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The Allied invasion of Europe during summer 1944 was widely expected, and it fell to the Axis intelligence services to provide High Command with advance warning of the precise date and place of the landings. Using cryptanalysis of Allied signals, undercover agents and ships, and photographic evidence, Axis intelligence was pitted directly against their Allied counterparts, who actively tried to create a decoy and aim their enemies at the wrong location.

Conocido también como el Día D, o el Desembarco en Normandía, este desembarco aliado determinó el comienzo del fin para la Alemania de Hitler. Más de 3'000,000 de personas y un aparato logístico-militar abrumador, derrotaron a los nazis en las costas francesas, marcando de esta manera el primer paso estratégico antes de enfocarse en sus dos objetivos más ambiciosos: Reconquistar París y someter Berlín.

In the 19th century, the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle famously wrote, "The history of the world is but the biography of great men", popularizing the "great man" theory that the course of history is shaped by a select few heroic individuals. While historians and others continue to debate the accuracy of the "great man" theory of history, there is no question that the course of history is permanently altered by decisive moments in time, where a different result would have produced drastically different outcomes.

Europas fremtid stod på spil, da næsten 150.000 allierede soldater blev landsat på Normandiets kyst den 6. juni 1944. Det blev startskuddet til den største landgangsoperation nogensinde. Med D-Dag fortæller Jakob Sørensen historien om D-dag og giver et overblik over invasionen af Normandiet, hvor over 800 danske søfolk deltog, og et indblik i, hvordan den blev planlagt, hvordan den konkret forløb på dagen den 6. juni, og hvilken betydning den havde for Anden Verdenskrigs udfald.