Knut Haukelid
How did Norway’s resistance sabotage Hitler’s atomic program?
4.1 (14)
43 mins
Explore how Knut Haukelid and other Norwegian resistance fighters targeted Germany’s supply of heavy water during World War II. Uncover the sabotage missions that disrupted a material considered important to Nazi nuclear research.
Ep 1:
Lysanders, Lies, and Moonlit Rescues
Deep in occupied France, moonlit landing fields, forged papers, and a captured airman's chicken trivia reveal how trust and deception kept the resistance's secret air bridge alive.
Ep 2:
Secret Songs and the Lyon Network
A singing courier smuggling secrets in sheet music, and two unlikely heroines building spy networks through brothels and betrayal, expose how fragile trust determined life or death in Lyon and Marseille.
Ep 3:
Mountains, Maquis, and the Price of Freedom
As networks crumble, daring prison breaks, a brutal Pyrenees crossing, and guerrilla warfare push Nancy Wake and Virginia Hall toward victory—and reveal its devastating personal cost.
Discussions (5)
Emmett
Level 10 · 1 week agoFlew unarmed into occupied France, navigated by moonlight with a map on his knee, and still had time to name his plane Jiminy Cricket. Hugh Verity was built different.
Raul
Level 9 · 1 week agobro Virginia Hall literally crossed the alps on a wooden leg while bleeding and London told her to just delete her leg💀 the audacity of that radio operator
Darlene
Level 10 · 1 week agoNancy reminds me of my stepdaughter, fearless when it counts
