Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Tsoro game da hare-haren da aka yi a St Nazaire da Dieppe
A shekarar 1942, Hitler ya ba da umarnin gina katangar da ya kira Atlantic Wall a duk gabar tekun Atlantic, daga Spain zuwa Norway, don karewa daga mamayewar Allied da ake tsammanin. An gina wuraren bindigogi na kankare a wurare masu mahimmanci tare da gabar teku, kuma an sanya sanduna na katako, sanduna uku na ƙarfe, ma'adanai, da manyan shinge na tanki a kan rairayin bakin teku don jinkirta kusantar jiragen ruwa da hana motsi na tankuna. Baya ga rabuwa da yawa na dindindin, an tura rabuwa goma sha ɗaya na panzer da "Panzergrenadier" a kusa. Hudu daga cikin waɗannan ƙungiyoyi sune Waffen-SS. Bugu da ƙari, "SS-Das Reich" yana cikin Kudancin Faransa, LSSAH yana cikin Belgium yana sake gyarawa bayan yaƙi a Tarayyar Soviet, kuma sabon rukunin rukunin panzer "SS-Hitlerjugend", wanda ya kunshi 'yan matasan Hitler na shekaru 17 da 18 da goyan bayan tsoffin mayakan yaƙi da gogaggen NCOs, an kafa su a yammacin Paris. Kirkirar "SS-Hitlerjugend" wata alama ce ta matsanancin bukatar Hitler na karin sojoji, musamman wadanda suke da biyayya ba tare da tambaya ba.