Oslo-Report

As the Oslo Report, a document is referred to, which was found on November 5, 1939 in the British Embassy in Oslo. On several pages of the anonymous letter, the former objectives of military research in Germany were revealed.

The seven-page document in German language was deposited together with a serving as proof of the authenticity of the report proximity fuse for a Flakgranate in a packet for the British Legation. It contained information on the Army Research Center Peenemünde, which was then the British unknown Junkers Ju 88, the German radar research, which later Y- device -called night - hunting radar and the German rocket development.

The author of the report that " a German scientist who is well disposed towards you " signed with, was the physicist Hans Ferdinand Mayer, at that time employed by Siemens & Halske AG and professional travel throughout Europe. 1943 Mayer was sentenced to imprisonment in concentration camps because he heard enemy radio and had criticized the Nazi regime. Only in 1977 he confided to his own family that he had written the Oslo Report. This was published Mayers and his wife after the death at his request.

The authenticity of the material was at one time frequently challenged in the United Kingdom, it remained an important source for the development of the German research during the Second World War.