Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm HallFrom April through December of 1945, ten of Nazi Germany's greatest nuclear physicists were detained by Allied military and intelligence services in a kind of gilded cage at Farm Hall, an English country manor near Cambridge. The physicists knew the Reich had failed to develop an atomic bomb, and they soon learned, from a BBC radio report on August 6, that the Allies had succeeded in their own efforts to create such a weapon. But what they did not know was that many of their meetings and private conversations were being monitored and recorded by British agents. This book contains the complete collection of transcripts that were made from these secret recordings, providing an unprecedented view of how the German scientists, including two Nobel Laureates, thought and spoke about their roles during the war. |
Contents
The Uranium Club | 1 |
BRIEF CHRONOLOGY | 57 |
CAST OF CHARACTERS | 61 |
Settling In | 63 |
I PREAMBLE | 65 |
REPORT 1 | 77 |
REPORT 2 | 89 |
REPORT 3 | 107 |
REPORT 11 | 261 |
REPORT 12 | 267 |
REPORT 14 | 269 |
REPORT 16 | 271 |
REPORT 16A | 273 |
REPORT 17 | 277 |
A Nobel for Otto Hahn | 281 |
REPORT 18 | 283 |
The Bomb Drops | 113 |
REPORT 4 | 115 |
APPENDIX 1 | 141 |
APPENDIX 2 | 147 |
Putting the Pieces Together | 151 |
REPORT 5 | 153 |
Appendix to Report 5 | 191 |
Looking to the Future | 209 |
REPORT 6 | 211 |
REPORT 7 | 215 |
REPORT 8 | 235 |
Looking Toward Home | 245 |
REPORT 9 | 247 |
APPENDIX to Report 9 | 249 |
REPORT 10 | 253 |
Appendix to Report 18 | 286 |
REPORT 19 | 303 |
REPORT 20 | 309 |
REPORT 21 | 311 |
REPORT 22 | 313 |
REPORT 2324 | 315 |
Aftermaths | 317 |
THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR OBTAINING ENERGY FROM FISSION OF URANIUM | 337 |
Original German Text | 341 |
TWO LETTERS FROM MAX VON LAUE TO PAUL ROSBAUD | 349 |
BBC NEWS REPORT LONDON AUGUST 6 1945 900 PM | 357 |
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE TEN DETAINEES | 363 |
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