Topic: Was Overlord co-ordinated with the Russians for maximum effect?

perseus · June 7th, 2009

I mean agree on a workable strategy for launching a successful two front assault on Germany. Effectively it seems that all they did was to agree a piecemeal two front assault sometime in 1944 without any coordination whatsoever. It seems to me the way things worked out was that Normandy effectively diverted forces away from the East and the Russians were the main beneficiaries.

Without a successful breakout of the beachheads, all of mainland Europe may have been enveloped by an Iron Curtain of Communism. Perhaps a stalemate in Normandy is what Stalin really hoped for.

June 7th, 2009
perseus Tribuni Angusticlavii	I mean agree on a workable strategy for launching a successful two front assault on Germany. Effectively it seems that all they did was to agree a piecemeal two front assault sometime in 1944 without any coordination whatsoever. It seems to me the way things worked out was that Normandy effectively diverted forces away from the East and the Russians were the main beneficiaries. Without a successful breakout of the beachheads, all of mainland Europe may have been enveloped by an Iron Curtain of Communism. Perhaps a stalemate in Normandy is what Stalin really hoped for. __________________ He's Watching! At the sign of the unholy three commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unholy_three.png Last edited by perseus; June 7th, 2009 at 22:59..