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Originally Posted by TorpX
Interesting documentry, but the part about the atomic test seems rather implausible for the reasons RR states. Certainly, radioactive debris would still be around to betray the event.
Another thing in the program bothers me. Although it is a minor point, they say a German U-boat was at sea to deliver the uranium ore to Japan, and the US beat the Canadians to it (fairly or otherwise), near Portsmouth, NH. But wouldn't a U-boat going from Kiel to Japan go south around South Africa and east, toward the India Ocean? Why on earth, would it be anywhere near Canada?
This makes no sense to me. 
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Well! That's the way things work out sometimes. With history, logic is useless. People do the darnedest things. Either things happened or they didn't happen. In this case, a submarine from Germany WAS sent toward Japan with nuclear materials, U-234 with 560 kg of uranium oxide, among other materials for making Germany's most sophisticated weapons. On its way to Japan, it overheard Admiral Doenitz' surrender message, directing U-Boats to head for the nearest Allied port.
Instead, "Dynamite" Fehler decided to head for the US, but rendezvoused with an American vessel. At that point they took on an American boarding party to supervise and presumably to ensure their safety. They actually did end up at Portsmouth, NH. In addition to the uranium, U-234 also turned out to contain two complete ME-262s!
http://www.orau.org/ptp/articlesstories/u234.htm
I do remember in a DVD,
U-234 - Hitler's Last U-boat, which I have but can't find right now, that it was said there that Fehler's first plan was to head for Halifax, Nova Scotia but encountered unavoidable American warships along the way.