Operation Mincemeat: How A Corpse Fooled the Nazis
Operation Mincemeat: How A Corpse Fooled the Nazis
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In World War II, a secret department of British ‘corkscrew thinkers’ hatched a plan to use the cadaver of an unclaimed homeless man to turn the tide of the war in the Allies’ favor. It worked.