My Life As A Historian: 6th of June, 1944, D-Day Upon Us

It's that time again. Here's your Sabaton song for today, since you're going to see it spammed everywhere. This version is done by a Russian w/ archival footage.

And the official video, made w/ the cooperation of World of Tanks.

This marked the beginning of the end for the Nazi regime in Western Europe. Between the Western Allies pushing East from French landings and Soviets pushing West, well, it took a year but it did end the war in Europe.

There's be plenty more said and done between this point and that end, and for the official narrative you can rely on the Time Ghost crew to give it to you week by week until the war ends. They're not at D-Day yet--just getting to Midway in 1942 as of this post--but you can see how things went down, officially. Below are the main playlists by year of the main WW2 series; specials are on their own playlists, like the Pearl Harbor one.

You can expect their coverage of D-Day to be a special in its own right when they get to it.

What the Official Narrative about the war says is that this was the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. Given what has come out of the former Soviet Union archives after the end of the Cold War, that should be reconsidered and the reason is that the Soviet push against Germany proved plenty sufficient to wreck the Nazi regime by itself. Much like the American industrial machine proved against Japan, the Soviet machine--once up and running in earnest--cranked out men and material that could, and would if required, choke out the Nazi regime by bleeding it dry of resources it could no longer replace fast enough.

In both cases, the leadership didn't help, but Stalin proved less incompetent than Hitler.