S6E02 Operation Mincemeat - How Spilsbury tricked Hitler
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Dee takes Isla on a truly bonkers journey into wartime espionage, where the British government decided the best way to win a major strategic battle was to weaponise a dead body - with the enthusiastic help of history’s most famous forensic pathologist.
Yes, this episode is about Operation Mincemeat - the WWII intelligence plot so unhinged it involved:
A corpse with a fake life
Love letters, overdraft notices, and an engagement ring receipt
A submarine
A mildly disappointed dad
And Bernard Spilsbury, applying forensic science not to solve a crime… but to commit the perfect lie
If you’ve listened to the podcast before, you already know Spilsbury - Dr Crippen, Brides in the Bath, forensic icon, and occasional menace.
Here, Spilsbury was asked one key question:
“Bernard, could we make a poisoned corpse look like it drowned… convincingly enough to fool the Nazis?”
Reader, he said yes.
He used forensic science, not to catch a killer, but to gaslight an entire enemy state.
Sources
Hektoen International – “Forensic Medicine and Sir Bernard Spilsbury”
NPR: Operation Mincemeat film review The National Archives
Imperial War Museums
MI5
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
BBC History
History Today
Smithsonian Magazine
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