This is Why The Nazis Never Built a Nuke
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Published 2023-10-13
Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on Modern Warfare continues with another video on World War II as we discuss how the Allies managed to sabotage the Nazi nuclear program in Norway during the Operation Freshman and Operation Gunnerside.
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The video was made by Yağız Bozan and Murat Can Yağbasan, while the script was developed by Craig Watson. This video was narrated by Officially Devin (youtube.com/user/OfficiallyDevin)
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All Comments (21)
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As a Norwegian. Very grateful for this coverage of a very important event for us. Love the video ❤️
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The guts and courage of these people, just incredible. Respect from Poland!
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The Allies made the right decision to try to sabotage the German nuclear bomb program considering the knowledge they had then available. It should be noted that the German approach to build nuclear bomb led by Heisenberg was a technological dead end. Those men who were ordered to sabotage the heavy water plant were heroes as their actions delayed the German nuclear program and convinced the Allies that they can win the race to have a working nuclear bomb.
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One small note, it wasn't the Vemork hydroelectric plant which produced the heavy water, it was a artificial fertilizer plant located in front of the power plant (building removed today, only the power plant remains). The heavy water was a byproduct of the method used to make fertilizer, and in fact the power plant as well as the nearby town of Rjukan was all built to support the fertilizer production.
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Idk any Norwegians, but using cod liver oil for sabotage sounds pretty dam Norwegian
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The 1948 movie Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water (Kampen om tungtvannet) is about this, and in this film several of the Norwegian commandos are playing as themselves
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WW2 was a whole world in & of itself. Endless stories.
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There have been two movies about these topics. One a Norwegian film about the sabotage raid. The second started Kirk Douglas that concluded with the sinking a passenger ferry that was hauling railroad freight cars which carried heavy water. The film was called Heroes of Telemark. The ferry sank in a very deep fjord unreachable by the technology of that time.
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I read a book about this a while back: Neal Bascomb's "The Winter Fortress". I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoyed this video.
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This sounds like a cool mission you would play in Call of Duty. Absolutely wild that this actually happened in real life.
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British: Sneaky, beaky raid against the night. America: Bomb.
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I was on the edge of my seat throughout the whole video. Fantastic work K&G!
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Finally some more content about this operation! It’s been years since I’ve seen anything about it
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Dropped down to a world of ice A platoe of frozen lakes A Nazi place of doom in their sights Training camps on Scottish Heights To commando saboteurs A mission of their lives lies ahead
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We need more of this !! As always you guys are amazing
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I ascended those same cliffs as a boy during a school trip when I was 17. We were foreigners but were taught the story and it significance.
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Excellent video! I learned a lot. I also very much appreciate the pronunciations, too. Some of these sounds are very difficult to learn. It's very clear you made an effort to learn them, thank you.
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It’s a shame the first sabotage was a failure and got everyone killed RIP to those men who died for the greater good 😔
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While a successful raid, let's not OVERPLAY the significance. There was no way a German atomic bomb was going to be ready before the Americans either way. This was a psychological boost for the allies as well as helped with showing the "importance" of the Manhattan project. It did not however, stop the german atomic weapon
