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It was not in Germany. Operation Overlord was an offensive against Germany. There were a series of Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy (British, Canadian, and American) starting on 6th June, 1944 (4,000 landing crafts, 600 warships, 176,000 soldiers). The battle was to take back Europe from the Nazis. By the end of July there were more than a million soldiers in France. (Hitler was deceived: he expected an invasion but he thought it would be in Calais.

The allied forced succeeded to force the Germans out of France and Belgium. The Nazis had to fight on two fronts (the russians were advancing from the east).By April 1945, the Allied forces and the Russian Red Army reached Berlin, and soon the WWII ended.

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