then we have general rundstedt. he is the theater commander. in that theater he has two army groups, army group b and g. the one we are most interested , under a guy named rommel. he is the one we will be fighting in normandy. geyr is strategic reserve. there are going to lead five or six armored divisions in the rear for strategic reserve to respond to different situations. that is the thinking here. here is the chain of command. you have got the normandy area where the invasion will actually take place. what is the shortest distance between two points? right there, the difference calais, what and is the difference? you have heard of people swimming the english channel. that is usually what they do. shortest distance between two points, where do you think the invasion should take place? the argument would be for the calais area. that would be the argument. it gives you more time over the battlefield. that would be to argument. however, we will take a look here. the germans have a problem. they have constructed this thing we will call the atlan

rommel has one set of ideas and general rundstedt has another. argues thatstedt what we need to do is use the , --oach they used in 1944 1940, used heavy, armored divisions. they say what they need to do is put a 10, defensive perimeter along the coast. .ery thin albany do know is where the main attack is coming from. where they figure out where the main attack is coming from, the main attack will start, they will of the situation developed to make sure it is the main and then they want to maneuver their armored formations, those heavy divisions, they want to maneuver those units in the place so -- into place so they can defeat the force. that is one argument for conduct. general rommel has another vision. he did not think that was a good approach to this thing. for he argued for was more the world war i approach. he wanted to build a strong defense along the coast. the book "the of longest day," in the made a movie about it. those were rommel's words. that is a quote from rommel. he believed the battle had to be onwon on d-day and he believed it