“The German Leadership did say that they had just one chance to win...and that was while we were in the water, “
What they definitely didn’t want is a two front war. Fortunately for us the Eastern Front had been going on since 1941 and the Germans had lost many of their best troops in that fighting. The troops we ran into at Normandy were 50% teenagers without a lot of training. If they had all been well trained and older Normandy would have been much bloodier.
.....”The troops we ran into at Normandy were 50% teenagers without a lot of training. If they had all been well trained and older Normandy would have been much bloodier”....
Heck the Nazi’s had been killing people at random, not to mention the Holocaust, before our guys had to deal with them, so they knew their brutality. Those kids might not have been experienced but I don’t imagine they were any less brutal if they had the chance, just not as accurate nor as capable of fighting strategically.
When you fill young peoples head full of hate as the Nazi’s did...there could be nothing more than bloodshed. The one will always lead to the other.