
‘Operation Mincemeat’ on Netflix: The true story behind the Colin Firth movie
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“Operation Mincemeat,” which is now available on Netflix, showcases one of the biggest stunts the British army pulled during World War II.
In 1943, Ewen Montagu, who is played by Firth, and the British military misdirected the German military away from the Invasion of Sicily with a dead body for the German forces to find. On the dead body were documents for the Nazis to find, which suggested there was an invasion of Greece and Sardinia.
Two British officers carried out this plan, Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley, who is played by Matthew Macfadyen. The two men obtained the body of a dead, homeless man and gave him a new identity, Captain William Martin. The homeless man had died of rat poisoning.
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