A homeless man died alone in a London hospital in January 1943. Three months later, his body tricked Adolf Hitler into moving entire armies to the wrong country. This is Operation Mincemeat — the most audacious deception of the Second World War.
Chapters:
00:00 The Body That Fooled Hitler
00:47 The Trap
01:43 The James Bond Memo
02:39 The Man Who Was No One
04:05 Building Major Martin
05:40 The Bait
07:04 The Drop
08:14 The Lunch Break
10:02 The Missing Eyelash
11:49 Husky
13:14 The Name on the Stone
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Sources & credits:
– Archival photographs: Imperial War Museums (public domain), U.S. Navy / National Archives (public domain), Bundesarchiv (CC BY-SA 3.0 de)
– Archival motion footage: U.S. National Archives / Internet Archive Prelinger collection (public domain)
– Music: “End of the Era” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 3.0)
– Narration: AI voiceover. Visuals: historical archives with AI-generated atmospheric fill where no archival record exists.
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