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    Operation Mincemeat

    British Second World War deception operation

    This article is about the British deception operation. For the 2021 film, see Operation Mincemeat (film). For the stage show, see Operation Mincemeat (musical).

    Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. Two members of British intelligence obtained the body of Glyndwr Michael, a tramp who died from eating rat poison, dressed him as an officer of the Royal Marines and placed anställda items on him identifying him as the fictitious Captain (ActingMajor) William Martin. Correspondence between two British generals that suggested that the Allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia, with Sicily as merely the target of a feint, was also placed on the body.

    Part of the wider Operation Barclay, Mincemeat was based on the 1939 Trout memo, written by Rear AdmiralJohn Godfrey, the Director of the Naval Intelligence Division,

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    Claus-Wilhelm Canaris

    German jurist and jurisprudent (1937–2021)

    Claus-Wilhelm Canaris (1 July 1937 – 5 March 2021[1]) was a Germanjurist. Until his retirement in 2005 he was professor of Private Law, Commercial law and Labour law the University of Munich.

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    Canaris was born in Liegnitz, Germany. His father was Constantin Canaris. Canaris went to school in Königsberg, Miesbach and Düsseldorf.[2] He studied law, philosophy and Germanistics in Paris, Geneva and Munich, where he passed the first state exam (erstes Staatsexamen) in 1961.[2] He became scientific assistant (wissenschaftlicher Assistent) of Karl Larenz at the University of Munich and graduated with the dissertation Die Feststellung von Lücken im Gesetz(How to find lacunas in the law) in 1964 (2nd edition 1983).[2] He habilitated in Munich in 1967 (Die Rechtsscheinhaftung im deutschen Privatrecht).[2] His habilitation thesis was a groundbreaking

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    Canaris (film)

    1954 film

    Canaris is a 1954 West Germandrama film directed by Alfred Weidenmann and starring O. E. Hasse, Barbara Rütting and Adrian Hoven. It portrays real events during the Second World War when Wilhelm Canaris, the head of German military intelligence, was arrested and executed for his involvement with the 20 July Plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler. The film was a major success at the German box office, possibly because it allowed audiences to identify with a heroic German figure disassociated from Nazism.[2] Released in the UK as Canaris Master Spy, and in the US as Deadly Decision—it is also known by the alternative titleCanaris: Master Spy.

    It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin.

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    The soundtrack features music from Lohengrin, composed by Richard Wagner.

    Release

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    Canaris opened in Hanover on 30 December 1954. The distributor played down any political significance to the film, and