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Напротив, ја тврдим да не само да Тито није имао никаквог утицаја на бројност немаца у грчкој, већ то није имао ни у Југославији.

Пошто видим да набадаш у мраку, ево шта је Цепелин:

Operation Zeppelin. Zeppelin involved a sham attack in the Balkans by British and American forces encamped in northern Africa. The goal was to induce the Germans to maintain a large defensive presence in the Balkans to prevent reinforcements into northern France. The Allies accomplished this objective by increasing the number of decoy landing craft in the eastern Mediterranean and by convincing the Germans that the Allieshad 39 divisions available to invade the Balkans. In reality, there were only 18 divisions in the theater. Hitler acknowledged this threat on 8 May when he referred to the proven “presence of battle-strength enemy divisions in Egypt.” The sham called for the fictional British Twelfth Army to attack Greece and the real American Seventh Army to attack Yugoslavia. The Allies primarily used five double agents to transmit this story. 31 Zeppelin also entailed cooperation with the Soviets. The Soviets were to conduct amphibious feints towards Romania and Bul garia that were to be timed in conjunction with the sham Brit ish and American invasion in the Balkans. 32

Zeppelin achieved similar results. The Germans maintained 22 divisions in the Balkans and did not transfer any of them to northern France during the preparation period of Overlord

Only one division was moved to northern France from the Bal kans (another division was put in its place), but it did not arrive in time to influence the Allied lodgment. 48

The final long-term deception plan created by "A" Force for the Mediterranean theater and the Middle East was the strategic and operational Plan ZEPPELIN, the plan for the year 1944. So, the overall problem was to persuade the Germans " ... to dispose his forces in areas where they can cause the least interference with operations 'OVERLORD' 1

The overall deception policy, therefore, for 1944 regarding the Mediterranean and Middle East, was to induce the Germans to believe the following:
Since no large-scale cross-Channel operation would be possible till late summer, the main "Allied effort in the Spring of 1944 should be against the Balkans, by means of -
(i) An Anglo-American assault against the Dalmatian
coast.
(ii) A British assault against Greece.
(iii) A Russian amphibious operation against
the Bulgarian-Roumanian coast.
iv) In addition Turkey will be invited to join the Allies to provide operational facilities including aerodromes to cover operations against the Aegean Islands as a prerequisite to the invasion of Greece. Her refusal would not materially
modify the Allied intentions.
(v) Pressure against the satellites to induce them ., to abandon Germany.3

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Да не постављам даље, укратко,

Од новембра 43 до пред инвазију (и првих недеља потом) било је између 21 и 25 дивизија. Током кључне фазе Цепелина, април - мај (припреме за оверлорд), било је 22.
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