• Question: do you know something about world war 2 ?

    Asked by saida1234 to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 17 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Phillip Wilkinson

      Phillip Wilkinson answered on 17 Mar 2013:

      A little bit, I love learning about ww2 actually. There’s some very interesting stories that come out of it, like Operation Mincemeat:

      British Intelligence dressed up a homeless man as an army officer then put fake official documents on him. These documents said that the Allies would be invading Europe, to fight Hitler, through Italy. They threw him in the ocean and he washed up in Europe and was immediately taken by the German spies. Convinced by the documents, they shifted the majority of their forces to defend this ‘fake’ attack. This left were the Allies actually invaded on D-Day massively undefended!

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11887115

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