatten.
Peter Suhrkamp (originally Johann Heinrich Suhrkamp; March 28, 1891, Hatten – March 31, 1959, Frankfurt) was a German publisher and founder of the Suhrkamp Verlag.
On that day, in Hatten, France, he manned a machine gun in defense of a command post being attacked by a numerically superior German force.
Hatten | Tom Hatten | Hatten, Bas-Rhin |
Deutsche Truppen hatten zudem die Verschlüsse des Kermeterstollens am Kraftwerk Heimbach gesprengt, woraufhin die Talsperre bis zum Niveau des Kermeterstollens leer lief.