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=== German code names ===<!-- This section is linked from [[Manhartsberg]] -->
[[Ewen Montagu]], a British Naval intelligence officer, discloses in ''Beyond Top Secret Ultra'' that during [[World War II]], [[Nazi Germany]] habitually used ''ad hoc'' code names as nicknames which often openly revealed or strongly hinted at their content or function.

Some German code names:

* Golfplatz (German for "golf course") – Britain, employed by the [[Abwehr]]
* Samland – The United States (from [[Uncle Sam]]), employed by the [[Abwehr]]
* [[Heimdall]] (a god whose power was "to see for a hundred miles") – long-range radar
* [[Wotan (deity)|Wotan]] – an [[Y-Gerät|aerial bombing navigation system]]. Knowing that the god Wotan had only one eye, [[R. V. Jones]], a British scientist working for [[RAF Intelligence|Air Intelligence]] of the British [[Air Ministry]] and [[Secret Intelligence Service|SIS]] inferred that the device used a single beam and from that determined, correctly, how it must work. A counter-system was quickly created which made Wotan useless.
* [[Operation Seelöwe]] ([[Sea-lion]]) – plans to invade Britain (lions being prominent in the [[coat of arms of the United Kingdom]])
* [[Operation Barbarossa]] ([[Frederick Barbarossa]]) – plans to go east and invade the Soviet Union

Conversely, [[Operation Wacht am Rhein]] (Watch on the [[Rhine]]) was deliberately named to suggest the opposite of its purpose{{snd}} a defensive "watch" as opposed to a massive [[blitzkrieg]] operation, just as was [[Operation Weserübung]] ([[Weser]]-exercise), which signified the plans to invade [[Norway]] and [[Denmark]] in April 1940.