The Soldiers Who Sabotaged the German Atomic Bomb

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  • @jonfranklin4583
    @jonfranklin4583 11 місяців тому +27

    I worked with a man named Harald Myrold who was on that ferry when it was sunk, he was about a year old when he and his mother boarded the ferry, both survived the sinking. He became a crab fisherman in Alaska and love to tell the story of surviving that sinking ship as an infant.

    • @drpepperr
      @drpepperr 11 місяців тому +2

      That's so cool! I love UA-cam comment threads for things like this.

    • @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg
      @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg 11 місяців тому

      And he swam to Alaska?

  • @ingridfong-daley5899
    @ingridfong-daley5899 11 місяців тому +11

    All Dark 5/Dark Docs content is reliably impressive, interesting, and consistently unique. You are truly one of my very favourite creators on the whole platform--thanks for always being awesome.

  • @alexnutcasio936
    @alexnutcasio936 11 місяців тому +5

    “ Heroes of Telemark “ ………a great movie about this.

  • @MomentsInTrading
    @MomentsInTrading 11 місяців тому +11

    There is an old episode of Hogan’s Heroes where a truck with heavy water is stored in the prison camp, and Hogan convinces Colonel Klink that it’s Fountain of Youth water. 😂

    • @iamcondescending
      @iamcondescending 11 місяців тому

      Nothing would really happen if you drank heavy water, you'd get dizzy after the second glass (because it would replace the regular water in your ear) but that's about it.
      That's not to say you should drink it all the time, though. If the deuterium in heavy water replaces too much of the normal hydrogen in your body, it could start to mess with the chemical properties in your cells. Which would lead to things like sterilization.

    • @roncolemanlaw
      @roncolemanlaw 11 місяців тому +3

      I remember that!😂

    • @ObamaoZedong
      @ObamaoZedong 11 місяців тому +3

      I know nothing!

    • @gregdavis8284
      @gregdavis8284 11 місяців тому +2

      General Burghalter "who is this man Hogan??"

    • @dsloop3907
      @dsloop3907 11 місяців тому +1

      Yep. I remember that one.

  • @deltamike6
    @deltamike6 11 місяців тому +2

    Sweden exported heavy water from a factory in Ljungaverk.
    It was also sabotaged by British agents in 1944.

  • @hootinouts
    @hootinouts 11 місяців тому +2

    I remember my dad taking me to the movies as a boy to see the movie "The Heroes Of Telemark" about the commando raid on the heavy water operation at the hydro facility.

  • @hypercomms2001
    @hypercomms2001 11 місяців тому +3

    Except the nazi's never got the Frisch-Peierls memorandum, and never considered calculating the critical mass using Uranium 235....

  • @steveshoemaker6347
    @steveshoemaker6347 11 місяців тому +2

    This channel is AMAZING.....Thanks very much 👍
    Old F-4 II Phantom pilot Shoe🇺🇸

    • @thomasriggle6371
      @thomasriggle6371 11 місяців тому

      Amazing Enough to mention the start of WW2 for Americans. December 7th, 1941? No, they didn't. Hopefully, you did.

  • @blackcountryme
    @blackcountryme 11 місяців тому +11

    The Kon-Tiki the raft skippered by Thor hyadal, had a radio operator on it who was once a resistance fighter in Norway.

    • @bugvswindshield
      @bugvswindshield 11 місяців тому +2

      was that the one that crossed the pacific with ancient tech? sry its been awhile, but Thor was one hell of an explorer!

  • @Barnie-pi7mk
    @Barnie-pi7mk 11 місяців тому +8

    You never disappoint when it comes to how interesting your content is. Keep up the great work.

    • @thomasriggle6371
      @thomasriggle6371 11 місяців тому +1

      You just start learning about WW2 yesterday?

    • @vincedibona4687
      @vincedibona4687 11 місяців тому

      Thomas, what if they did? They might be 12, or 62. Either way, how is being snarky going to help? Get over yourself.

    • @Barnie-pi7mk
      @Barnie-pi7mk 11 місяців тому

      @@thomasriggle6371 no just like how he dives deeper into things that happened during wwii such as this. I never really knew about it. Nor did I really pay attention to why this occurred

  • @daystatesniper01
    @daystatesniper01 11 місяців тому +3

    Good one this , another doc' saw divers locate the wreck of the ferry and rail wagons and barrels on the lake bed all remarkabley intact , they brought a barrel to the surface and took it to a lab.Its contents confirmed it was heavy water .

  • @cittidude2264
    @cittidude2264 11 місяців тому +1

    I miss the "Thank you for watching my video ". Keep up the great content.

  • @danielintheantipodes6741
    @danielintheantipodes6741 11 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for the video!

  • @jesseholder1578
    @jesseholder1578 10 місяців тому

    I saw this exact mission re-enacted in Arma 3 watching Sovietwomble trudge through the snow trying not to be seen only for his whole unit to be seen and fired upon when they got close to the plants gates.

  • @Titus-as-the-Roman
    @Titus-as-the-Roman 11 місяців тому +10

    One question I've never understood, why was there a Heavy Water (deuterium) plant in what looked like no-where Norway at a time when there was only a handful of people on the Planet that actually knew what it was for?

    • @flomojo2u
      @flomojo2u 11 місяців тому +9

      If you'll recall Norway already had heavy water production in place before Germany took over their country, and I think it was a combination of preexisting know-how and an opportune location since heavy water production required both a lot of water as well as energy to separate it out from non-heavy water. As far as general reasons for making it, I think people don't really appreciate how widespread the sharing of nuclear research was before the US started the Manhattan Project and suddenly went dark with any sharing.😊 The secrets were mostly concerned with producing and refining U235, and finally achieving critical mass in a way that would liberate all the energy as an explosion vs. having subcritical uranium pieces fly apart or just glow blue when it went critical, as with the Demon Core that killed people (After several days of agony) when the two halves came together and achieved criticality with an enormous neutron flux.

    • @drpepperr
      @drpepperr 11 місяців тому +9

      Heavy water production was not the primary function of the Vermork plant.

    • @Irish381
      @Irish381 11 місяців тому +11

      The hydroelectric power plant was more focused on producing electricity, the research portion of the plant was more of a side project than the focus .

    • @runlarryrun77
      @runlarryrun77 11 місяців тому +1

      If you do some simple research into the topic with the means you clearly have at your disposal, plus a little critical thinking about this period being the infancy of atomic technology, I'm sure you'll find the answers you seek. I mean, you're almost there by yourself. Almost.

    • @Titus-as-the-Roman
      @Titus-as-the-Roman 11 місяців тому

      @@runlarryrun77 this was actually a bit of sarcasm, Known this for years.

  • @blackcountryme
    @blackcountryme 11 місяців тому +3

    The heroes of Telemark

  • @benisaten
    @benisaten 11 місяців тому +3

    May they all be remembered forever

  • @GregoryAlanGaskill
    @GregoryAlanGaskill 11 місяців тому +3

    RIP our heroes that paid the ultimate price at Pearl Harbor. When men were men....

  • @andrewfischer8564
    @andrewfischer8564 11 місяців тому +2

    great movie kirk douglas heros of telemark...saw a show where they dive on the ferry wreck

  • @Gmac86.
    @Gmac86. 11 місяців тому +4

    The victors write history…

    • @thomasriggle6371
      @thomasriggle6371 11 місяців тому +2

      Yes they do so did you forget about December 7th? Because this channel did.

  • @sthrich635
    @sthrich635 11 місяців тому +2

    It took even the most industrially powerful country the goddamn USA till past August 1945 to actually made a functional atomic bomb despite being made the top priority research project, one could wonder how long it would take for a war torn Germany. In hindsight, it was actually beneficial for the German Fuhrer and High Command to not pursue the atomic bomb project as it would only draw precious resources from more practical projects, and only to have its halfway research be seized by the Soviets or Allies as they came knocking on Germany doors, just like the V2 rocket program, and likely much earlier than May 1945 if they had focused on the atomic stuff.

  • @Veslis
    @Veslis 5 місяців тому

    2 days ago i was at a hut named after Claus helberg he had been there many times. My princepal told us this story we could see the Vemork kraftverk many times it was huge

  • @oneshotme
    @oneshotme 11 місяців тому

    Every time I watch something on this it just makes me think of the movie about it. Kinda tells my age but I seen it many years after it come out

  • @alexius23
    @alexius23 11 місяців тому +1

    I believe that a third version of the attack was made…Norwegian TV miniseries

  • @babbybailey
    @babbybailey 11 місяців тому

    Geez, that was close!

  • @alexius23
    @alexius23 11 місяців тому

    I have visited the Plant in the late 1990’s.

  • @jeffkirchberg
    @jeffkirchberg 11 місяців тому +3

    The documentary about this mission is crazy. This clip doesn't do the raid justice

  • @shantanusapru
    @shantanusapru 11 місяців тому

    Cover Operation Gunnerside too!

  • @foxpwns2
    @foxpwns2 11 місяців тому +1

    alright since it hasent been said "Broadsword calling Dannyboy.. Reply.. Reply.."

    • @MrSmegfish
      @MrSmegfish 11 місяців тому

      You know where the door is....

  • @bumpydevoshire1067
    @bumpydevoshire1067 11 місяців тому

    I think We all learned thos from that battlefield campaign

  • @jimmyc3238
    @jimmyc3238 11 місяців тому

    6:13 Great video....wait, what? The summer nights in Norway are short??

    • @kimmosaarinen2780
      @kimmosaarinen2780 11 місяців тому

      What is it that you don't understand about that?

    • @jimmyc3238
      @jimmyc3238 11 місяців тому

      My apologies. I misunderstood. Carry on.... @@kimmosaarinen2780 😳

  • @Mike-sh3yt
    @Mike-sh3yt 11 місяців тому +1

    This mission is replayed in ALOT of WW2 games ....

  • @murrayscott9546
    @murrayscott9546 11 місяців тому +1

    Can you imagine - Nazis with Nukes ? We would be living in a far different world, friends.

    • @KevinThomas-ok2ev
      @KevinThomas-ok2ev 11 місяців тому +2

      Or even worse, the communists with nukes? Oh yeah, we actually lived with that one . . . and still are today.

    • @828enigma6
      @828enigma6 6 місяців тому

      The Nazi were far closer to having practical nuclear weapons than most people realize.

  • @2B_JZA7
    @2B_JZA7 11 місяців тому +55

    Chicken nuggets.

    • @NotOnDrugs
      @NotOnDrugs 11 місяців тому +7

      with *honey*

    • @jtjames79
      @jtjames79 11 місяців тому +4

      MOM! NUGGIES!

    • @GrrMeister
      @GrrMeister 11 місяців тому +3

    • @b1646717
      @b1646717 11 місяців тому +4

      @@NotOnDrugsunderrated dipping sauce

    • @Knight_of_the_Old_Code
      @Knight_of_the_Old_Code 11 місяців тому +1

      With Saskatchewan sauce...as much as they're allowed to give me.

  • @vincedibona4687
    @vincedibona4687 11 місяців тому

    Nice!

  • @josephpacchetti5997
    @josephpacchetti5997 11 місяців тому +1

    All of the dark channels are a part of my video watching.👊 😎

  • @JACKINSTEIN
    @JACKINSTEIN 11 місяців тому

    Anyone ever play secret weapons over Normandy on the pc or ps2? If so we all remember flying through the fjords providing air cover for the commando teams and sinking the boats till the 262s arrived

  • @Zircuitry
    @Zircuitry 11 місяців тому

    Pancakes are not waffles yet they're made with the same ingredients.

  • @auro1986
    @auro1986 11 місяців тому

    no it was your plan to start new phase

  • @petarvanj4343
    @petarvanj4343 11 місяців тому

    I was there…

  • @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg
    @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg 11 місяців тому

    Nein, nein, our Wonder Waffe ist tot

  • @countrywideboy
    @countrywideboy 11 місяців тому +2

    C47's towing the gliders in this video,

  • @HerbertDuckshort
    @HerbertDuckshort 11 місяців тому +1

    A bit of footage showing paratroopers jumping from a C130 Hercules. It must have been a very early prototype.

  • @1_Fish.2_Fish.Red_Fish.
    @1_Fish.2_Fish.Red_Fish. 11 місяців тому

    I got some hard water for ya!

  • @mingfanzhang8927
    @mingfanzhang8927 11 місяців тому +2

    ❤😊

  • @thomasriggle6371
    @thomasriggle6371 11 місяців тому +5

    Here we are, December 7th, and absolutely nothing said by this channel that prides itself in military conflict. Nothing. Sad

    • @GewoonNee
      @GewoonNee 11 місяців тому +1

      Exactly! Worst thing is he has more than 10 channels

    • @thomasriggle6371
      @thomasriggle6371 11 місяців тому

      @GewoonNee would love to say what I want, but youtube keeps pulling down comments I try to post.

    • @soakupthesunman
      @soakupthesunman 11 місяців тому

      This is a doc channel, not a memorial channel. You can't figure that out ? Sad.

  • @nielgregory108
    @nielgregory108 11 місяців тому +1

    Order 66

  • @barryn7657
    @barryn7657 11 місяців тому

    As I understand it Heavy water is a byproduct of Hydro electric production? So the plant was mainly interested in Hydro power not Heavy water.

    • @Charles-k9g5y
      @Charles-k9g5y 11 місяців тому

      The Nazi were working on a nuke which is why the Brit’s went after it twice.

    • @deltamike6
      @deltamike6 11 місяців тому

      it was a byproduct off the making fertilizer.
      There was also two factors in Sweden, that produce heavy water.

  • @thomasriggle6371
    @thomasriggle6371 11 місяців тому +6

    This is how brain-dead we've become and what we are dealing with folks. The number one comment in the comment section simply says (chicken nuggets). Yeah, that's how dumb we've become.

  • @sawfather06
    @sawfather06 11 місяців тому +1

    A woman it figures

  • @mingfanzhang4600
    @mingfanzhang4600 11 місяців тому +2

    ❤😊