Question contains spoilers
Why didn't the americans and british troops expose the real identy of the look alike Churchill and let the germans capture him fill him with phony info and shorten the war?
shareWho would volunteer for such a mission? :) He would probably be thrown into a KZ-camp when it was discovered that he was a phoney.
Actually the allies did do something in the direction of that when they planted some fake documents on a unidentified body which was fitted with a high ranking uniform and placed on the French or Italian coast. The documents were about the D-day landings and how the major bridgeheads would be near Calais in order to trick the Germans.
Oh dear peoples ingnorance of the events of WWII never stop amazing me.
What you are talking about is Operation Canned Goods to input a Body in the sea from a submarine dressed as a major of the Royal marines Carring Amongst other things
Letters and documents Both writen by and signed by Mountbatten to the officer commanding Med fleet requesting a mass build up of Royal Navey vessels to An area of the mediterranean sea away well away from sicily.
The real area of the invasion from the south of leading up into Italy.
These Documents are still classified as top secret.
That was dramatised in the movie, The Man Who Never Was.
Education is what's left when you forget what you were taught.