Norwegian Resistance 2 of 3

Between 1940 and 1945, thousands of Norwegians fought in Norway's Resistance movement against the occupying Nazis. More than 2,000 of them, both men and women, died in action, by execution, or in concentration camps.
The Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a series of actions taken by Norwegian saboteurs during World War II to prevent the German nuclear energy project from acquiring heavy water which could be used to produce nuclear weapons.
Between 1942 and 1944 a sequence of sabotage actions by the Norwegian resistance movement, as well as Allied bombing, ensured the destruction of the plant and the loss of the heavy water produced. These operations — codenamed "Freshman", "Grouse" and "Gunnerside" — finally managed to knock the plant out of production in early 1943, basically ending the German research.

The raid was later dubbed by the British SOE as the most successful act of sabotage in all of World War II.

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[Ailoh91]

U feel damn proud to b nowegian when u see this.

True heros!!

[meatwhd]

those are the last guys that got the norwegian medals of honour. well deserved to

[7071t6]

God bless them all, other wise the Germans would have the BOMB and to tell the truth, nothing has changed, the US is the the first country to use it, even though more people died with the normal bombing of germany and Japan, they just had to prove they had it, but not on a city full of people. but i would say back then, they were all out for revenge.

[hybelellefant]

@wondercourage They did bomb it, but the Germans rebuild it because the bombs didn't completely destroy it.

It is made two movies about the heavy water sabotage. One is named ¨Heltene Fra Telemark¨, and the other one ¨Kampen om Tungtvannet¨

[wondercourage]

This is an extraordinary story of heroic courage and sacrifice

if someone sees this , I know there must have been a reason

but wondering why this german occupied building couldn't have

been bombed by the air with plane .

valor and courage lives on !

Does anyone know when this film was made of these men

wondeirng if they are still alive .

[bellbonne]

Thank you, Norwegian heroes, your bravery was and is unimaginable!!!!

[dass0137]

@Ailoh91 norge didnt do it, they did

[Rizorn]

Imagine if they failed. Hitler would probably have the A-Bombs. No questions about it, he would have used them :P

[zingaya]

Think about these guy's during Christmas dinner ...

And be grateful we won and don't have to say shit like:

Jaahh...Ge danken schvanken for flotten bratwurcht pølsen min mother

..alles fanstisk jesusfest:)

Sieg Heil for den jesusfest..

So pass the ribs and have a Akevitt extra for the ones who did not make it.....God Jul!

[Rico8458]

yes, real men

[micko11154]

The movie is Battle For Heavy Water (1948) and features these same real guys that actually performed the mission. Another movie Heroes of Telemark with Kirk Douglas and Richard Widmark is a joke in comparison to the real mission which lasted thru 2 bitter winters.

[Brage196]

@BoYlERn101 no. its name is: the battle for the heay water. Kampen for tungvannet