The plan was insane. While the Wehrmacht bled in the mud of Ukraine, three specialized Brandenburger commando units would slip through Soviet partisan lines—not to blow up bridges or assassinate generals. Their target: the .
For the past eighteen months, German intelligence had tracked Soviet fissile material shipments from the mines in the Urals to a single, reinforced concrete bunker. Stalin’s own atomic program was stalled, but the uranium ore was already stacked in barrels. Hearts of Iron IV v1.15.1
“Intel says two battalions of NKVD,” whispered his radioman, Klaus. The plan was insane
“We don’t capture the ore,” von Fersen reminded his twelve men. “We contaminate it. A single vial of polonium solution into the main ventilation shaft. Then the Soviets can’t purify it for two years. And the world never knows we were here.” For the past eighteen months, German intelligence had
“The Führer is obsessed,” Speidel said quietly. “He has seen the Allied bomber streams. He knows conventional production cannot match the American steel tide. So he has ordered a complete doctrinal pivot.”
Berlin, November 1943. The War Cabinet.
“— Fixed issue where German nuclear raid events could trigger before Soviet ‘RDS-1’ national focus completion.”