My Enemy’s Enemy
In August 1942, driven by émigrés like Albert Einstein, America’s Manhattan Project began building the uranium fission bomb that destroyed Hiroshima three years later.
However, as U.S. work began Manhattan Project physicist Leona Woods said Germany “led the civilized world of physics in every aspect.” Also, four years earlier in 1938, Germany had already annexed Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, securing vast uranium reserves, and nuclear fission of uranium was first observed, not by émigrés in America but by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in Berlin.
The Third Reich in its twelve years built mankind’s first interstate highways; hosted, televised, and won the Olympic games; deployed mankind’s first jet and rocket aircraft, cruise missiles, and smart bombs; and launched ballistic missiles to the edge of space. The Third Reich also murdered two-thirds of conquered Europe’s “undesirables,” six million of whom were Jews, yet managed to hide it.
But history says the Nazis built no atom bomb because Werner Heisenberg, the physicist they scorned as “The White Jew,” told them it was too hard?