The secret Nazi shipment of uranium and V-2 rockets to Imperial Japan
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V-2 rocket test at the German rocket facility in Peenemunde, on the northeast Baltic coast of Germany. Summer 1943.
The German submarine U-234 departed Kristiansand, the German-occupied harbor town at the southern tip of Norway, on April 15, 1945. Under the command of Kapitanleutnant Johann-Heinrich Fehler, the U-234 carried 240 tons of secret cargo plu…