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"Denyav" wrote in message ... Perfectly true, their reaction to the news of the Hiroshima bomb was initially disbelief. They firmly believed they were in the lead and since they 'knew' a bomb was years away there was no way the western allies could have done this. Farm Hall was a well the part of misinformation campaign of the victors. First message they want convey was "German Scientist were unable to calculate critical mass" But they had a problem namely according Wehrmact documents a Wehrmact physicist (Deibner)calculated critical mass exactly and reported it to Wehrmact in Feb.42. No he guessed rather inaccurately that it was between 10 and 100 kg So apparently German scientists forgat in Farm Hall what they knew in Feb42!!. So this misinformation campaign collapsed but another one launched to replace it namely "Good German scientists (Heisenberg)sabotaged evil Nazis nuclear bomb making plans" That may be Heisenberg's motivation This could be good starting point for a Hollywood movie but licht years away from the reality.Heisenberg could not sabotage anything because he was wrong in 41 as he was in 45. Only key person in German nuclear program who might have a reason to sabotage program was Houtermans but his background was very well known,anything less than success would mean sure death for Houtermans and probably for his family. Houtermans was scarcely a key player, he was in an industrial lan for most of the war BTW according to pre Farm Hall planning,only two of Farm Hall Guests supposed to leave Farm Hall as free man.,but none of them got jailed. Food for thought. Many German were interned after the war, few were charged and most released. Keith |
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