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Britain's Insane WWII Plan: Dress a Corpse as an Officer, Throw Him in the Ocean, and Hope the Nazis Believe It

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Operation Mincemeat: The Absurd Plan That Actually Worked

In 1943, British intelligence faced a problem: they needed to invade Sicily, but the Germans knew it was coming. The solution? Find a dead body, dress it as a Royal Marines officer, plant fake invasion plans on the corpse suggesting Greece was the real target, dump it in the ocean off Spain, and pray the Nazis would find it and believe the documents were real. Incredibly, this absolutely insane plan worked perfectly and may have saved thousands of Allied lives.

The operation required obsessive attention to bizarre details. British intelligence obtained the body of a homeless Welsh man who had die ...