Operation Mincemeat: The Decoy That Tricked Hitler | World War Weird | War Stories
In WWII, the Churchill and the British Secret Service devised a plan to dupe Hitler. Named Operation Mincemeat, a team of spies, including James Bond author Ian Fleming, prepare a dead body that would be ‘found’ by Nazi spies, upon which are vital documents on the Allied invasion plan, intended to fool Hitler. But would such a crazy idea work…?
Also in this episode; Stalin’s desire for the perfect army leads him to investigate genetically modified men, a former Nazi scientist is put to work for the US Government in the Cold War, and two Zeppelin pilots mysteriously disappear over the Pacific.
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00:00 – Start
01:26 – Stalin’s Perfect Army
11:07 – Operation Mincemeat
24:29 – The Nazi Scientist Kidnapped By America
36:52 – The Airship Crew That Vanished