titsonritz
04-23-21, 17:30
in what has been call a modern day Trojan Horse...Operation Mincemeat: How a dead tramp fooled Hitler.
Rat poison does not furnish the desperate with an easy death. But this was how Glyndwr Michael, jobless and homeless in the winter of 1943, ended his life.
Found in an abandoned warehouse in King's Cross, London, one cold January night, his death certificate noted the cause of death as "phosphorus poisoning. Took rat poison - bid [to] kill himself while of unsound mind".
He was not buried in the capital, nor his hometown in south Wales. Instead, the coroner said he was to be "removed out of England" for burial.
And how. For Glyndwr Michael died a second time - a death that helped change the course of World War II.
Cont...
Operation Mincemeat: How a dead tramp fooled Hitler (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-11887115)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lQtdhtw5eI
Apparently, there is new movie based on the events, hopefully they do a good job and do it justice.
https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/colin-firths-operation-mincemeat-netflix-movie-what-we-know-so-far/
Rat poison does not furnish the desperate with an easy death. But this was how Glyndwr Michael, jobless and homeless in the winter of 1943, ended his life.
Found in an abandoned warehouse in King's Cross, London, one cold January night, his death certificate noted the cause of death as "phosphorus poisoning. Took rat poison - bid [to] kill himself while of unsound mind".
He was not buried in the capital, nor his hometown in south Wales. Instead, the coroner said he was to be "removed out of England" for burial.
And how. For Glyndwr Michael died a second time - a death that helped change the course of World War II.
Cont...
Operation Mincemeat: How a dead tramp fooled Hitler (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-11887115)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lQtdhtw5eI
Apparently, there is new movie based on the events, hopefully they do a good job and do it justice.
https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/colin-firths-operation-mincemeat-netflix-movie-what-we-know-so-far/