In red, German-ruled Europe on June 6, 1944, the eve of D-Day.  Given the Allied goal of seizing the Ruhr Valley, the industrial heart of German war production (right dot), as fast as possible, why on earth would they land at Normandy (the left dot) and not at Calais (the middle dot)?

On D-Day, Hitler held his troops back for hours, fully expecting the main landing not in Normandy but logically in Calais (where now the “refugee jungle” is.)

Why? Calais made perfect sense, being a much shorter trip across the Channel and also MUCH closer to the Ruhr, the industrial heart of Germany. 

Hitler assumed Normandy was just a diversion, holding back his panzers for very sound reasons, as always.

Had AH committed everything to Normandy, only to see the main landing come at the more sensible Calais, the war would have been over in a few months.

All those Wehrmacht units rushing westward into Normandy would have been on a fool’s errand and then would have been cut off, had the Anglo-Americans driven southward from Calais (and almost unopposed!) as well as eastward.

Calais is just a hop, skip and a jump from England, and 200 miles (312 km) closer to the Ruhr, a much shorter way in go in bitter combat across urban areas and farming villages with many, many rivers and streams to cross, with most bridges blown up.

Germany did not lose the war because Hitler was a fool, but because by 1944 the best military the world has ever seen was outnumbered four to one.

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Michael Geberhardt They would have been no war if it wasn’t for the jews

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John de Nugent I would recommend David Irving’s stellar Hitler’s War for its approach. He judged AH as a war leader entirely on the basis of the information he HAD, not the stuff we know now. On that basis, he was a military genius who made ONE country so powerful it took the ENTIRE WORLD six years to beat it.

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(Here is the entire pdf of that masterpiece, provided at the David Irving site at http://www.fpp.co.uk/books/Hitler/2001/HW_Web_dl.pdf and uploaded to my site for safety.

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John de Nugent And because of the Fourth Reich, the Antarctic evacuation of the super-elite, the war is not even over. The real reason Germany has no peace treaty is that the German Reich still exists, and is still fighting, albeit with more a badger strategy — invincible in its lair.

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John de Nugent Zackly. If Trump triggers WWIII, and the northern hemisphere is devastated, the German Reich and the white South Africans will be the main white power after the nuclear war.

Michael Geberhardt We can count on the Aussies and Kiwis too — if we can get their bottles away. 😉

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