German Chancellor Olaf Scholz honoured the Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, as a “day of liberation” for France, many other European countries occupied by Nazi forces, and also for Germany. The date marked “the beginning of the end of the inhuman system of National Socialism, of its racial mania and militarism, of the will to destroy and imperialist fantasies,” Scholz said in an article published in Ouest France, a French newspaper, as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the landing of Allied troops in Normandy during World War II. The courage of the liberators had paved the wa…