When it comes to DDay and the German Perspective there are a few bits out there, but the sources are sometimes lacking. So, for this, we will be looking at some proper sources namely, the situation report of Operations Staff of the Wehrmacht and the war diary of the 7th German Army.

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» SOURCES «

Mehner, Kurt (Hrsg.): Die geheimen Tagesberichte der Deutschen Wehrmachtführung im Zweiten Weltkrieg 19391945. Band 10: 1. März 1944 – 31. August 1944, Biblio Verlag: Osnabrück, 1985.

Schramm, Percy E.: (Hrsg.): Kriegstagebuch des OKW 19441945. Teilband I. Eine Dokumentation. Bechtermünz: 2005.

Lieb, Peter: Unternehmen Overlord. Die Invasion in der Normandie und die Befreiung Westeuropas. C.H. Beck: München, 2014.

Horst Boog, Gerhard Krebs, Detlef Vogel: Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg. Band 7. Das Deutsche Reich in der Defensive – Strategischer Luftkrieg in Europa, Krieg im Westen und in Ostasien 1943 bis 1944/45, Deutsche VerlagsAnstalt, Stuttgart 2001.
Germany and the Second World War. Volume 7. The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia 1943–1944/5. 2006.

Citino, Robert M.: The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand. The German Campaigns of 19441945. University Press of Kansas: USA, 2017.

Fennell, Jonathan: Fighting the People’s War. The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2019

Harrison, Gordon A.: CrossChannel Attack. United States army in World War II. Center of Military History, United States Army, Washington D.C., 1993

Blumenson, Martin: Breakout and Pursuit. United States army in World War II. Center of Military History, United States Army, Washington D.C., 1993

Messenger, Charles: The DDay Atlas. Anatomy of the Normandy Campaign, Thames & Hudson: London, 2014 (2004).

Penrose, Jane (ed.): The DDay Companion. Leading Historians explore history’s greatest amphibious assault. Osprey Publishing: Oxford 2009 (2004).

Töppel, Roman: Kursk 1943. The Greatest Battle of the Second World War. Helion: Warwick, UK: 2018.


Document for June 6th: Dday statement to soldiers, sailor, and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force, 6/44
https://www.archives.gov/globalpages...

The Invasion of France, June 6, 1944, House of Commons
https://winstonchurchill.org/resource...

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