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Originally Posted by Rhodes
I could be wrong but St.Nazaire was one of the bases that remain in german control until the end of the war. Many of the other flotillas were transfer to Norway and Germany.
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After D-day and the liberation of France in 1944, German troops in Saint-Nazaire's submarine base refused to surrender and holed up (as did their counterparts in the La Rochelle and Brest bases). As the Germans could no longer conduct major submarine operations from the bases, Allied commanders simply bypassed these and focused their resources on the invasion of Germany. Saint-Nazaire and the other two German "pockets" remained under German control until the last day of the war.