Hitler no longer at battle lines
London, England (AP) –
Reports from the underground in Germany said today that Adolf Hitler established headquarters at or near Le Mans the day after the Allies landed in Normandy 100 miles to the north, but soon withdrew to Troyes beyond Paris and finally returned to Berchtesgaden.
The argument used by the German generals to get the Führer to return to his mountain retreat, if was said, was that he could not afford to have his name associated closely with another German defeat.
It was reported from the same quarter that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had suffered a recurrence of his Africa-contracted intestinal fever and was in such poor health that his colleagues were trying to prevail on him to give up his operational duties.