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What Hitler Got Wrong About D-Day

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What Hitler Got Wrong About D-Day
By Dave Roos/ History/ history.com

"Hitler made several miscalculations ahead of the Allied invasion of Normandy—but there were still deadly German defenses in place.

As early as 1942, Adolf Hitler knew that a large-scale Allied invasion of France could turn the tide of the war in Europe. But thanks in large part to a brilliant Allied deception campaign and Hitler’s fanatical grip on Nazi military decisions, the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944 became precisely the turning point that the Germans most feared.

But that’s not to say the Germans hadn't prepared.

Allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill began planning the D-Day invasion soon after the United States entered World War II. The Allies knew that opening a Western European front was critical to spreading the German forces thin. The only remaining questions were where the invasion would happen and when....."

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Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, center, studies a map with other German army officers in Caen, France, during an inspection tour of coastal defenses.

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