Preparation 38 - Hitler bought his freedom with 560 kg Uranium U-235 (from the Halden reactor) delivered by U-234 for the Manhattan Project | On April 22, 1945, the Yellowcake Cartel (Savoy Bernadotte Saxe-Coburg und Gotha) extracted Hitler (and 560 kg of Bulgarian uranium oxide) from Berlin to Ørland Airfield, Trondheim, Queen Maud Land. Then, on 4 May, U-234 received a fragment of a broadcast from British and American radio stations announcing that Admiral Karl Dönitz had become Germany's head of state following the death of Adolf Hitler. The cargo included technical drawings, examples of the newest electric torpedoes, one crated Me 262 jet aircraft, a Henschel Hs 293 glide bomb and what was listed on the US Unloading Manifest as 560 kg of uranium oxide. As evidenced by Hirschfeld and Brooks in the 1997 book Hirschfeld, Wolfgang Hirschfeld reportedly watched the loading into the boat's cylindrical mine shafts of about 50 lead cubes with 23 centimetres (9.1 in) sides, with "U-235" painted on each. According to cable messages sent from the dockyard, these containers held "U-powder". U-234 sailed from Kiel for Kristiansand in Norway on the evening of 25 March 1945. U-234 departed Kristiansand for Japan on 15 April 1945, running submerged at snorkel depth for the first 16 days. From then on, she spent two hours running on the surface by night, and the remainder of the time submerged. Then, on 4 May, U-234 received a fragment of a broadcast from British and American radio stations announcing that Admiral Karl Dönitz had become Germany's head of state following the death of Adolf Hitler. U-234 surfaced on 10 May in the interests of better radio reception and received Dönitz's last order to the submarine force, ordering all U-boats to surface, hoist black flags and surrender to Allied forces. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-234 "Nazi Uranium for the Manhattan Project: 1945 WWII: U-Boat U-234 with U-235 cargo" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNLRmDFx8Xw During World War II, "Preparation 38" was the codename for uranium oxide used by German scientists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_oxide 1945: BBC Radio announcement of Adolf Hitler's death It does exactly what it says on the tin really. This was first broadcast on May 1, 1945, one day after Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide and the same day that Joseph and Magda Goebbels did likewise. This was the first time that the good news reached any Allied country. The photograph is the front cover of the American war-time newspaper "Stars & Stripes" published on May 2, 1945. http://www.youtube.com/GusF 1945 Stars & Stripes WWII newspaper HITLER DEATH - earliest report with headline Description Deutsch: Zeile in der Zeitung der US-Army "Stars And Stripes" nach dem Bekanntwerden von Hitlers Tod English: A headline in the U.S. Army newspaper Stars and Stripes announcing Hitler's death Date 2 May 1945 Source Stars and Stripes, the official US Army magazine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stars_%26_Stripes_%26_Hitler_Dead2.jpg Black propaganda is false information and material that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side. It is typically used to vilify, embarrass or misrepresent the enemy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_propaganda German submarine U-995 was a Type VIIC/41 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. At the end of the war on 8 May 1945 she was stricken at Trondheim, Norway. She was surrendered to the British and then transferred to Norwegian ownership in October 1948. In December 1952 U995 became the Norwegian submarine Kaura and in 1965 she was stricken by the Royal Norwegian Navy. She then was sold for the symbolic price of one Deutsche Mark to Germany where she became a museum ship at Laboe Naval Memorial in October 1971. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-995 Ørland Main Air Station was built by the occupation forces in 1941 during the German occupation using prisoners of war. The Germans wanted an airfield so that they could interdict the allied convoys to Murmansk. At first, German Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condors were stationed here. In June 1942, a squadron of Junkers Ju 87 Stukas rebased here, later a squadron of Messerschmitt Bf 109s and then a squadron of Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98rland_Main_Air_Station 21.4.1945 Hitler prepares for escape to Trondheim - Spear of Destinity loaded on German U-boat U-534 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c4Iy12oPig Hitler fled by Jet to Trondheim, by U-boat to Argentina and by whaling ship to New Swabia, really? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv7syb2Xu3c

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