[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Maybe yes, maybe no - but it is beside the point that Hitler was completely sold on the Calais theory, and on the conceit that the American Army had mobilized to Soviet levels of manpower with which to attack there. If Rommel rather than Hitler had been in overall charge, D-Day would have been an even more desperate gamble than in fact it was, even without advanced deployment of more forces.

Eisenhower et. al. were sweating bullets over the weather forecast, and if they had known that the Germans had an additional division of forces in Normandy they would have probably delayed - and possibly ultimately abandoned - D-Day. And if the Germans had had Hillary-scale leakage of classified information coming to them - rather than quite the reverse - they would’ve had enough additional divisions in Normandy to make an attempted opposed landing there utterly unthinkable. Quite simply, “too hard."

[AppyPappy]

We had another alternative that was successful. It would have split Hitler’s forces in France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dragoon