At a time when the battle was in full swing in the Normandy direction, Germany, which was supposed to be shocked and urgently mobilized, was clearly unusually "calm". Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Of course, if "calm" is to be confident in this battle, it is understandable, but if you are still just indulging in your own thoughts and deceiving yourself, it is not a good thing for the German army.

The Germans were clearly motivated by the latter, for a considerable part of them had always believed that the Allies would land at Calais rather than Normandy, even though they had received from the French officers the plan and even the date for the Allied attack on Normandy.

But Rundstedt defines these as outright lies.

In his words, "This is a conspiracy of the enemy, who are trying to convince us that their goal is Normandy by telling the officers a false plan!" ”

Rundstedt's judgment was selfish, mainly because of the problem of face, because Rommel emphasized from the beginning that the Allies were likely to land from Normandy and demanded that more troops be mobilized to strengthen the Normandy defenses, while Rundstedt scoffed at this...... Rundstedt even publicly referred to Rommel, a daring subordinate, as a "milky little hairy boy" and a "stunned young marshal."

Therefore, to admit at this time that the enemy will land in Normandy is to slap yourself in the face.

Rundstedt even thinks it's most likely Rommel's reputation...... The captured French officers happened to be interrogated by soldiers commanded by Rommel.

This is one of the reasons why the Germans did not react until eight hours after the Allies captured Normandy, believing that the Allied offensive in Normandy was just a front and that their real goal was Calais.

Only Rommel believed that the Allied offensive was aimed at Normandy.

It's just that at the time of the war, he was sitting in a car on the way to Germany...... Rommel was not only going to celebrate the birthday of his wife Lucy, who was about to turn 50, but he had planned to take the trip to Hitler's Garden Villa, of course, in the hope of convincing the Führer to hand over command of the German army in northern France.

"If I were the commander-in-chief!" Rommel said to an adjutant in the back seat: "I can withstand any Allied attack, even if we lack warplanes and warships!" ”

When it comes to warplanes and warships, Rommel can only be helpless: in the past five months, the German army has lost 13,000 planes in northern France, half of which were destroyed by accidents and other non-combat factors, and the air force responsible for northern France has only 319 fighters at its disposal, which allows the Allies to bomb and blockade France with impunity...... This was also the main reason why Rommel had to travel by car instead of plane to get back to Germany.

In this regard, the German soldier joked with sourness: "American planes are gray, British planes are black, and German planes are ...... They are transparent! ”

Because German planes didn't show up at all.

Unlike other German marshals and generals, when Rommel heard the report of the Allied landing in Normandy, he immediately realized the seriousness of the situation and immediately ordered him to rush back to France to command the German defense.

In fact, on his way back to Paris, he hoped to command the battle, but was unable to do so...... Because the US warplanes carried out radio interference in the combat area, Rommel could not contact his own troops at all.

He had no choice but to contact the German command in Paris, hoping to use them to direct a counteroffensive against the Allies.

However, to Rommel's surprise, things have come to this point, and those "aristocratic generals" still have an attitude of indifference and distrust.

"Don't worry!" Rundstedt replied: "The enemy's offensive in Normandy is only a small one, they will not make much progress!" ”

"Have you learned about the situation at the front?" Rommel asked.

"Of course I do!" Rundstedt replied: "The enemy has been driven back into the sea, and they cannot move an inch on the coast!" ”

The reason why Rundstedt has such an optimistic judgment is not that he is deliberately lying, but that he really does not know......

First of all, the U.S. military imposed a radio blockade on the German army, and the telephone lines were also cut by agents and spies arranged by the Allies in the Normandy area, and many front-line battle conditions could not be accurately conveyed to the command headquarters.

The German command received the information from the second line, and the German troops on the second line did not see a large number of warships on the sea or a large number of fighters and bombers in the sky in the dark...... At the beginning of the attack, the Zoaf Corps did not even prepare for artillery fire, so the Germans on the second line naturally thought that it was a small-scale attack, so they reported it.

The second is that the Germans no longer have a few aircraft that can be used.

Normally, in such cases, fighters or reconnaissance planes will be sent to the front line to reconnoitre...... Then it is clear whether it is true or false, and the Allies have so many warships and transport ships parked in the English Channel that it is impossible to escape the eyes of the air force.

But the Germans had few planes left in northern France, and Rundstedt insisted that they should be used for the defense of Calais, so he had no interest in sending planes to Normandy, even if only one for reconnaissance purposes......

Especially in the previous bombing phase, the Allies also blew up all the German radars in the Normandy area, so the Germans were actually blind to Normandy, even if the Allies had captured Normandy and occupied five beachheads, or killed or captured a large number of German troops...... The command in Paris was still unaware.

Here, the Allies actually played another trick, that is, deliberately leaving a few German radar stations in the Calais area not to be bombed, so as to facilitate the Allies to carry out wartime deception.

This deception began to be carried out at the time of the offensive of the Zoaf Corps......

The deception plan was divided into two parts, one part was the battleship and the other part was the Airborne Forces.

Of course, the battleship part is not a forgery of fishing boats or something, in fact...... Most of the fishing and civilian vessels were mobilized to help the Allies deliver supplies in Normandy, and the Allies simply didn't have that many fishing boats to deceive, and if they did, it would be a nightmare if they were discovered by German submarines and speedboats.

The Allied method of deception was to create a large amount of aluminum-platinum, and then use transport planes to circle around the sea, and each time they went around the circle, they would airdrop a batch of aluminum-platinum...... In this way, a bunch of bright spots could be seen on the radar of the Germans flickering and moving forward, as if a huge fleet had been advancing.