England was hoping
to stop the enemy
by stopping them from producing their weapons


















The
Möhne Reservoir —
or Moehne Reservoir —
is an artificial lake in North Rhine-Westphalia,
some 45 km east of Dortmund, Germany.
The lake is formed by the damming of two rivers,
Möhne and Heve,
and with its four basins stores as much as
135 million cubic metres of water.
The dam was built between 1908 and 1913
to help control floods,
 regulate water levels on the Ruhr river downstream,
and generate hydropower.
Today, the lake is also a tourist attraction.






The dam

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 / 51.489307; 8.058772 was breached by RAF Lancaster Bombers
(“The Dambusters”) during
Operation Chastise on the night of 16–17 May 1943,
together with the Edersee dam in northern Hesse.
Bouncing bombs had been constructed which were
able to skip over the protective nets that hung in the water.
A huge hole of 77 m by 22 m was blown into the dam.
The resulting huge floodwave killed at least 1579 people,^[1]
1026 of them foreign forced labourers held in camps downriver. The small city of Neheim-Hüsten was particularly hard-hit with over 800 victims,
among them at least 526 victims in a camp for
Russian women held for forced labour.




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