Jens A. Poulsson

Info

Role

Writer

Date of birth

10/27/1918

Date of death

02/02/2010

Place of birth

Rjukan, Telemark, Norway

Jens A. Poulsson

Biography

Jens-Anton Poulsson was a Norwegian officer, born in Rjukan, Norway. He became world famous as one of the twelve saboteurs which stood behind the Heavy water sabotages during the 2WW. He was an officer in Comany Linge, and was trained by allied forces in Britain. Poulsson started off his military schools in 1939, and experienced the German invasion being ordered to retreat back to Sweden in stead of battling against the invaders. In October he went to England, and started training as a saboteur, and in 1942-44 he participated as one of the main men in stopping Adolf Hitler getting Germany the nuclear bomb. He later used his life to work in the military forces, and has written several books about the second world war.