Posted on 06/06/2015 11:05:05 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000
June 6 will forever be the anniversary of one of the most fateful days in modern history: the Allied D-Day invasion of Normandy. By days end American, British, and Canadian troops had breached Germanys Atlantic Wall defenses and established a foothold in Western Europe. With Soviet armies rolling in from the east Adolf Hitlers Nazi regime was caught in a gigantic vise. Its defeat was now only a matter of time.
Considering the pivotal nature of June 6, 1944, how did Hitler react to the attack? Did he rant, did he rail? Did he move with focused calm to try and repel the invaders?
He did none of those things, at first. For D-Days opening act, Hitler slept.
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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.
People seem to forget that we were already in Europe before D-Day.
Our troops were in Italy.
He saw my dad, commandimg an LCT on Utah Beach, with an Army Emgineering team.
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.
Actually, he did. He ordered a "scorched earth" when it became clear to him that they were going to lose the war.
I wonder what George III’s diary entry was around August 28, some 6 weeks later when the news arrived?
Really? 0bama has done more damage to this country and our military than Hitler ever dreamed.
It has not taken intelligence to achieve an alien invasion merely a Will to ruin.
I heard the transatlantic telephone cable was not quite finished yet, for King George to hear about it that day... : )
He did not from the beginning. Obama did.
You are correct.
Except that the US isn’t his nation.
correct.
Her never was or will be one of US, He was/will always be one of Them.
OK, now the record is straight. ;-D
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