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Spanish Chicken Farmer Became Double Agent Who Changed D-Day Outcome
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The Chicken Farmer Who Defeated Hitler
"Juan Poyol, the Spanish chicken farmer, the most important moment in World War II was D-Day. So as D-Day was happening, Juan gave so much fake information, he convinced them that D-Day was going to happen in Calais. So Hitler and Himmler were getting these reports from Juan. They thought the war was going to happen in Calais, so they sent some of their most important armies, to Calais, then the D-Day happens."
Juan Poyol, a failed chicken farmer, was rejected by MI5 multiple times before joining the Nazis to become valuable enough for British intelligence to recruit him. He became the only person to receive both Hitler's Iron Cross and an MBE from the King, convincing the Nazis that D-Day would occur at Calais instead of Normandy, causing Hitler to redeploy critical forces. He faked his own death in 1949 and lived secretly in Venezuela until the 1980s when former MI5 agents discovered he was still alive.
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