D-Day - the secret Battle

Genre:.....................WWII Documentary
Language:.................English - No Subs
Picture:...................B&W - Colour
Runtime:..................55mins
Size:........................442Mb
Extras:.....................183Mb

By 1944, the Germans on the French Coast knew the allies were set to invade. What they didn't know was where. If they could anticipate where the Allies would land, they could mass their forces and destroy the fragile beach-head before it was even established. It was vital for the Allies to mislead the waiting Nazis about their true plans for D-Day and so Operation Fortitude, the biggest deception of all time, was initiated.Fortitude was designed to convince the waiting Germans that the invasion would come in the Pas de Calais, and was so successful that, even after the Normandy landings were well underway, Hitler kept vital Panzer divisions in reserve in Calais, convinced that D-Day was just a diversion.