Rommel was

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It was 7 a.m. on Sunday, June 4, 1944. Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, Commander-in-chief of the German Army Group B—guarding the occupied French coast facing the English Channel—was traveling in a car next to the driver’s seat. He was tired of waiting for the Allied invasion to begin. Leaving on this particular dismal Sunday morning suited Rommel fi ne. The timing of the trip could not have been better for the weather was so bad that the Allies would not even think of a landing. Beside him, on the seat was a cardboard box containing a pair of handmade grey-shade shoes, size 5 (1/2), for his wife Lucie-Maria. There was a special and very human reason why he wanted to be with her on Tuesday, June 6. It was her birthday.