Rundstedt vs. Rommel Normandy Debate -- Who Was Right? 

The book "Disaster at D-Day" by Peter Tsouras is probably the best alternate historical account of what could have occurred if Rommel had his way with PzDiv placement. Also the speculation of Rommel's presence in Normandy is covered. A thoughtful and scholarly read.

One thing that almost never gets mentioned when discussing this story is the brave and heroic sacrifices made by the French Resistance. Those panzer reserves were weakened and delayed by a tremendous and costly effort, much of which came from French civilians. "The price for freedom is always high", and it's something those people risked everything for and we need to remember that.

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thank you for the history lessons. I wish I'd paid more attention in school.

Without going into detail, among the biggest reasons the Axis lost the war in the west was because there was no roof on Fortress Europe.

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The Germans weren't gonna stop the landing with what they had to work with.

Kia Ora from NZ Great presentation. For my 10 cents worth. German intelligence was SADLY lacking. How you could decive a operation as large as overlord & not leak anything is hard to believe. & all credit to the allies. With the deception fortitude. How you ever would hope to defend a coastline from Norway to spain ??? I often wonder how much enthusiasm caneris & Romell had in defeating the invasion ( re there involment in the Plot to kill H? With thought to defending a port, definitely in allies favor. At the time it was thought that a port would be a main focus to Capture a Necessity the pre fabrications ports were a complete suprise. Weak divisions foreign ost soldiers & invalids The H youth certainly fought hard but senseless bravery. A lot of Germany was worn by years of war by 44 . Lack of tanks re other theater's of operation. & displacement close or far, rendered unmovabal from complete air cover & lack of fuel. Also as you say rail was smashed beforehand. & the French resistance did some outstanding brave work prior to the invasion. The Navy was heavy support for at least 20 plus miles on beach heads. Good cooperating between all forces . & of course the overwhelming air support was deadly and crucial. Excuse my spelling. English is not my 1st language. Nga mihi Mac

The use of horses for transport by the Wehrmacht had nothing to do with fuel shortages. It was the standard mode of transport for infantry divisions. The Wehrmacht was never heavily, or even moderately, motorized.

The Allied deception plan and thorough planning created the high chances of success

Von Rundstedt was right as Rommel was not even present during the Day of the Landings. Rommel also upon returning to see for himself what was going on literally stated as such as well so not a difficult question to answer if meant in this manner.

I think they were both wrong. If you put the panzers on the coast like Rommel wanted, naval gunfire and fighter bombers would have destroyed them. Hold them back, like Rundstedt wanted, and the allies would get foothold and build up. Rommel probably had best chance. but I think either way the allies win.

Neither Rommel nor Von Rundstedt was right. Rommel was less wrong.

The only chance was defeating them on the beaches with the allies having overwhelming air superiority...the only way to negate naval gunfire advantage was to get the divisions up as close to the beach as possible so as to make naval gunfire being as dangerous to the allies landing as to the Germans. Von Rundstedt really did not appreciate the advantage of air superiority or naval gunfire because he had air supremacy in his early victories, and was not involved in the Italian campaigns.

You can point the finger of blame at Goering and him alone.

La visione della battaglia di Rundstedt era tattica. La visione della battaglia di ROMMEL era STRATEGICA

Montgomery played a master stroke at Normandy. He insisted on 5 attacks, instead of the proposed three. He also made sure the British, with there superior firefly tanks, would have a better chance against the dominant Tigers and Panthers. So tied up these heavy divisions, to let the Americans move around from the rear. Hence cutting them off.

They both had to get direct permission from Hitler who was sleeping and was not to be awakened, so the question is somewhat diluted.

Von Rundstedt was a greatly overrated senior officer. He never fully accepted the concept of a war of maneuver using armor with aircraft in support and all coordinated by radio. He once told Guderian- who had tried to explain the concept to him- that "It's all nonsense, my dear Guderian- nonsense!". His lack of understanding of this was a key reason behind his Halt order in May of 1940- and his smug refusal to resume the German advance solely because Hitler left the final decision on what it would resume up to him rather than OKH cost Germany immensely. For all his own faults (and he had his share of them), Rommel had prior experience (unlike von Rundstedt) attempting to conduct operations in the face of substantial enemy aerial opposition and was well aware that no large concentration of armor in the German rear would reach the invasion area without coming under intensive Allied air attacks. Rommel was correct in this case.

From a military perspective, Rommel was correct in wanting the panzer divisions near the coast. I realize that the Germans weren't sure where the Allied landings would be. However in the messy chain of command which included Panzer Group West, Von Runstedt who was I will say "supposedly" in cmmand of the western theater, but he also couldn't do a thing unless Hitler told him to or said to von Runstedt or Rommel it was ok to do what they wanted but often Hitler wouldn't ok their plans for days and by that time the tactical situatoin had already changed, and Der Fuhrer's ok or new orders were meaningless. So yes, the panzer divisions should have beenplaced close to the landing areas be it Normandy or Pas de Calais. The rebuilt 21st Panzer division was the only panzer division close to the beaches and for a momrnt their armor split the British landing areas in half before they were driven off by 6 pounder, (57mm) AT guns. If Panzer Lehr had been by the coast, the Allied bridgehead would have been in mortal danger.

You mention that von Runstadt was absolutely correct in his orders to counter the invasion at the beachheads. Duh ! The problem was that the German forces were too far removed from the beaches to enable an effective counterattack, secondly von Runstadt hadn't had the experience of Allied Air Power as Rommel had essentially negated his planned countermove. The Wehrmacht never had the resources or manpower needed to counter the invasion, the Allies had FAR to much combat power and the proper logistics to win the invasion battle.

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