The German view of Omaha Beach

Richard Drew runs the www.atlantikwall.co.uk website. It has been a lifetime interest of his, and later his sons. As he explains, “During WW2 the Germans built a wall of steel and concrete, the Atlantikwall, from Northern Norway to the Spanish border. Started in 1941 but never completed due to the D-Day landings, the wall was built to stop an invasion from England and to protect a vast array of Hitler’s secret weapons. This website shows what’s still left to see 70 years on, including many of the defences from Dunkirk to Bordeaux.”

Thus, Richard’s website shows the D-Day invasion from the German perspective, through archive maps and photographs, and what remains of their fortifications in the 21st century.

The section on Vierville-sur-Mer is of particular interest to those who follow the fortunes of the Omaha Beach landings.

[A Widerstandsnest (Wn), or “resistance nest,” was a small, fortified German bunker position, typically manned by 10–40 soldiers.]