WW2 history

WW2 bombshell: The truth of Roosevelt's ‘secret Hitler map’ – and the genius behind it

ON THE night of October 27, 1941, the President of the United States limbered up to give a speech that could finish his career. It might also change the course of the Second World War. Looking dapper that night in black tie, President Franklin D Roosevelt arrived in the ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel, Washington DC, where he was to address a room containing a galaxy of senior judges, politicians, businessmen and military officers.
But he would also be heard by tens of ­millions of people listening at home on the radio, as well as Nazi officials in Berlin who would soon be picking over his speech in microscopic detail. None of the guests in the Mayflower Hotel that night imagined they were to witness an elaborate act of mass deception. None of them, that is, apart from the man due to introduce the president. This was Colonel William “Wild Bill” Donovan, newly installed as chief of America’s leading intelligence agency.