A Mission So Secret the Nazis Forgot They Were There

Most of the Nazi forces surrendered to the Allies during the first week of May 1945. During the following days, the remaining German resistance units stationed in Czechoslovakia, Greece, Poland, and Yugoslavia also fell, and soon France was isolated.

German submarines also surrendered to the Americans during that time, dropping their weapons in the United States and Latin America.

However, there was still one unit left, a weather reporting team stationed in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, not far from Northern Norway.

They were the men from Operation Haudegen, a mission so secret that even the Nazis forgot about them.


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