Operation Zeppelin
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Operation Zeppelin may refer to:
- Operation Zeppelin (Allies)Operation Zeppelin (Allies)During World War II, Operation Zeppelin was a deception plan carried out by the Allies designed to depict a potential amphibious landing on Crete, western Greece, or the Romanian Black Sea coast...
, part of Operation Bodyguard, a deception plan with the object to keep the Germans occupied in the Balkans due to perceived Allied offensive, thereby reducing the number of German troops which would be otherwise engaged by the Allies in France during the Normandy invasion - Operation Zeppelin (assassination plot)Operation Zeppelin (Assassination Plot)Operation Zeppelin was the name of an elaborate German plan to assassinate Joseph Stalin in Moscow. It was conceived in July 1944 when Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who succeeded Reinhard Heydrich as head of the RSHA, asked the Luftwaffe's KG 200 unit if they could land a man within 60 miles from Moscow,...
, a scheme to assassinate Stalin on January 14, 1944, involving anti-communist Russian prisoners of war