Up until that point, the Nazis were winning. They had conquered most of western Europe at the time. My country in the East was one of the few that they couldn't successfully conquer. Russia is an enormous country, and the Soviet Union's territory is even larger than that.
Had the Allies not successfully started to push back, the Nazis would have probably successfully taken over the entire continent. France-- the country where Normandy is located, was under Nazi control at the time, being a neighboring country to Germany. In the years before and during the war, twenty six countries fell and more would have fallen had there not been a push back.
The Nazis being unable to conquer Russia helped on the Eastern front, but the West was not fairing so well until America decided to join into the war after sitting out for much of it.
Had the Allies not won, most of Europe would be speaking German within a generation, tens of millions more people would have been killed and the majority of a religion would have been wiped off the face of the Earth.
Currently, the world has many new problems that have cropped up, but I'd take the world I know any day over a world where a megalomaniac controls half the world.
It's worth noting that the war ended within a year after the Normandy landing.
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Had the Allies not successfully started to push back, the Nazis would have probably successfully taken over the entire continent. France-- the country where Normandy is located, was under Nazi control at the time, being a neighboring country to Germany. In the years before and during the war, twenty six countries fell and more would have fallen had there not been a push back.
The Nazis being unable to conquer Russia helped on the Eastern front, but the West was not fairing so well until America decided to join into the war after sitting out for much of it.
Had the Allies not won, most of Europe would be speaking German within a generation, tens of millions more people would have been killed and the majority of a religion would have been wiped off the face of the Earth.
Currently, the world has many new problems that have cropped up, but I'd take the world I know any day over a world where a megalomaniac controls half the world.
It's worth noting that the war ended within a year after the Normandy landing.