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Old April 15th, 2006, 07:39 AM
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Originally posted by JTF-2:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Kai-Petri:
The Atlantic defences seem to have been in rather poor shape until Rommel was put in charge in late 1943. The Calais sector of course was top shape but that was expectable.
Actually Norway was the most defended. For some reason Hitler thought they would invade Norway first. </font>[/quote]Ya, I still dont understand why he thinks the Norway would be a target? Even if the allies were to take over Norway (and he would lose the iron), it would take another invasion attempt to reach Germany.
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