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The Gamble That Sank Hitler's Secret: The SF Hydro Sabotage
The Gamble That Sank Hitler's Secret: The SF Hydro Sabotage
Danger hid in an ordinary ferry: on 20 February 1944 the SF Hydro sank in four minutes with thirty-nine barrels on board that could have altered the course of the Second World War - and the saboteurs couldn’t be sure the barrels were even there. How did four men, eight kilograms of explosives and a single night decide the fate of those barrels, and what did divers find fifty years later still sealed at the bottom of Lake Tinn?
In this episode, we follow the route from the Vemork plant to the Mæl-Tinnoset ferry crossing, outline the…
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