Most of my then living relatives were in Service with the Wehrmacht on 6th june, but most of them were on the east Front.
However, a brother of my maternal grandmother was stationed in France (don't know what unit) and after the invasion and Falaise and everything he was MIA.
Some 40 years later, he suddenly called his sister.
He had been trying to escape Falaise on foot, hid on a farm and was discovered by the french farmer. Instead of turning him in, the farmer simply let him stay and work, as his own sons were both dead or missing. Since he had worked on a farm his whole life (only in east Prussia) it was no problem for him. He eventually married the farmer's daughter and inherited the farm.
For 40 years, the old farmer had told the rest of the village that his son in law was from Alsace and had escaped a german labor camp.
Only after 1980 they found out he was a german soldier from east Prussia.
