OPERATION MINCEMEAT: How a dead man fooled Hitler

By FORGOTTEN HISTORY

Community Score: 50% | 13.7K views | 1mo

0 community ratings: null thumbs up, null thumbs down

Thanks to Nolah for sponsoring this video! Visit http://nolahmattress.com/history to get an extra $50 off your Nolah mattress! ============================================================================ Operation Mincemeat was one of the most unusual deception operations of World War II. In 1943, as the Allies prepared to invade Sicily, British intelligence faced a major problem: the Germans knew an attack in the Mediterranean was coming. The challenge was convincing them that Sicily was not the real target. Their solution centered on a dead man given an entirely fabricated identity. British intelligence transformed the body into "Major William Martin," complete with personal possessions, correspondence, and secret military documents designed to fall into enemy hands. The documents suggested that Allied forces were preparing to strike Greece and Sardinia instead of Sicily. In this episode of Forgotten History, we examine how Operation Mincemeat was constructed, how the false intellige

Tags: The Forgotten History Channel, 10th Legion Pictures, Operation Mincemeat, Operation Mincemeat WW2, The Dead Man Who Fooled Hitler, Major William Martin, Glyndwr Michael, British intelligence, World War II, WW2 history, military history, espionage, wartime deception, intelligence operations, MI5, British intelligence WW2, Allied invasion of Sicily, Operation Husky, Sicily invasion 1943, Hitler WW2