Hitler's Sunken Secret

Programmes

• Moon Machines
• In the Shadow of the Moon
• The Underwater Dream Machine
• Nuclear Nightmares
• Hitler's Sunken Secret
• Global Dimming
• Project Poltergeist
• Magnetic Flip
• The Secret of El Dorado
• Rocket Men of Mission 105
• The Day the Oceans Boiled
• Hunt for the Death Star
• The Great Dog Race
• Einstein's Biggest Blunder

First transmitted on PBS / NOVA, March 2005

One of the great stories of World War II re-examined.

For sixty years the icy waters of Norway’s Lake Tinn have held a secret. During World War II, under Nazi occupation, the region witnessed a deadly underground war of spies and saboteurs. The battle was for Norway’s heavy water: a mysterious substance the Norwegian resistance fought desperately to keep out of German hands. In a desperate act of sabotage a passenger ferry supposedly carrying barrels of heavy water was sent to the bottom of Lake Tinn. This film tells the story of that desperate battle, and follows a team of underwater archaeologists looking for the barrels. Do they really hold the key to the only weapon that could have won the war for Hitler – a Nazi nuclear bomb? Or is the truth even more shocking?