'Mimose' was the German movement of SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS Werner Ostendorff’s (from 17 June SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Otto Binge’s and from 20 June SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Otto Baum’s) 17^th SS Panzergrenadierdivision 'Götz von Berlichingen' from the area of Generalleutnant Helmuth von der Chevallerie’s 1^st Army, to the south of the Loire river in western France, to the sector of Generaloberst Friedrich Dollmann’s 7^th Army facing Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley’s US 1^st Army at the base of the Cotentin peninsula in north-western France (June/July 1944).