D-Day June 6, 1944: How did Hitler react?

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | June 6, 2015 | By Peter Grier, Staff writer

[toddausauras]

According to John Toland’s book Adolf Hitler, Hitler felt a certain relief that the day finally came and said in a broad Austrian accent “So, we’re off!”. I also read that he slept in late that day.

[moviefan8]

People seem to forget that we were already in Europe before D-Day.

Our troops were in Italy.

[real saxophonist]

He saw my dad, commandimg an LCT on Utah Beach, with an Army Emgineering team.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The crucial point to understand is the success of the Allied disinformation campaign to the effect that the attack would come at Calais. Rommel understood that a successful landing anywhere in western France would be fatal, and knew that it was essential to react vigorously to any significant invasion. Hitler was committed to the idea that an attack anywhere but Calais would be a mere diversion.

The result of Hitler's commitment to defend Calais first was that the Calais deception did not end with the invasion. The invasion at Normandy could not be hidden after D-Day, of course - but Patton was still in England in "command" of an enormous, albeit entirely fictional, Army.

It was only with the passage of a month or so that the "Calais invasion" scenario disappeared. Not with a bang, but with a whimper - if even that. If you valued your life, you didn't point out that belief in the Calais scenario had been a blunder by Hitler. So it just went down the memory hole.

[GingisK]

And Hitler did not intentionally destroy his own nation.

Actually, he did. He ordered a "scorched earth" when it became clear to him that they were going to lose the war.

[M-cubed]

Do your own DD..lol..Ive been questioned about DD!..(check the ones that didn't in my past posts!!!!....(for those in Loma Linda...DD is “Due Diligence”..
Its just a theory!!!!..but I love to get beat up over theories....it make the weak minded think! (that's not my line...that's Einsteins....but any way... Can ANYBODY explain a real scenario from what we ACTUALLY KNOW?...Just throwing that out there....

[Oratam]

I wonder what George III’s diary entry was around August 28, some 6 weeks later when the news arrived?

[FatherofFive]

Hitler was more intelligent than the present “leader.”

Really? 0bama has done more damage to this country and our military than Hitler ever dreamed.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

It has not taken intelligence to achieve an alien invasion merely a Will to ruin.

[Popman]

Legend has it that George III's diary entry for July 4, 1776 was, "Nothing important happened today."

I heard the transatlantic telephone cable was not quite finished yet, for King George to hear about it that day... : )

[FatherofFive]

[Texas Fossil]

He did not from the beginning. Obama did.

[Texas Fossil]

You are correct.

[combat_boots]

Except that the US isn’t his nation.

[Texas Fossil]

correct.

Her never was or will be one of US, He was/will always be one of Them.

[GingisK]

He did not from the beginning. Obama did.

OK, now the record is straight. ;-D