A Dead Homeless Man Helped the Allies Win WWII 🪖

[00:00:00]Did you know a homeless man who died alone and forgotten in [music] 1943 helped change the outcome of World War II? His name was Glyndwr Michael. He was a Welsh drifter with [music] no family, no money, and no future. He died in London after accidentally ingesting rat [music] poison. Nobody came to claim him. British intelligence saw something in that unclaimed body that nobody had ever seen in Glyndwr Michael while he was alive, potential. [music] They dressed him in a Royal Marines uniform, gave him a fake name, a fake girlfriend, fake letters, and fake invasion plans hidden in a briefcase chained to his wrist. Then they dropped him into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Spain and waited. Nazi agents found the body within days. The documents moved up the chain until they reached Hitler himself.

[00:00:48]He believed every word. He pulled entire Panzer divisions away from Sicily [music] and sent them to Greece. When the Allies landed in Sicily in July 1943, they met almost no resistance. [music] A man society threw away saved tens of thousands of lives. He just had to die first.