The Allied invasion of Normandy is without a doubt the most important operation in World War 2. Its sheer scale, the number of troops involved, and its strategic importance were unparallelled.This was the day when Germany started to lose the war.
But such a victory came at a price. When the landings were over, the German army retreated and the Allied armies were moving inland towards Paris, they left behind a gruesome landscape. 10,000 bodies between Allied and German lay on the beaches of Normandy, and that was only the first day.
Dozens of films, series, and videos have portrayed the epic combat of D-Day, but few people talk about its aftermath. What happened to the dead bodies and the scattered body parts? Who was in charge of their identification? How were they buried or sent to their loved ones back home?
Operation Overlord: From Hell to Victory
The Sixth of June, 1944. A day that will forever be remembered as D-Day. Thanks to an enormous effort of secrecy and planification, the combined forces of every Allied nation managed to attack the Nazis where they least expected it.
This led to a dramatic shift in the direction of the war. It is generally accepted that prior to the Normandy landings, the outcome of the war was unsure, or even slightly leaning towards a Nazi victory.
The Thousand Year Reich was still strong, France was little more than Hitler’s puppet state and the Soviet Union was barely repelling the Nazi offensive, with the loss of 3,3 million people to military operations and famine.
WARNING: This documentary is under an educational and historical context, We do NOT tolerate or promote hatred towards any group of people, we do NOT promote violence. We condemn these events so that they do not happen again. NEVER AGAIN.
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