How Hitler’s Nuclear Ambitions Were Sunk With a Tiny Ferry in a Norwegian Lake

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    September 15, 2023 10:42 AM CDT
    I bit of WW2 history. I didn't know this about Hitler until reading this story. [url=https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-hitler-s-nuclear-ambitions-were-sunk-with-a-tiny-ferry-in-a-norwegian-lake?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us]https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-hitler-s-nuclear-ambitions-were-sunk-with-a-tiny-ferry-in-a-norwegian-lake?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

    Hitler was just a ferry-ride away from getting hold of a crucial ingredient needed for an atomic weapon to blow up London, a 2018 documentary discovered. In the middle of a Norwegian lake, 100 miles from Oslo, naval historians and scientists located the boat on which the Nazis were transporting barrels of heavy water for use in German nuclear reactors. The Hydro ferry was sunk on Churchill’s orders in 1944, but until this discovery nobody knew if the craft really was containing vital component that Hitler needed for his nuclear arsenal.