[PUGACHEV]

I remember in the 1956 version a German spy with an Irish accent, played by Stephen Boyd (Messala in the movie Ben Hur) turned up at the fictional girlfriend’s apartment to offer his sympathy for her loss in order to check out whether the body’s identity was genuine. The girlfriend’s acting ability became the hinge upon which the whole plot turned. If she was convincing, the Germans would buy it and the English would know they had. I wonder if the new movie has the same scene?

[waredbird]

Yes it’s in there. This version speculated that there were posible German saboteurs working to oust Hitler and they may have used this hoax to hurt the German cause. This included the spy who confronted the fake girlfriend. So the hoax may have worked completely or the German deep state used it to defy Hitler.