a corpse fooled an entire army and helped win ww2

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]In 1943, the British military used a dead man to win a war.

[00:00:05]Nazi Germany controlled Europe. The allies [music] needed to invade, but the Nazis were waiting.

[00:00:13]They found a man who had just died, gave him fake military orders, dropped his body into the ocean off Spain.

[00:00:21]The Nazis found him, believed [music] everything, moved their army to the wrong country. A dead man defeated Nazi Germany.