European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes world sunday Muary 28,1993 germans to help Mark bottle of Atlantic London a the Royal Navy said Friday it has invited German veterans of the world War ii Battle of the Atlantic to Soth anniversary commemorations in May. The German frigate Bremen and submarine u 25 will be among some 50 warships and merchant ships from around the world assembling near Liverpool for six Days of ceremonies May 26-31. Queen Elizabeth ii will attend the commemoration. German veterans from the submarine Fleet of Admiral Karl Donitz have been invited to join a March by 2,000 serving sailors and War survivors through the City from which the British directed the War s longest Campaign lasting five years and eight months. Fifteen foreign navies Are sending warships including two . Navy destroyers the Moosbrugger and one other not yet determined. Admiral sir Julian Oswald the first sea lord who commands the Royal Navy told reporters at the de sense ministry the Battle of the Atlantic lasted from the very first Day of world War ii when the liner Athenia was sunk by u 30, until the very last. It was quite probably the longest High intensity sea Bat tie of All time and these ceremonies Honor the Cour age and fortitude of All who fought in it irrespective of service or  the German Navy in the Atlantic fought to destroy the convoys of ships from the United states and can Ada whose cargoes of food Petroleum raw materials and munitions enabled Britain to survive and the june 6,1944, invasion of Normandy to be launched. Historians say 2,000 merchant ships totalling 10.7 Mil lion tons were sunk along with 100 Allied warships. The British lost 22,000 merchant seamen and 10,000 naval personnel while 500 German submarines were sunk with the loss of More than 20,000 crewmen. Oswald said May 1993 was chosen for the ceremonies because in May 1943, Dunitz was compelled by mounting losses to temporarily withdraw his submarines from the Battle. When they returned in the fall that year they never regained the initiative he said. Norway s heroes of telemark saboteurs honoured Oslo Norway Aon the night of feb. 27,1943, nine norwegians quietly lid Down a Steep snowy Mountain and blew up a German heavy water Plant in telemark a Region in South Norway. The allies had ordered the Plant destroyed at All costs because it was producing a key atomic weapons Clement. Joa Chim Ronneberg one of the heroes of telemark says they succeeded because of thorough preparation excellent intelligence and a Good portion of Luck. Not inthe least the last. To pull off a sabotage action like that without even Cocking a gun is just Unbe-lievable.". Ronneberg and eight of his fellow saboteurs now in their 70s and 80s, Are joining50th anniversary celebrations this week end. Of the nine men who stole into the Plant and the two More who remained be Hind in the mountains As radio operators one Lias died and another living in Canada did not return for the commemoration. The ceremonies include a torchlight March to the Plant in Rukan about 120 Miles North of Oslo. Late saturday norwegian military Ca dets were to re enact the attack on the pc Mork Plant now a museum by sliding i Joachim Ronneberg one of the heroes of telemark says they succeeded because of thorough preparation excellent intelligence and a Good portion of Luck. Not in the least the last. To pull off a sabotage action like that without even Cocking a gun is just  Down the Mountain to the factory. At mid night a memorial service at a local Church was planned. A team of 41 British commandos had been killed trying to land in occupied nor Way to attack the telemark Plant. So the norwegians embarked on what seemed like a suicide Mission which they pulled off without losing a Man or firing a snot. Local residents had fed the allies information and some of the saboteurs hid for months in the mountains above the Plant while Ronneberg and his five Man team trained in England on a full scale Model of the Plant. Ronneberg s team parachuted into Norway before Dawn feb. 17. They landed in a storm 18 Miles off target. If we had t found by Chance a Well equipped Cabin nearby we probably would not have survived the terrible storm that Day said Ronneberg. After 10 Days they found the local underground team and could begin the mis Sion. Ronneberg said four men with machine guns and hand grenades stood ready toehold off 20 German soldiers. Five found an unguarded path into the building and fastened explosives to the heavy water equip ment or were lookouts. They lit the Short fuses giving them 30 seconds to escape. As they scrambled up the Mountain Ronneberg said we heard a tiny insignificant pop. It was almost an  that pop just after Midnight destroyed the heavy water  their Long climb Ronneberg said the nearly exhausted team kept looking Down at a Cable car that could run up the Steep Mountain from the  were scared to death. If they used the Cable car we were done for he  Cable car remained still and the entire team slipped into the darkness. Afterwards we saw truck after truck with troops going to the Plant said Ronne Berg. Five of us had been ordered to head for Sweden afterwards it there was any afterwards Ronneberg  eluded a manhunt involving up to 3,000 German troops and skied 250 Miles Over two weeks to Neutral Sweden. The Mission has been the subject of books and movies including heroes of telemark 9i 1950s Hollywood film loosely based on the action. The saboteurs were awarded medal for bravery by the United states Britain France and  their enemy respected them. It was the most Beautiful coup i had seen said Gen. Nikolaus von Falkon Horst the commander of the nazi occupation forces in Norway after the War. Sex lawmaker woman arrested in Germany in cold War spy Case Berlin a authorities arrested a former Ber Lin lawmaker and a Secretary at Germany s military col lege on charges they spied for former East German secret police the Federal prosecutor said Friday. They were the latest of scores of reputed spies arrested since Germany reunited in 1990 and Western authorities began rooting out nests of informants plan Ted by communist East Germany. Such prosecutions have triggered controversy in Ger Many because people who spied for the West Are no considered to be lawbreakers. The latest arrests included Budo Thomas 61, who served in the Berlin City legislature from 1971 until 1989, the year the Berlin Wal fell. He was a member of the social democrats the left leaning no. 2 party in Germany. He was arrested thursday and freed on Bond on Friday. The Federal prosecutor s office in Karlsruhe said Thomas worked at least since 1978 As an informant for the Stasi the East German Security Arm that spied units own people As Well As on Western Powers plus trained leftist and terrorist groups worldwide. Authorities also announced the arrest Friday of Secretary at Germany s military school Elfriede v., 57, and her former Stasi Contact 69-year-old Hermann k. The prosecutors alleged that Hermann first made Contact with Elfriede in 1967, and that she fed him in formation after getting a secretarial Job it the military University in Hamburg in 1975. Both were arrested in Hamburg where they lived. Cold War history is filled with incidents of cagey Asi German spies wooing lonely West German women Many secretaries at government agencies into committing treason. Toxic threat in Frankfurt workers from the chemical Plant Hoschst a near Frankfurt Germany Wear protective clothes and face masks Friday As they mow the Lawn of a soccer Field in a housing area in the suburb of sch Anhelm. Last week an Accident at the Plant released toxic chemicals that Poi soned part of he area. An evacuation is being discussed