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‘Operation Mincemeat’ is a musical farce about fooling Hitler — with nothing much to say about Nazis

JL;DR SUMMARY "Operation Mincemeat" is a musical comedy that recounts the true story of a British intelligence operation during World War II aimed at deceiving the Nazis with fake plans to invade Greece and Sardinia. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityWorld War IiMusicalThe ProducersBroadwayMi5Operation MincemeatEwen MontaguNazi DeceptionSpitlip

Places mentioned

Spain
"shore to Spain, handcuffed to a suitcase stuffed with documents to convince the Nazis of Allied plans to invade Greece and Sardinia, when they are actually headed for Sicily."
Greece
"shore to Spain, handcuffed to a suitcase stuffed with documents to convince the Nazis of Allied plans to invade Greece and Sardinia, when they are actually headed for Sicily."
Sicily, Italy
"shore to Spain, handcuffed to a suitcase stuffed with documents to convince the Nazis of Allied plans to invade Greece and Sardinia, when they are actually headed for Sicily."
Liverpool, United Kingdom
"His grandfather Samuel Montagu born Montagu Samuel was a Liverpool-born banker, philanthropist and liberal MP raised to the peerage as the first Baron Swaythling in 1907."
London, United Kingdom
"aged to his constituents and joined 51 congregations on Londons East End by launching the Federation of Synagogues."
United States
"and so he sent his wife and two of his children to safety in the United States."

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