BAD NAUHEIM, Germany, Aug. 12 — Two thousand pounds of TNT crumbled the swank, 225-foot-long underground hall of former Nazi Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's wartime headquarters into a smoldering ...

But by night the invasion coast drops into sullen, soundless darkness. Below the earth, behind great blackout curtains, men still work with concrete and steel. But the hard-eyed German gunners behind ...

Confusion in the German High Command brought a confusing week to 68-year-old Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, German Supreme Commander in the west. First he received the Oak Leaves to the ...

Unlike many of his contemporaries—Rommel, Guderian, von Rundstedt—who have been rescued from the anonymity of defeat, Model (1891–1945) has "languished in relative obscurity." Historian Newton (Panzer ...