'My grandfather died when I was about 19,' said Bear Grylls. Typical of that generation, Grylls never spoke about his highly secret work. There were all these old military documents wrapped in escape maps, and everything said 'Top Secret' on it.'Īfter the documents were shown to experts at the Imperial War Museum, it emerged that Brigadier Grylls commanded the unit from early 1946 until it was wound up in late 1947. We found this old World War II military trunk of my grandfather's. 'It was a house my grandfather had lived in,' he said, 'and I was helping my mother move out. While Bear will regularly take on tough, survival challenges, his grandfather led an elite unit to track down the Nazi's greatest secrets Speaking at the Hay Festival, Grylls admitted he only found out about his grandfather's involvement when he chanced upon old papers in an attic. Just last week, it was revealed by the adventurer Bear Grylls that his grandfather, Brigadier Ted Grylls, was one of the commanders of the unit, often referred to as 'T-Force'. The unit was called Target-Force, and its job was to seize Nazi scientific secrets and personnel to stop them falling into the hands of the Soviets, and to use them instead for British advantage. Groth was arrested and spirited away, and his laboratory was dismantled and packed up.įor Urquhart, the remarkable discovery, although accidental, was a coup for his unit, whose existence was a closely guarded secret, and which remains somewhat shrouded in mystery even today. officers and civilians descended on the 'silk factory'. Within 24 hours, numerous British and U.S. 'I am Professor Wilhelm Groth,' he declared, 'and I am doing research on isolating isotopes of uranium.'Īs soon as the word 'uranium' was passed up the chain of command, alarm bells started to ring with the select few who knew then what we all know today - that the element is an integral part of the construction of atomic weapons.
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Even though he knew the war was over, it was still a struggle to make a full admission. He had been working on one of Nazi Germany's greatest secrets for many years. Adventurer Bear Grylls, who presents shows such as Born Survivor, revealed that his grandfather is the real hero in the family
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