The German Major Who Saw D-Day First | Werner Pluskat, Omaha Beach, and the Dawn of Overlord

Описание: The German Major Who Saw D-Day First | Werner Pluskat, Omaha Beach, and the Dawn of Overlord

Before the first American ramp dropped at Omaha Beach, one German officer watched the Channel horizon turn solid with steel.

This documentary follows Major Werner Pluskat of the 352nd Infantry Division’s artillery—an observer trained to translate distant silhouettes into fire missions—who became one of the first German officers to clearly see the D-Day armada at first light on 6 June 1944. From a concrete slit above the beaches, Pluskat’s sighting collided with everything Germany’s Western Front had become by 1944: overstretched forces, fragile communications, competing defensive doctrines, and a command system where minutes could be lost climbing the chain of approval.

Told in a calm, cinematic style and grounded in real events, this film traces the buildup, the deception that pulled German attention toward Calais, the harsh reality of the Atlantic Wall in Normandy, and the moment the invasion stopped being a prediction and became a horizon full of ships.

In this video:

What Pluskat likely saw as dawn broke over Normandy
Why Omaha turned into the most lethal American landing beach
How artillery observation, landlines, and naval counter-battery fire shaped the first hours
The German command dilemma: Rommel vs. Rundstedt, and the deadly cost of delay
How D-Day became not just a battle, but a logistical machine that could not be pushed back into the sea
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