An email from a German supporter
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Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 12:42 PM
Subject: Radar
The Germans had it already 60
years ago!
The recent news, a new Radar installation
in northern Australia has been commissioned which is capable of looking over the
horizon for 2000km is by far not so sensational as most people
may believe.
In WW2 the German Luftnachrichtentruppe
(Air Force Signals) had already developed equipment
which could "see" just as far as the modern Australian Radar
System!
For example, in German occupied Holland near
Alkmaar a Radar antenna code-named "Elephant" was capable of reporting the
RAF Bombers right after they
started for their raids against Germany. This gave
the Luftwaffe reliable valuable time for forewarning and organizing the defence.
"Elephant" detected 1944 Allied convoys on their way to Murmansk in the Northern
Ice Sea, 2200 km distant! Its crew, highly trained LN-soldiers even
surprised higher German command staff again and again with their accurate
news. German Radar installations
("Wassermann") in Africa could "see" traffic
near the Turkish coast.
Due to heavy losses of bombers, the British
developed several systems to jam German Radar, even to bomb them out, and
had some success for a time, whereupon a German engineer invented a Radar, which
did not require to send any signals at all. It smartly used the signals of
the British radar stations. Code-named "Klein Heidelberg" they
were situated in strategic positions in Holland
and Denmark.
As the British could not jam or close
down their own Radar, the "passive" German stations continued
to give reliable reports of Allied flights and their position when
all others were out of action.
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