00:00This isn't a spy movie, it's how the Allies used one dead body to outsmart Hitler and
00:05change the course of World War II.
00:07In 1943, the Nazis were guarding Sicily like a fortress.
00:11The Allies needed to invade, but they knew a direct attack would be a bloodbath.
00:15So British intelligence did something insane.
00:18They took a corpse, dressed him up as a top-secret officer named William Martin, and dumped him
00:23into the ocean off the coast of Spain.
00:25They didn't just dump a body, they filled his pockets with forged letters suggesting
00:29the Allies were actually planning to invade Greece and Sardinia.
00:33They knew the Spanish would hand those papers to German spies.
00:37And Hitler?
00:37He swallowed the lie hook, line, and sinker.
00:40He moved his entire defensive force away from Sicily.
00:43When the Allies finally arrived, the Germans were nowhere to be found.
00:47The invasion was a walk in the park, history's most successful prank, or just plain twisted.
00:52Let me know what you think in the comments.
