Rommel's Ghost Division: Victory in the West

June 1940. In just weeks, General Erwin Rommels 7th Panzer Division dubbed the Ghost Division had driven headlong through Allied forces in Belgium and France to reach the English Channel. Pushing south along the Channel coast past Le Harve, Rommels spectacular victory at Saint-Valry-en-Caux was crowned by the capture of Cherbourg. Following the Franco-German Armistice and a victory parade in Bordeaux, cameras rolled as Rommel re-enacted crossing the Somme for the Nazi propaganda documentary Sieg im Westen (Victory in the West).