World War II was a fascist war waged by Germany, Japan and Italy as Axis powers, and this global war brought deep disasters to the peoples of the world. The Normandy landing was a landing war officially launched by the United States and other countries against the Allied forces after the fascist declaration of war, and a total of three million soldiers reached the French hinterland through the English Channel, launching the prelude to the counter-offensive war against the fascist countries.
The Allied plan was to reach the Seine within 90 days, and the final landing was only a short time. The reason for this success was that none of the main German troops were defended locally, so where were the Germans at this time?
Some people say that the reason why the Normandy landings went so smoothly was not because there were no German troops, in fact, the strength of the German army in the late stage of the war was much worse than before, and it was naturally powerless in the face of the three million troops of the Confederate army. At first glance, I think this statement is quite reasonable, but in fact, it is completely contrary to the facts.
Before the Confederate landing, Germany placed 48 ordinary divisions plus 10 armored units on the Western Front.
On the other hand, because the landing forces were fighting in different places, the ships were very limited. The first vanguard had only 6 divisions, and the second arrived a week later. So if the Germans had been able to defend in time, the landing forces would not have been able to land so smoothly.
In fact, the landing force was so smooth because of the mistakes of the Germans. One was that the German commander who was leading the operation at that time judged that the Allies would land in another strait, and he deduced that this coastal mouth was most suitable for allied landing operations and was a strategic point that must be contested.
Although Rommel thought they would land in Normandy, there was no way to reverse the Commander's view. It is precisely because the two sides have diverged in their judgments on the landing site that the decisions they made later are also opposite.
The commander of the Western Front believed that a precise strike would be able to repel the landing forces as soon as they landed, while Rommel believed that they should be attacked in advance and could not be allowed to go ashore.
The two commanders of equal status disagreed on important points of view, neither of whom could be completely persuaded, and the officers at the bottom did not stand up to clearly support whom, and finally took the method of compromise between their views, resulting in the Loss of the German Army.
Another point was that on the day of the landing, the German side had only one panzer division on the coast, and it was supposed that they were on the defensive side, and one division could react in time to cope with it. Unfortunately, at the time of the landing, the German commanders were absent, and the Germans lost the opportunity to attack first.
At that time, Hitler was a typical representative of sleeping late and getting up early, and the director of the operations bureau thought that the coalition forces at that time were bluffing, and did not wake up Hitler, and no one made decisions.
Rommel's prediction was correct, but it was precisely because of the disunity within the German army that it was slow to negotiate the main method of operation, and the Allies chose a very appropriate time to directly catch the German side by surprise. The victory of the Normandy landings heralded the opening of the second largest battlefield in Europe, and the German army was divided into two parts, alleviating the pressure on the main battlefield, giving great pressure on the fascists and hastening the demise of the fascist alliance in World War II.