D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944

by Holger Eckhertz

the Atlantic Wall, their frame of mind at the time of the invasion, and their actions during the historic day of

at random in the countryside as a way of making any enemy

Feldwebel told us that reinforcements were coming up from the south and east, and that we had only to hold this bunker line for a few hours before our panzers would arrive to push the attackers back to the beach and into the sea. This was an excellent little speech and it rallied our nerves well, because we knew that there were armoured divisions dispersed to the south. The time now was around ten or eleven am, I think; my watch was broken in the Famo crash. I did not have much desire to know the time exactly. I felt sure that these thick concrete walls of the bunker would hold out and that

he was mentally confused, but I was also bewildered, and I was past the stage of being afraid for the future. For this reason,