Rommel Visit to Batterie Rozenburg

Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel (center, Oberbefehlshaber Heeresgruppe B und Generalinspekteur der Küstenbefestigungen West) during inspection trip to the Batterie Rozenburg (Hoek van Holland), 26 March 1944. At left is Kapitän zur See Frank Aschmann (Seekommandant Südholland). On the left of Rommel is General der Infanterie Hans-Wolfgang Reinhard (Kommandierender General LXXXVIII. Armeekorps), while on the right next to Rommel and Hauptmann Hellmuth Lang (wearing black Panzertruppen uniform, Ordonnanzoffizier Oberbefehlshaber Heeresgruppe B) is Generalmajor Carl Wahle (Kommandeur 719. Infanterie-Division). The officer with helmet and binoculars must be the Batterie kommandant. The heaviest coastal battery in the Netherlands was stationed in the Festung Hoek van Holland; Marine-Küsten-Batterie Rozenburg (Naval Coastal Battery ‘Rozenburg’) (XV) was stationed south of the estuary. To the north of the estuary were batteries Vineta (III) and Monster (VI). The picture was taken by Kriegsberichter Jesse of KBZ OB West (Kriegsberichter-Zug Oberbefehlshaber West).

Source :
https://www.atlantikwall-museum.nl/coastal-battery.html
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Rommel and Paul Hausser in 1943

Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel (left, Oberbefehlshaber Heeresgruppe B) and SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Paul Hausser (Kommandierender General II. SS-Panzerkorps). The picture was probably taken at the northern sector of the Italian front, autumn 1943, when Hausser and his troops involved in the anti-partisan operation in Slovenia. Rommel just recently chosen as the Commander in Chief of Army Group B, and he is still wearing his tropical uniform used in North Africa.

Source :
Jim Haley photo collection
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