ABSTRACT
Adolf Hitler’s promise to provide a thousand turbo jet aircraft proved to be empty words, since the production of jet aircraft was being severely handicapped by Allied bombing. Hitler very largely shared General Erwin Rommel’s views, though he arrived at his conclusions on somewhat different grounds. He went so far as to forbid the preparation of any plans which presupposed the success of the landing, though, needless to say, in this particular instance his orders were not obeyed. Hitler was certain that the landing would take place in the Pas de Calais, but also wanted stronger security for Normandy. Hitler insisted on believing that a further landing would be made in the Pas de Calais. Hitler and Heinrich Himmler were to be got rid of by a time-bomb concealed in a brief case. Hitler had to stand by and listen while Rommel accused him of demanding the confidence of other people but of withholding his own from his generals.
