D-Day took place on the beaches and fields of northern Normandy in France. This area was chosen as it is about 200 km south of where the German generals expected the invasion.
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Gen Erwin Rommel was the leading German general in the North African campaign in WW2, and later one of the main German generals defending the coast of Normandy.Gen Erwin Rommel was the leading German general in the North African campaign in WW2, and later one of the main German generals defending the coast of Normandy.
Gen. Gerd von Rundstedt, commanding the German forces in the west, and Gen. Erwin Rommel, commanding the forces in France.
German Generals mostly thought the invasion would take place near Calais. It was a much shorter sea crossing.
The reason German generals opened a front in the east was due to the fact that Russia had mobilized at a quicker pace than had been expected. Russia was also seeing early success with victories in eastern Prussia.
D-Day took place on the beaches and fields of northern Normandy in France. This area was chosen as it is about 200 km south of where the German generals expected the invasion.
There are some German generals in the first and third films but they are all fictional characters.
Yes, basically all the Us Generals in western Europe, several British & German Generals. Google, you will see many named.
Following the defeat of Poland, Hitler ordered his generals to attack France through Belgium and the Netherlands. This what happened in WW 1 and France expected the same strategy for WW 2. German generals were reluctant to begin an immediate offensive against the French.
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Hitler's SS and regular army had several hundreds of them (plus 20 Field Marshals), but the present German army (the Bundeswehr) has three full generals that are now on active service: Volker Wieker, Werner Freers and Hans-Lothar Domröse.
General Erwin Rommel and generals under him.
Montgomery and Patton.
The name is German, but in English it is pronounced as follows: Hermann is as expected (to rhyme with German). The "Glau" in Glauert rhymes with Plough (and the German Frau) and the "ert" is as expected (as in Pert).
Busevsheef, he was the best known.Hindenburg and Ludendorf were the Generals who ran the German war machine.