Adolf Hitler3 November 1943
Hitler issues Directive No. 51, a plan to deter or prevent an Allied invasion on Germany's western front
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Hitler issues Directive No. 51, a plan to deter or prevent an Allied invasion on Germany's western front
Field Marshal Rommel begins inspection of Atlantic Wall, Germany's coastal defence system stretching from Norway to the Spanish frontier
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