![]() The success of this plan was a major coup for British intelligence, who likely saved tens of thousands of Allied lives, and all thanks to turning the corpse of a dead man into a convincing lure for the Germans to swallow whole. British intelligence even learned that up to four hours after the invasion began on July 9, 1943, 21 aircraft were deployed from Sicily to Sardinia. Rather the Nazis moved multiple divisions around Europe to Greece and the Balkans, and even transferred torpedo boats from Sicily to Greek waters. ![]() So duped was the Führer about the threat to his Greek conquests and its nearby supply line in the Balkans that Hitler flatly refused Italian dictator Benito Mussolini when asked two months before the invasion to reinforce Sicily. And barring the likely fictional story of the Trojan Horse (which is also name-checked in the new film as one of the early, poorly selected codenames for this spy game), that assertion is fairly true.Īs a plan to convince Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich’s espionage service, the Abwehr, that Britain and her allies would invade Greece and the island of Sardinia-instead of Sicily-Operation Mincemeat persuasively put the Nazis on the wrong foot during a pivotal moment in 1943. Operation Mincemeat is now celebrated as “the most spectacular episode in the history of deception.” That is one of the commanding final sentences at the end of Netflix’s World War II drama, Operation Mincemeat. This article contains spoilers for Operation Mincemeat.
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