Re: Normandy daily - 1944
Hitler had some grandiose idea about rolling up the First US Army's right flank and throwing the Allies back into the sea and all that. Crazy.
Kluge executed the Mortain counter-attack because der Fuhrer ordered it, but all he was trying to do was close the gap between Mortain and Avranches.Yah, Hitler was 'gone' by this point, he had officially lost his grip on reality, imo. It can be argued he lost it before attacking Russia, which I believe everyone knew was a disaster as it unfolded.
Hitler had some grandiose idea about rolling up the First US Army's right flank and throwing the Allies back into the sea and all that. Crazy.
Yep, Op Bagration was a "shoeing," as the Brits would say.The next few days (70 years ago) literally turned the tide of the war. The Russians were absolutely mauling the Germans to the east and Mortain was the beginning of the end in the west for the Nazis...