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The Ghost Army was a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. [2] [3] The 1,100-man unit was given a unique mission: to deceive Hitler's forces and mislead them as to the size and location of Allied forces, while giving the actual units elsewhere time to maneuver. [4]
The Ghost Army Official Web Site; The Ghost Army at IMDb; on YouTube (producer's YouTube Channel) Garber, Megan. "Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler", The Atlantic, May 22, 2013. The Ghost Army of World War II, Princeton Architectural Press, 2015. (ISBN 978-1616893187
Aliapoulos is mentioned in a film and numerous books: in the documentary, The Ghost Army directed by Rick Beyer, pictured and mentioned in page 29 of the book Ghosts of the ETO - American Tactical Deception Units in the European Theatre 1944-1945 [11] written by the author Jonathan Gawne [12] and pictured and mentioned in the book The Ghost ...
Footage of Hitler making the threat was included in the 1940 film The Eternal Jew. [64] [65] According to historian Bill Niven, the film makes the case to Germans that they were fighting a race war and life-or-death struggle against Jews. [66] The film was a flop and a month after its release was only being shown in one cinema in Berlin. [67]
The Ghost Army insignia. In the European theater of the war, sonic deception was used in an elaborate ruse to fool the Germans. It involved the so-called Ghost Army , a campaign staged by the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, an elite force that specialized in tactical deception. [ 15 ]
Jack Higgins's 1991 novel The Eagle Has Flown ends with a conference between Adolf Hitler and two-high ranking German military intelligence officers, including Abwehr head Wilhelm Canaris, who are solidly convinced that the Allies are planning to invade Normandy, but Hitler is unswayed from his belief that Calais is the intended target.
Hitler and several other key Nazis had been raised as Catholics but they became hostile to the Church in their adulthood; Article 24 of the National Socialist Program called for conditional toleration of Christian denominations and the 1933 Reichskonkordat treaty with the Vatican guaranteed religious freedom for Catholics, but the Nazis sought ...
Kershaw noted that Hitler's scheme for the Germanization of Eastern Europe saw no place for Christian churches and that Goebbels wrote from conversations with Hitler that there was an insoluble opposition between the Christian and a Germanic-heroic world-view which would need settling after the war. [273]