{"id":8563,"date":"2011-01-27T13:38:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T18:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/the-piece-of-paper-that-fooled-hitler\/"},"modified":"2011-01-27T13:38:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T18:38:18","slug":"the-piece-of-paper-that-fooled-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/the-piece-of-paper-that-fooled-hitler\/","title":{"rendered":"The piece of paper that fooled Hitler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_long_quote\">\n<p>An elaborate British wartime plot succeeded in convincing Hitler that the Allies were about to stage the bulk of the D-Day landings in Pas de Calais rather than on the Normandy coast &#8211; a diversion that proved crucial in guaranteeing the invasion&#8217;s success. <\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-12288054\" title=\"De-coding the note that fooled Hitler\">intercepted memo<\/a> &#8211; which has only now come to light &#8211; picked up by British agents and decoded by experts at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bletchleypark.org.uk\/\">Bletchley Park<\/a> &#8211; the decryption centre depicted in the film Enigma &#8211; revealed that German intelligence had fallen for the ruse.<\/p>\n<p>The crucial message was sent after the D-Day landings had started, but let the Allies know the Germans had bought into their deception and believed the main invasion would be near Calais.<\/p>\n<p>It was an insight that saved countless Allied lives and arguably hastened the end of the war.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-12266109\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">      <a href=\"http:\/\/fraynelson.org\">Publicado via email<\/a> a partir de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraynelson.org\/the-piece-of-paper-that-fooled-hitler\">Palabras de camino<\/a>      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elaborate British wartime plot succeeded in convincing Hitler that the Allies were about to stage the bulk of the D-Day landings in Pas de Calais rather than on the Normandy coast &#8211; a diversion that proved crucial in guaranteeing the invasion&#8217;s success. An intercepted memo &#8211; which has only now come to light &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/the-piece-of-paper-that-fooled-hitler\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar leyendo<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The piece of paper that fooled Hitler&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}