Selects: Operation Mincemeat: How A Corpse Fooled the Nazis

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 19 June 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In World War II, a secret department of British ‘corkscrew thinkers’ hatched a plan to use the cadaver of an unclaimed homeless man to turn the tide of the war in the Allies’ favor. It worked. Learn all about it in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.0	Hey everybody, it's me Josh and for this week's S.Y.S. Case Selects, I've chosen our
0:36.2	episode on Operation Minsmede from February 2016.
0:41.1	It's a really great example of English drowleness pulling through for the rest of the world.
0:46.5	It's featuring e-inflaming or eye-inflaming depending on your preference and raw dull.
0:52.0	It's just a bonkers history episode all around, so I hope you enjoy it.
0:59.0	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:08.0	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:12.4	I'm Josh Clark.
1:13.4	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
1:15.0	There's Jerry Rowland.
1:16.3	This is Stuff You Should Know.
1:17.9	Chuck.
1:18.9	I'm 39 years old and I still can't say my own name correctly because of my stupid thick
1:23.8	tongue.
1:24.8	You're going to be 40.
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