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Operation Mincemeat: How a Fake Corpse Fooled the Nazis in World War II
TLDR Operation Mincemeat was a successful military deception plan during World War II that involved dressing up a dead person as a soldier, giving them fake invasion documents, and dropping their body on the coast to deceive the Nazis into thinking the Allies were planning to invade Greece instead of Sicily. This operation successfully fooled the Nazis, leading to the diversion of troops from Sicily to Greece and ultimately changing the course of the war.
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Operation Mincemeat was a successful military deception plan during World War II that involved fooling the Nazis with a fake corpse.
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Operation Mincemeat was hatched as part of the Allies' plan to invade Sicily during World War II and deceive the Nazis about their true intentions.
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Operation Mincemeat involved the idea of dressing up a dead person as a soldier, giving them fake invasion documents, and dropping their body on the coast to deceive the Nazis into thinking the Allies were planning to invade Greece instead of Sicily.
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Operation Mincemeat involved creating a fake persona named Major William Martin and a backstory for him, as well as targeting a gullible Nazi agent in Spain to deceive the Nazis.
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Operation Mincemeat involved creating a fake persona named Major William Martin and a backstory for him, as well as targeting a gullible Nazi agent in Spain to deceive the Nazis by planting a body with believable documents and pocket litter, including a fiancé, love letters, and personal items.
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They found a body for Operation Mincemeat, named Glendor Michael, who had a tragic life and died from ingesting rat poison, and they used a lookalike's face for the ID photo.
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Operation Mincemeat was successful because the XS committee had the freedom to break the law and keep the operation secret, and they were able to keep the body on ice for three months before carrying out the operation.
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Operation Mincemeat involved crafting misinformation based on the Nazis' assumptions, including a false letter that supported Hitler's beliefs about the European invasion, and the body of Major Martin being released into the current and found by a fisherman in Huevla.
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The British Council in Spain successfully retrieved the briefcase containing the false letter and prevented the body from being dissected, while Carlo Coulenthal, Hitler's most trusted guy in Spain, took over and eventually delivered the briefcase to the Nazis, with suspicions raised by Goebbels but ultimately ignored by Hitler.
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Operation Mincemeat successfully fooled the Nazis and led to the diversion of troops from Sicily to Greece, resulting in fewer casualties for the Allies and ultimately changing the course of the war.
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