"El Ministerio del Tiempo" deals with William Martin, a fictional character created by the British
Yesterday "El Ministerio del Tiempo" scriptwriters visited Punta Umbría, in Huelva, to take part in a seminar on William Martin , a fictional character created by the British to mislead the Germans during the World War II . The latest episode of the TVE series was based on this character. The corpse of the acting major, which was actually that of a homeless man, was left on the coast of Huelva with important documents, all false, about the allied landing in the Mediterranean.
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Yesterday "El Ministerio del Tiempo" scriptwriters visited Punta Umbría, in Huelva, to take part in a seminar on William Martin , a fictional character created by the British to mislead the Germans during the World War II . The latest episode of the TVEseries was based on this character. The corpse of the acting major, which was actually that of a homeless man, was left on the coast of Huelva with important documents, all false, about the allied landing in the Mediterranean.
William Martin was a British army officer during the Second World War who liked smoking, going to the cinema, and had a girlfriend named Pamela: a fairly normal life if it had not been completely false.
The corpse appeared on Cruce beach with fake documents to convince the Germans that the Allies were going to land in the Balkans, rather than in Sicily.
The story of William Martin has inspired books, documentaries and also an episode of the El Ministerio del Tiempo.
The most curious detail is that the false acting major's tombstone still remains in the cemetery of Huelva, and has now become a tourist attraction. The corpse used was that of a homeless man.
