The Fake Paris

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8879053/Second-Paris-built-towards-end-of-First-World-War-to-fool-Germans.html

Fascinating, I'd not heard of this before. Such a tactic was used in WWII. One famous example was the Anglo-Egyptian port of Alexandria was faked to try and fool the Luftwaffe.


(Thank for the link, Dennis!