WI Operation Mincemeat a failure in 1943?
In 1944 British launched Operation "Mincemeat" in order to deceive Germans and make them believe that allies would attack Sardinia and Greece. They took a corpse dressed it as a British Major put in his pockets fake letters and maps of the alleged invasion and let it to be found by Germans near Spain. As a result Hitler was so convinced of the veracity of the bogus documents that he disagreed with Mussolini that Sicily would be the most likely invasion point, insisting that any incursion against the island should be regarded as a feint. Hitler ordered the reinforcement of Sardinia and Corsica and sent Fieldmarshal Rommel to Athens to form an Army Group. Even patrol boats, minesweepers and minelayers intended for the defence of Sicily were diverted. Perhaps the most critical move of all was diverting two panzer divisions to Greece from the Eastern Front where they were most needed, especially when the Germans were preparing to engage the Russians in Kursk. This major effect on the Eastern Front was not intended or foreseen by the British originators of the plan, concerned mainly with their own part of the war.
WI Germans didnt believed that? Would the Allied assault was called off?
How is this altering History? Any thoughts?
In 1944 British launched Operation "Mincemeat" in order to deceive Germans and make them believe that allies would attack Sardinia and Greece. They took a corpse dressed it as a British Major put in his pockets fake letters and maps of the alleged invasion and let it to be found by Germans near Spain. As a result Hitler was so convinced of the veracity of the bogus documents that he disagreed with Mussolini that Sicily would be the most likely invasion point, insisting that any incursion against the island should be regarded as a feint. Hitler ordered the reinforcement of Sardinia and Corsica and sent Fieldmarshal Rommel to Athens to form an Army Group. Even patrol boats, minesweepers and minelayers intended for the defence of Sicily were diverted. Perhaps the most critical move of all was diverting two panzer divisions to Greece from the Eastern Front where they were most needed, especially when the Germans were preparing to engage the Russians in Kursk. This major effect on the Eastern Front was not intended or foreseen by the British originators of the plan, concerned mainly with their own part of the war.
WI Germans didnt believed that? Would the Allied assault was called off?
How is this altering History? Any thoughts?
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