Vemork

[1] Vemork was later the site of the first plant in the world to mass-produce heavy water developing from the hydrogen production then used for the Haber process.

[2] In 1906, the then newly founded Norsk hydro-elektrisk Kvælstofaktieselskab started construction of what was to be the world's largest hydroelectric power plant.

The company built a unit for producing high concentrations of heavy water at the Vemork plant at Rjukan, although for what purpose was not stated.

The Germans had also offered to purchase it, but the Norwegian Government was told of its possible military use and gave it to a French agent, who smuggled it to France via England.

In 1965, director Anthony Mann made a rather less accurate film version of the story entitled The Heroes of Telemark,[5] starring Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris.

Swedish metal band Sabaton put the song "Saboteurs" on the Coat Of Arms album in 2010 which tells the story In 2003, British survival expert Ray Mears made a BBC documentary series and book called The Real Heroes of Telemark[7] giving a more realistic view of the difficulties encountered in the mission to sabotage the heavy-water power plant.

[8] In May 2016, a book by Neal Bascomb, The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.