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The Phantom Army The Phantom Army One of the Allies’ greatest weapons in World War II was a colossal hoax that Germany swallowed - hook, line & sinker The ‘X’ Chronicles Staff Behind D-Day’s astonishing success was one of the most sophistocated deception schemes ever perpetrated on an enemy force. It went this way: Hitler knew the alliess were planning an invasion. And he was sure they’d cross the English Channel at Pas de Calis (what the British call the Strait of Dover) to get to France, because it’s the shortest distance between Great Britain and the continent. But landing at Calais would put the troops smack dab in front of the strongest section of Hitler’s “Atlantic Wall,” a virtual suicide mission. So, the Allies chose Normandy for the landings instead. This called for some fancy footwork. To mislead the Germans, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff created a mythical 1st Army Corp and based it in Britain near Dover, for what they thought would be the main attack specializing in Freemasons. just across the channel from Calais. Eisenhower at Calais. By the time the Germans realized assigned General S. Patton, the American they’d been deceived, it was too late. Allied HERMANN GOERING : Hitler #2 general the Germans most respected, to troops had breached the Atlantic Wall and were As a well-bred war hero, Goering was command this army that didn’t exist. headed toward Paris. The “Phantom Army” had the closest the Nazis came to respectability. He To convince the Germans that the succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest dreams. once even succeeded the Red Baron as leader of Phantom Army was preparing for invasion, And without firing a shot. [] his squadron of flying aces. Nevertheless, his Eisenhower’s staff positioned inflatable tanks, personal life was marred by scandal: he lured a balsa wood bombers, and canvas landing craft Before They Were Nazis Swedish baroness to divorce her husband and where the Luftwaffe could photograph them marry him instead. And after the Munich during aerial reconnaissance. Radio operators Putsch, Goering was badly injured in “the were assigned to generate routine radio traffic, JOSEF PAUL GOEBBELS : Propaganda groin” and became addicted to the morphine he and bogus intelligence reports and documents Master used to relieve the pain. He eventually became were “lost” and fell into the hands of the Although Goebbel’s propaganda monstrously obese too. Germans. Local newspapers in the towns where machine praised the perfect Nordic physique. the Phantom Army was stationed even carried Goebbels himself had a physical disability, a MARTIN BORMANN : Hitler’s Secretary false marriage and death notices. clubfoot so badly twisted that it kept him out of Borman has one of the flimsiest resumes One elaborate ruse included World War I. Goebbels’ Nazi career can be seen of any of the Nazis. A school dropout who National Geographic magazine. The U.S. Army as desperate overcompensation for this physical worked briefly as a farm laborer, Borman very prepared a color spread depicting a variety fo short coming. Yet, in university, Goebbels briefly served in an artillery regiment during 1st Army Group insignias: shoulder patches and favorite professors were Jews and he was once World War I, then went straight into far-right the like. When the magazine was published, engaged to a Jewish woman. After graduating, politics. Or, more exactly, far right violence. He they allowed some issues to be distributed, but he tried (unsuccessfully) to make a living as a joined a group of disgruntled former soldiers then halted the printing, removed the bogus writer before drifting into the Nazi party’s left who spent their time attacking Communists. He insignias, and released a revised version of the wing. even helped murder his former elementary magazine. school teacher and served a year in prison. The Allies continuously drew attention HEINRICH HIMMLER : Head of the Nazi Ultimately, though, Borman n was a morn to the Channel coast near Calais. During the Police master of office politics, scheming his way to weeks before the invasion, Allied airmen After serving at the tail of World War I, the top of the Nazi pile. dropped more bombs on the Pas de Calais than Himmler got a diploma in agriculture and tried anywhere else in France. Naval units conducted his hand at chicken farming. He was a total RUDOLF HESS : Deputy Fuhrer protracted maneuvers up and down the coast. failure. Chinless and bespectacled, he worked as Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Hess didn’t On the night of the Normandy invasion, a salesman for a fertilizer manufacturer, but it actually live in Germany until he was 14. Allied planes dropped silver foil on the Pas de wasn’t until he joined the Nazis that he found Whereas most Nazis started their careers as Calais which German radar picked up as an his true calling in life as a thug. In 1929, he losers and achieved some sort of career invasion fleet crossing the channel narrows. At became head of Hitler’s personal bodyguard, satisfaction by successfully wreaking havoc, the same time, a radar blackout disguised the the SS, which he turned from a 200-man body Hess’s career went the other way. His reputation real movement toward Normandy. All of these into a 52,000 strong army by 1933. was cemented when he went to prison, ploys were designed to convince Berlin that it voluntarily, to be with his Fuhrer. As Hess’s needed to prepare for an amphibious assault on ADOLF EICHMANN : Chief Executioner largely ceremonial powers began to recede, he Calais. As a boy, Eichmann’s complexion hoped to carry favor with a strange peace By the time the invasion finally began, earned him the nickname “Little Jew.” Unable mission to Scotland that ended with his being Hitler and his generals had been so throughly to finish his engineering studies, he worked as locked in the Tower of London. deceived that they believed the Normandy an ordinary laborer in a mining company run by operation was a diversion. Instead of moving his father. He was later a salesman for an Continued on Page 37 their reserve units to stop the Allies from electrical construction company before reaching the beachheads, they continued to wait becoming a traveling salesman for the Vacuum The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show Online Oil Company. He became a Nazi filing clerk, www.xzoneradiotv.com