Secret Nazi mission saw German U-boats land men on American soil
Nazi U-boats dropped saboteurs onto American shores as part of a secret mission during the Second World War, a documentary has claimed.
Eight men landed on beaches off Long Island and Florida with the intention of sabotaging targets across the country over a period of up to two years.
Four men arrived ashore near Manhattan on June 13, 1942 carrying weapons, explosives and primers.
On 17 June 1942 a further four men landed off Ponte Verda Beach in Florida.
The German documentary, called Attack on America – Hitler's 9/11 will be shown on Saturday on the anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York.
The programme-makers, Spiegal TV, claim the men intended to attack economic targets such as Penn Station, hydroelectric plant at Niagara Falls and aluminium factories in Illinois and Tennessee.
A spokesman for Spiegel TV told the Daily Mail: "It has surprising parallels with 9/11 because the Nazis' goals were the same – to kill as many people as possible while crippling economic installations."
The chief of the German Abwehr counter-intelligence service, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, came up with the plan which was code-named Operation Pastorius after the first German to organise a settlement of his countrymen in the US, Francis Pastorius....
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Eight men landed on beaches off Long Island and Florida with the intention of sabotaging targets across the country over a period of up to two years.
Four men arrived ashore near Manhattan on June 13, 1942 carrying weapons, explosives and primers.
On 17 June 1942 a further four men landed off Ponte Verda Beach in Florida.
The German documentary, called Attack on America – Hitler's 9/11 will be shown on Saturday on the anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York.
The programme-makers, Spiegal TV, claim the men intended to attack economic targets such as Penn Station, hydroelectric plant at Niagara Falls and aluminium factories in Illinois and Tennessee.
A spokesman for Spiegel TV told the Daily Mail: "It has surprising parallels with 9/11 because the Nazis' goals were the same – to kill as many people as possible while crippling economic installations."
The chief of the German Abwehr counter-intelligence service, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, came up with the plan which was code-named Operation Pastorius after the first German to organise a settlement of his countrymen in the US, Francis Pastorius....