This picture was taken on 17 January 1944 and it shows Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel (Oberbefehlshaber Heeresgruppe B und Generalinspekteur der Küstenbefestigungen West) inspects the defenses of the Atlantikwall in the cote d'Albatre coast of Saint-Valery-en-Caux, Normandy. The towering white limestone cliffs in the background is called pays de Caux. Only four years previously (exactly 12 June 1940), in the same town, Rommel - at that time was Generalmajor and Kommandeur of 7. Panzer-Division - received the capitulation of the British 51st (Highland) Infantry Division commanded by Major-General Victor Fortune and some French troops, with the town partly destroyed in the fighting. Interestingly, Saint-Valéry-en-Caux was liberated from the Germans on 11 September 1944 by, non other, a re-formed 51st Highland division!
Source :
Jim Haley photo collection
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