How a WWII British Op Fooled Hitler and Ensured a Successful Invasion of Sicily

"Operation Mincemeat," now streaming on Netflix, is an excellent movie about the British intelligence operation that convinced Germany that the Allies planned to invade Greece instead of Sicily in the summer of 1943. Hitler took the bait, moved troops to defend Greece and the Allies faced little resistance when they invaded.

British Navy Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu and Flight Lt. Charles Cholmondeley came up with an outrageous plan to locate a dead body, create a false backstory and papers that showed him to be a spy and float the body to the coast of Spain. There, corrupt local officials would share a top-secret document with Nazi spies, a paper that would "prove" that the Allies were gearing up for a Greek invasion.