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Birger Stronsheim - RIP

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16-11-2012 5:02pm

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Birger Stromsheim, who has died aged 101, was considered the greatest of the “Heroes of Telemark” who in 1943 launched a daring raid to destroy a crucial part of the Nazi atomic weapons programme.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9681540/Birger-Stromsheim.html

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