Juan Pujol, alias Garbo, is the only person to ever been awarded both the Iron Cross and the Order of the British Empire.
He is one of my most favorite figures from WWII.
In Operation Fortitude, pretending to be a german spy (actually working for the British) he made the germans believe that the D-day landings were to be at Pas de Calais and that the Normandy landings were merely a diversion.
He even created 27 secret agents whose findings he would report to the Nazis. They were all fictitious.
When he "warned" the germans of the coming invasion, they were so pleased they awarded him the iron cross.
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After the war Pujol faked his death and moved to Venezuela, where he lived in anonymity. He died in Caracas in 1988.
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