The Vemork Heavy Water Sabotage

The Norwegian heavy water sabotage in Vemork was an Allied-led attempt to halt Germany's heavy water production in Nazi Germany-occupied Norway during World War II.

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[namerelevant]

As a Norwegian longtime viewer I’m so glad that you highlight this moment of the war.
Bless you, king of YouTube.

[ignitionfrn]

1:10 - Chapter 1 - The elephant in the room
3:25 - Chapter 2 - Heavy skies over scotland
5:25 - Chapter 3 - Not second fiddle, operation "Grouse"
9:55 - Chapter 4 - A turn for the worse, operation "Freshman"
12:50 - Chapter 5 - Reindeer moss & ptarmigans, operation "Swift"
15:55 - Chapter 6 - The most splendid coup, operation "Gunnerside"
18:50 - Chapter 7 - The american bombing fo vemork
20:30 - Chapter 8 - Heavy ice sinks, the bombing of the SF Hydro

[resileaf]

Commando operations are almost always a blast to read to hear about. I would argue they are my favorite parts of war stories. This was a great video.

[frankieseward]

arguably one of the most important events that helped win WW2. shows just how determined the allies were to beat the Nazis

[hannahp]

These guys, especially the 4 original Grouse survivors, were incredibly badass

[AShortDropSuddenStop]

I have a glass vial with heavy water from Vemork. It's from one of the barrels that went down with the ferry DF Hydro. The ferry was raised a few years ago, and the heavy water was sold as collectors items in small glass vials.

[metamaxis]

Ah, yet another video of Simon covering the history of a sabaton song.
Always a delight.

[jnjn]

Great video, I’m glad you took my suggestion (and that of many others). I think you covered the subject as well as the format’s timing allows, and it’s great that this story gets told. And if you make a few more videos regarding Norway, you may even learn how we pronounce “g” 😉

[coreybutler]

Thank you Simon and team for all the work you do!

[joegordon]

Incredible courage, parachuting into your own occuppied country on such a dangerous mission. All the more courageous considering none of these men would really know exactly what this was about, the atomic bomb programme being secret, and of course they were years from seeing the horror of an atomic bomb at Hiroshima, but they knew it was important and that they had to act to do their part in allied victory. Simply remarkable.

[davidh]

For more information on these Norwegian heroes, please see the documentary by Ray Mears, the survival expert, where he interviews them and eats their stew.
Greetings from neutral Sweden!

[ethanbell]

Idea for a video: The Football War, where two sovereign nations with enough tension to measure on the Richter Scale went to war because of immigration, soccer, and bananas

[parptarf]

I highly reccomend visiting Rjukan and the museum at the Vemork power plant. Lots of interesting history consering Norsk Hydro in general.

[The_Lone_Wolf]

Thank you Simon and thank you to your wonderful crew that creates these videos for you to narrate, I've always been interested in reading about the Second World War, I can remember that since I was a child always being interested in reading anything and everything about military history and the Holocaust. Which we should be teaching our kids about, because it could happen again the Holocaust.

[rc]

Can't believe Battlefield wrote them out of their own mission and replaced the Commandos with some mom and daughter.

[ursulayost]

Thank you for this episode, it was really interesting.

[usonumabeach]

Moe Berg, a highly educated and multilingual American Jewish baseball player, was used by the allies to determine, through extremely covert espionage and consulting with the top nuclear scientists, just how close the 3rd Reich was at achieving a nuclear device, and to infiltrate and assassinate Germany's top nuclear scientist if Berg determined he was legitimately working towards it.

There's a movie about it that came out in the last few years with Paul Rudd, which has some sensationalism to give it that Hollywood spice, that covers the operation. It's quite an interesting story. Berg was a fascinating person. He also did some spying in Japan before the war.

[FatManWalking]

some would argue the British Commando raid on the German occupied dry dock at St. Nazaire is both the greatest and most daring raid of all time

[canadianbacon]

Video suggestion: Battle of the Falaise pocket, Canadian, British, Polish and American troops attempt to encircle 15 German divisions including most of the Seventh Army. This resulted in the loss of an estimated 60, 000 men for the German army, there was dead horses, blown out vehicles and bodies for miles, would definitely make a good video very notable event in the Second World War on the Western Front. Also a great video guys my favorite Simon channel

[emorymeek]

Great video! I had never heard of this. Fascinating story.