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Originally Posted by odybvig
It surprise me that nobody in this thread is talking about checking german documents about what they knew about the preparation for D-Day
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Olve Dybvig
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Hmmm. The ULTRA intercepts that Nick Beale has commented on are German documents. The books cited in this thread, Kahn et al, are based on thorough research of the surviving German documents. Do you know of some surviving German documents that should be examined that the world has not seen yet? This is one of the highest interest questions from all of World War II and I know of no other that has received more scrutiny from historians and scholars. I think today, 65 years ex post facto, it can be safely said that there are no yet-to-be-revealed "smoking guns" out there on what the Germans knew or didn't know about the long-expected invasion. The Germans were deceived, bamboozled and hornswoggled by the Allied "Bodyguard of Lies" into believing the invasion would occur in the Pas de Calais area defended by AOK 15. It didn't matter what AOK 7 in Normandy or OB West thought, it only mattered what OKW and the Führer thought. And they only thought one thing: Pas de Calais probably in June.