I didn't know Franz Gockel was next to him at the time. If I'm not mistaken, Gockel has been seen on several documentaries about the German defenders on D-Day. I sometimes wonder if people have mistakenly indentified him as the "Beast" because of his close proximity to him.




Somewhat OT, but...

I've been there twice, and I have to say that is (or was) one really crappy museum. LOTS of inaccuracies, I hope it's become a bit better since then. S. Ambrose certainly had a lot of influence in it, way too much IMO. I heard the bottom floor was damaged by the flooding during Hurricane Katrina, but that they found the replica landing craft floating.