THE GERMAN SCIENTIST WHO HELPED BRITAIN BEAT THE LUFTWAFFE #ww2 #battleofbritain #spy #shorts
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THE GERMAN SCIENTIST WHO HELPED BRITAIN BEAT THE LUFTWAFFE #ww2 #battleofbritain #spy #shorts

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The Oslo Report is one of the most remarkable leaks in the annals of military intelligence. Authored by a German scientist and anti-Nazi Hans Ferdinand Mayer during a business trip to Oslo, Norway, on November 1 and 2nd, 1939, this secret document divulged unknown information about several German weapons—some already in service and others under development.
He typed the seven-page Oslo Report over two days. Anonymously, he sent it in two letters—one on November 1, accompanied by a vacuum tube from a prototype proximity fuze.
The British in Oslo received the anonymous letter on November 4, 1939. At first, the report was ignored, but a British scientist evaluated the information as genuine.
The information proved an invaluable resource for developing countermeasures related to navigational and targeting radars. This information aided the British victory in the Battle of Britain. Remarkably, despite being arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and enduring imprisonment in concentration camps until the war’s end, Mayer’s secret remained safe from the Nazis.
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