Operation Mincemeat

[The Monkey]

I just stumbled upon this article on Wikipedia, it's really interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat was a very successful British deception plan during World War II. Mincemeat convinced the German high command that the Allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia in 1943 instead of Sicily, the actual objective. This was accomplished by persuading the Germans that they had, by accident, intercepted "top secret" documents giving details of Allied war plans. The documents were attached to a corpse deliberately left to wash up on a beach in Spain.

 

[Naph]

I was hoping for a ravaging tale about mince meat.

 

[nurizeko]

The Germans seemed to have often, when given a choice of which allied plans were real, often seemed to have chosen the false ones.

I mean, during D-Day they were convinced the allies main objective was Calais, even as the allies were landing at Normandy.

Fortunately for us, the Nazi's were obviously ****ing stupid.

 

[Kase]

Fortunately for us, the Nazi's were obviously ****ing stupid.

couldnt of said it better myself

 

[VirusType2]

They weren't stupid, they were outsmarted by brilliant, crafty, cunning allies.

 

[lefty]

Don't forget scurvy.

 

[VirusType2]

I knew I missed a few, but I didn't want to go overboard.

 

[Escaep]

Don't forget the fake tanks and planes and the such!

 

[AJ Rimmer]

They weren't stupid, they were outsmarted by brilliant, crafty, cunning allies, and being lead by a small, nasty man from Austria who towards the end of the war was convinced he was a brilliant strategist and decided to ignore all the actual brilliant strategists under his command.

Fix'd.

 

[Kyorisu]

No german high command was utterly stupid. Fighting a war on two fronts and all that.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

When I read WW2 I thought it would be about cannibalism.

 

[Kamikazie]

I was thinking it was going to be something about The Jungle

 

[Laivasse]

Read Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson if you want to get a historical-fiction version of lots of similar subterfuge that the Allies performed (or may have performed) in WWII. Specifically the efforts to use the information gleaned from the cracked enigma cypher to their advantage, without revealing that they had cracked it.

 

[Druckles]

I want Spam.

Not like forum spam. Like meat Spam.

That stuff's good.

 

[Sulkdodds]

It's widely known that the Nazi spy programme was genuinely awful, and, however professional the standard army, intelligence was often incomeptently run. During the early days of the war the Nazis managed to smuggle by sea or by parachute a number of agents into Britain, but all of them were either killed or 'turned', whereupon they came Allied, not Axis, intelligence assets. It seems the chermans took a very long time to get wise to the fact that their agents had all been turned against them.

 

[Druckles]

Psht Spies can be balled.

Spam is the way to go.

Or a form of minced meat.