Army of the West

In May 1944, on the eve of the Allied invasion of Western Europe, German Army Group B--commanded in turn by Erwin Rommel, Günther von Kluge, and Walter Model--began compiling weekly reports on the situation that German forces faced in northern France, including summaries of combat activities, estimates of Allied strength, casualty figures, and descriptions of civilian resistance. Taken together, these reports chronicle the Allied assault from the Germans’ point of view, beginning with D-Day and the Normandy campaign and ending with Operation Market Garden in September 1944.