How Foreign Conscripts Helped Hitler Defend ‘Fortress Europe’ on D-Day

(Originally published in MilitaryHistoryNow.com on June 6, 2012) ONE OF THE ironies of the June, 1944 Normandy campaign is that Third Reich, a regime so deeply obsessed with racial purity, would hold its Atlantic Wall in Europe…

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