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In 1943, the most pivotal year of World War II, the Battle of Stalingrad in the European theater ended in the defeat of the German army, after which the Soviet army began a full-scale counteroffensive. In the North African battlefield, in the face of the Allied offensive like a wave, in the case of the support was cut off, the German commander Rommel, known as the "Desert Fox", could only order the entire army to withdraw from North Africa and retreat to the southern part of Europe.
After the end of the war in North Africa, the Anglo-American coalition began to plan landing operations in southern Europe and return to the european continent as soon as possible. After study, the Allied staff department formulated a landing battle plan, and the landing site was chosen in Sicily, Italy, because it was close to North Africa and was a necessary place to enter Italy, and the strategic location was very important.
However, the plan was rejected by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who used churchill's words: "Fools know that we will definitely fight Sicily next, and Hitler must have been prepared." ”
He explained that although the German army has begun to decline, but the combat effectiveness is still not to be underestimated, especially after the defeat in the North African battlefield, Hitler in order to prevent the Allies from landing in Europe, in Order to prevent the Allies from landing in Europe, a large number of elite troops were assembled in Italy, and if the Allies attacked Sicily, the chance of success was not large, and it would cause large-scale casualties.
However, as one of the greatest prime ministers in British history, the clever Churchill immediately thought of a perfect landing plan, he wanted to use the "strategy of moving the tiger away from the mountain" to make Hitler think that the Allies would not land in Sicily, so the famous "Dew Stuffing Plan" in World War II was born.
The content of the "Dew Stuffing Project" is very simple, first a person named Martin is created by the British intelligence service, who is a major staff officer in the Navy. He was then sent to the Allied command with top-secret documents from Churchill advising the Allies to land in Greece and Sardinia, but when Major Martin was passing through Spanish waters by boat, the ship was in distress and Major Martin fell into the sea and drowned, so that the "top secret information" he carried with him would be known to Hitler.
Why did Major Martin drown in Spanish waters, and the information he carried with him was known to Hitler? This is Churchill's cleverness, if the body is directly floated to the German coast with the documents, the suspicious Hitler will be suspicious, so he will choose the Spanish sea. During World War II, Spain was a neutral country, but in fact it was more inclined to Hitler, where there were many German spies, and if Major Martin was found here, he would definitely be discovered by German spies and send the news to Hitler.
As soon as the plan was determined, British intelligence began to implement it, and the first step was to find a corpse and mold him into Major Martin. After careful searching, the intelligence services found the body of a homeless man who died of pneumonia, and after examination by medical experts, it was found that the body had a large amount of water in the lungs, which was very suitable for drowning in the sea.
In order to prevent German spies from investigating Major Martin, British intelligence not only fictitiously identified him as a naval major, but also bought a house and a car under his name, and even arranged for a female intelligence officer to play his wife. For added to the realism, they also put a photo of Martin and his wife in the wallet that the corpse carried with them, as well as two movie tickets and a letter.
The content of the letter was written in martin's tone to his wife, telling her that he had received an urgent task and it was too late to watch a movie with her, that if the mission went well he would return soon, and that if she saw the letter, then she would probably have sacrificed her life for the country, please don't be sad.
After everything was properly prepared, the British intelligence service reported the details to Churchill, and after reading it, Churchill smiled happily and said to the people around him: "Hitler will definitely be deceived this time, as long as we can successfully land in southern Europe and attack the Soviet Union in the north and south, then Hitler's death date will be approaching." ”
At Churchill's order, the "Dew Stuffing Project" officially began, and exactly like the plan, major Martin's body was salvaged ashore by the Spaniards, and was immediately found by German spies, and the "top secret intelligence" was found. After taking pictures of the intelligence, in order not to arouse the suspicion of the British, the German spies asked the Spanish government to hand over Major Martin and the documents to the British. After obtaining the body of Major Martin, the British also deliberately held a funeral for him at home.
After the documents were sent to Hitler, he cautiously asked the spies to investigate. To this end, German spies sent an elite who risked his life to infiltrate England to investigate Major Martin. The spy came to Martin's house in the name of his comrades-in-arms to comfort him, and his wife, who knew everything, cried and successfully deceived the German spy. The British intelligence service, which was watching everything behind its back, immediately arrested the German spy after sending the news out, because it would be too fake to arrest it.
After receiving the information, Hitler finally got fooled and began to think that the Allies would land from Greece and Sardinia, so he transferred all his troops to these two places, leaving only the Italian army and a small number of German troops in Sicily. Even so, on the night of July 9, 1943, when the Allies began to land, they still encountered no small problems, first of all, the enemy's resistance, and secondly, many airborne troops fell into the sea, because it was a late-night airborne landing, it was impossible to distinguish between the enemy and us and even the situation of their own people beating their own people.
However, due to Hitler's serious error in judging the location of the Allied landing, the counterattack of the German panzer division was crushed by the Allies, and the Italian army retreated without resistance, and the Allies eventually captured Sicily, but also paid tens of thousands of casualties.
It is conceivable that without the "Dew Stuffing Plan" and the "Major Martin", a tramp who died of pneumonia, Hitler would not have transferred the main force away from Sicily, and it is difficult to say whether the Allied landing operation in Sicily would have been successful. It can be seen that the fictional character of "Major Martin" is definitely a hero in the history of World War II.
References: "Sicily Landings", "Sicily Landings: Meat Stuffing" Action Plan