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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The German's also had a piss poor fire plan in place which couldn't effectively hit the allies with massed firepower. they had a lot of small stuff.
They also had no naval barrier between the beaches and Britain which would have allowed the German's to effectively thin out the invading forces.
The invasion was far easier then it could have been.
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Credit UK intelligence for creating some serious confusion for Hitler... He thought well into the autumn of 1944 that Normandy was just the first, smaller invasion and expected another to come at Pas-de-Calais, stationing seven offensive units in the area for over a week after D-Day... The largest deception in history.
Anyway.. The thing for me about Stalingrad is that the Germans after Smolensk or Moscow were able to rebuild and continue to push forward... Stalingrad completely sapped the German army's ability to resupply itself and the point after which is was left scrambling. Not to mention, the re-distribution of forces Stalingrad forced was able to stabilize the Moscow area and give a huse morale boost to the Allies when they needed it most (building on the earlier successes of the Battle of Britain). It proved to the British and Americans that the Soviets could hold out and stay in the war before a 2nd front was opened up.... But at the same time actually forced the Allies into action a little bit by forcing them to consider that the Soviets would probably not continue to pay such a high cost and that a seperate peace with Germany was a possibility.