Joachim Roenneberg, Who Sabotaged Nazis' Nuclear Hopes, Dies At 99

[GenesisNemesis]

Joachim Roenneberg, who led a small team that sabotaged the Nazis' nuclear hopes during World War II, has died at the age of 99. Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg announced Roenneberg's death on Sunday, calling him a hero.

In 1943, a then-23-year-old Roenneberg and a team of other resistance fighters parachuted into a snowy mountain range in Norway, skied to the Vemork hydroelectric power plant and bombed its cache of heavy water (deuterium oxide) — a rare fluid the Germans hoped to use in the process of building an atomic bomb.

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/22/6594...-who-sabotaged-nazis-nuclear-hopes-dies-at-99

What a total badass (and everyone involved in that operation).

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I hate hearing about all of these people that did incredibly important things so many years ago... just now. Just like Hidden Figures.

May the IPU bless this person for what they accomplished!

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Actually it was a well known story. There was even a movie, Heros Of Telemark made about this in 1965.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059263/

 

[dismal]

Actually it was a well known story. There was even a movie, Heros Of Telemark made about this in 1965.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059263/

Yes, but in recent years Roenneberg couldn't keep his tweets interesting enough to compete for public attention with the Kardashians.