More confirmations for the already spoken of Nazi atomic bomb tests. This was removed from official history, but there are so many credible reports there is absolutely no doubt about it - they did tests nuclear bombs as early as 1943. and there are even strong indications they were close to developing a hydrogen bomb!
These are quotes of highly credible reports reproduced in the 5000+ page book by Dr. Todd Rider from MIT
Forgotten Creators - How German-Speaking Scientists and Engineers Invented the Modern World, And What We Can Learn from Them
It's 1.2Gb!! so it takes few minutes to download. Everything is backed up by scanned official documents + additional info, he did a truly massive, monumental research and shared it for free.
From 3 chapters about 3 main test sites. When you open the pdf you got bookmarks on the left and these are all under Advanced Creations in Nuclear Engineering
D.10 Possible October 1944 Test Explosion on the Baltic Coast
• In August 1944, a German prisoner of war reported that “experiments are conducted on an
estate in Pomerania [on the Baltic coast] and it is alleged that this explosive is capable of
destroying everything in a radius of several kilometers.” (p. 3733).
• On 20 October 1944, the U.S. physicist and intelligence analyst Philip Morrison mentioned
“recent reports of Baltic explosions” that were being investigated by the Manhattan Project
as possible tests of a German atomic bomb (p. 3734).
• A 21 October 1944 OSS intelligence report described the October test: “The Germans have
completed a weapon which is founded on the principle of the disintegration of matter (Atomzertruemmerung).
Experiments have been performed which have proved conclusive[...] The
radius of action is supposed to be about three kilometers” (p. 3735).
• A 19 January 1945 U.S. military intelligence summary covering many areas of advanced
German research included a subject heading for “ATOMIC BOMB,” under which it mentioned
“close surveillance of the area in which tests are alleged to have taken place” (p. 3736). While
the report did not state a specific time or location for those alleged tests, it focused largely on
the most recent work being conducted on the Baltic coast, suggesting that the tests occurred
in late 1944 on the Baltic coast.
• In May 1945, German prisoner of war Friedrich Olmes said that there had been “experiments
with the atom-splitting bomb” and that “practical experiments were conducted on the Baltic
coast” (p. 3737).
• A 19 August 1945 U.S. Army Air Forces intelligence report entitled “Investigations, Research,
Developments, and Practical Use of the German Atomic Bomb” presented testimony
by Rudolph Zinsser, a German pilot captured by U.S. forces, that in October 1944 he flew
near the massive explosion of a new German bomb on or near the Baltic coast, describing in
detail a very large mushroom cloud and severe electrical disturbances (p. 3738). After further
investigation, rather than dismissing Zinsser’s report, the United States decided to upgrade
it from Secret to Top Secret in October 1945 (p. 3748).
• In testimony in 1955, 1984, and 2005, Italian military correspondent Luigi Romersa stated
that by a special arrangement between Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, on 12 October 1944
he witnessed the massive explosion of a new German bomb on the Baltic coast (apparently
Rugen island), had to wait in a bunker for many hours afterward for the site to become less
dangerous (short radioactive half-lives?), and then had to wear a special protective suit when
inspecting the leveled test site afterward (pp. 3750–3756).
• Werner Grothmann stated in 2000–2002 interviews that there was a successful atomic bomb
test in October 1944 (p. 3757).
• In a 13 March 2005 television interview, Elisabeth Mestlin stated that she observed a massive
explosion on Rugen from a neighboring island on 12 October 1944 (p. 3760).
Some of the major sources and details are summarized in Table D.4.]
D.11 Possible November 1944 Test Explosion in Poland
• As already mentioned, a Top Secret U.S. cable from March 1946 stated that a “capable young
engineer” in Poland knew that atomic bomb casings included a layer of cadmium, which was
true for the implosion bomb designs described by both Ilyichev and Schumann (p. 3768).
The Polish engineer’s knowledge suggests that German-run industry in wartime Poland was
involved in developing and/or testing an atomic bomb.
• Robert Jackson, chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, stated on 21 June 1946 that he
had received evidence that a new bomb design producing very intense heat had killed 20,000
Jewish prisoners in a specially constructed test village near Auschwitz (p. 3769).
• In August 1946, a FIAT intelligence document mentioned that there had been a number of
unconfirmed reports that “about Christmas 1944, successful experiments were conducted in
Pomerania with V-1 and atomic warheads, radio directed. The ensuing crater was 2 km in
diameter” (p. 3771). There was also an August 1944 report of nuclear weapons development
work in Pomerania (p. 3733).
• In December 1946, Otto Hahn said that there had been rumors that “atom bomb tests had
been carried out in Poland during the last year of the war which were supposed to have had
an effect similar to the first atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima though on a considerably
smaller scale” (p. 3771).
• Gezo Mansfeldt, a survivor of Auschwitz, reported in December 1946 that he was frequently
interrogated by Soviet officials about high-security wartime production work at Auschwitz
and that he “learned of the atomic bomb tests” (p. 3773).
• A 1947 U.S. intelligence report stated that the Germans built a heavy water production plant
near Auschwitz and that it was removed by the Soviets (p. 3773). Heavy water would only
be useful for nuclear work, and the production of heavy water near Auschwitz suggests the
presence of other nuclear work in Poland.
• Another 1947 intelligence report discussed wartime nuclear weapons work at Tucheler Heide
in Poland, including the production of 235U and 239Pu and apparently even 1–5 kg fission pits
for atomic bombs (p. 3989).
• In 1947, Heinrich Himmler’s physical therapist, Felix Kersten, stated that Franz Goring, a
senior SS security official, had told him that a new bomb design producing several thousand
degrees of heat had killed 20,000 Jewish prisoners in a specially constructed test village near
Auschwitz (p. 3774).
• Heinrich Himmler’s personal astrologer, Wilhelm Wulff, confirmed that Franz Goring had
stated that a new bomb design producing several thousand degrees of heat had killed 20,000
Jewish prisoners in a specially constructed test village near Auschwitz (p. 3775).
• Werner Grothmann stated that there was a successful atomic bomb test in or around November
1944 (p. 3757).
D.12 Possible March 1945 Test Explosion in Thuringia
• A 15 November 1944 letter from General Ivan Ilyichev, chief of intelligence for the Soviet
army, to Joseph Stalin reported that the Germans in Thuringia were preparing under hurried
but very high security conditions to test a new “bomb of unusual construction” with a “large
destructive power” that might be an atomic bomb (p. 3785).
• A 23 March 1945 letter from General Ilyichev to Joseph Stalin reported that the Germans in
Thuringia had recently conducted two very high-security test explosions of a new bomb design,
described in considerable detail as a 2-ton, 1.3-meter-diameter spherical implosion device with
multiple concentric layers and a uranium-235 core that created a “massive radioactive effect,”
incinerated or burned nearby prisoners of war (POWs), and destroyed buildings and trees
within a radius of 500–600 meters (p. 3789).
• In a 30 March 1945 letter from Igor Kurchatov to General Ilyichev, Kurchatov analyzed the
details reported in the 23 March 1945 letter, said it gave a “very believable description of the
construction of the bomb,” and requested further information (p. 3801).
• 21 and 29 May 1945 letters from Georgy Flerov to Igor Kurchatov reported that Flerov was
currently in Dresden and en route to study the alleged German atomic test site using Geiger
counters, and requested that former POWs returning from Germany to the Soviet Union
should be interviewed to learn if any of them knew anything about the test (p. 3807).
• An October 1945 report from Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov to Stalin stated: “Based on the
collected materials, it can be concluded that the German scientists in the field of theoretical
and practical research and application of atomic energy have achieved good results up to the
creation of the atomic bomb” (p. 3827).
• A 1946 Russian interrogation summary reported that Robert D¨opel stated that there was an
atomic bomb test on a German military base before the end of the war (p. 3834).
• It seems there is or at least was considerably more information about the apparent German
nuclear tests in Russian government archives, including even a captured German film entitled
“Film of the Launch of a V-2 and the Explosion of an Atomic Bomb” (p. 3837). At
a bare minimum, there are presumably documents identifying the Soviet spy who provided
the information given in Ilyichev’s two reports, documents reporting the suspected test site
location to Flerov (which he seemed to know, but which was not in Ilyichev’s two reports),
documents reporting what (if anything) Flerov ultimately found, and documents describing
the “collected materials” to which Zhukov referred.
• 21 March 1945 and 9 June 1945 U.S. aerial reconnaissance photos of the Ohrdruf military
base appeared to show a large circular area of possible blast damage, as well as surrounding
buildings that may have been affected by blast and/or radioactive fallout, whereas a 12 August
1944 aerial reconnaissance photo did not show those features (pp. 3840–3844).
• In what appears to be a transcript of her testimony before an East German government inquiry
on 16 May 1962, Clare Werner, a wartime lookout at the Veste Wachsenburg castle near the
Ohrdruf Truppen¨ubungsplatz military base, reported watching a large nearby test explosion
on 4 March and another one on 12 March 1945, as well as being informed of the historic
nature of the explosions by visiting military and SS officials. She reported that she and other
local residents suffered from symptoms that sound like radiation sickness. Although there are
unresolved questions about the nature and the chain of custody of the 1962 transcript, Clare
Werner confirmed the key points of her testimony in several interviews conducted between
1998 and 2003 (p. 3848).
• In a transcript of his apparent testimony before the same East German government inquiry
on 16 May 1962, Heinz Wachsmut reported being conscripted into a unique work assignment
for the afternoon and evening of 5 March 1945 in Thuringia. He reported encountering large
numbers of living, dying, and dead people suffering from what sounds like radiation sickness
and burns in the aftermath of what the SS told him was a history-making test explosion.
Under the close supervision of the SS, he was instructed to wear protective gear, and he
burned approximately 450 bodies on woodpiles and saw a total of approximately 700 bodies
being burned. (It is not clear if all of those were victims of the test explosion, or if some were
victims of the daily harsh treatment of POWs.) Afterward his protective gear and clothing
were burned, he was instructed to wash himself thoroughly, and he was unable to eat for
days afterward possibly due to radiation sickness. While there are again unresolved questions
about the 1962 transcript, the family of Heinz Wachsmut confirmed that he had described
the same events and details to them (p. 3854).
• In transcripts of his testimony before East German government inquiries in 1966, Erich Rundnagel,
a plumber who had worked for Kurt Diebner’s nuclear research group in Thuringia
during the war, reported that the scientists had told him they had two eight-kilogram atomic
bombs (most likely fission pits for atomic bombs) in their safe (p. 3861).
• Colonel Oscar Koch, who was a high-ranking intelligence officer working with General George
Patton, stated that a German prisoner of war described the massive explosion of a new bomb
type in Thuringia in March 1945 (p. 3863).
• Werner Grothmann stated in 2000–2002 interviews that there was an atomic bomb test in
Thuringia on 4 March 1945 (p. 3757).
And in addition to all this, we have incredible book Critical Mass by Carter Plymton Hydrick, here is a summary
"On May 19, 1945, eleven days after the surrender of Nazi Germany in Europe, a U-boat was escorted into Portsmouth Naval Yard, New Hampshire. News reporters covering the surrender of U-234 were ordered, contrary to all previous and later U-boat surrender procedures, to keep their distance from crew members and passengers of U-234, on threat of being shot by the attending Marine guards. Why the tight security? Buried in the nose of the specially-built mammoth boat, sealed in cylinders “lined with gold,” was 1,120 pounds (560kg) of enriched uranium labeled “U235” the fissile material from which atom bombs are made. Critical Mass documents how these Nazi bomb components were then used by the Manhattan Project to complete both the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima and the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki, to defeat the Japanese and win World War Two and global domination in the modern age."
View: https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Mass-Germany-Surrendered-Enriched/dp/1634241177
Carter's research was confirmed in 2011, 15 years after the book was published, when 126,000 barrels of radioactive uranium residue were found 700 meters below a salt mine near Hamburg, Germany.
He goes in detail about Manfred von Ardenne (who later helped the Russians make an atomic bomb) whose infrared fuses were installed on the American bomb by Dr. Heinz Schlicke, everything is described and documented in detail in the book. And if you are not going to buy the book, you have it here, altho not complete apparently.
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