If you are interested in history, stop by Vemork near the town of Rjukan, where the battle for heavy water took place during WWII. World War II. The Germans had heavy water produced here for their atomic project, and if they had succeeded in their research with heavy water, they could probably have built an atomic bomb, which would have had serious consequences for the development of the war. Norway was occupied by the Germans in 1940 and during the war 4 acts of sabotage were carried out on the spot until finally in early 1943 the Norwegian resistance and Allied forces succeeded in putting an end to the production of heavy water and thus the Nazi nuclear programme.
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