I'm listening to a podcast about assassinations in Norway during WWII. There are some intersting cases. a Norwegian working in a police unit that worked closely with the Gestapo lived in a block of flats reserved for high-ranking nazis where security was tight. The target was known as a sadistic torturer. The resistance tried to solve this by breaking into an apartment across the street. A civilian family lived there, but the assassins gagged them and tied them to their beds. This was done both for the safety of the hit men, but also to give the family an alibi when they later would get questioned by the Gestapo. The hit men had bought a machine gun, most likely a British Bren Gun they placed on a table facing the target's apartment.
The next morning the curtains opened in the apartment across the street and a burst was fired. Unfortunately it was the target's brother who opened the curtains. He also worked for the Germans, but he wasn't on the resistance's hit list. Later in the war the intended target got killed. The father in the family who lived in the apartment the hit men used was severely tortured by the Gestapo in spite of the precautions of the hit men.
This reminds me of a scene in Antony Horowitz' novel "Trigger Mortis" where the villains tries to kill 007 in the same way. I also think of one of Bond's two first two kills mentioned in the novel "Casino Royale". James Bond uses a sniper rifle to shoot a man across the street. He uses a second sniper to break the window in the target's apartment so the glass won't change the trajectory of his bullet. With the machine gun used by the Norwegian resistance this doesn't matter because of the high volume of fire.
In a later assassination a black marketeer, playboy and torturer. An SOE agent is equipped with a submachine gun inside a violin case with a mechanism to fire the gun without opening the case. I've never hear of anything like it used in WWII, but the SOE had many strange gadgets made for them. Unfortunately the target realized what was going on and managed to knock the violin case to the side in time. Then both the SOE agent and the informer ran out into the street. Both drew their pistols and a running gun battle took place on Karl Johan street, the main street of Oslo. the SOE agent managed to would the target seriously, but now they were on the street just outside Deutsches Haus (the German House), a pub dedicated to German officers! Many nazi officers watched with shock the dramatic scene just outside the window. The assassin was in great dager, but the getaway car pulled up just in time next to him, he jumped in and the car drove away at great speed. The target died in the ambulance on his way to the hospital
German officers drinking in Deutsches Haus in Oslo:
There is a lot of talk (and activity) of 'Russian capabilities for damaging infrastructure on the bottom of the sea such as internet cables and pipelines. A lot of this is happening in the Baltic Sea lately. This video is a bout Russia's capabilities for this type of warfare.
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I'm listening to a podcast about assassinations in Norway during WWII. There are some intersting cases. a Norwegian working in a police unit that worked closely with the Gestapo lived in a block of flats reserved for high-ranking nazis where security was tight. The target was known as a sadistic torturer. The resistance tried to solve this by breaking into an apartment across the street. A civilian family lived there, but the assassins gagged them and tied them to their beds. This was done both for the safety of the hit men, but also to give the family an alibi when they later would get questioned by the Gestapo. The hit men had bought a machine gun, most likely a British Bren Gun they placed on a table facing the target's apartment.
The next morning the curtains opened in the apartment across the street and a burst was fired. Unfortunately it was the target's brother who opened the curtains. He also worked for the Germans, but he wasn't on the resistance's hit list. Later in the war the intended target got killed. The father in the family who lived in the apartment the hit men used was severely tortured by the Gestapo in spite of the precautions of the hit men.
This reminds me of a scene in Antony Horowitz' novel "Trigger Mortis" where the villains tries to kill 007 in the same way. I also think of one of Bond's two first two kills mentioned in the novel "Casino Royale". James Bond uses a sniper rifle to shoot a man across the street. He uses a second sniper to break the window in the target's apartment so the glass won't change the trajectory of his bullet. With the machine gun used by the Norwegian resistance this doesn't matter because of the high volume of fire.
In a later assassination a black marketeer, playboy and torturer. An SOE agent is equipped with a submachine gun inside a violin case with a mechanism to fire the gun without opening the case. I've never hear of anything like it used in WWII, but the SOE had many strange gadgets made for them. Unfortunately the target realized what was going on and managed to knock the violin case to the side in time. Then both the SOE agent and the informer ran out into the street. Both drew their pistols and a running gun battle took place on Karl Johan street, the main street of Oslo. the SOE agent managed to would the target seriously, but now they were on the street just outside Deutsches Haus (the German House), a pub dedicated to German officers! Many nazi officers watched with shock the dramatic scene just outside the window. The assassin was in great dager, but the getaway car pulled up just in time next to him, he jumped in and the car drove away at great speed. The target died in the ambulance on his way to the hospital
German officers drinking in Deutsches Haus in Oslo:
Outside Deutsches Haus
There is a lot of talk (and activity) of 'Russian capabilities for damaging infrastructure on the bottom of the sea such as internet cables and pipelines. A lot of this is happening in the Baltic Sea lately. This video is a bout Russia's capabilities for this type of warfare.
There is of course a clear link to a FYEO: