Corrected entry: Not only was Crete still occupied by the Germans when the movie takes place but General Carnaby can't have been going there or anywhere else for 'the rendezvous with the Russians' because the Allies never shared any information about the D-Day landings with the Russians for security reasons.
Greg McCreanor
16th Nov 2015
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Correction: If the cover story was a planned meeting in Crete, then when 'Carnaby' revealed that information under interrogation, that would raise German suspicions on the veracity of the whole plot as they would know Crete was under German control.
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Correction: That Russian is not important at all. The General carrying the plans was a plot to fool the Germans. So it could very well have happened.
Correction has some validity: If the cover story was a planned meeting in Crete, then when 'Carnaby' revealed that information under interrogation, that would raise German suspicions on the veracity of the whole plot as they would know Crete was under German control.