[ALASKA]

Probably with a change of trouw........

[FatherofFive]

For D-Day’s opening act, Hitler slept.

Just like 0bama and Benghazi.

[nickcarraway]

(There'll Be A) Hot Time In The Town Of Berlin (1944) - Frank Sinatra

[Joe 6-pack]

"For D-Day’s opening act, Hitler slept."

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

Most historians of the British monarchy agree that George didn't keep a diary, and that the myth is based on Louis XVI's diary entry from the original Bastille Day, in which Louis returned from a hunting trip and made a single word entry, "Nothing."

[Berlin_Freeper]

https://i.imgur.com/YZwYHic.jpg

[KarlInOhio]

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

Where is the Downfall resubtitling? I demand a humorous Downfall subtitling!

[TNoldman]

Sounds like something Obama would do.

[DoodleDawg]

Later on June 6, Hitler attended a reception near Salzburg for the new Austrian foreign minister.

Why would there be an Austrian foreign minister? Austria ceased to exist as an independent country in 1938.

[a fool in paradise]

[piytar]

Played a round or two of golf?

Oh, even Hitler wasn’t that pathetic...

[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.