one of the things that is never shown in movies about D-Day is how most of the troops defending the beaches were the dregs of the army, I remember reading Beevor's book about D-Day and he talked about how it was predominantly conscripted 15 year old and 60 year old guys in those pillboxes. I should dig up the quotes
anyway in the movies like Saving Private Ryan it's always a hulking Teutonic guy in his twenties with blue eyes, not guys who look like this