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Originally Posted by Mohoender
I don't want to start another discussion here, but that is not explained by Hitler's madness. The intension was to confuse the foreign intelligence services which had the worse difficulties to identify and locate German units. It worked very well until 1942 at least and still works today as it remains fairly hard to accurately identify the components of several German units. In addition, that situation evolved with the situation at war: France also had several paper units while it started to face defeat in 1940.
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Talk about paper divisions... How about the 'ghost army' that Patton 'commanded' prior to Overlord? It was a deception tactic that worked marvelously for the time it needed to.