Ok, I politely disagreed with the final assessment that the Canadian troops were responsible for the German's escaping the pocket Falaise in the "Alleged French Cowardice at Falaise" thread. I have just finished watching a show that was checking the messages from the Canadian high command to the Canadian 4th Armoured Division.

In it, he showed that the Canadian's were giving the wrong coordinates twice and they didn't want to move in the dark and risk friendly fire. The Polish also didn't know where the reinforcements were coming from. The Canadians had an SS commander surrender and give up information beforehand and Canadian high command chose to listen to that SS commander rather then there codebreakers who received the message three times that they were breaking out. They even told the Canadian 4th Armoured Division to wait and provide support to the Polish from over 2.5Km away for over an hour.

So who do you think was responsible?

I blame Canadian high command, personally.