Explore the plot of Sniper Elite: Resistance, set in France 1944. Follow Harry Hawker as he battles the Luftwaffe and uncovers the secret Nazi project 'Kleine Blüme' with the French Resistance.
The story of Sniper Elite: Resistance runs parallel to the story of Sniper Elite 5. While Karl Fairburne is occupied with uncovering and stopping Operation Kraken, Harry Hawker has been sent to take out a new Luftwaffe Wonder Weapon that could prevent the Allies from reclaiming France with the aid of the French Resistance.
In Spring 1944, Allied preparations are in their final stages for the D-Day landings in Normandy, paving the way for the liberation of Western Europe. Nazi intelligence believes that the invasion is imminent, but are unsure as to where it will occur. Meanwhile, the French Resistance have uncovered rumours of another Nazi superweapon, which could place the entire invasion in jeopardy.
SOE agent and sniper, Captain Harry Hawker is deployed behind enemy lines to Nazi-occupied Eastern France. His first mission is to provide ground support for an RAF “Dambusters” raid on a French dam, the Valleé de L’Écluse in the Rhône-Alps. After neutralising German air defences, and helping destroy the dam, he meets with the French Resistance, and SOE Cryptographer Morris Ahmed.
The Resistance leader, Carillon, informs him that one of their informants, Amt Ausland/Abwehr Officer and Resistance sympathiser Ernst Günsche, codenamed “Vertigo” has gone missing. The town in which Vertigo is deployed, St. Raymond, has an unusually large amount of Gestapo officers in the area, arousing suspicions that trouble is afoot.
Hawker’s investigation in St. Raymond reveals that Vertigo’s cover was blown, and his apartment has been ransacked by Gestapo officers. He finds Vertigo’s dead body in an underground tunnel, having gone into hiding and committed suicide, rather than face capture and torture by the Gestapo.
After recovering Vertigo’s intelligence, it directs Hawker and the Resitance to Fourvière, a suburb in the city of Lyon. The Gestapo have commandeered the local luxury hotel, the “Hotel Terminus” as their headquarters, and in the hotel is believed to be information regarding the Nazi superweapon. Hawker infiltrates the Terminus, revealing details of a project codenamed “Kleine Blüme”, as well as finding a cache of gas masks; implying that it is a chemical weapon.
Intelligence gathered from the Gestapo gestures towards a location known as “Site D”, the factory which produces Kleine Blüme. However, whilst the location of Site D is being decoded by SOE cryptographer Ahmed, Hawker is instructed to return to the Valleé de L’Écluse dam. During the RAF bombing sortie, the Nazis were able to capture an unexploded and intact “Upkeep” bouncing bomb from a downed Avro Lancaster bomber. Nazi scientists from Site D, sent by a senior scientist named Doctor Uwe Schöne have been dispatched to the area to conduct research on the Upkeep bomb, and send findings back to Germany. Hawker destroys the Upkeep and it’s research, preventing it from getting into Nazi hands.
Intelligence intercepted by Bletchley Park reveals that a division known as “Special Committee C”, an unsanctioned Nazi group which is responsible for the development of Kleine Blüme, a deadly nerve agent. The committee was originally disbanded by the Reich, but continues to operate secretly without official approval, developing the weapon covertly. It believes the Nazis too cowardly to use a chemical weapon against the Allies, and intends to illicitly deploy Kleine Blüme against the Allied invasion of France.
Key figures within Special Committee C include: SS Obergrüppenführer Otto Krüger - the head of the division; Doctor Uwe Schöne - chemist and chief developmental scientist of Kleine Blüme who created the weapon; and Gestapo Grüppenführer Hermann Gottschalk - a corrupt secret police chief tasked with the security of the project, and keeping Kleine Blüme a secret from the Reich.
It is revealed that Vertigo intended to report the existence of Special Committee C and their mutiny to Reich intelligence, the Amt Ausland/Abwehr, who would have had the project shut down. However, Gottschalk’s Gestapo got to him first.
Ahmed decodes Site D to be in Marseille, and Hawker slips into the production facility, destroying it. The SOE concludes that an amount of Kleine Blüme will have inevitably escaped prior to Site D’s destruction. Hawker is sent to “Fort Rouge”, Special Committee C’s headquarters, located in the Rhône-Alps. Hawker sneaks into F
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