Hitler, took direct control of operations in violation of Helmuth von Moltke’s principles, nowhere with more disastrous effect than during the invasion of Normandy. The Allies feared that after their troops landed, German tanks would drive them back to the beaches and into the sea, but Hitler had directed that the reserves could only move on his personal command. Hitler slept late. For hours after the Allies landed on the beaches, the dictator’s aides refused to wake him to ask if he wanted to order the tanks into battle. Ironically, a nineteenth-century German general was vindicated by the
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Wow! To think that the world could be completely different if Hitler just didn’t sleep in that day
