Die Geheimwaffen des Dritten Reiches (Ganze Dokumentation Geschichte, Originalaufnahmen Wehrmacht)

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Autumn 1944 Hitler makes a desperate attempt to prolong the agony of his empire with the help of secret weapons. Instead of the launch pads that are supposed to lie smashed on the French coast, German bombers transport the V1 towards London. The planned amount of 50,000 V1

Shots that were supposed to hit the English capital only exploded a whole 2,500 in southern England too few and too late because it did not happen at the end of 1943 like Hitler is today but only in mid-1944

Was guilty of this fateful loss of time and which thwarted Hitler’s plans and which, after Eisenhauersung, not only saved London but also made the landing in Normandy possible was a small, modest sales representative from Paris Peenemünde Christmas Eve 1942 the first ready-to-use pilotless aircraft in

The long-distance designation Fzg FLAC Target Device was launched from the time the order was placed to this moment, its development took no more than six months to create this flying bomb Gerhard Fieseler’s Kassel aircraft factory and Argus Motorenwerke worked together to produce the new weapon, known as the V1

Explosives weigh around 900 kilos and have the same range of around 400 km and it only takes 280 hours of work to produce a V1 in series. It is eight meters long, weighs 2200 kilos at start-up, has a speed of 655 kilometers per hour . There is a small propeller

On its letter for range control and space for the magnet compass behind it the explosive chamber two round containers made of rubber are filled with compressed air which transport the air into the combustion chambers the adjustable counter that

Is coupled to the propeller at the tip of the bow has a very special meaning fixed distance constant speed and flight altitude the number If the propeller revolutions are known, you can set it to the specified target point, for example the Tower Bridge, the

London landmark, when the projectile arrives over the target and after the set number of revolutions has been reached, the counter switches off the engine via a trigger device, adjusts the elevator and the V1 is brought down in this way. The V1 is launched from a

55 m long catapult which consists of two rail supports with a pipe in between through which the piston for the Stadthagen runs. The idea of ​​the jet-powered engine comes from the Frenchman Victor and the carabodia whose research results in Three years

Later in May 1910, the Belgian George Maconné reported to the patent office in Paris a whole series of different jet propulsion options that, in his opinion, seemed particularly suitable for airplanes and airships. One of them showed a striking similarity to the engine later developed in Germany The association’s testing site

In Germany is so unknown that the testing site of the Vereinspänemünde in Germany is on its market. The Polish intelligence service has not missed the construction of the experimental facility because here too the roughest work is carried out by forced laborers, many of whom are of Polish nationality. Rumors of mysterious

Events on the Usedom peninsula are spreading up to Warsaw and engineer koschan, the section chief of the intelligence service responsible for technical reconnaissance, gets knowledge of them, koschian by profession, aircraft constructs, which should later attempt to discover the German rockets in Poland, sends engineer Jan Schräder

To Stettin as a voluntary foreign worker. Schröder is lucky and He ends up as an unskilled worker in a transport column that regularly supplies the Peenemünde West air force testing center with food. His first report soon arrives in Warsaw, which is recorded on microfilm along with the drawings

And brought to England by a courier via Gdansk and Sweden in the small British town Mettmann him on the Thames County of Berksche 50 km north of London is the headquarters of the 19th century country estate Aerial photo evaluation unit housed on April 19, 1943, the specialists in the Madman Ham received

Their first instruction from the Aviation Ministry to investigate the danger of German secret weapons with the help of aerial photo reconnaissance. A full six years after the Germans had set up their laboratories and test benches in Peenemünde, this area will be included

In the British program Aerial reconnaissance was taken, no one yet suspects what a crucial contribution the British image interpreters would make in the search for German secret weapons. Such prominent young people as Sarah Churchill, the daughter of the British Prime Minister,

And Peter Rose Welt, the son of the American President, work here as image interpreters, but it is one reserved for other celebrities child with his work in madmanham history to make the young Konstanz Bebbington Smith daughter of the director of the

Bank of England who was later to be called Miss Peenemünde by Churchill once a very special me and my department of photo interpreters were responsible for the observation and Reporting on the enemy’s aircraft and aircraft industry and, just as important, their research and development in the test stations such as

Rechlin. At the beginning of 1943, or better said in the spring, I was ordered to pay particular attention to Peenemünde airfield and was ordered to keep an eye out for anything out of the ordinary I have to explain that we of course

Worked in so-called waterproof departments and so I didn’t ask what was out of the ordinary, but I was on the lookout and actually quite soon afterwards in June I saw something very strange, I discovered a very strange, strange little thing that like us I later discovered that the

Metr 163 was the tailless rocket-powered fighter that was being tested there, I disliked it and made my report on it, and I then found the strong air currents that the Me 163 caused when its rockets were fired up before take-off – all of this was significant in

Itself However, a little later I received further instructions which were again quite mysterious although not very detailed. I was to look out for a very small aircraft. This was in the autumn of 1943 and I did not know at the time that a large number

Of reports had been received of a pilotless aircraft If England was to be used, a self-piloted aircraft would of course have to be very small, meaning smaller in wingspan and overall than the smallest aircraft I was used to describing so far,

So I went through the new photos of Peenemünde and also the old ones. This was one A very important part of the entire technology of photo espionage is the comparison of new photographs with old ones, whereby

In the light of the knowledge that has been acquired in the meantime, you can often recognize things of importance on the old ones that have already been examined, which you didn’t know at all the first time and I actually discovered a small plane

Near the hengas of Peenemünde it would have a wingspan of about 20 feet but this in itself didn’t mean very much I made my report and that was all another department in Mettmannham focused on the search for the mysterious German rocket Already in June 1943, the startling discovery of apparently ready-to-launch

Rockets stored on trucks was made, which led the war cabinet to the final decision to radically bomb the facilities of Anders. August 17, 1943, the Peenemünde test facility was to be attacked shortly after midnight by 600 heavy bombers flying low and at full speed Moonshine the

4,000 British aviators are told that if their attack on the research institute that night does not succeed, they will have to fly night after night until the mission is carried out, it is necessary to destroy the research institute and kill

Or incapacitate the experts who work there The approach over the North Sea must take place almost above the waves in order to fly the German early warning system. The attack should be carried out in three waves

And last a total of 45 minutes. As early as 11 p.m., eight mosquitoes should have a small one But the most important diversionary attack on Berlin is flying on an approach course over Peenemünde. What then happens is the largest night fighter operation of the German Air Force. More than 200 years

Are in the air over Berlin and the capital to protect them from the mass of 600 heavy bombs following the Moskit OS and to load them in the meantime 600 bombers lay their burden on the defenseless Peenemünde facilities, the forest disappears in the rising smoke, almost two million kilos

Of bombs fall on the research institute, but most of the torture lies in the tassenheide forced labor camp, the accommodation of German scientists and parts of the development plant. 300 British airmen do not return from this mission Back the next day,

A mosquito spotter flies over Peenemünde. The photos he brings show the entire test site. The image interpreters in Badminham note that the two large factory halls escaped damage, but the plant still offers the sight of complete destruction. The material damage in the

Factory is contrary to the first impression Colonel Dornberger, head of the research institute, reported surprisingly little. The crucial facilities, the wind tunnel, the test fields and the knife house, were not hit. The German scientists’ residential area shows signs of severe destruction and of the 30 barracks that formed the Tassenheide forced labor camp,

18 were completely destroyed by the SS. Guards who shot the forced laborers locked up in the camp when they tried to save themselves from the fire increased the number of deaths. None of the foreign workers managed to escape during the confusion of the attack and the

Reports from the two technically trained members of the Polish resistance movement dried up after this Night your chatty prisoner threatened English pilots during the interrogations that we will fly until everything is destroyed, the Germans decide to carry out a large-scale deception, the destroyed parts of Peenemünde will not be rebuilt,

The bomb craters will not be bulldozed, everything looks as if the whole thing was The test facility has been shut down with the result that the bomb will not come back over the next 9 months. As far as the V1 is concerned, the attack comes too late to

Prevent its use at the front. It is not placed in Peenemünde but in the Volkswagen factory in Fallersleben, where it was already in September 1943 Series production begins, the first of the planned 50,000 projectiles are scheduled to fall on London in three months in December 1943.

The bombardment plan looks like this: two hours before dawn, a big wake-up call, then a burst of 300 V1 fire at the highest possible rate of fire at midday, a salute of 100 bullets as an alternative During the day, disturbances of two three shots four hours in the evening big

Tattoo summarized the fire strike with the greatest possible rate of fire The fact that this plan only remains on paper is due not least to Michelle Holard, a sales representative from Paris, who was given the highest honors by Great Britain after the war as the savior of London

The story of the discovery of the use of the V1 begins in August 1943 in Rohr in northern France. A railway worker from Rohr who occasionally provides information to Olah writes to him that he has heard two building contractors talking about unusual buildings in which the Germans have huge numbers Concrete was used

By a railway engineer from Rome who is part of my network of scouting agents. I learned that inexplicable construction work had begun in the area around the city that must be of great importance. The agent invited me

To come and take a look at the matter So I went to Rome, but all I got was confirmation that it was very important and mysterious work without knowing where it was taking place. Even before I started looking, I knew that

Hundreds and hundreds of young workers were being employed on the construction sites and I I came up with the idea of ​​how I could find the places where the young people were employed by going to the employment office and introducing myself there as a welfare worker, saying that I was

The task was to provide moral support to these young people who were isolated and exposed to great dangers far from home and through this deception I received the list of the cities where these young people

Had been brought together to do the notoriously mysterious work – the first of these places was Fee one small train station on the line the app with the next train I set off for the operation already dressed up in peasant clothes which

Could just as easily have been a worker’s outfit and after leaving the train station I went in search of the famous construction sites I made an attempt in which I ran four kilometers but I couldn’t find a second attempt with another street was just as fruitless as the

First then a third also in vain the fourth attempt finally brought me four kilometers from the center of Face into the middle of a construction site in the middle of a real one Anthills of workers, masses of bulldozers, tractors surrounded by armed guards and the

Whole thing took place on a square with a side length of about 400 m. For me it was now a matter of getting in to try to find out its meaning and purpose. I found a wheelbarrow

On the way I just packed up and I pushed him onto the construction site. The guards thought I was one of the workers because of the wheelbarrow and let me through and then finally at the construction site I started questioning the men working there to find out what they were currently

Working on Now it looked like in their opinion it was the construction of a garage for larger trucks, this information wasn’t enough for me and I said to myself that I had to keep looking and then one of them said by pointing to a construction foreman who

Was accompanied by a German officer but that was the one there I know, why don’t you ask him? I then tried to speak to the construction foreman, who didn’t leave the officer from the side and I used the moment when he

Left him to step out. I stood next to him and acted as if I had to do the same as before and questioned him I couldn’t tell me anything really useful, he didn’t seem at all surprised by my question and he just told me that there are other similar

Construction sites nearby and counted a few that seemed useful to me for the future, but that was what I found What was most impressive was that there was an approximately 50 meter long cement line running along the edge of these structures,

Which was guided in a strangely precise manner by a blue pull wire that continued on the narrow side. I thought to myself that this blue pull wire must mark a direction of great importance and I aimed for it with my little pocket compass, doing

My best not to cause a stir and then I aimed for the longitudinal direction, which brought this blue string in line with the north on my compass Map laid out that if you continued the line you passed the city of London. This was my

First important discovery regarding the secret weapon as it was called a little later. Four of his people got on their bikes and searched the whole of northern France from Patekali to in In the first three weeks you will discover more than 60 baleen, until mid-November

You will find over 100 buildings. All of these mysterious buildings lie within a 300 km long and 50 km wide strip roughly parallel to the coast and all point towards London during the last week of November In 1943, the first reconnaissance flights for the Royal Air Force

To the places specified by Ulla managed to photograph 69 firing positions alone in the area between the Kutamata peninsula and the Paddikale along the coast, as the English call the buildings based on their appearance. Smith was the first one December 1943 the secret of the previously still inexplicable buildings was finally revealed [music]

The Peenemünde research departments of course had several different test sites and some of my colleagues were responsible for the area where the large installations for the V2 were located My responsibility was limited to the airfield alone and we all jealously guarded our special areas. In any case, I looked for this small aircraft

With the greatest care and at every opportunity. I followed my path. I have to put it this way because when you are a photo interpreter you are transported when you look at it Everyone was wild on the ground and

My path no longer ran exactly within the boundaries of the airfield but towards the Baltic Sea coast. At that time a lot of work was being done to expand the airfield – there were excavators and other construction equipment – all things that I didn’t really care about Since I was

Responsible for aircraft, I definitely passed these things all the way down to the coast and then very close to the coast I discovered some very strange installations that I had never seen before. The white strange installations for searching for is the used simple element All you can do in a case like this,

If you expect that what you’re looking for might have something to do with what you’ve just discovered, is to provide a simple and plausible argument. I remember saying to my colleagues, look That looks to me like something that you set up when you have the intention of shooting something over the sea.

You saw a slant whose upward striving and the end was directed towards the sea. Since this area is no longer in my area, I looked up the relevant evaluations and asked asked if you had seen these strange ramps and what did you think of them? I was told you

Had seen them and that you thought they had something to do with the expansion of the airfield. I went back to my department and was quite dissatisfied with the result again I checked the recordings and, thinking about the unmanned aircraft,

I thought I had to show them to Wing Commander Candle. He was in London at the time and I left him a message to come see me as soon as he returned. When he came back, he immediately visited me in my department When he saw the photos, there was a

Long, deep silence and I was afraid he would think I was wrong. I said don’t you think that these types of ramps are used to lock small airplanes and he said I know they exist, he was very firm convinced of this as

He already knew about the devices in France this was on December 1st 1943 a few days earlier on November 28th one of the air reconnaissance aircraft flown by John Mary Missing a brilliant young pilot had been sent out to

Take pictures of Berlin as the weather was However, it was very unfavorable and Berlin was covered by clouds. He flew on to his alternatives on the Baltic Sea coast where the weather was better. One of his destinations was the Peenemünde airfield

And exactly on that afternoon when I discovered those ramps that aroused my interest so much and took the candle with me With what he had found in France, these new aerial photos reached my department and it became apparent that Mary Field

Had triggered his cameras just in time to be able to record this part of the coast. The ramps that I had seen were in the first photos that he had taken and there was one of the small airplanes standing on one of the ramps. The shot wasn’t very clear, but since we

Had already seen the airplane and the ramps in other photos, we could be sure that it was this, it was a very exciting moment was not just a first clue but really the crowning proof that showed that the positions along the

Canal were intended for the flying bomb. We were then soon able to determine the size of the flying bomb. The experts calculated its load, its curse area and so on and we were able to start planning of protective measures and devices, it is ironic that the city ramp with the small, bright outlines

That merge into the grain of the image surface and was identified by Miss Bebbington Smith as an unmanned aircraft with a ramp was discovered with the help of an optical device came from the Leitzen in Wetzlar and that who Smith said was their best piece was also a

Daily aerial reconnaissance service during which every line of northern France was photographed. The British General Staff immediately set up a committee that was given the name Crossbau Armbrust and focused on the fight against all German secret weapons Churchill himself takes over the chairmanship of this committee and the Crossbow operation begins

With the decision to immediately bomb all previously known imbalances in France, as the AF reports, some are defended by flak and are artfully done, it is assumed that some construction sites are only dummies while others which are not repaired after an air raid turn out to be repaired upon closer examination, others are

Created in strict secrecy. On the other side of the Channel, everything is ready to receive Hitler’s retaliatory weapon in March 1944. The flag position of the Channel coast has been reinforced. The area of ​​Groß London is also sealed off by more than 2,000 spy balloons.

On May 2, 1944, it was discovered that the Germans no longer even bothered to rebuild their ski buildings after the air raids. Churchill, dismayed by the news, ordered the whole of northern France to close again for the fourth time photographing it turns out that the Germans have

Long since given up on using the massive heavy constructions that the Allied bombers had so hard to destroy and have now secretly set up new small, easily transportable and excellently equipped tanks that are difficult to detect from the air On

June 13, 1944, shortly after 4 a.m., the guard at an air observation station in the southern English county heard a whooshing noise and saw a tiny plane flying overhead from what looked like orange flames for the anti-aircraft gunners as well as for the fighters it is too late

To intercept the strange object it flies on dishonorably rattling like an ancient fort driving up a mountain and hits a few minutes later in the small town of 20 32 km from its target of Tower Bridge during the first ten days of bombardment reaching 370 V1 London

Then the air defense measures will be reorganized the fighters will intercept the V1 over the Channel all the flag gunners will be moved to the coast outside of London a dense balloon barrier will be created between the anti-aircraft belt on

The Channel coast and the balloon barriers around London. Fighter aircraft will again operate, the new measures are so successful Of the 97 shots that approach England in one day, only four pass through all the barriers and reach London. In addition, thousands of Londoners owe a technical peculiarity to the club’s experience

: the loudly rattling engine when it is switched off causes the bullet to dive – the seconds that separate this silence from the impact to take cover enough times and there is an important element that the Germans are missing during their offensive:

The shooting results. To at least get an idea of ​​the accuracy of their secret weapon, they draw their knowledge from the obituaries published during the first days of the bombardment The daily press suggests that the victims of the V1

Will soon be deprived of this opportunity. From now on, obituaries are no longer allowed to contain precise information. The last source of information is the intelligence agents working in England, who are now asked to report on all impacts of the V1 –

Something that is unknown in Germany that by this time all German agents had already been turned around under the control of the British secret service, from now on they report the correct locations of the impacts, but only those projectiles that

Flew over the city center of London and add the impact times of those clubs that flew too short are what are being done with the intention of shortening the range of those projectiles that are already too short and the Germans actually correct after just a few

Days the club’s flight time more than 80% of the projectiles fall south of the Thames. After the heavy air attack on the Peenemünde rocket research facility on the Baltic Sea in July 1943, the Germans moved the testing sites for Aggregate 4, which

Became known as two years ago, to the In the interior of Poland they hope to make their wonderful inaccessible to the enemy, but in doing so they underestimate the determination and endurance of the spy service of the Polish resistance movement because when

The first floor rose into the sky in Blissner on November 5, 1943, it was the signal for a Polish duel Resistance fighters delivered to the Germans and that ended with the landing of a British transport plane in London that had part of a V2 on board

Long before the Germans managed to complete the first V2 on this city September 19, 1939 Adolf Hitler makes his triumphant entry into the city City that is the pretext for the tying up of the greatest war of all time, the Second

World War, is 19 days old here in Danzig at the height of his power, Hitler announces in a radio speech addressed to his opponents that the world will be given a weapon for the first time is not yet known and with which we ourselves cannot be attacked,

As Hitler correctly speculated, not only millions of Germans hear this speech, the BBC London records it and everyone is finished with a translation for the government. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain instructs the British intelligence service to immediately determine which German weapon it could be. Professor regined Victor Jones, who

Has been head of the scientific defense of a completely new department of the British Air Ministry for 14 days, should provide this answer September 19 September 1939 I was given the order to take over the scientific defense of a newly formed department

We didn’t know enough about what was going on in Germany, such as the development of science and technology, and I was supposed to see what could be done. Fortunately, my first task was to take custody of a package that had been sent from Oslo to London by our embassy

There The story of the package began with the fact that a few days earlier a letter had been dropped into the embassy’s mailbox saying that if we wanted to find out more about technical and scientific developments in the Germans that we

Should make a small change in the announcement of one of our BBC broadcasts just in significant information I think we should say hello this is London instead of the usual announcement so we would let the author of the letter know that we are interested in his information

And he would try to send it to us we changed the announcement and a day later the second letter dropped into the embassy mailbox it was handed over to our Marine atashi admiral boys who accompanied him on to London a flying officer

Came into my room and said this is for them and he placed a package on my table I wondered what would happen to me I remember wondering if the package would explode when I opened it. Anyway, I opened it with great care and of course

It didn’t explode but it actually contained a detonator. This detonator was put in by the author of the report. He wrote that this new detonator was the one As we now know, the Germans had developed an anti-aircraft detonator as the basic element in an anti-aircraft projectile. The projectile should not only

Explode in direct contact with the aircraft, but rather when it was at a certain distance from the aircraft. In addition to these detonators, there was various other information one said that the Germans had developed two different types of radar thanks to the fact that they later managed to

Shoot down many of our aircraft in the first attacks on Kiel and Wilhelmshaven. We were of course very interested and this was not the only thing there were many more the man reported that the Germans had magnetic torpedoes and mentioned a facility

Peenemünde, which was of great importance, he said nothing about what was going on there, but he mentioned elsewhere in his report that a long-range rocket with an 80 cm diameter had been developed there for use against the Maginot Line weather ared ski slopes the ballistic department of the German army Weapons Office

Began testing the use of rocket engines at the beginning of the 1930s. On October 3, 1942, the first launch of an Aggregate 4 was successful. It weighed about 12 tons, was almost 12 meters long and one and a half meters in diameter, and had a warhead with

A ton of explosives a range of 340 km shortly afterwards the first rumors about German rockets urgently leaked to the outside world, but they remained vague and unbelievable until three reports from a Danish chemist arrived in London at the end of 1942, which also

Pointed to Peenemünde as the center of German weapons research, according to reports from the intelligence service of the Polish resistance movement to London confirm the Danish reports naturally and with during the years 1940/41 and especially in 1942 we

In the intelligence service had to deal again with the defense of England against the Luftwaffe or with the start of our own attacks by the Royal Air Force against Germany but in December 1942 our attention was again drawn to the Oslo report on Peenemünde

And the possibility of a long-range rocket from a new source. It was a Danish chemical engineer who I had never seen myself, we learned that he had overheard two German engineers in Berlin talking about a new one Weapons that had been fired on the Baltic coast in

A range of 200 km it was a more interesting pot but when you get information from a new man that is not confirmed by anyone else, which you don’t know exactly how far it means, however, he alarmed us during the first months of 1942 we received three

Or four more reports that concerned the same thing. Switch again pointed the same something with on the board something was going on the Baltic coast off Peenemünde was mentioned and I remember it very well one afternoon Deputy Professor Charles Frank the prisoner reports Last he suddenly said to me so we should really

Take these rockets seriously read this he gave me the recording of a conversation between General von Thoma who had been captured after El most and General Kobel as far as I remember von Thoma had said to Kobel so something must have gone wrong

With the rockets. I saw them 18 months ago together with Field Marshal von Brauchitsch and the commanding major told us that they would be deployed within a year and we had to be somewhere near London and we didn’t hear anything at all,

So something must have gone wrong. In my opinion, this explained the entire situation because Thoma was a very good technical officer, I think he was a tank general, we could see him as a good technical officer and the The fact that he

Took the matter so seriously made us immediately say that now something has to be done, just as we had paid little attention to Peenemünde up to this point, we now began to use all sources available to us and get them to concentrate on Peenemünde

On April 20th In 1943 the 35-year-old will thank sans commissioned to examine all evidence of a German long-range missile development. A Spitfire machine equipped with cameras flies to Peenemünde on June 23, 1943. Finally the proof is available. Peenemünde exceeds the imagination of even

The greatest pessimists due to the aerial photographs becoming a model of the The most important systems were manufactured and in an extraordinary meeting the war cabinet decided on a single massive and fatal strike against Peenemünde, for which the bomber command was preparing in full swing

On the night of August 17th to 18th, 1943, loading 598 heavy bombers in three waves over Penemünde The aim of the operation is not just to destroy the entire technical system but also and above all the destruction of the scientists, engineers and technicians

Who are housed in Peenemünde. After the air raid on Peenemünde, a decision is made to carry out a large-scale deception maneuver. The enemy will be made to believe that they have destroyed German secret weapons development and production with this blow, the bomb craters

Are not leveled and the aerial photographs show that the destroyed factory halls have not been rebuilt. On closer inspection, the effect of the attack is not that great. In 1943 in Germany, people are used to improvisation and have the foresight of your attack.

The Peenemünde facilities were used for testing and Further development of new weapons is used, some of the tests and the actual production are currently underway underground at a murderous pace and under inhumane conditions. Thousands of concentration camp prisoners in the

Harz Mountains near Nordhausen have built the underground tunnels in which Hitler’s secret weapons will be produced from now on, the so-called mittelwerke better known by their code name Dora are a kilometer-long labyrinth of gigantic caves and tunnels whose construction cost the lives of thousands of prisoners.

As early as September 1, 1943, the assembly line production of the V2 began here. A whole army of heftlingen was used to manufacture and assemble the individual parts of the V2 and the guarding by the SS, provided with only fleeting hunger pangs, they also carry out

The responsible and dangerous work on the assembly chain where, despite guarding and hopelessness, acts of sabotage always succeed, many copies of the V2 that do not reach England, those that explode on the ramp, those that fall off their track Agreements or the

So-called air disassemblers All in all, about a third of the total production goes largely to the account of the women workers in the Dora plant. Meanwhile, Hitler has entrusted the further experiments with the miracle weapon V2 to the protection of the SS and Himmler is providing the SS troop training area

In Heidelager Heidelager is located near Pizza in southern Poland, immediately adjacent to the resettled village of Blasner here in the vast landscape of the Polish deep plain 50 km from Tarif and hidden in the deep forests, you feel like you are unobserved and

In fact this area is in autumn In 1943, still out of the reach of the Allied reconnaissance forces, the expansion of the training area began in September 1943. The concentration camp prisoners and Russian prisoners of war from the nearby Heidelager Pustkuff took over the work,

While the Polish workers previously employed in the Heidelager were laid off from that moment on the Germans begin to build the railway line, he made Polish resistance a routine report to London, but one only becomes more curious when the Germans

Put up blissful wooden cows in the empty pastures of the village, put dolls in front of the empty houses, put dogs in front of the huts and Letting the laundry flutter in the wind while a clearing is carved out in the forest where barracks are built which are carefully disguised.

Reports about these events and photographs of some of the transports go to Warsaw to the headquarters of the Home Army, but they are of the opinion there that this may be the case The evacuation of an aircraft factory took place in the Rondo Washingtona square

In the Praga district of Warsaw until the end of 1943. A car with three occupants had an accident. The three seriously injured Germans were taken to the hospital, where high-ranking officials soon inquired about their health. A few hours later, all three succumbed to their injuries The extraordinary

Interest in these three civilians and the genuine regret that their deaths arouse among the Germans draws the attention of the hospital staff. The Polish intelligence service notes that the three specialists from Bliesner, described as irreplaceable, had come to Warsaw from Engineer Antoni Koczian, a well-known Polish man before the war The aircraft designer

Is commissioned by the headquarters of the home army to pursue the matter further. Engineer Coccian orders a customer to read the forester’s house in the railings and that borders the heath camp, the customers find the quarters and the forester tells them about strange events that have been taking place here since autumn.

Every morning, a plane circles above the forest of bliss, then in the distance and then there is a roar and a large missile rise slowly over the forest and finally burst in a huge explosion in the air. After just a few days, the scout manages

To take some photos of one of the projectiles as it slowly rises over the forest and disappears in a northeasterly direction. Photos and reports are made immediately Sent to Warsaw, the scout then hides in the Kochanowska train station building from where the newly laid line to Blissner leaves and where he soon

Sees a transport with several long railway wagons on which, covered with tarpaulins, there are structures like airplanes loaded with the tap closures thickly iced over are even though the outside temperature is several degrees plus. At the end of January 1944, engineer Kozian received a report from the

Lublin area about an estate near the town near Lublin. One day at noon, like a bolt from the blue, a German plane crashed. The machine was like that It was suspected that it was loaded with explosives since not a shred remained intact and there was not even a trace of its

Crew left. What was particularly strange was the behavior of the Germans after the accident, who came immediately after the crash and first photographed and measured the crash site and then

They had collected all the remains of the aircraft except for the last particle and there was something else strange about the whole thing – the highest-ranking German officer had apologized to the Polish landowner for the accident and

Promised him immediate full compensation for such behavior on the part of the Germans in Poland is something so extraordinary that engineer Cocci immediately connects the explosion of the plane at rejob with the launch of one of the projectiles from Heidelager Blissner, but this suspicion was not confirmed for a long time until he

Received a new report at the beginning of April 1944, it came from Zernacki in the circle of a small town 250 kilometers northeast of Warsaw and comes from Dr Marian Kirschek, whose brother Tadeus, an engineer in the Zernacki brewery, has been making interesting observations for a few days in the

Brewery’s official apartment. A German officer has been drafted into the brewery’s official apartment with a unit of around 40 Soldiers have come to sanacki, the soldiers have taken up quarters in the school of sanaki, which is the largest building in the town. From the window of the brewery, engineer Koch can

See the entire schoolyard and regularly every morning one of the radio cars parked here sounds twice loudly and Clearly the call Krakow Krakow here sanaki Immediately after their arrival, the Germans leveled the Jewish cemetery of Sanaki and

Set up an observation post there and then in the morning a few minutes after the call Krakow Krakow here sanaki a powerful explosion shook the village, it was as if a Plane exploded in the air a few hundred meters from the last houses of his gravel

Engineer finds cherry dividers of aluminum sheet thick lumps of glass wool part of a machine tiny bakelite plates and various particles that seem to belong to a radio he has just put some of the parts in his pocket when the German truck arrives, they begin

To collect all the leftovers, down to the smallest piece of wire. Day after day, the quiet villages of Rings and Sarnaki are shaken by the huge explosions, sometimes four times a day Explosion they strike indiscriminately, killing and causing destruction. Due to the

Reports now coming in almost every day, Warsaw manages to locate the impact area quite precisely: a square of about 60 km around Sanaki, densely populated with several villages and small towns that now serve as a naturalistic test site, thus the extent the power of destruction tested the new weapon

The simple farmers around Sarnaki will not be deterred. They will take up the fight imposed on the plains against Hitler’s most powerful weapon instead of leaving the danger zone. They will collect even the smallest remnants of the exploded projectiles and

Hand them over to a scout from the Home Army from Warsaw In addition, the Germans are dropping leaflets over the area of ​​Zernacki in which the population is informed about the strange explosions and in which it is said that these are drops of additional fuel containers

And it is the duty of every Pole to pick up the parts that he finds immediately to deliver them to the nearest German office or to let them know where the parts are. Returns or information about the drop-off point are rewarded with a liter of vodka, while penalties are threatened for

Not handing in or not reporting one day towards the end of May 1944, the farmer Wuppert Schuck falls out of the Village klimt guesses that is on the banks of the Buch went to the practice of Dr Marian Koch chic in Sanaki and reported that a rocket without exploding

Was in the swamp on the bank of the Buch not far from the village, its nose had drilled itself into the mud while the back part broke off Dr korschik sends for his brother who runs off with the farmer

And photographs the rocket before hiding it as best as possible. The larger rear part with the fins is pushed into the water with the help of several farmers and covered with reeds while the smaller part is covered with hay In the meantime, the Germans have begun a

Large-scale search operation, which was canceled after three days without results. The very next evening, the tip of the rocket with its control devices found a safe hiding place in a barn in the village while the rear part of the rocket went deeper into the water of the Buch

Then two specialists arrive from Warsaw who begin dismantling the rocket tip after it has been photographed and measured. The parts are hidden on three different trucks with potatoes and make their way to Warsaw where further investigations are to be carried out. The radio system is assigned to Professor Dr Janischkowski as

The greatest Polish authority in the field of radio technology. First of all, I examined the quartz silators in order to determine the frequency of the radio equipment. This information could perhaps be the key to disrupting the flight of the German rockets.

All radio equipment on the projectile was there excellently executed of the highest quality and possessed meticulous precision while Professor Goskowski comes to these findings, another Polish scholar is busy analyzing the rocket’s fuel, Professor Dr Marcelin Stoschinski from the Warsaw University of Technology, which

Has been converted into an ordinary technical school since 1939 and In whose basement he set up a small laboratory, during the course of the war the couriers from home often gave me a wide variety of substances for analysis – mostly they were bomb detonator toxins and so

On. This time the reporter brought me a small bottle of them was closed with a glass cork and she explained to me that the bottle contained the fuel of a German rocket. I looked closely at the contents of the bottle. It was an oily, colorless,

Fairly thick liquid because I had been told it was a fuel. I then proceeded to the usual distillation A few droplets of the liquid splashed onto my hand. I felt pain and Britt quickly turned off the Bunsen burner.

I was astonished to see that the skin in the burned areas immediately became covered with white spots. I realized that I was dealing with a chemical substance I absolutely did not expect the result of the analysis was a sensation for me and not only for me as it turned out that

The liquid in the bottle was simply hydrol i.e. hydrogen superoxide but it was not an ordinary hydrogen superoxide in general use that we only knew back then The liquid in the bottle was 30 percent per hydrol Hydrogen superoxide but in the huge density of 80%. The discovery that the

Germans had produced 80 percent behydrol was a scientific sensation. All test results are radioed to London, from where a Dakota transport machine is sent to southern Italy. On a signal from the

Home Army, it is to fly to Poland to transport the most important parts of the country Two to be picked up there Engineer Koczian is now preparing several oxygen bottles that will be used to transport the parts from Warsaw to Walruda. The bases of the bottles are sawn off, the gyroscopic head

And radio control system of the rocket are stowed in them and after the bases are welded back on, the seams are painted so that the containers fit together nothing different from normal oxygen cylinders a suitable landing site was soon found a meadow near

Tarnow not far from where the Duna flows into the Vistula north of the village near Ruder the landing site is a meadow between the forests a narrow strip of earth about 3 km long and a few 100 meters wide Even before the war, the area was

Used by the Polish Air Force as a field airfield, but it can only be used during long dry periods because the ground is too soft. It is only around July 15th that the area is dry enough. The agreed signal

Will burn after it was given on the 26th In the afternoon of July 1st, the radio message comes out that the Dakota is about to take off and will land on the meadow near Ruder around midnight. At midnight the machine lands safely on the spot marked with petrolium lamps.

At the time, Mr. Marek was a member of the Polish section of the saui and As such a courier between Warsaw and London was one of the passengers of the Dakota who were to be picked up from Poland that night together with the rocket parts after the start of the Dakota. The

Start of the Dakota was dramatic, it was on the night of July 25th to 26th, 1943 Meadow in the fork of the Vistula and the Duna, now not far from Tarnhof. The night was very quiet. In the distance you could hear the roar of artillery. The front was only 100 km

Away. This roar of cannons was then mixed with the humming sound of an approaching aircraft We saw a large shadow flying over us, the Dakota flew an arc over us and then landed brightly illuminating the area with its two reflectors.

The plane was loaded immediately after landing. We got in very quickly and the engines stopped again but the plane didn’t move from the spot, something seemed to have happened because the pilot switched off the engines again, jumped out of the plane

And asked us to get out too and to take our luggage out with us . Outside I saw how my comrades had started to examine the wheels of the plane They asked the pilot if he was sure that the brakes had not been blocked. A new attempt to start

Should be made. We all got back on but it was the same again. The engines stopped. The machine didn’t move. It was terrible. We got back on with our things A terrible tension remained above us, the meadow was brightly lit by the lights of the plane

And the roar of the engines, which was amplified by its echo in the woods, must have been audible until after the camouflage, the Germans could come at any moment – they were not far away Branches were hastily brought from our meadow and

Laid out in front of the wheels of the machine. Everyone jumped back into the plane. A new attempt to take off was made. This time the engines caught up even more than before. The tail of the machine did not rise The plane didn’t move from the spot and again it was time for

Everyone to climb up. This time the pilot even switched off the lights of the plane. The wheels had now turned very deep into the ground. The English crew was already making preparations to set the plane on fire desperate it had taken so much effort

To arrange everything we had been waiting here for the plane for almost two weeks and I had experienced dangerous moments and now all of this should have been in vain. I had a whole bag of important mail with me that I wanted to deliver to London as quickly as possible and my

Comrades didn’t yet know how much luggage it was like. We all stood there paralyzed We had a heavy bag of news material with us, but our comrades from the home army didn’t give up. Some began to shovel the wheels free of the earth with their hands

And others dragged in boards from horse-drawn carts and entire parts of the fence. After the wheels were free, they pushed the slats under them and we got back in again, the engines started up and then finally the machine started to roll, became faster and faster and finally lifted off from the earth.

Two days later the machine lands in London. The rocket parts are being examined in detail, but there will be some information about the control system and the There is no agreement on the effectiveness of the rocket. On September 8, 1944, shortly after 6 p.m., a serious explosion occurred in the London chemical industry.

20 houses were destroyed. Several people were killed or seriously injured. The rumor quickly spread that a gas main line had exploded, with which this first impact occurred It was only on November 10, 1944, eight weeks after the start of the bombardment of London with the V2, that

Churchill explained to Parliament that the huge explosions of the last few weeks, which had destroyed dozens of houses each time, were not gas explosions April 1940 Hitler attacked Norway after the collapse of the Norwegian resistance, German troops occupied the country in the southern Norwegian province of Telemarken, the only heavy water factory in the world fell into their hands, the North hydroelectric plant in Weimar. When the Allies then began experiments to produce an atomic bomb,

They had to fear that the Germans would By owning this facility, you may reach your goal before you. The race to produce the atomic bomb has begun. The Platura, located 1000 meters high, has long been in southern Norway, is in the second world war theater and the bitterest battle for the atomic bomb

Has been thrown is the largest high plateau in Northern Europe and one of the loneliest areas its vegetation is stunted juniper bushes and it is populated by wandering reindeer herders the winter snowstorms reach dangerous strengths on the flat Aries that are almost unbearable for humans

On the edge of this inhospitable plateau in Weimarck is almost invisible The heavy water plant was still Skydro in the early days of atomic research, heavy water was indispensable. The ownership of the North hydroelectric plant meant that the Germans had a head start in the

Development of the atomic bomb. Immediately after the occupation, a German team of 500 men took over the plant and production began just a few weeks later accelerated by 1942 it was to

Be increased from the previous 500 kilos to ten times the volume of 5000 kilos of heavy water per year. It was not until the summer of 1941 that the British intelligence service found out about these processes and they dealt in detail with the nosk

Of the destruction of the heavy water system and the destruction of its supplies Given the highest priority, Churchill ordered the Royal Air Force to carry out a series of bombing raids on the North Hydro Works. The Royal Air Force reported that a bombing raid on this target, hidden and surrounded by high mountains,

Could be carried out with the aircraft available and also the Norwegian one Government in exile in London raises concerns about bombing the plant. Scientists believe that the explosion of the ammonia tanks poses the greatest danger to the civilian population in the area. The destruction of the Nord-Hydro plant is therefore only

Possible, if at all, by a commando operation and this company The staff was supposed to carry out combined operations together with the espionage department of the Norwegian governments in exile in London. At the beginning of March 1942, Norwegian newspapers carried news about the loss of the coastal passenger steamer

That the old ones are from a group of Norwegian resistance fighters who were embodied and are at this time in the northern Scottish port of Aberdeen after an adventurous journey. One of their kidnappers is the engineer of a skinnerland. He has come to England for

Special training and for instructions for his further work Skinnerland is busy working on the dam at Hygan with one of the North Quidrowerk. After a few days he lands with a parachute near Jükern and goes to work on the dam as if nothing had happened.

The radio messages are now Kinderland alerts the headquarters in London. It becomes clear that Nors Hydro is producing heavy water in mass quantities and that huge supplies are already ready for shipment to Germany. The war cabinet calls for immediate action.

Churchill orders the staff to ensure that the plant is destroyed as quickly as possible Saui is putting together an advance group with four Norwegian soldiers trained in England. The leader of the group is Lieutenant Jens Anton Paulsson, a good mountaineer. They will

Meet with an engineer from a children’s area in Norway. The group is supposed to form the advance guard for British air landing troops that fly with gliders in the area of Jükern will land and attack the factory in a surprise commando raid. Three attempts to land the Norwegian

Advance group in September 1942 failed due to bad weather. The group, which has the code name swallow, finally lands on October 19, 1942 , although the weather is unfavorable again There are several glaciers and lakes on a hill west of 4 fit in the saugnatal many kilometers away

From their destination between the take-off point and yukern . The men spend the next two days searching for the scattered containers and then head towards the intended operational area at sandwarten In order to carry all the equipment, which weighs almost 15 hundredweight, each route has to be covered three times.

The snow is heavy and deep and you usually only move forward a few kilometers per day. It is only on November 6th, three weeks after the jump, that you reach your area of ​​operation. They line up an abandoned summer hut and tried in vain to get radio contact with London

On November 6th, 1942, they finally managed to inform sai of their arrival and to receive the orders regarding the landing of the commando troops in England, the training of the airborne troops is now underway and they should be divided into two

There are 17 men in each of the gliders, landing near Rüyükern, blowing up the North hydro works and then trying to escape over the mountains to Sweden. The whole thing will be codenamed Operation Freshman. It will

Be the first English deployment of airborne troops, the 43rd Commando men are mostly English pioneers, all are volunteers. On November 17, 1942, at 5 p.m., two bombers take off from the airfield back in northern Scotland, each with a glider in tow.

At midnight, the home station picks up the weak signal from one of the bombs and asks them to give him the direction back We don’t hear from him anymore and he doesn’t come back. A few minutes later the second plane reports. My glider is

Shaded on a mountain. The further report on Operation Fresher comes from a telex text from the SS and police leader Norway Radius to Berlin on November 20th in the morning around 3 a.m. an English plane and a glider in

Tow crashed near Egersund. The cause of the accident was initially unknown, the crew of the tractor was as far as it was known. Military crew including one [__] was dead in the tow plane were 17 Persons probably agents of them are three dead six seriously injured the

Crew of the towing machine was a possession of large amounts of Norwegian money whoever has power unfortunately executed the survivors so that explanation is hardly possible anymore the commando soldiers rest today in a cemetery in the west of Oslo The next day the German survivors from the second glider find

The soldiers being interrogated and then also shot. General von Falkenhorst reports to Berlin that the interrogations have provided valuable information about the enemy’s intentions and, together with Reich Commissioner Terrorvenigion, goes to further strengthen the area around the plant The Norwegian department of the Saui has its headquarters here in London’s Baker Street and

Was founded in January 1942 at the request of the War Cabinet One of the main objectives of this department will be the destruction of the Nortor works. Colonel Jack Wilson, before the war, police chief of Calcutta and leader of the English Boy Scouts, is

Named head of the Norwegian SUI department. He is now training young Norwegians for sabotage tasks in their In the meantime, Dr young green, former chief engineer of the nos quido plant, has arrived in London from home. Dr green brings photos of the entire facility and its surroundings and,

Above all, points out particularly easily vulnerable points of the value. The saui Norway is now also on the other side Another connoisseur of his work is the Norwegian physicist Professor Live Trance, who at the time was the technical advisor for the construction of the work according to information and

Sketches from tronstad and green. The most important part, namely the room with the concentration system and the heavy water containers, was reconstructed to a lifelike scale, the 6 for the Norwegians selected by the command are trained on dummies

Until they can attach their explosive charges quickly and safely, even in the dark if necessary. The photos that DR Brno brought with them from Norway are used for the company’s precise planning. The North Quidrowerk is located on a rock surrounded by a deep valley

The factory can only be reached in two ways: a suspension bridge that spans an almost 50 meter deep gorge or a railway line. To reach the factory via the railway line you have to climb through the deep gorge and

Then walk along the rails. The railway line opens just behind two sheds into the factory premises the rails are reinforced by a simple gate in the factory fence the two gate leaves are secured by a chain and a padlock once you have passed the gate the path

To this important military target is clear dr green and Professor transdat also know the only unprotected access to it In the area of ​​the plant that is currently in question there is a cable tunnel that leads directly to the electrolysis plant with the heavy water tanks. While the six commando men

Familiarize themselves with the plant, its surroundings and the access routes using models and aerial photographs, the swallow group waits in their lonely mountain hut from the A branch sticks out of the mountain hut camouflaged with snow and serves as an antenna. The only

Connection to the outside world is a radio. The batteries in this device are becoming weaker and weaker and the connection to London is being lost more and more frequently. The radio operator from the sweller group, Knut Hauckland, sits desperately at the radio station for hours and days mouse button on the radio

I belong to the first group big in the fight for the heavy water I was supposed to work as a radiotherapist and was supposed to send information about the factory to England and receive instructions from London right at the beginning a tragedy happened

As the British gliders crashed the news that 32 British soldiers and an air crew had an accident and it was a heavy burden for us. It wasn’t easy to re-establish a radio station on Mr. Daniel here and they are not suitable as radio masts. Little by little the connection became first-class. Luckily

We managed to get one to establish a good connection with the factory that produced heavy water for a human year there we all received news about the production of heavy water about the German power measures and the machine guns and minefields were The many mines around the whole area were special for us,

The many messages we received made it possible to have a metal plan of the attack. It was the Norwegian professor who led the work with the plan in England. Finally on January 23, 1943, you found out over the radio that the Ghanaian company was in operation Time this is the new code name

And that as soon as they hear a British bomber approaching, they should mark the jump zone for their comrades with light signals. On February 16, 1943, passed by Colonel Wilson, the 6 scanners start since men each provided a cyanide capsule for everyone In order for the

Germans not to be warned, their landing site was moved at the last minute. The group lands around midnight on the wide area of ​​the frozen Kruckensee, about 40 km from the speller group’s camp. They are stopped by a terrible snowstorm and spend a long time searching for the

Supply drums that were dropped with them the men seven days after their landing on two skiers they belong to the swalla group the two bring the new arrivals to the Böller group’s hiding place in sandwarten on Thursday February 25th then they all set off together towards yükern on a

70 km march on skis in front of them and each The closer you get to the inhabited areas around Jükern Wimmer, the more dangerous the path becomes for the ten men in British uniforms under their white camouflage suits. They spend the night of Friday in a summer hut on the long lake

Klausberg and go to Jükern to scout out the situation, ahead of the other seven March to the last hiding place, a hut that is only three kilometers from Yukern. Here they make the final preparations for the attack and Klaus Hellberg comes to them with the latest information. He brings bad news.

The guards on the suspension bridge have been reinforced and are on the factory premises In addition to mg nests, searchlights have also been positioned. In a final consultation, the advantages and disadvantages of the two possible access routes to the factory are weighed up. The route over the

Suspension bridge is obviously the more convenient, but in order to be able to cross the bridge, they will have to eliminate at least two German guards which of course will result in retaliation. They therefore decide on the arduous route through the gorge and

The associated double descent and ascent on Saturday, February 27th, 1943 at around 10 p.m. the men begin the descent into the gorge below and hide their sheer and the white camouflage suits and are now starting the difficult climb in British Army uniforms.

They are extremely lucky. It has started to thaw and they find enough support on the normally invincible rock face covered with ice to climb up the railway track bit by bit, Joachim tells us Rönneberg leader of the company Ghana side

His people into a cover and an explosive group, he himself for the explosive group while the cover group is led by Knut Haut, she will open the gate to the factory premises and protect the explosive group from the approach of German guards

Has already walked along the rails in front of them and they follow the footprints in the snow. Half an hour after midnight they begin their attack. The men slowly approach

The gate to the factory premises very carefully because of the mines that may also have been laid here. Arne Kiel’s squad cuts the iron chain The path is clear. They approach the building and Rönneberg sneaks with his group to the electrolysis house

Through the cable tunnel. They get in. Rönneberg attaches the explosive charges to the electrolysis cells and sets the fuse on fire. The explosive group has barely left the building when the explosion occurs Men meet at the agreed place and begin to retreat. When they

Have already reached the gorge again, they hear the sirens wailing, they put their white camouflage suits back on and climb back up the slope to Hardanger, where they meet Reich Commissioner Terboven the next morning and the head of the SS and Police

Radius in new can 1. The first to be arrested is 50 hostages, the Wehrmacht commander in Norway General von Falkenhorst arrives a little later and releases everyone. They note that these explosions were a purely military operation that the civilian population cannot have anything to do with. He is said to

Have said on this occasion that this was the best sabotage work You have ever seen the bottoms, all the electrolysis tanks have been torn out and half a ton of heavy water has leaked out. The operation was a perfect sabotage, its goal was fully achieved and yet it did not cost any lives,

The Germans believe after the attack that I would have to keep a larger Allied force hidden on the Hardanger again. More than 3,000 men will be deployed to search all the huts on the neither will be searched, many of them will be set on fire and finally a few

Bombing raids will be carried out against the neither. In the meantime, five sabotanical people have flown Group already overshadows the border to Sweden in a 14-day march of 400 kilometers on skis and in uniform and encounters unbearable conditions and the worst weather,

They have reached safety and are shortly afterwards flown back to England alongside Lieutenant growls out the main song of further orders London expects only one skinnerland to remain who had made the beginning at the time and is now the headquarters radio operator is back in Norway.

The radio operator Klaus Hellberg, an excellent skier, begins the long march to Sweden. He is caught by a German patrol and remembers the hunt that followed It was in the late afternoon of March 25, 1943 when I suddenly

Found myself face to face with three German soldiers on skis. I fled down the slope and after two hours of strenuous running, I knew to my horror that one of the Germans would catch up with me in the long run. It was obvious a better runner than me,

Each of us could see each other’s faces and I heard the crunch of the snow behind me. I turned around, drew my 9mm Kult and fired a shot at the German. He didn’t have to answer me for long and shot again wildly in my direction I saw

To my surprise that he only had a light pistol with which he couldn’t reach me at this distance. I stopped about 50 meters away from him and looked at him with the cold in his hand and without firing his bullets hit the

Snow a few meters in front of my skis, the German shot desperately, emptying his two magazines at me, then turned around and ran back, I shot, he stumbled and finally got stuck in the ski poles. In Yükern, the German security measures have now

Been further improved Roadblocks are set up and the minefields are expanded even further. Hundreds of trees are planted along the pipelines leading to the factory and the pipelines themselves are covered with dense camouflage nets. After about six months, one skinnerland reports, to the horror of the English, that the damage to the nosk

Has been repaired and production is back on running at full speed but Churchill does not approve a new command company against the back, the Americans will send bombers to be able to attack the plants in daylight and still without major danger to the Norwegian workers.

The bombing is scheduled for the lunch break at the plant on November 16th In 1943, 155 flying fortresses took off against Rükern at 11 a.m. the first carpet of bombs fell on the facilities, the bombs destroyed the suspension bridge over the gorge,

The pipelines on the slope and a few bombs hit the electrolysis house, but the heavy water supplies that were in underground reinforced concrete vaults were not hit The most important thing, the power station, was destroyed and the entire system was put out of operation.

The Germans then decided to bring the heavy water supplies to Germany. At the end of January 1944, there were 39 containers with a total of 14 tons of heavy water in a children’s area reported to London that these last supplies would also be destroyed then tasked with destroying the transport

The containers are transported away by train and therefore have to cross the Tinzio on the railway ferry through friends in the Nordlied which is suitable for ship for the freight from Rökern and they find themselves

On board the ferry very early on the morning of the transport day, a Sunday, accompanied by a few Friends who are supposed to secure the Germans have neglected to set up guards at this weakest point on the transport route.

Hauptlied and his friends go down to the third class deck from where a hatch leads to the formation. The two of them crawl into the hatch and stow their jumping material down there They place the load of about 19 pounds of highly explosive plastic material completely

In the book so that when it is blown up, the rudder and the propeller are raised so far above the water surface that the ship is no longer maneuverable. They set the timer and two alarm

Clocks to 10:45 a.m. to this time time the ferry will be over the deepest part of the lake when the ferry is torn apart by the detonations at 10:45 a.m. there are 53 people on board 26 people sink with the

Load into the depths of the icy lake the fight for the heavy water is over