Transcription: The Germans long expected an invasion of France, but Hitler and Erwin Rommel disagreed as to the likely location of the assault. Hitler was convinced that the invasion would take place at the point facing the narrowest section of the channel between England and France, and ordered the concentration of his forces at the Pas-de-Calais. Rommel, with amazingly accurate insight, predicted that the invasion would take place further west on the Normandy coast between the Orne River and the base of the Cherbourg peninsula. No amount of arguing could persuade Hitler to reinforce this coastal region. Th ...
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