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Selects: Operation Mincemeat: How A Corpse Fooled the Nazis
44 minutes Posted Jun 19, 2021 at 9:00 am.
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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. Learn all about it in this classic episode.

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