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...Corps' invasion plan. If the Germans on the spot had known what to do about it, he said, "the entire outcome of the war might have been different." As it was, the document took a month traveling leisurely up through channels to Field Marshal von Rundstedt's headquarters. "By that time," said Huebner, "the plan made a nice souvenir...
There was Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, a victor in Poland, France and the Ukraine, and 68 at the time of the Allied landings in Normandy. In retrospect, his tragedy was that Hitler always insisted on holding the most advanced point his troops reached, would not permit even slight strategic withdrawals until too late. After the Allies landed in Normandy, Hitler's headquarters had asked, "What shall we do?" Said Rundstedt: "End the war! What else...
...Hitler may have gotten more and kept it from them.) Hitler himself made only one trip to the Channel coast. He went to Cap Gris Nez one day in 1940, looked over the Channel toward Britain, and went home. The "Atlantic Wall" was never a system of continuous fortifications; Rundstedt called its defenses "absurdly overrated." There was no real cooperation between the Luftwaffe and the ground forces, the generals told Liddell Hart. And the Battle of the Bulge, which seemed so powerful an assault to the Allies, was a nightmare to the Germans too -confused, desperate, suicidal...
Field Marshall Karl von Rundstedt (ret., by request), who once commanded German forces on the Western front (and began the Battle of the Bulge), got a ten-day Christmas leave from a P.W. camp in Wales to visit his ailing son back home...
...Sixth Panzer Army, Joseph ("Sepp") Dietrich, onetime butcher boy and personal bodyguard to Hitler, was a failure. "He had at most the ability to command a division," said Goring of the general whose blundering cost the Germans some 37,000 men at the Battle of the Bulge. "Dietrich," said Rundstedt simply, "is decent, but stupid." After the war, however, Dietrich found a job where he was really appreciated...