I saw something on the history channel about WWII that changed the war dramatically?

Question

I saw this show about wwII and some guy i'm not sure if he was from the US or Germany but he found some planning papers in a wharehouse where the germans had their plans for weapons and he turned them over to the US and this was one of the ways that helped us to win the war. Does anyone know anything about this?

Answer 1

There was something on the other day about the maps the Allies created to plan the D-day invasion and I believe they mentioned how the French underground helped by getting a copy of the plans for the Atlantic Wall but nothing on secret weapons.

Answer 2

Espionage has always been big in Europe one of the jobs of an embassy is to spy on the country you are in.

I do know that a Czech tried to give the British an example of the fuel injection system for the BF-109 by way of the British Embassy in Yugoslavia. But the Brits lost it and so missed a way to start the war with a plane that was superior to the Messerschmidt rather that better in some things, the Spitfire.

I think that you are thinking of Wilhelm Carnaris who was head of German Military Intelligence and an Agent for the British Secret Service. Carnaris had access to the plans some of the German Secret Weapons Programs notably the Heavy Water Project, The V1 and 2 projects the Allies were told where the research was taking place and how far along they were at the time. That way the Allies knew about Peenemünde and where the weapons were being built so that they could bomb those places and set plans back to which they were partially successful.

So yes it happened and yes these actions most like if not changed the war they sped up it's end.

Answer 3

top once they replaced to the "we are all going to die" channel. I see the fad as starting up even as they realized that the most prevalent Hitler shows were those that made wild accusations about psychic powers, or secret societies. on the on the spot they began continuously squeezing in some minority opinion that sounded cool. you recognize, like the theory that the finished Wall of China wasn't outfitted to save out horse nomads, yet replaced into easily outfitted because an Emperor had a prophetic dream. This type only were given further and further popular, as they found that few human beings wanted respected historians, even as the perimeter theories drew visitors. Now what demographic loves conspiracy theories the most? Compound dwellers and rednecks. Shift executed.

Answer 4

Wasn't Germany trying to develop the atomic bomb too? We just ended the European war first, and then bombed Japan.