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D-DAY (June 6, 1944), The Greatest Man Made Event For Good, by War, in History

  On June 6, 1944,  the Nazi War machine  was attacked from the sea, and from the air, on the beaches of Normandy, D-Day. D-Day was and is the single greatest event for good ever wrought by Man, using war as a  tool. . When the Day began, the Nazis reigned over Europe, bloodied but not beaten; they were still killing Jews at a furious pace, still subjecting peoples from  the Northern tip of Norway to Crete with a Hittite swagger, still debating and plotting, among themselves for the succession to the prematurely aging Hitler. D-Day was launched within the realm of possibility that the Nazis could still win World War II. The Nazis had options; they could have halted the Red Army Advance on the Eastern Front  by withdrawing troops from Norway and the Balkans, then concentrating them to assault the depleted Soviets. Nazi Generals, such as Field Marshal von Kesselring, were masters at delaying and exhausting advancing armies (see the Italian campaign). It is not beyond possibility that Hit