Originally Posted by
NutLoose
You do wonder sometimes if broadcasting your intentions could be a ruse to tie up Russians and encourage them to transfer troops from areas of greater interest, rather like the allies did with Calais before pushing in through Normandy..
While the Germans were indeed encouraged to believe the D-Day landings were going to be somewhere other than Normandy, I think the mechanism used by the Allies was a bit more subtle than simply "broadcasting their intentions".