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GERMANY WAS DEFEATED ON THE EASTERN FRONT, NOT NORMANDY
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GERMANY WAS DEFEATED ON THE EASTERN FRONT, NOT NORMANDY

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Jul 06, 2024
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On my many walking visits to the vast Normandy battlefield in France, I kept recalling the ever so wise dictum of Prussia’s great monarch, Frederick the Great: ‘he who defends everything, defends nothing.’ On this 74th anniversary of the D-Day landings, it’s well worth recalling the old warrior-king.

Adolf Hitler, a veteran of the infantry, should cert…

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