Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall

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Springer Science & Business Media, Mar 9, 2013 - History - 384 pages
From 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
SETTLING IN
63
THE BOMB DROPS
113
PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER
151
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
209
LOOKING TOWARD HOME
245
September 2430 1945
253
A NOBEL FOR OTTO HAHN
281
AFTERMATHS
317
Heisenbergs Lecture February 26 1942
337
Von Laues Letters to Paul Rosbaud 1959
349
BBC Report August 6 1945
357
Selected Bibliography
367
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