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Originally Posted by Larry deZeng
Hmmm. The ULTRA intercepts that Nick Beale has commented on are German documents. The books cited in this thread, Kahn et al, are based on thorough research of the surviving German documents. Do you know of some surviving German documents that should be examined that the world has not seen yet? This is one of the highest interest questions from all of World War II and I know of no other that has received more scrutiny from historians and scholars. I think today, 65 years ex post facto, it can be safely said that there are no yet-to-be-revealed "smoking guns" out there on what the Germans knew or didn't know about the long-expected invasion. The Germans were deceived, bamboozled and hornswoggled by the Allied "Bodyguard of Lies" into believing the invasion would occur in the Pas de Calais area defended by AOK 15. It didn't matter what AOK 7 in Normandy or OB West thought, it only mattered what OKW and the Führer thought. And they only thought one thing: Pas de Calais probably in June.
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Well, since this thread is about german aerial recon prior to D-day, I suppose the question here is what the germans knew about which allied unit who was based where in england in spring 1944. And how they collected that info. Not how the allied tricked the germans about the landing site. Everybody knows that. And since your books tell little about it, it seems that this topic is not so thorough research as you tell. Probably because historians normally don't goes in detail about such stuff.
And Ultra is not a german document
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Olve