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b'In a recently bombed, spy-infested Casablanca, Morocco, the architects of Allied victory in World War Two meet. It is January 1943, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and more assemble secretly at a resort hotel. Here, they will put together the plan to end the war \\u2013 if they can make it out of the country alive. One word to the Germans, and it would be a bloodbath. Turns out, one word really was all they needed\\u2026 to escape assassination. A spy in the Spanish division of German intelligence informs Berlin about the meeting at Casablanca. A wooden German officer, seemingly unfamiliar with Spanish or geography or both, translates \\u201cCasablanca\\u201d as \\u201cWhite House.\\u201d A slip-up that meant Hitler and his goons missed the singular chance to bomb the entire Allied command as they all assembled in one small spot. To talk about this incident and many more at the 1943 conference that determined the Allied course of the war (and the post-war world after that) is today\\u2019s guest Jim Conroy, author of \\u201cThe Devilss Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan that Won the War.\\u201d We recount the the Casablanca Conference \\u2013 a meeting that many historians now view as one of the most crucial conclaves directly associated with the Allied victory of World War II.'