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After the February 4–11, 1945 Yalta Conference, Quisling and Lippestad visited Hitler in Berlin to convey that the Allies had agreed to let him retire at Storfosen gods, near Trondheim, in exchange for Norwegian heavy water and 560kg enriched uranium U-235 for the Manhattan Project | U-234 departed Kristiansand for Japan on 15 April 1945, running submerged at snorkel depth for the first 16 days. The voyage proceeded without incident; the first sign that world affairs were overtaking the voyage was when the Kriegsmarine '​s Goliath transmitter stopped transmitting, followed shortly after by the Nauen station. Fehler did not know it, but Germany's naval HQ had fallen into Allied hands. 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. Fehler suspected a trick and managed to contact another U-boat (U-873), whose captain convinced him that the message was authentic. Cargo The cargo to be carried was determined by a special commission, the Marine Sonderdienst Ausland, established towards the end of 1944, at which time the submarine's officers were informed that they were to make a special voyage to Japan. When loading was completed, the submarine's officers estimated that they were carrying 240 tons of cargo plus sufficient diesel fuel and provisions for a six- to nine-month voyage.[4] 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". Author and historian Joseph M. Scalia, stated that he discovered a formerly secret cable at Portsmouth Navy Yard, the uranium oxide had been stored in gold-lined cylinders; this document is discussed in Hitler's Terror Weapons. The exact characteristics of the uranium remain unknown; it has been suggested by Scalia, and historians Carl Boyd and Akihiko Yoshida that it may not have been weapons-grade material and was instead intended for use as a catalyst in the production of synthetic methanol for aviation fuel.[5][6] When the cargo had been loaded, U-234 carried out additional trials near Kiel, then returned to the northern German city where her passengers came aboard. 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 The Real Story Of The Birth Of The Atomic Bomb And The Nuclear Age by Carter P. Hydrick, 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNLRmDFx8Xw 2/2/1945 Quisling og Lippestad besøker Hitler i Berlin — fluktplaner til Storfosna i Ørland kommune https://youtu.be/nwJd2hyzMt0 Gunnar Randers (21 April 1914 – 7 February 1992) was a Norwegian physicist. He is known as the principal figure within Norwegian nuclear research after WWII. He was employed at the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1939 to 1940, and at the Yerkes Observatory from 1940 to 1941.[1] From 1942 to 1945 he was a part of the Technical Committee of the Norwegian High Command, together with scientists such as Svein Rosseland, Leif Tronstad and Helmer Dahl. The Technical Committee is considered as the precursor to the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, established in 1946.[2] Randers worked a few years at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, but in 1948 he was hired at the newly established Institute for Energy Technology. Together with Odd Dahl he was a leading force in building the nuclear reactor there. From 1968 to 1973 he was the assisting secretary general of research in NATO. From 1975 to 1980 he was the CEO of the company Scandpower.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Randers Leif Hans Larsen Tronstad DSO, OBE (27 March 1903 – 11 March 1945) was a Norwegian scientist, intelligence officer and military organizer. He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1927 and was a prolific researcher and writer of academic publications. A professor of chemistry at the Norwegian Institute of Technology from 1936, he was also among the pioneers of heavy water research, and was instrumental when a heavy water plant was built at Vemork. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Tronstad Goliath VLF transmitter of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_transmitter