Colonel Helmut Ritgen's book "The Western Front: Memoirs of a Panzer Lehr Officer" opens with a description of the Wehrmacht's early successes in the West through to the Dieppe Raid and describes, as only a soldier can, the days spent waiting for the impending Allied invasion. It continues with an account of the events of D-Day and the ensuing American and British/Canadian pushes on and through Caen, describing the German actions to defend the Scheldt Estuary and delay the Allies as Hitler planned his great counteroffensive, nicknamed the Battle of the Bulge. Over fifty years have now passed since the Allies landed on the Normandy coast on the 6th of June 1944 in the greatest combined naval, air and land invasion the world has ever seen. In the summer of 1994, thousands around the world commemorated this historic event in their own countries and especially at all the landing sites, villages, and cities in the Normandy region. For all Allied veterans who returned to this hallowed ground it was a time of remembrance, and for most it will be their last opportunity to retrace those footsteps of their youth. Young people were also there to learn the horrible mistakes which wars create. Hopefully they realized the importance of their future dreams to create stable and peace-loving nations.
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