23rd Headquarter, Special Troops
A fact in times of war. In the Second World War, students of all types became soldiers. Some of them, artists and actors, were put in the 23rd Headquarter Special Troops, where they served from Normandy to the Rhine. Their battle style was only made public in 2000 and can be called quixotic in the least. Instead of steel tanks, they had inflatable tanks. Instead of airplanes, they carried rubber attrappes. Instead of shooting weapons, they blasted out a vast collection of firearm and war-sound recordings. With these creative illusions, the “Ghost Army” marched across Europe, impersonating different units, fooling the Axis Powers and saving hundreds of lives.1