Rommels aid was one of the First Stalag guards responding to the Wash Day caper in the Great Escape. Their is some Resemblance there certainly? Im not sure. Great Movies nevertheless. What the Hell Happened?
My partner's father is the aide de camp in this movie. His name was Loriot a German humorist,this was his first speaking part in movies. He served on the Russian front in WW2,so he knew how to behave as a soldier. It is 12 years since he passed away,he is still sadly missed.
I wonder if there was an edit in this film after the scene where a german soldier tells Gen Marcks that the main road was under air attack because this is how he died. He was going to inspect the front and his car was strafed and he receive a wound in his remaining good leg and bled out on the side of the road.
A brilliant wry smile at the end as he looks at the map of the allied beachheads let’s us know how impressive he is by the allies pulling off such a gamble and succeeding with it. Something that he predicted, but nearly everyone else in the German command wise though improbable.risk that they would never take.
There were some problems with many of the defenses Rommel was advocating for. The 'L' shaped wooden obstacles became water-logged and damaged by the pounding of the seawater over time, and many of the mines that were placed were old devices of Czech and French manufacture, their age and the effects of seawater didn't improve their efficiency either. A considerable number of the heavier artillery pieces on the 'Atlantic Wall", were varied calibers and manufacture, which made their ammunition supply limited and of dubious quality.
There were a number of the actual involved officers listed as advisors to the movie. Most of them quite senior. Germans, Americans, British and French.
My favorite character and my favorite line. "When you create a diversion , it's for a reason". Nobody was fooling hard old General Marcks. In die Normandie. He knew all along.
A small complaint about this film. The Germans were always portrayed as serious and professional, while many of the scenes involving the invading Americans presented them as a bit goofy.
This is a good film, one of the better war films. But I have to say its wrong historically because the Germans were defeated already. On the Russian Front at Stalingrad and Kursk.
@@Klokkeborgen1 True, he was a fair tactician, driven by the obsession of following Hitler no matter what. Ruthless and pushing his troops hard. Yet another butcher of his own troops, in the long history of ignoring the basic rule of war. "You don't win a war by dying for your country. You make the other bar steward die for theirs!"
@@Klokkeborgen1 He was in charge of the Afrika Korps. And then the Panzer Armee Afrika. It consisted of the following:- 15th Panzer Division 21st Panzer Division 90th Light Division, And Rommel, the NAZI, seemed to handle them quite well, including the attached Italian Forces of 2 Infantry, and 2 Armoured, Divisions. These were the forces taught a timely lesson, at Bir Hakeim, by the FFF.
@@Demun1649 Hi again, I agree that he commanded up to a corps - DAK. Late in the campain in Africa, a lot more, but in fact the German lost more men in May in Africa than they lost in Stalingrad- without taking enemy casulties with them. Back to my point, why fight a war across an Ocean, and then 1000 miles by truck- when you do not control the sea, and later also the sky. In the actuel battle Rommel was a master, but in my opinion he did not had the strategisk view.
it has been a while since i've see it - but sean connery (007), max von sydow (spy who loved me) are 2 of them? gert frobe (goldfinger) was in it too but not much - i'm not even sure if he even spoke in it.
Rommel knew that normandy was most likely the landing area. And he wanted an entire panzer division at the beaches. But Hitler didn't agree. Funniest irony of WW2 is Hitler is the sole and only reason Germany lost and why it was reduced to rubble.
What I really liked was the number of senior American, British, and German officers who acted as advisors to the film. Lieutenant General Max-Josef Pemsel was one of those advisors.
