Further still, Germany also knew about the possibilities of a
thermonuclear weapon in 1944 and nuclear power for submarines.
One can only wonder what would have happened if Hitler had not
persecuted the Jews nor regarded
Nazis looked down Einsteinian general relativitivity as Jewish science,but on
other hand they considered QM as an Aryan science and supported it pretty well.
Nazis attitude towards Jewish physics started to change after Hahn and Meissner
splitted atom mainly due efforts of Ohrensorge,who was a true believer of
nuclear power both in military and civilian uses and more importantly,could
speak directly to Hitler.
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