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Operation Overlord

Operation Overlord. The Allies Invade Hitler’s Fortress Europa. Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day: “Operation Overlord”. D-Day (June 6, 1944). Normandy Landing (June 6, 1944). German Prisoners. Higgins Landing Crafts. July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot.

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Operation Overlord

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  1. Operation Overlord The Allies Invade Hitler’s Fortress Europa

  2. Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day: “Operation Overlord”

  3. D-Day (June 6, 1944)

  4. Normandy Landing (June 6, 1944) German Prisoners Higgins Landing Crafts

  5. July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot Major Claus vonStauffenberg

  6.      E-mail this to a friend July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot 1. Adolf Hitler 2. Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel 3. Gen Alfred von Jodl 4. Gen Walter Warlimont 5. Franz von Sonnleithner 6. Maj Herbert Buchs 7. Stenographer Heinz Buchholz 8. Lt Gen Hermann Fegelein 9. Col Nikolaus von Below10. Rear Adm Hans-Erich Voss11. Otto Gunsche, Hitler's adjutant12. Gen Walter Scherff (injured)13. Gen Ernst John von Freyend14. Capt Heinz Assman (injured)

  7. The Liberation of Paris:August 25, 1944 De Gaulle in Triumph!

  8. U. S. Troops in Paris, 1944

  9. French Female Collaborators

  10. The Battle of the Bulge:Hitler’s Last Offensive Dec. 16, 1944toJan. 28, 1945

  11. Yalta: February, 1945 • FDR wants quick Soviet entry into Pacific war. • FDR & Churchill concede Stalin needs buffer, FDR & Stalin want spheres of influence and a weak Germany. • Churchill wants strong Germany as bufferagainst Stalin. • FDR argues for a ‘United Nations’.

  12. Mussolini & His Mistress,Claretta Petacci Are Hung in Milan, 1945

  13. US & Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River: April 25, 1945

  14. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

  15. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Entrance to Auschwitz:Work Makes You Free Crematoria at Majdanek

  16. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Eli Wiesel Slave Labor at Buchenwald

  17. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Mass Graves at Bergen-Belsen

  18. Hitler’s “Secret Weapons”:Too Little, Too Late! V-1 Rocket:“Buzz Bomb” V-2 Rocket Werner von Braun

  19. Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945 Cyanide & Pistols The Führer’s Bunker Mr. & Mrs. Hitler

  20. V-E Day (May 8, 1945) General Keitel

  21. V-E Day (May 8, 1945)

  22. The Code Breakers of WW II The Japanese “Purple” [naval] Code Machine Bletchley Park The German “Enigma” Machine

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