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A look at military nuclear power and Germany, a story that needs to be completely rewritten... I'll go even further: at the end of the post, I suggest that the American Trinity bomb, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki may have been a little... German. Eighty years after World War II, we are beginning to see the backlash, and reunified Germany is back on track... From Eric Branca's book, 300 Days / July 13, 1944/May 9, 1945 - Ten Months to End Hitler; Perrin Publishing, France - not translated into English - "...Flashback to 1944/1945... Until a few years ago, the hypothesis was inconceivable: did the Third Reich have nuclear weapons and did it use them? The answer: yes... The Germans called it the “disintegration bomb.” And there is a witness, an Italian science journalist, Luigi Romersa, who was close to Mussolini and sent by him to Germany. Luigi Romersa knew Werner von Braun personally and was in contact with Otto Hahn, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (after the war) for his discovery of nuclear fission. Armed with two letters for Hitler and Goebbels, Luigi Romersa left for Berlin and met with them on October 6 and 10, 1944. He was picked up during the night of October 11-12 and taken to Peenemünde and then to the island of Rügen. He was led into a bunker with a very thick glass screen; what happened next: "...I then waited until I heard a kind of bell ringing (.....). We were told to be careful, as the bomb was going to explode in a few minutes. Sure enough, we felt a huge earthquake (...), we saw a very clear flash, a bright light, and then a large wall of smoke rose up in front of us..." Four hours later, Romersa and his companions were allowed to leave, dressed in protective clothing unlike anything he had ever seen before; the scene was unprecedented. Romersa recounted: "A large number of trees had burst open as if a monstrous force had pierced them in the middle. A few sheep we saw on the ground were literally charred (...). Here and there were small houses that had simply disappeared..." Another nuclear test took place in Ohrdruf (Thuringia) on March 3, 1945, with human guinea pigs... From then on, there was a total blackout on the part of the Americans and Soviets (who seized the Peenemünde base and the island of Rügen); the Allies as a whole (including the British and French) set out to hunt down German scientists; Operation Paperclip for the US, with the nuclear aspect being a priority for the latter; in Thuringia, near Ohrdruf, isotopic traces from the launch were expected to saturate the area... So when Hitler spoke of “miracle weapons,” he was completely serious, not delusional. This puts the Ardennes offensive of December 1944 into perspective; Germany wanted to buy time... One question remains unanswered and deserves to be asked: did captured German scientists and engineers participate in the final development of the American atomic bombs (Trinity, July 16, 1945, as well as Little Boy, August 6, and Fat Man, August 9)? We will probably never know... I take this hypothesis to its logical conclusion: contrary to post-World War II propaganda, the Americans were floundering miserably with their Manhattan Project... Just a timeline: May 1945, Germany's surrender and the recruitment of German scientists and engineers in the weeks that followed, between May and June, most of them voluntarily surrendering (at a run, with the devil at their heels...) to US troops, fearing capture by the Soviets. German/American debriefing, at work in Alamogordo from June, correcting American errors and first Trinity test on July 16, 1945. It's doable... For me, the only mystery is how, and with what, the Germans controlled the chain reaction. Hitler had been very clear on the subject: if you cannot control (slow down, stop...) the chain reaction, you stop your work immediately. He considered that it would be the end of humanity... Officially, Germany was pursuing the heavy water route, as France had done before its defeat in May/June 1940 (on the American side, with Fermi, it would be graphite...). Unless there is a third way... Were the colossal investments in the V2 and planned successor systems (the program is equivalent to 27,000 Heinkel He 111 bombers, of which 6,508 were built during World War II) simply intended to put conventional explosives in a warhead? A slight doubt... We need to move away from the “delusional” view of German leaders and engineers... World War II is often presented as a struggle between the evil Germanic-Aryan world, which could only lose, and the good Jewish scientists who fled Nazi Germany, who could only win... In fact, with hindsight, it may have been less than that...

F2269Frederic's tweet photo. A look at military nuclear power and Germany, a story that needs to be completely rewritten... I'll go even further: at the end of the post, I suggest that the American Trinity bomb, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki may have been a little... German. Eighty years after World War II, we are beginning to see the backlash, and reunified Germany is back on track...
From Eric Branca's book, 300 Days / July 13, 1944/May 9, 1945 - Ten Months to End Hitler; Perrin Publishing, France - not translated into English - "...Flashback to 1944/1945... Until a few years ago, the hypothesis was inconceivable: did the Third Reich have nuclear weapons and did it use them? The answer: yes... The Germans called it the “disintegration bomb.” And there is a witness, an Italian science journalist, Luigi Romersa, who was close to Mussolini and sent by him to Germany. Luigi Romersa knew Werner von Braun personally and was in contact with Otto Hahn, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (after the war) for his discovery of nuclear fission. Armed with two letters for Hitler and Goebbels, Luigi Romersa left for Berlin and met with them on October 6 and 10, 1944. He was picked up during the night of October 11-12 and taken to Peenemünde and then to the island of Rügen. He was led into a bunker with a very thick glass screen; what happened next: "...I then waited until I heard a kind of bell ringing (.....). We were told to be careful, as the bomb was going to explode in a few minutes. Sure enough, we felt a huge earthquake (...), we saw a very clear flash, a bright light, and then a large wall of smoke rose up in front of us..." Four hours later, Romersa and his companions were allowed to leave, dressed in protective clothing unlike anything he had ever seen before; the scene was unprecedented. Romersa recounted: "A large number of trees had burst open as if a monstrous force had pierced them in the middle. A few sheep we saw on the ground were literally charred (...). Here and there were small houses that had simply disappeared..." Another nuclear test took place in Ohrdruf (Thuringia) on March 3, 1945, with human guinea pigs... From then on, there was a total blackout on the part of the Americans and Soviets (who seized the Peenemünde base and the island of Rügen); the Allies as a whole (including the British and French) set out to hunt down German scientists; Operation Paperclip for the US, with the nuclear aspect being a priority for the latter; in Thuringia, near Ohrdruf, isotopic traces from the launch were expected to saturate the area... So when Hitler spoke of “miracle weapons,” he was completely serious, not delusional. This puts the Ardennes offensive of December 1944 into perspective; Germany wanted to buy time... One question remains unanswered and deserves to be asked: did captured German scientists and engineers participate in the final development of the American atomic bombs (Trinity, July 16, 1945, as well as Little Boy, August 6, and Fat Man, August 9)? We will probably never know...
I take this hypothesis to its logical conclusion: contrary to post-World War II propaganda, the Americans were floundering miserably with their Manhattan Project... Just a timeline: May 1945, Germany's surrender and the recruitment of German scientists and engineers in the weeks that followed, between May and June, most of them voluntarily surrendering (at a run, with the devil at their heels...) to US troops, fearing capture by the Soviets. German/American debriefing, at work in Alamogordo from June, correcting American errors and first Trinity test on July 16, 1945. It's doable... For me, the only mystery is how, and with what, the Germans controlled the chain reaction. Hitler had been very clear on the subject: if you cannot control (slow down, stop...) the chain reaction, you stop your work immediately. He considered that it would be the end of humanity... Officially, Germany was pursuing the heavy water route, as France had done before its defeat in May/June 1940 (on the American side, with Fermi, it would be graphite...). Unless there is a third way... Were the colossal investments in the V2 and planned successor systems (the program is equivalent to 27,000 Heinkel He 111 bombers, of which 6,508 were built during World War II) simply intended to put conventional explosives in a warhead? A slight doubt... We need to move away from the “delusional” view of German leaders and engineers... World War II is often presented as a struggle between the evil Germanic-Aryan world, which could only lose, and the good Jewish scientists who fled Nazi Germany, who could only win... In fact, with hindsight, it may have been less than that...

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