How A Dead Body Fooled Hitler (Operation Mincemeat) 💀 It was the greatest deception in military history. In 1943, British intelligence needed to trick the Nazis into thinking the Allies would invade Greece, not Sicily. Their solution was Operation Mincemeat. They took the body of a homeless man, gave him a fake identity as "Major William Martin," and chained a briefcase full of false invasion plans to his wrist. The body was dropped off the coast of Spain, where it was discovered by Nazi spies.

Behind new film ‘Operation Mincemeat,’ the true story of WWII’s greatest deception

Operation Mincemeat stars Colin Firth in a straightforward retelling of a WWII strategy to trick Nazis with a decoy corpse

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