No Nazi Atomic Bomb - Operation Gunnerside - WW2 Special

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By 1943 the German “Uranium-Club” was hoping to harvest the energy of the atoms. One of the things they still needed for their experiments was the moderator “heavy water”, which was produced for them in the hydro-plant “Vemork” in occupied Norway. British High Command authorized a top-secret mission to prevent it from ever reaching Germany. A group of highly trained commandos was to parachute in and destroy the heavy water facility by any means necessary.
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@Kevin-mx1vi 2 года назад

Fun fact 2: The commandos allowed one of the Norwegian civilian workers at the plant to go back in to retrieve his spectacles because they would have been very difficult to replace if they had been destroyed by the explosions.

@muneebnajam6020 2 года назад

Think about British patience and humot

@lololomo5484 2 года назад

So true. Me mum lost her eyeglasses at a nursing home. The fact was THEY lost her only set of prescription glasses. After, she could not see who she was talking too, she could not read, nor watch the TV while she spent long, dull weeks waiting for replacement eyeglasses. If you wear glasses, you are powerless without them. Such is the advantage of good vision over poor.

@beknown63 2 года назад

Reminds me of that one Twilight Zone episode.

@dilipyande1 2 года назад

I have read in a book, that data pertaining to this plant Norsk Hydro was stollen from an insurance company by the British Intel. This had the whole map of the plant in detail describing the area which if destroyed could cause the maximum damage.

@northernlight8857 4 месяца назад

What do you mean? They were norwegian soldiers.@@muneebnajam6020

@pieterherfst5188 2 года назад

An amazing story relating to this is that of the scout team named 'grouse'' which landed ahead of freshman to mark the landing sites for the gliders. After the failure of Freshman they stayed in the area undetected for months. They are the 4 commando's Indy references at 4:38. The 4 men, lead by Jens Anton Poulsson, survived by hiding in a cabin and eating reindeer. The reindeer themselves live of a diet of moss that they dig up from under the snow. The 4 commando's of team Grouse would cut open the digestive tract of the reindeer to eat the half digested moss for some vitamins and fibers, the human body can't digest moss all by itself. After the war Paulsson would become a famed arctic warfare instructor and personal hunting guide and friend of a Norwegian king (although i can't remember or find which one). Near the plant you can hike a part of the trail the commando's used. And the Norwegian industrial workers museum in Rjukan which is housed in the facility has some excellent information and is a very good 'bad weather activity' when on holiday in the region. same as the Hardangervidda National park center, which has excellent films about the operation as well as reindeer.

@Mr10johnny10 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing this. Anywhere I could go to learn/read about this?

@maskinen8771 2 года назад

Another member, Knut Haugland, did the Kon Tiki expedition after the war

@glennpettersson9002 2 года назад

There was a documentary about these men and their exploits, I was staggered by their resilience. Physically tough yes but mentally hard as nails.

@dtaylor10chuckufarle 2 года назад

@@Mr10johnny10 There was an excellent documentary about it on RU-vid and they even interviewed the veterans. Search for something like "formation/beginning of the SOE" - this was one of their first successful missions.

@michaelfodor6280 2 года назад

@@dtaylor10chuckufarle Also British survival expert did a show on this too called The Real Heroes of Telemark. You might find clips on YT.

@hotel3667 2 года назад

Fun fact: It was the only operation during ww2 where all the soldiers involved in the sabotage were decorated. And by Winston Churchill himself!

@scottbatterman5525 2 года назад

Anybody else notice the Rambo homage: Trautman : You don't seem to want to accept the fact you're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land

@tannerbenally489 2 года назад

I loved that little reference

@yankee9niner400 2 года назад

Indeed I did. In fact I had to stop watching to look in the comments and see if anyone else noticed!

@nicholasconder4703 2 года назад

I notice a number of people were mentioning the excellent movie made about this raid and the subsequent attack on the ferry. The movie was called "The Heroes of Telemark" and starred Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson and Michael Redgrave.

@espen_rud 2 года назад

The movie you mention is heavy Hollwoodised, i would rather recommend the norwegian tv-series "Kampen om tungtvannet", or The Heavy Water War in english.

@t.j.payeur5331 2 года назад

Watched it with my father in the 60s on Saturday Night at the Movies...

@duncancurtis1758 2 года назад

One of my very first war movies.

@m1t2a1 2 года назад

@@t.j.payeur5331 Elwy Yost was great that way.

@rnp497 2 года назад

that actual agents who did this amazing raid have zero time for this film. There are far better Norwegian films that provide a much more accurate account

@Freedomfred939 2 года назад

US heavy water was processed at the army depot in Newport Indiana by pumping huge amounts of water available in the aquifer along the wabash river. All evidence of the process were removed with only 15 high capacity water wells remaining.

@woof355 2 года назад

Joachim Rønneberg, the leader of the Swallow/Gunnerside team, lived near my family after the war. He worked as a journalist and came in contact with lots of people. My parents told me that he was always modest and respectful towards everybody, despite being a well known and celebrated war hero. "I just did my job, and I had the necessary luck", he said. Tough as steel and still treating everybody with respect - that says something about a man's character.

@hannahskipper2764 2 года назад

Somehow, I feel like I'm getting a war update every day now. It's almost "nice" to have one about the past that we can learn from instead of the present to prove that we didn't learn much. This was a happy episode! Thank you.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@Hannah Skipper Thanks for joining us again, nice to see you in the comments every week. Best wishes

@annbjorn 2 года назад

You should follow up with the sabotage and sinking of the ferry Hydro at Tinnsjø once they had a batch of heavywater shipped from Rjukan towards Germany

@scotttracy9333 2 года назад

Exactly, I was expecting that to be part of this episode. Story is only half finished

@richardlinter4111 2 года назад

@@scotttracy9333 : That's later in the war, mid-1943, after the 8th Air Force tried twice in quick succession to bomb the place flat. I'm sure Indy will get around to it.

@annbjorn 2 года назад

And operation Grouse offcourse

@ricardokowalski1579 2 года назад

The british commando raids in WW2 are incredible.

@davidh6300 2 года назад

There was a documentary about this. They retrieved some of the drums from the lakebed, and they still contained heavy water.

@andmos1001 2 года назад

One Joakim Rønneberg that where one of the commandos in this operation later had Ålesund center square and the street right in front of Ålesund Rådhus named arter him. He also got a statuette in front of the Ålesund Rådhus. He died in 2018.

@shadowdoc31 2 года назад

Another great episode. I understand that mentioning this would have detracted from the tension of the episode, and you are no doubt aware already: heavy water or no, the Germans were NEVER close to getting the Atomic Bomb... per Richard Rhode's book, "postwar intelligence showed that the Germans in 1945 were farther away from the bomb than the Allies had been... in 1941... ". Also interesting to note, the allied program relied on a graphite moderator for its first atomic pile, which the Germans had evidently abandoned due to calculation errors (thus the need for heavy water). Reportedly, Speer ended the formal German atomic weapons program in 1942/43, after realizing that the realization of functioning atomic weapons wouldn't happen on any timescale relevant for the Germans in WW2.

@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 2 года назад

It doesn't diminish the commandos accomplishments as one of the finest sabotage operations in history, but yes, in the grand scheme the Germans would never have gotten their atomic bomb even if they had had all the heavy water in the world. But of course the Allies didn't know that at the time.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@shadowdoc31 Thank you for watching, and thanks for the added info.

@scotttracy9333 2 года назад

Correct, but the allies didn't know that, and thus took no chances and went ahead with the operation. As they say hindsight is 20-20

@Edax_Royeaux 2 года назад

It's been noted that Nazi ideology is what killed their bomb effort. They discarded what they knew about physics because it was too "Jewish".

@shadowdoc31 2 года назад

@@scotttracy9333 I don't really disagree and understand the Allies need to "take no chances"-- especially considering the (relatively) small commitment of men/resources for a commando operation like "Operation Gunnerside". That said, let me throw out a related, ancillary topic here RE: "atomic intelligence" during WW2: Consider that the allies had reconnaissance aircraft roaming largely at will all over Europe; the allies detected German development of rockets, jet aircraft, etc., relatively easily; we'd broken their codes ("Ultra")-- in some cases, even before WW2; the allies knew size of sites being used by the Manhattan project (e.g., 35,000 acres at Oak Ridge; ~580 mi^2 at Hanford, etc... would be hard to miss); the vast commitment of wartime industrial resources necessary to move the project forward (e.g., an estimated 1% of the entire U.S. civilian labor force at its peak). Etc. My point--> allied intelligence/civilian leaders/industrial planners MUST have known that there was NO practical way the Axis would ever sniff an atomic weapon, let alone deliver one militarily [e.g. fat man/little boy were around 10,000 lbs each, far beyond the payload of a V2 and even most Axis aircraft]. So I've always wondered, did elements of the industrial establishment overplay the Axis threat, to drive funding? It seems like a plausible scenario, but I've never been able to find a book or other source that would come straight out and say this... but I do wonder... [kind of like Russian competition was used to drive the space program ~20 yrs later... ]

@Captaintomacus 2 года назад

When I was younger we went to the Hardanger Plateau to try to ski across it ending up around Vemork, I was reading a book about this raid as we tried to get across and it really added something to the experience. In early February it was cold enough in modern equipment I can't imagine it in 1940's gear. We also got to sleep in the huts up on the plateau which felt like the Ritz after sleeping in a snow hole the first night, so I can't imagine having to do that for weeks on end. We ended up not making and had to bug out half way as a storm rolled in and dropped the most snow they had seen in decades.

@josiahferguson6194 2 года назад

Might the book have been Assault in Norway by Thomas Gallagher - sounds like a fun experience.

@IrishTechnicalThinker 2 года назад

Germany: We will turn Norway into Fortress. England: Let's go full Commando.

@soad11dude 2 года назад

Called in to serve And they knew what to do They were the heroes of the cold Warrior soul, they signed a book of history They played a leading role to win the 2nd war Glad to see more coverage of one of my fav Sabaton songs

@firingallcylinders2949 2 года назад

I literally don't understand how there isn't a movie on the Norwegian Commando raid on the Heavy Water Factory. It plays out crazier than fiction.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Check out the Norwegian tv series: the heavy water war

@firingallcylinders2949 2 года назад

@@WorldWarTwo I will do that! Thanks

@bigerich 2 года назад

There is an American movie from the sixties starring Kirk Douglas, as well as a Norwegian language movie from 1948, as well as the TV series already mentioned. :)

@SJ23982398 2 года назад

It was a mission in the video game Hidden and Dangerous 2 I think

@nicholasconder4703 2 года назад

There is. The movie is called "The Heroes of Telemark". As I recall, it is quite accurate in its portrayal of the raid.

@sendhelp9534 2 года назад

To those who want to see the action i suggest watch The Heavy Water War which is a 6 episode long Norwegian series.

@stephenrickstrew7237 2 года назад

Thanks 😊

@badAim2 2 года назад

Remember watching it a few years ago. Pretty good!

@Living_Target 2 года назад

Vouch

@KeimpedeJong 2 года назад

The funny part of the story is missing, where one of the workers could have sounded the alarm, but instead asks for his glasses, because it's war time, it is difficult to get new glasses.

@hakanbergman3874 2 года назад

Enriko Fermi used gaphite as moderator instead and succesfuly built the first nuclear reactor under a football stadium in Chicago. Heisenberg had tried graphite but didn't have any succes, the graphite had to be very pure for this to work, so he gave up on graphite. Luckily Heisenberg never realised his error.

@chs76945 2 года назад

Interesting episode, well done! Note to the editors: Indy is talking about the Manhattan Project episode when he points to the air over his shoulder (11:06), but the popup is for the higgens boat special episode.

@brokenbridge6316 2 года назад

Fun Fact: The Norwegians before exiting the plant willingly left behind a machine gun so as to convince the Germans that this was a commando raid and not an act of sabotage by the Resistance. Which turned out to be a good thing. Because thousands of Norwegian civilians were rounded up by the Germans only to be released later because the German commanding general saw the machine gun and became convinced that it was a commando raid.

@dentoncrimescene 2 года назад

That is a fun fact.

@richardlinter4111 2 года назад

Specifically, if memory serves, a Sten.

@KarlB591 2 года назад

@@richardlinter4111 I'd heard it was a Thompson.

@richardlinter4111 2 года назад

@@KarlB591 {Looks it up} You are absolutely correct.

@gunman47 2 года назад

Oh nice, it is a video quite a fair number of us have requested for. I believe the Battlefield V Nordlys mission was loosely based on this special operation. Thank you for covering this World War Two team!

@tyvernoverlord5363 2 года назад

very, very, very, VERRRRRRRRRRRRY loosely . . .

@dr.vikyll7466 2 года назад

It's very loosely inspired by it(it's action, not stealth for one), and AFAIK it was supposed to be an Alt-Hist prequel to Gunnerside.

@Rulusto 2 года назад

Loosely doesn't even come close. That "mission" was a mockery of real events. That sub that surfaces at the end of the mission? Yeah, that is a fresh water lake.

@bfcmik 2 года назад

Another great episode, many thanks for all your team's efforts.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@Mike Price Thank you for watching!

@naveenraj2008eee 2 года назад

Hi Indy Wow.. Amazing incident.. Never knew before of this daring mission in details.. Just knew about operation gunnerside.. Thanks for the video.

@jesuispain 2 года назад

I love every episode, but I dunno...this one was the most riveting, eyes glued and ears open episode yet. Good work, gang.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@jesuispain Thank you for watching

@timl.b.2095 2 года назад

Great presentation. I've read the account of the mission, but you made it come more alive.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@Tim L.B. Thanks for watching!

@shawnr771 2 года назад

Very interesting. 5:04 parachute landing trainer. Known at Fort Benning as the Slam Dunk Machine.

@kristiqnkolev5142 2 года назад

Really like this channel. It has grown on me keep up that good work guys.

@BrownwaterSquid 2 года назад

This and the rest of the North Eastern areas of the war (Finland, Norway, etc) is what got me to follow this channel.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@W. C. Glad to have you with us

@baumgartnerwm 2 года назад

A wonderful story well told. It was nice finally learning some of the details of the raid.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@wm baumgartner Thanks very much for watching

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

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@Zen-sx5io 2 года назад

Your team done well.

@tommy-er6hh 2 года назад

Sadly, much heavy water had been produced, and then the Germans decided to get it out of Norway. The sad part is on a ferry with a lot of other civilians, so when the Norwegian resistance decided to sink the ferry, many were killed. I believe i read that the Italians had another hydro-electric plant at the time that could produce a teeny bit of the heavy water, but i have not been able to confirm that.

@jamesharrell9954 2 года назад

Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy yum yy

@davidwright7193 2 года назад

To use heavy water as a reactor moderator you will need many tons of material “a teeny bit” isn’t going to help.

@danre244 2 года назад

many of the sabutures where from Rjukan (where the heavy water was produces as a side effect from the hydro electric dam) and some of them actually had familie on board the ship, but they where given the order to not tell a living soul about it since then the germans would maybe catch onto that something where up. the ship is still at the bottom of the fjord too this day. edit: writing error

@66kbm 2 года назад

@@davidwright7193 tommy14 did not say that. Look as the info and posts and be constructive and informative.

@davidwright7193 2 года назад

@@66kbm reread the op “the Italians had another hydro-electric plant at the time that could produce a teeny bit of heavy water” that plant, if it existed, was an irrelevance. The Germans needed several tonnes of D2O not a few ml or a kg or 2. The only facility producing D2O on that scale was in Norway.

@alancranford3398 2 года назад

I've read about this mission and even watched the National Geographic video on it. This presentation still taught me a thing or two I didn't know.

@MrTomkan 2 года назад

Indy that was some amazing storytelling. I watched breathlessly and this felt like a total movie script

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@Tom Thank you very much for watching

@tiggersix 2 года назад

One of the four commandos of Operation Grouse was Knut Haugland, who later took part in the Kon-Tiki expedition with Thor Heyerdahl. (And as such, I imagine many have heard of him before.)

@ivankolesnikov9979 2 года назад

I'm surprised that the Sabaton History episode called "Saboteurs" was not mentioned. It covers the same topic and is also hosted by Indy

@The_Bored_Traveller 2 года назад

Great story, been to Rjukan a couple of times, in the winter for iceclimbing and tourskiing, I've also visited the former site at Vermork. For more about the operation, I can recommand the Norwegian television serie, Kampen om tungtvannet (Heavy Water war) from 2015, and a Norwegian movie made in 1948, also called Kampen om tungtvannet, but the commandos played their own roles in the movie.

@hutlazzz Год назад

Man should have a movies about this epic operation !!!! Very nice narration Indy

@WorldWarTwo Год назад

Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it!

@davidturner7590 2 года назад

I really like you channel. And I cannot resist bringing in the Swedish chef (close enough to Norwegian for these purposes). "Atomicy bombee, Vemork mork mork!"

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Thank you for watching, David

@danielm81 2 года назад

Exciting and captivating storytelling!

@danielgreen3715 2 года назад

The extreme conditions that the Norwegian Commandos had to Endure and their Eventual Attack is the stuff of Military Legend and Human Endurance

@Nathan-iy6pn 2 года назад

The book the Winter Fortress by Neal Bascomb is about this mission. Definitely recommend reading that!

@themagicrabbit1877 2 года назад

As someone who discovered this channel through the Sabaton History channel, part of me wishes the related Sabaton video was mentioned. I can think of several reasons why it isn't and really shouldn't be, but I guess my fandom for swedish history metal is a bit out of control. XD Thanks for the video, I loved it as always. 😊

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@theMagicRabbit Thanks for watching

@oneshotme 2 года назад

Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up as a support

@user-ro2nn7lt3r 2 года назад

RU-vid needs to have a "love" button for episodes like this one!

@jools2323 2 года назад

The bravery of people like this is really humbling.

@Jaydee-ug7zp 2 года назад

A huge thank you to those brave men on that mission. Without their success that night, the war and ultimately the world could have turned out very differently.

@sierradenali3270 Месяц назад

Winston Churchill suggested to Franklin Roosevelt to put together a volunteer commando mission like this, using both the American and Canadian military. It was called "Project Plough" The mission was given to the First Special Service Force, or the Devil's Brigade. But it was cancelled. My uncle, Sgt. George Robinson was a Canadian volunteer.

@flyhighsun1833 2 года назад

Really enjoyed that one guys. Real life James Bond scenario. Keep up the good work!

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@Fly HighSun Thank you for watching

@flyhighsun1833 2 года назад

@@WorldWarTwo always! Let's finish this war!

@iamnolegend483 2 года назад

There is always good information from your team.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@I am No Legend Thank you for joining us

@jackfarnum97 2 года назад

Great intro, love when Indy gets into it

@Gillissie 2 года назад

Great video. However, the link at the end to the beginning of the Manhattan Project is actually a link to the Higgins boat video.

@21mozzie 2 года назад

I highly recommend The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. It gives some good detail on the German and Japanese atomic programs. It's a heavy read, but pretty comprehensive.

@ashleybishop9937 2 года назад

There is a documentary where they took some modern day commandos and put them through the survival paces the Telemark guys did and in the end they met some of the survivors of the raid.

@HistoryOfRevolutions 2 года назад

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule" - Friedrich Nietzsche

@williamgrimster1658 2 года назад

Im starting to think Germany may not win this one🤔🤔🤔

@geertwittemans4937 2 года назад

The first ussr bomb was designed by d'Ardenne = German

@largain 2 года назад

4 years too late to help Germany

@Paws42 2 года назад

Nah, Steiner's counterattack will save Germany

@od1452 2 года назад

This operation is well known but there were others not so well known. I hope you can do a video on them too.

@simongleaden2864 2 года назад

Exciting story, very well told by Indy. Excellent.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@Simon Gleaden Thank you for watching

@bitflip8191 2 года назад

More specials, please! This was great!

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

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@bitflip8191 2 года назад

@@WorldWarTwo I'm a proud Patreon supported since WW2 Day 1. Keep up the good work, you guys are the best!

@finscreenname 2 года назад

I got notified that Indy had a new video when I was watching Indy's new video. Good job You Tube.

@eugenio5774 Год назад

OMG this was nail bitingly exciting!!! is there a movie about this???? I need to see a movie about this.

@boomslangCA 2 года назад

This was a great episode. Thanks Indie.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@boomslangCA Thank you for watching!

@BubblingMud1704 2 года назад

One thing you failed to mention was that they were also trained to eat things that’d make a Billy goat puke.

@calicojakk9974 2 года назад

This is truly one of my favorite stories of the war. Hollywood couldn't do it any better than these true bad ass men did.

@davidbarrass 2 года назад

at 2:45 you say heavy water is "artificially created" by electrolysis. This is not correct, you cannot convert hydrogen to deuterium this way. Instead you can enrich the levels of heavy water in normal water by electrolysis. This takes a lot of power and a lot of water to start with. Thus the hydroelectric plant operated by Norsk Hydro was an ideal place to do this enrichment

@PNurmi 2 года назад

Being a nuclear engineer, I was going to criticize this but good to see you did already. Not sure Indie or the others read this though.

@georgewilliams8448 2 года назад

Thank you for another excellent and informative video.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@George Williams Thank you for watching

@thehouse9192 2 года назад

There's a historical novel written by Atakan Büyükdağ called "Hesaplaşma" ("The Reckoning"), Which covers the nuclear arms race between the Western Allies and Nazi Germany. It's a good read, I highly recommend it.

@25050ful 2 года назад

Heroes of the Telemark carrying Viking blood in veins!

@yes_head 2 года назад

Gosh, someone should make a movie about this. Oh, wait... In all seriousness, I miss epic WWII adventure flicks like they made back in the day. Isn't it time for those to be hip again?

@CaptainSully101 2 года назад

2:12 JESSE GET THE HEAVY WATER WE GOTTA COOK UP SOME A-BOMBS

@overallchampion539 Месяц назад

Good style Well presented

@elvenkind6072 Год назад

Another fun fact: The commandos spent Christmas Eve (celebrated as "Christmas" in Norway, instead of Christmas day) on the Hardanger Vidda (plateau) feasting on reindeer brain. :)

@jirkazalabak1514 2 года назад

Holy shit, what an amazing story! How is there not a movie about this yet?

@bluthammer1442 2 года назад

i actually learned about this part of history, for the first time, playing a game called Blazing Angels.

@davidsnow9504 2 года назад

Great video !!

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@David Snow Thank you for watching

@johnbroussard9480 2 года назад

What a great story by a seasoned storyteller! Better than the movie.

@driesvdc2 2 года назад

Brilliant, fascinating episode

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@Dries Van der Colff Thank you for watching & supporting us so we can keep making special episodes like this one. Y'all in the TimeGhost Army truly make it possible. Stay tuned

@elbeto191291 2 года назад

I loved the Telemark map in Battlefield 1942: Special Weapons of WW2. Of course, it was not a stealth game at all...

@alexv6259 2 года назад

I think the threat of a german nuclear bomb is slightly over hyped, given the effort it took the US to make their own. They had a budget literally 1000x bigger than the German program.

@book3100 2 года назад

I haven't seen it in a long time, but seems like the movie Where Eagles Dare might've been based on this. Btw, you guys do a fantastic job on these shows.

@nicholasconder4703 2 года назад

The movie "The Heroes of Telemark" was very good, and fairly accurate.

@RobAzula 2 года назад

I was already familiar with this story, but your retelling was still tense and exciting and made me appreciate those Norwegian ninjas even more. I bet when one of the commandos spied the German sentries, he probably hissed under his breath, "Nazis! I hate those guys!"

@hollandp9606 2 года назад

Indy’s voice really expresses the tension. The writing is great too.

@szeevster5767 2 года назад

Wonderful episode

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Thank you!

@HannibalBarcaRTW 2 года назад

You forgot about the factory caretaker who accidentally encountered the commandos but decided to help them in their destruction.

@johnwright291 2 года назад

There's an extremely good PBS show on this subject called tales of the dead which is a series. This one is called nazi secrets. In it they show actual colored footage of operation ALSOS. it is totally fascinating. They show the US army and the Russian army converging on the V2 plant at nordhausen at the same time and it shows them both hauling away V2s. It also shows actual footage of alsos agents arriving at werner heisenbergs house at lake Walchen see. Its color footage of heisenbergs son in front of the chalet and then shows him 60 years later standing in the same spot. An absolutely superb film record of alsos with captain eric brown making a cameo.

@Reversal89 2 года назад

Ohhh excellent storytelling !!

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@Reversal89 Thank you for watching

@sonoftherabbitpeople4737 2 года назад

I love the stories of daring-do from the war, especially those sponsored by the British. Theirs seems to be the daring-est of the daring-do.

@darvennej4495 2 года назад

It was a impressive mission indeed!.I have always held the impression that the story heard of Heisenberg, was the real genius of the Atomic Bomb bust for Germany .His boyhood frriendship with Himmler and their ''lunches '' talking about boyhood tales and Himmler held in amazement of Heisenberg's dialogue ,made him always not able to figure out that the problems addressed by Heisenberg kept the inevitability of a Bomb farther and farther down the road and it was not to be . The matter of fact is that Hitler was not to ''keen'' on it anyway , he couldn't understand boats ,and even more Physics ? likewise Himmler product of a farmer background.

@ewok40k 2 года назад

your link at the end is not pointing towards episode on manhattan project, but, on the higgins boat and its impact on war...

@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 2 года назад

Watch the six-part dramatization _The Heavy Water War._ It's brilliant.

@nicknz100 2 года назад

"A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke" Trautman 😄

@maarten6884 2 года назад

Great story told in a great way by a great host

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@Maarten Thank you for watching

@professorsogol5824 2 года назад

Left to right in the photo at 3:23: Harold C. Urey, Ernest O. Lawrence, James B. Conan, Lyman J. Briggs, E. V. Muphree, Arthur Compton

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@Professor Sogol Thank you

@kimbonzky 2 года назад

Ive been looking forward to this.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@Acemaker Thanks for joining us

@Strydr8105 2 года назад

Can you please have a special on the strategy of sanctions, and did anything like them happen in ww2? Thank you...I appreciate your work, without a doubt, the best thing on RU-vid!

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

@wm strydr In WW2 there weren't really 'sanctions' as we think of them today because the belligerents were physically destroying the transports, and goods within them, that they didn't want to reach the enemy, largely at sea. There are some interesting exceptions though, for example Japan did not attack Russian shipping bringing Lend Lease aid from the US even as Japan and the US were at war for the sake of keeping the non-aggression pact between Tokyo and Moscow. The Allies and and Axis in Europe both also allowed trade with Switzerland to continue with both parties, as far as geography and infrastructure allowed at least

@Blazcowitz1943 2 года назад

Hey Indy, in your Sabaton histories video on the same subject you mentioned that the Germans had built their own Heavy Water plant in Bavaria, can you provide any further information on that?

@elvenkind6072 Год назад

What was left of the heavy water after the raid, was decided to be moved to Germany, but also here the Norwegian Resistance went on the attack and made sure to sink the ship containing the barrels with the heavy water, something that caused 14 precious Norwegian lives. A heavy loss for such a small nation as ours.

@WorldWarTwo Год назад

Great and tragic piece of information, thank you