Why did Rommel insist that Allied would land on Calais instead of Normandy?

Answer 1

He didn't.

On November 21, 1943, Rommel moved Army Group B to Normandy, France, with responsibility for defending the French coast against the long anticipated Allied invasion. Dismayed by the situation he found, the slow building pace, and fearing he had just months before an invasion, Rommel reinvigorated the whole fortification effort along the Atlantic coast. Under his direction, work was significantly sped up, millions of mines laid, and thousands of tank traps and obstacles set up on beaches and throughout the countryside.

Instead of helping, Hitler and his officers under him decided to strengthen the defences in Calais thinking the Allies would attack there since it is closer to England. Rommel disagreed, saying the enemy wanted the Führer to strengthen the defences in the wrong place and that they would attack Normandy instead.

The short operating range of Allied fighters, including the British Spitfire and Typhoon, from UK airfields greatly limited the choices of amphibious landing sites. Geography reduced the choices further to two sites: the Pas de Calais and the Normandy coast. Because the Pas de Calais offered the shortest distance to the European mainland from the UK, the best landing beaches, and the most direct overland route to Germany, it was the most heavily fortified and defended landing site. Consequently, the Allies chose Normandy for the invasion. Erwin Rommel was right.

Answer 2

Neither Rommel nor for that matter Hitler, believed Calais was the objective of an allied invasion. It was the Abwehr the German Army intelligence service that maintained that the Allies were going to strike at Pas de Calais. Hitler was uncertain but given the information he was receiving from Abwehr stationed the Panzer units in such a manner as the could respond to either location upon Hitler's order.
The chief of Abwehr Admiral Canarias was actually conspiring Hitler's downfall and it is believed deliberately feeding Hitler and the German High Command with false information.

Answer 3

This was Hitler's idea but it was Allied deception that convinced him.
The Allies invented a phantom army which they claimed was ready to land at calais and by use of radio signals that the Germans could intercept they made it seem real.

Answer 4

You've got it backwards, Hitler and Jodl were the idiots that thought the landing would be at Pas De Calais. Rommel wanted tactical control of the Panzer reserves in the theatre in order to counter attack the Allies on the beaches. As it was, they were released to him piecemiel, long after the contest was decided at Normandy.

Answer 5

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