Deception at D-Day: 1944 | Deceiving Hitler
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“Deception at D-Day” tells how the Allies confused Hitler and key Nazi decision-makers on the size, location, and time of the Normandy landings on June 6th, 1944.
Often overshadowed by the heroics of the landings, deception operations played an important role in Operation Overlord’s success. “Deception at D-Day” includes segments on the Atlantic Wall, Operation Fortitude, the Double-Cross System, Pas-de-Calais v. Normandy, and the Rundstedt v. Rommel debate while also teaching current Army doctrine on deception operations.
Doctrine Timehacks:
Three Types of Military Deception: 5:31
Military Deception (MILDEC): 5:41
Tactical Deception (TAC-D): 7:06
Ambiguity Increasing/Decreasing: 8:33
Deception in Support of Operations Security (DISO): 16:08
Deception Means: 21:22
Administrative Means: 21:49
Magruder’s Principle: 22:25
Physical Means: 23:54
Jones’ Dilemma: 24:38
Technical Means: 26:08
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This just might be the best documentary on D-day…. Very well done!
From Dunkirk, at the beginning of World War II, to Normandy, almost at the end, the Allied Armies did not put a single soldier in Germany. Not a single one. The participation of the Allied Forces in Europe was limited to Aerial Bombing. These actions received a lot of publicity to make us believe that the Aerial Bombings were winning the war. But, there is a very long list of Bombing cities by “Mistake”. The bombing of Nijmegen in the Netherlands (February 1944), it occurred when US bombers returning from a failed mission, as occurred in most cases, were looking for "Optional" targets. Nearly 1,000 Dutch civilians were killed by the bombing. It is proven fact that Aerial Bombardment does NOT win wars, unless it’s Atomic. Aerial Bomb't can destroy cities but does NOT destroy armies. If there is any doubt, then Nazi Germany would have defeated England, after nearly a year of bombing, or the US would have won in Korea, Vietnam or Afghanistan. In fact, it wasn't until 1949-50 that Precision Instruments were available for aerial bombardment. Until then, if a bomber hit within 300 or 400 meters of the target, it was considered a "Bullseyes". In night bombing raids, 500 meters off target was then considered a "Perfect Shot". Propaganda has always led us to believe that we, "The Yankees", beat Hitler. But, I have news for you: The US did not win the war against Germany. The Russians won it. The Allied Army of the US, UK, Canada, Belgium and France (and Poland, and other countries), was able to reach Normandy, thanks to the Soviets destroying the Nazis in Stalingrad, Leningrad, in Kurks and in Kiev, in 1943. It took them 289 days but the Russians won and without the help of nobody… OF NOBODY! Normandy was until June 1944, and Mr. “Hollywood” Patton did NOT manage to set foot on Germany until February 1945, when the Red Army was going over Berlin. In Fact, General Patton was able to cross the border into Germany only when the Russians were 150 kilometers from the Oder River (LOL). The Allies were defeated at Arnhem (Market Garden Sep. 25-1944), and at The Battle of the Bulge (Jan. 25-1945). Now, "Operation Varsity" took place near the end of the War (March 1945), and only 85,000 German soldiers fought against almost 700,000 Allied Forces who could NOT cross the Rhine River due to the heroic resistance of an "Army" of 18-year-olds and 50-year-old Reserve Infantry. So, here General Patton was paralyzed without fuel, while the Red Army was preparing for its last offensive into Berlin. Look here: The average age of the German Army that fought in Normandy was between 18 and 24 years old. And these soldiers faced each other in a ratio of 37 to 1, without Tanks, without Artillery, no Navy nor Air Force. To make matters worse, knowing that four Parachute Divisions were inland behind their backs. This was the reason the Allies won in Normandy. Never the less, It took the Allies 8 months to advance only 500 kilometers from Normandy to Arnhem, and from there, start the Withdrawal back to the border of France/Belgium (What?), facing a virtually defeated German Army cuz USSR. It's a Verifiable Fact that is written in all the History Books, that the German High Command surrendered to the Russian Generals six days BEFORE the first US soldier set foot in Berlin.
Fortitude was a very dangerous double game in which we had to sacrifice some of our own people in order to convince the enemy that it was "right", that is on the wrong path. In other words, we sent our agents in situations we knew were ambivalent or dangerous and the probability was very high that they would be captured. The circumstances in which Noor Inayat Khan was sent to France induce me to think that she was one of those sacrificed assets. An interesting illustration is in "Foyle's War".
I highly doubt MacArthur could have hatched a similar scheme in the Pacific. But he was good at pushing his conny cob pipe around!
Great material carefully presented! Thankyou!
Well, this was new, indeed, to me, anyway. New footage, and coverage of an often-neglected but vital aspect of the D-Day invasion. I'm going to need to watch this again, because I'm not very skilled in 'mil-speak'. Thank you to all who participated in its creation. It gives an important perspective off all the work and skills behind the scenes which definitely made a successful invasion possible.
The military loves acronyms. They can be a useful shorthand but mostly they serve to identify members of a group. The definitions are known to the group and those who don’t know the meaning of the acronyms are identified as outsiders. Does one really need an acronym for “course of action” other than to confuse outsiders?
The computer animation sure beats the old Stalingrad videos. Those seemed like a class project
Very well done.
Well done.
Whoever made this film is awesome. I hear Dr. Carey is not only a genius but he's also a stud.
Wow, he musta paid twice his usual comment fee for that one!
After years of watching various military history "documentaries" its nice to get the straight poop from the SOURCE. Outstanding.
Interesting topic 👍
This is fantastic. Great job teaching doctrine throughout a historical case study. I would love to know who the main POC was that made the video.
Dr. Chris Carey
Person of color?
@@L_Train He is not. Why?
@@randymasten9183 is that what POC stands for
@@L_Train In this case POC is "point of contact"
Bless them all.
That narrator could read a phone book and make it sound good!
Excellent
hurray
I have a book, about a Dutch spy working for the Germans, during WW2, who was dropped in the UK. Hitler's Spy Against Churchill The Spy Who Died Out in the Cold author: Jan-Willem van den Braak The Germans spy network, during WW2, in the UK, was on a such amateurishly level, that some think, Canaris had this done on purpose. For example, an Agent, was dropped, goes to a Pub, ordering a drink, while not being properly informed, about UK Pubs having a special war regulation Curfew...
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I don't understand the fetish for dictionary definitions and acronyms. This feels like a training video from the department of defence
How great this could have been without the background noise (music?). Sometimes covers up the vocal information.
Turns into a very poorly produced music video
@@DonLuc23 have you even watched a music video in the last 20 years?
@@ThatMusicKid100 Duh, that's why I said it sounded poorly produced. Have you ever watched one?
I hate to nitpick but in the opening moments of this video it is said that Hitler"...continued to build defences in the West as an economy of force." FIrstly, Hitler wasn't economical about anything, much of what he did was a complete waste of resources and the Atlantic Wall is a perfect example. It took two years to build it, required tens of thousands of soldiers and workers and was obsolete in mere hours. How, under anyone's version, is that an example of economy of force?? Most of the best military commanders realized at that time that static defenses were useless anyway, including Von Rundstedt.
Soldiers didn't build it, only forced pow's and forced labour to build it
From Dunkirk, at the beginning of World War II, to Normandy, almost at the end, the Allied Armies did not put a single soldier in Germany. Not a single one. The participation of the Allied Forces in Europe was limited to Aerial Bombing. These actions received a lot of publicity to make us believe that the Aerial Bombings were winning the war. But, there is a very long list of Bombing cities by “Mistake”. The bombing of Nijmegen in the Netherlands (February 1944), it occurred when US bombers returning from a failed mission, as occurred in most cases, were looking for "Optional" targets. Nearly 1,000 Dutch civilians were killed by the bombing. It is proven fact that Aerial Bombardment does NOT win wars, unless it’s Atomic. Aerial Bomb't can destroy cities but does NOT destroy armies. If there is any doubt, then Nazi Germany would have defeated England, after nearly a year of bombing, or the US would have won in Korea, Vietnam or Afghanistan. In fact, it wasn't until 1949-50 that Precision Instruments were available for aerial bombardment. Until then, if a bomber hit within 300 or 400 meters of the target, it was considered a "Bullseyes". In night bombing raids, 500 meters off target was then considered a "Perfect Shot". Propaganda has always led us to believe that we, "The Yankees", beat Hitler. But, I have news for you: The US did not win the war against Germany. The Russians won it. The Allied Army of the US, UK, Canada, Belgium and France (and Poland, and other countries), was able to reach Normandy, thanks to the Soviets destroying the Nazis in Stalingrad, Leningrad, in Kurks and in Kiev, in 1943. It took them 289 days but the Russians won and without the help of nobody… OF NOBODY! Normandy was until June 1944, and Mr. “Hollywood” Patton did NOT manage to set foot on Germany until February 1945, when the Red Army was going over Berlin. In Fact, General Patton was able to cross the border into Germany only when the Russians were 150 kilometers from the Oder River (LOL). The Allies were defeated at Arnhem (Market Garden Sep. 25-1944), and at The Battle of the Bulge (Jan. 25-1945). Now, "Operation Varsity" took place near the end of the War (March 1945), and only 85,000 German soldiers fought against almost 700,000 Allied Forces who could NOT cross the Rhine River due to the heroic resistance of an "Army" of 18-year-olds and 50-year-old Reserve Infantry. So, here General Patton was paralyzed without fuel, while the Red Army was preparing for its last offensive into Berlin. Look here: The average age of the German Army that fought in Normandy was between 18 and 24 years old. And these soldiers faced each other in a ratio of 37 to 1, without Tanks, without Artillery, no Navy nor Air Force. To make matters worse, knowing that four Parachute Divisions were inland behind their backs. This was the reason the Allies won in Normandy. Never the less, It took the Allies 8 months to advance only 500 kilometers from Normandy to Arnhem, and from there, start the Withdrawal back to the border of France/Belgium (What?), facing a virtually defeated German Army cuz USSR. It's a Verifiable Fact that is written in all the History Books, that the German High Command surrendered to the Russian Generals six days BEFORE the first US soldier set foot in Berlin.
After the war, the occupation of Poland, the Baltic states, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Georgia, Ukraina, Moldovia etc by the cruel sovjets lasted for 41 long years until the liberating and long awaited collapse of the CCCP (USSR).
The French did invade German territory in the Saar offensive in September 1939