From this knowledge Hitler ordered his Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to begin preparing an extensive defense along the coast of France. He had ordered for around one million French slaves to build the Atlantic Wall. The Atlantic Wall was a wall stretching along the entire coast of continental Europe equipped with coastal guns, mortars, artillery, batteries, and thousands of German troops ready to fight to the death. This is rather interesting as it goes against Hitler’s normal war tactics, as he claims that “strength lies not in defense but in attack” (Adolf Hitler, 1944). Due to this knowledge and the difficulty of these heavily defended beaches the allies knew that they not only needed time to devise their plan but also an additional element
