Oslo Report

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The Oslo Report is a document that was found on November 5, 1939 at the British Embassy in Oslo . The objectives of Germany's military research at the time were revealed on several pages of the anonymous letter .

The seven-page document in German was deposited in a package for the British Legation together with a distance fuse for an anti-aircraft shell serving as proof of the authenticity of the report . It contained information about the Peenemünde Army Research Center , the Junkers Ju 88 , which was unknown to the British at the time , the German radar research, the night fighter radio measuring device later called the Y-device and the German rocket development.

The author of the report, which signed “a German scientist who is well-disposed towards you”, was the physicist Hans Ferdinand Mayer , then employed by Siemens & Halske AG and working all over Europe. In 1943 Mayer was sentenced to concentration camp imprisonment for listening to enemy broadcasts and criticizing the Nazi regime. It was not until 1977 that he confided to his own family that he had written the Oslo Report. At his request, this was only published after Mayer and his wife died.

The authenticity of the material was often questioned in the United Kingdom at the time, but it remained an important source for developments in German research during World War II .

literature

  • Brian Johnson: Top Secret: Science and Technology in World War II . Weltbild-Verlag 1994, ISBN 3-89350-818-X
  • Don H. Johnson: Scanning Our Past - Origins of the Equivalent Circuit Concept: The Current-Source Equivalent , 2002 PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, VOL. 91, NO. 5, MAY 2003
  • RV Jones Reflections on Intelligence . London: Heinemann. 1989
  • Reginald Victor Jones, Most Secret War, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1978
  • Arnold Kramish, Der Greif - Paul Rosbaud, Knaur Verlag, Munich, 1986, ISBN 3-426-03949-4
  • Arnold Kramish, The Griffin, Houghton Mifflin, 1986

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