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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Here was a big issue and I'm going off of memory.
On the morning of June 6th Rommel called the German high command asking them for permission to move a reserve force of tanks to the beaches, he knew what was coming. The command staff refused to wake Hitler up since Hitler was convinced that the attack was coming elsewhere, and arguing with Hitler usually got you a bullet or a one way trip to the Eastern front.
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If it wasn't for Rommel the majority of those defenses wouldn't even have been there. Those beaches were virtually undefended until he got there in 1943 and began constructing bunkers, tank traps etc.
I walked the whole length of Juno Beach a few summers ago and it was an amazing experience. It was especially interesting physically seeing something I had studied and written countless university papers on in person. I couldn't imagine having to attack over that kind of ground against fixed positions.