Jed Rothwell wrote:
thomas malloy wrote:
Hitler could have done the same thing with the Atlantic Wall, but he
was outfoxed by Allied intelligence. If he had moved the Panzers in
the first hours of D-Day, the attack would have probably failed.
The German generals were afraid to wake him up. I suppose after an
amphetamine binge, he'd wake up crabby as hell.
Also, he and the German high command were fooled by elaborate
deception schemes, and they did not concentrate their forces on
Normandy until it was too late. See the book by A. C. Brown,
"Bodyguard of Lies."
- Jed
In The Longest Day, Romel is shown wanting to deploy the panzers, but
only Hitler could give the order and the staff was afraid to wake him
up. I concede that movies are not the best history teachers.
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