How the Nazis Lost the War Because of a Corpse The Allied invasion of Sicily was successful thanks to an operation in which the British created the identity of a false Major Martin to persuade the Germans to attack elsewhere. In 1943, a year before the Normandy landings, a sophisticated counterintelligence operation took place that, despite not being widely known, changed the course of World War II. In April, the body of British commander William Martin was found off the Spanish coast near Huelva. The discovery of the body, with important documentation, seemed to be a great trophy for the...