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{{quote|"Two kinds of people are staying on this beach! The dead, and those who are going to die! NOW GET MOVING!"}}

* Operations Fortitude, Ironside, and Vendetta: the Allied misinformation campaign that tried to convince the Germans that the Allies were going to attack Calais, Norway, Aquitaine, or southern France instead of Normandy. It worked brilliantly. The Allies even convinced the Germans that the massive army in Normandy was merely a diversion, and that the real attack was about to hit Calais. Consequently, the Germans didn't even reinforce Normandy, giving the Allies time to consolidate their beachhead. It was the largest hoax in human history.

** Mainly the OKW (German High Command) waited 6 ''weeks'' before releasing the Panzers from the Pas de Calais. The reason? British Intelligence had convinced them that the FUSAG (First US Army Group) were waiting in Kent to cross the narrowest point of the Channel, to the land in part of France closest to Germany. They succeeded this with inflatable tanks, radio operators broadcasting messages from fake units, and the fact it's headed by a real General - George Patton. The Germans reasonsed that if the allies were keeping their most aggressive general in England, they ''must'' be planning something big (Patton nagged Eisenhower repeatedly to be allowed to go). If such a huge, never to be repeated deception doesn't seem enough of a CMoG then consider the part played by...

*** 'Garbo', who is a German spy and regularly broadcasts the information to the Germans. Even tells them about "Overlord" before they knew. The catch - he was a double agent (The invasion warning was timed to be too late to be of any use, but enough to make him appear very credible). So good and awesome that after the war Garbo bumped into one of his old Nazi "handlers" ''who handed him an Iron Cross'' for his services.

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