The Men Who Destroyed Germany's Nuclear Bomb Program

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British intelligence fears Germany may be close to a weapon that could win them World War II. As German scientists cultivate a fledgling nuclear weapons program at a heavy water plant in Telemark, Norway, the British devise a plan to infiltrate and sabotage the heavily-guarded plant. This is the story of the special operation forces who led those missions-the men of Operation Grouse, Operation Freshman, and Operation Gunnerside.
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Gallagher, T. (2010). Assault in Norway: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Program. Lyons Press.
Jorgensen, T. J. (2018, February 23). Operation gunnerside: The Norwegian attack on heavy water that deprived the Nazis of the atomic bomb. Scientific American. Retrieved April 29, 2022, from www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History. (2016, October 18). German Atomic Bomb Project. Atomic Heritage Foundation. Retrieved April 29, 2022, from www.atomicheritage.org/histor...
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It’s just so hard to imagine how unfathomably BADASS these men were. Back in the days of no complex electronics or satellite guiding, or drones, or anything like that, they braved the wilderness into a Nazi secret weapons plant. Fuck man. “If the soldiers walked out of the barracks, the commandos would go down shooting.” BAD. ASS.

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You have the wrong idea. Hearing them talk from when I was a kid, they were just regular people doing a job that needed to be done

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I know it's a tiny detail, but I've read this story before and the Norwegians that took the man hostage made sure he was safe from the blast, and also took an extra 2 minutes to help him find his glasses because he lost them lol. Norway is so underrated when it comes to their military. You guys are legends

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There is a Norwegian show about it called The Heavy Water War

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The Heroes of Telemark is loosely based on this story.

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I remember reading about this from a display sign on my Route 66 trip. An elderly Norwegian man named Christian Christiansen (really) moved to Gardner, Illinois and found out about the plant by a newspaper. He used his boyhood recollections to help the Allies find their way to the plant. At least that’s what the sign claimed, the town might have been trying to drum up interest in the area.

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They also had a 2 or 3 minute delay in their plan because they literally helped the man (he was older) find his glasses because he lost them lol

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It's only a short video so a lot has been missed out: The Germans didn't guard the ravine because an ascent assault was thought impossible. The charges were set with a timer thought too short for the team to escape, to ensure the charges weren't found and disarmed before they went off. The team escaped anyway. One of the members took shelter in a hotel - which was raided at random by Germans due a rebuff of a general by a Norwegian waitress. The man jumped off a lorry and escaped, dodging bullets and grenades, eventually outpacing the chasing Germans and out smarting (killing) the last and only German who could keep up. The entire story is astonishing.

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Thanks!! Haha we’re going to be much more consistent with uploads this year

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[@pihlajafox]

Also some of the heavy water did survive and Germans tried to bring it to Germany via train, but at one point the water had to cros a large lake via a passenger ferry, and in the midle of the lake there was an explosion in the ferry and it sang. The explosion was caused by a bomb that some of the commandos who stayed in Norway had butted there