Nazi Germany's Nuclear Weapons Program
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You also left out the Norwegian Commando raid that took out the heavy water facility early on in the war. Without this Germany was always going to have a major shortage of heavy water for both experimentation and in production of any larger scale projects.
They repeatedly located Heisenberg before his capture, but never could get his velocity.
Yes his wave function was very elusive
When they caught him, did he collapse?
you are not taking this seriously are you ? this is not about breaking bad.
I see what you did there, priceless! Seriousness aside -I think that Heisenberg was very uncertain about his principle.
@@TinHatRanch He he he;)
As a German, I still understand Simon's horribly mispronounced German words WAY better than Hitler's screaming speeches.
Interesting.. Did he have a strong accent or just bellowing incomprehensibly? Strange how his speeches are regarded as having been a huge influencer on the people if it was difficult to understand.
@@dna9838honestly it isnt hard to imagine how easy it was to be taken in by it. Some of the photos from rallies and meetings have serious iconography and a lot of faux class to them. Imagine being at that rally hearing a man scream vehemently about how your people were wrongs and we must take back whats ours blah blah. Kinda like how a concert can be a big positive influence on folks a nazi rally could probably do something similar
@@dna9838 probably the fact that the recordings are potato quality doesn't help much
I always think of mars attacks “ack,ack ack ack,ack!”
@@dna9838 Sorry for the late answer.... it's a combination of the poor quality of the old audio recordings (as someone else suggested) and his bellowing manner of speech. Some of his speeches are very easy to understand, while other times when he starts shouting and screaming I'm seriously lost without subtitles. I guess people in his day and age were more used to this "dramatic" tone and they didn't have to deal with the sound quality issues.
Yep, ads where present. Two at the start, two in the middle and two unskipable toward the end. Thanks TH-cam, Simon et al spend so much time on this content and cant place ads on this subject yet you can.
ADs??? Lol. Just have TH-cam premium.
Ain't nobody got time for ads. Premium is the only way to fly.
or just get an ad blocker only ads cannot block the person doing it otherwise not seen an ad on here in over a year of using it
@@goodwood-rc4nx Ad blockers rule! Wonder if the folks recommending Premium are bots or paid by TH-cam.
I forgot about adds with my premium
3:15 - The irony of talking about nuclear fission while showing a Tokamak style nuclear fusion machine.
Destroying the heavy water facility in Norway definitely added a year or two to their timetable
Yes, they were trying to use heavy water as a moderator to achieve a chain reaction. Enrico Fermi used purified graphite blocks as a moderator to build the first chain reaction in a squash court at the U of Chicago.
Nonsense. The world's largest chemical cartel at the time was I.G. Farben. Heavy water production occurred inside Germany at the Linde Eismaschinen AG in Britz.
I saw a documentary series called "Hogan's Heroes" that said a sneaky Col & his group of misfits hampered old bubble head's progress.
I watch reruns of the documentary every week night.
How Hogan & his crew managed to survive lethal rounds from the Nazis for several seasons is beyond my imagination
Did you see the historical documents about Gilligan’s Island? _Those poor people…_
Haven't seen the documentaries Hogan made of his personal life
@@jeffrey9040 On metv? Because I do too.
Actually I did a project on this exact topic at the university. There's one excellent book covering everything Simon says in this video in great detail and also putting very much effort into explaining what went wrong in Germany that went right in the US. Also it's a quite good read (at least the german version) and pretty entertaining for a book about this somehow dark topic:
The Night of the Physicists (Die Nacht der Physiker) written by Richard von Schirach if anyone is interested...
Hi! Thank you! I am extremely interested and will be getting this ASAP! \m/ :)
You probably got put on a watchlist somewhere lol
Uh, danke dir. Von dem Buch hab ich noch nichts gehört. Sieht auf jeden Fall spannend aus. :-)
As soon as I read the name of the author, I had a feeling who his father was. Yup, Baldur von Schirach, former leader of Hitlerjugend. Gonna see if I can find the book anywhere here. Thanks for the tip!
'The total number (of people) involved (in the Manhattan Project) was thought to be around half a million people'
I love it when people deny the existence of aliens by saying 'oh you can't keep a secret when so many people know about it'
Point proven.
Simon, you and the gang have really kept me going for a whiile now. this world has become too much to bear in many ways, but your content keeps me calm and distracts me from my pain,
thank you so much for this
I wish ye well
Don't forget the raid on the Norwegian heavy water plant. Kirk Douglas & Richard Harris, something about "Telemark".
Saboteurs
find out about the real story that film only touches on what really happened got a few things correct but the rest just made up
heavy water is the easy path to an atomic weapon the nazis were actually pursuing both the easy path and hard path to it in fact it is possible that the plutonium in the second bomb dropped on japan was nazi plutonium or that the bomb its self was a nazi bomb that was surendered by a uboat to the usa at the end of the war
I would recommend the series whit 13 episodes named Battle for the heavy water.
Churchill "we've slaughtered the wrong pig".
😂 🤣 😂
As noted here, a German nuke was never likely. The actual design and then the enrichment process really taxed the allies, even allowing for their much greater resources. So, in the end, history was well served.
The Germans had atomic bombs. Some make the mistake of thinking the Americans were further along. They weren't. See the book Critical Mass by Carter P. Hydrick.
15:31 Thats the thing tho. If they had not purged and been a normal "state" they would not have been perceived to be evil and the powers that united against them would not have been so willing to do so. Its very interesting and just proves we all work best together. Not hollowed out.
Warhammer 40000 doesn't seem to mind a shaved head talking about Nazis.
Ahhhhh love it, when Simon tries to speak German. It's so bad, yet so awesome
It’d be a crazy mission to search entire towns for nuclear reactors
Still hoping to see Denver International Airport! The second largest airport in the world by land (though tbh King Fahd shouldn’t count since it has a third of the runways as DIA!)). It’s one of the busiest in the world and has some of the more unique architecture and interior design among airports.
This is attempt 3 I think. At least in recent memory, since I know I've asked for this before.
Not sure if it should be here or on Geographics though. Jeppensen would be a decent Biographics companion too since the terminal is named after him.
I hate to be that guy but Denver airport, really? lol. Been many times, its nothing special...
@@DrNastea It's far more interesting than just about any other airport in the US. So yeah, really.
@@Viper-dn8ix Is it not already a video though?
@@CornPopsDood Nope. Searched the channel for "Airport" and "Denver." Could you be thinking of NORAD and the Cheyenne Mountain Complex?
@@Viper-dn8ix Damn, I woulda swore I’d seen him make one lol.
I surprised that the number of scientists working on applied nuclear fission began to diminish as many researchers applied their talents to more pressing wartime demands. 😮
I just literally got an advert about some guy in the US that sees "constant visions from god"...
Stay classy, TH-cam...
god is kinda creepy.
@@HarryNicNicholas you mean god is kinda sus
1:30 - Chapter 1 - The rise of nazism
3:00 - Chapter 2 - Nuclear fission
3:55 - Chapter 3 - The 1st uranverein
4:30 - Chapter 4 - The 2nd uranverein
5:30 - Chapter 5 - Under military control
7:25 - Chapter 6 - 1942
8:00 - Chapter 7 - The alsos mission
12:25 - Chapter 8 - How close ?
The Manhattan Project wasn't a solely American venture.
It was the follow on from 'Tube Alloys'. The UK/Canadian programme which was started before and subsumed into the Manhattan Project.
No mention of this however.
Perhaps because the subject was if the Nazis had an atomic bomb?
@@buckhorncortez and yet plenty of other mentions about other linked bits of 'trivia'. Or are we expected just to be listening to precisely the subject matter and nothing which contributes to the subject matter?
Of course it could have been mentioned. Don't be ridiculous.
@@totalbamber Lots of things "could have been mentioned." Like the British claiming to have done a background check on Klaus Fuchs which was a total fabrication by the British, and then sending him to work in Canada and finally at Los Alamos. While the MAUD Report provided independent verification of what American scientists were telling the government, it was hardly the Rosetta Stone of physics for an atomic bomb. In fact, Oppenheimer had a bomb sketched on his blackboard about one week after being informed of fission and witnessing a fission experiment at the Berkeley RAD LAB in 1939.
How about the Japanese nuke program? My former Physics Prof who was in on the Manhattan project.
He held that Heisenberg purposely sent his team
barking up the wrong tritium tree.
Lack of core scientists of pertinent skills to take up the task, being the only country in Asia-Pacific with a robust educational system.
Also Unit 731...
At least one test ...
That's right. The Japanese tested an atomic bomb. See the book, Japan's Secret War by Robert K. Wilcox, Third Edition, Revised and Updated.@@GoetzimRegen
Consider that even IF they had produced a working nuclear bomb...
-there was no german B29 equivalent to fly it and drop it (and the B29 project was *even more* expensive than the Manhattan project)
-there was no german air superiority to perform that flight
-dropping a nuclear bomb on Russia, France or Britain still does nothing to reduce the industrial output in the USA
So no. Not even nuclear weapons would have changed the outcome of the war.
«Then things started to get a little… well, Nazi-ish» haha! Love this channel.
Loved this, thank you for producing it despite the chance for no Monetizing, Simon and Crew.
What about Dubik, Schuman, the Zhukov report, and the Keck report?
"First we got the bomb, and that was good, cause we love peace and motherhood.
Then Russia got the bomb, but that's OK, cause the balance of powers maintained that way!
Who's next?" - Tom Lehrer
I love Tom Lehrer! "So long, Mommy, I'm off to kill a Commie, Don't wait up for meeee!"
"Masochism Tango," "Poisoning Pigeons In the Park," "I Hold Your Hand In Mine...," and let's not forget ""The Chemistry Element Song."
Good stuff.
Britain.
We'll try to stay serene and calm when Alabama gets the Bomb!
The UK. Despite no help from America, after we shared all the science we had developed.
Note to mention ; they made such peak researches in shaped charges to trigger a reaction that these researches were used back by both USSR and USA !
They knew that the fission was out of reach for them and started to think about ..fusion, but it was already too late !
Well, despite that opening I did have ads before the video started.
Edit: Ads during too. TH-cam perhaps doesn't mind Nazi nuclear weapons after all.
Nazi nuclear weapons and planet 9 at the same time, don't mind if I do
14:40 I have a third theory. Germany devoted so little resources to the project that it wouldn't have mattered if Heisenberg was fanatically for or against it.
Not gonna lie: the title is the most terrifying thing I've read all week.
With the "what if" channel in my feed i can agree
watch "man in the high castle" 😏 there the nazis won by nuking the US
Man in the high Castle is the best way to put it in this video aside the season 4 😆
7:48 Hermann's barber did him dirty, looks like Mr. Bean
That shirt does not feel like a mistake - very similar to the clothes worn in "the camps"
Thats some weapons grade paranoia you have there !
Damn dude, that is a HUGE leap. The fact that you even got there is... Frankly unbelievable
Excellent video 📹
Alsos mission:
The Americans were worried about nuclear materials falling into French hands.
Make sure the French didn't get their hands on Nazi nuclear materials
Being pedantic, the reactor shown at 2:56 is a tokamak, a type of fusion reactor.
He knows why Hitler was never sucessfull, the atomic program was.in Reality a program for a Fusion reactor.
Millau's Viaduc ? An engineering masterpiece.
Yeah that would be a great one!
Nazis with nuclear weapons just sounds insanely terrifying
I'm gonna say it again. F22 Raptor Video please!
You probably are.
I've just read the book The Hidden Nazi (2019) by Dean Reuter - it's all about Hans Kammler. This story and the supporting documents were uncovered by some very diligent researchers during their 20 year search for the truth about Kammler. I highly recommend the book.
I would love to see a video on the Volkshalle that was supposed to be built in Berlin after Germany won World War 2
Don't think I've ever been this early to a video
Neither
Same here
A few other things that were worth a mention. When Armaments Minister Albert Speer asked the scientists how much money they needed to make a bomb they quoted an amount so small Speer and Hitler could not treat it, and by association the scientists, seriously.
The German scientists overestimated the amount of Uranium need for a workable device by a factor of 10 at least. Due to weight they only had one way to deliver it - by sea and that there was only one serious target - London.
In the play by Michael Frayn "Copenhagen' he imagines what was said in a meeting that did take place between Neils Bohr and Heisenberg before Bohr went to the USA (Bohr had Jewish ancestry). Bohr thought Heisenberg was on a fishing trip and Heisenbery spun it after the war to say he was warning the Allies that the Nazis were working on a bomb.
Heisenberg said after the war, with some credibility, that he knew the Allies would eventually produce a bomb and if the Nazis used it first the Allies would have it used on Germany which horrified him.
I thought you would mention the loss of Germany's source of heavy water--the raid on Norsk Hydro facility and the sinking of the SF Hydro. German scientists did not think graphite was a suitable moderator and fixated on heavy water.
The industry, belief & values of Germanic people before rise of Nazism were as strong as the militarism that led to two world wars.
The Germanic people long appreciated all sciences (physical, engineering, biological, mathematical & economic), esteemed most scientists and pursued each science’s pinnacle of achievement.
Ultimately, German was destined & determined to create wartime use of any scientific knowledge that they had including nuclear program for bombs, not merely energy.
1:56 I swear I thought he was gunna high five someone then.
I thought it was Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner who discovered nuclear fission.
Hahn did the experiment, Meitner interpreted the result as fission.
Right on!And they were aiming to build nuclear-electric power plants for the german fleet of U-boats.like-mini-generators able to fit inside the U-boot.They never built any bombs but wanted to produce electric power generators
@@MyMikey88 Except, to my knowledge, Lise Meitner was Jewish so I’m not sure she was working to empower the nazis. Actually I think she had to flee Germany and that’s why they took the credit from her.
@@Dan_Roland usually in the lab you just do the experiment then the industrial process goes to a company.But the main idea was that the germans were aiming towards generating electric power plants.Today submarines all use this system of nuclear-electric power plants but the first to think of it was OttoHahn and his research group.What I know is that OttoHahn also left Germany and was awarded Nobel prize for his work
Germany was so poor there is no way they could have developed useable Nuclear Bombs, the could barely feed their Troops.
Would never make a bomb, on a shoestring budget, pile too small and had a math error that we caught after the war
The Farm Hall transcripts show Heisenberg did not understand fast neutron chain reactions, and initially did not believe the Americans made an atomic bomb. From the Farm Hall Transcripts:
Heisenberg: “Did they use the word uranium in connection with this atomic bomb?”
All: "No."
Heisenberg: “Then its got nothing to do with atoms, but the equivalent of 20,000 tons of high explosives in terrific.”
Heisenberg: “All I can suggest is that some dilettante in America who knows very little about it has bluffed them saying, ‘If you drop this it has the equivalent of 20,000 tons of high explosive,’ and in reality, it doesn’t work at all.”
Heisenberg: “I am willing to believe they have a high-pressure bomb and I don’t believe it had anything to do with uranium but it is a chemical thing where they have enormously increased the speed of the reaction and enormously increased the whole explosion.”
Great video, fact boy!
(Ah, y’all misspelled “Versailles” in that title card. It takes an ‘s’ at the end…)
American scriptwriters and editors: Americans drop letters in words all the time.
Alsos (Άλσος, the code name for looking for what the Germans were up to in nuclear research) is Greek for "Grove" (as in a grove of trees). General Leslie _Groves_ ran it as part of the Manhattan Project.
I saw "Nazi" and "nuclear weapons" and said "Vertzefurk?"
Why is a schematic of a nuclear FUSION reactor shown when nuclear FISSION is being mentioned? The two processes are opposites.
Purely for eye candy reasons?
Simon - Love your shows. you do an amazing job on them.
Your nuclear fission stock gif is actually nuclear fusion which is the opposite of fission.
YES! I believe that production quality might possibly hint at the motivation of the channel. Inexcusable.
Honey, I can't go Fritz's birthday party I have uranium club tonight.
You're showing a fusion reactor while talking about fission
Isn't this more a miniproject? Like, they didn't get much actually done.
Gotta make money somehow lmao
Maybe his side projects channel would have been more appropriate. Lol
Does it really matter?
The Duality of The TH-cam Algorithm
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Nazi?? NUCLEAR??? EVERYBODY. NEEDS. TO SEE THIS.
Can you do the Iowa Class Battleship? The last battleship in combat and one of the few ship classes to have every one as a museum. Also… *Nine* 16in guns
The only ship to ever sail with ALMOST enough Dakka, as impossible as that is to truly achieve.
I was bombarded by 4 ads during this video.... advertisers loves the subject of nazi and nuclear bombs!
The Norwegian sabotage mission of the heavy water reactor should have been mentioned.
Heavy water production site, not reactor, but yes. The heavy water was critical for the low enrichment grade uranium the German nuclear scientists had to work with. Without it, no working reactor was possible, preventing further research or production of weapons grade plutonium.
He was actually never really interested in making nukes in the first place. I saw an interview with a former Wehrmacht officer who spoke to him on the issue. He said that H was more concerned with 'the nuclear fallout on plants and animals in the surrounding area'. Yes, really.
Clearly eBay home gardening are not bothered by Nazi given adverts on this video...
Excellent, professional, very educative video.
Thanks.
Not as a critsm but more a question, Why was Lisa Mieter not included in this video. As far as I know she was the one the associated the missing mass, 1/16 of a proton of the Barium isolation to Einstins equation, after the quick math of it. Hahn was initially confused on the missing mass.
6:42 if you wrote "Army's weapons office" (literal translation) as "Armysweaponsoffice", this would be a pretty long word too. But german grammar does this because (diffrent example) a "policecar" is not two things (police and car) but just one thing (a car specified for the police) and therefore shuold not be a list of words
1:55 high five ya... don't leave me hangin brah...
This is one megaproject that I hope went way over budget.
Thanks for the ad free vid heck i'll watch those guys for no ads ha
I did see ads for city mattress, thus proving that water seeks its own level.
I saw an advert at the beginning!
when he introduced Heisenberg he should have showed the 'say my name' clip lmao
TH-cam should pay double for this one!!!
Side-Tracked Projects. Side-Show Projects. Mega-flop Projects. Whistler's What If's!
"Told you you would have to turn the whole country into a factory"
Simon you keep showing a Fusion reactor when talking about Fission, which is the exact opposite. Maybe it's time for a Megaprojects episode about ITER or Wendelstein 7x
Isnt there a bit more to this story - wasnt a u-boat dispatched to sail to japan with uranium and whatever else useful to the Japanese nuclear effort prior to collapse of Nazi Germany? And what about Telemark?
How about Bagger 293? It qualifies as a megaproject! Nothing quite like the largest land vehicle ever.
you can thank UK and norway special forces that sank a massive transport ship with heavy water in norway heading for germany
Where ever these videos are film is amazing!
There's a report from a captured German test pilot n by another pilot n a Italian observer while flying out of a area he witnessed a test n the blast was mushroom shaped etc
Mega project project the Ford mustang? Or side project?
Its time to make a video on the Buraun shuttle
Rjukan, small town in norway that was buildt in less then 7 years in the early 1900. With hydro electic power plants and one of the frist fertilizer plants, heavy water production that the nazis needed for it’s nuclear program. Now a unescos world heritage site for it’s industry. And the town has a sun mirror
No mention of the sabotage in Norway where the whole load of heavy water was sent to the bottom?
tsk tsk tsk
I can't even keep up anymore how many Simon's channels I've subbed. But as they all have great content, so why not. :D
HAHAHAh i love your vids.. the intro is so true which sucks! you deserve all the ad rev you can get!
Operation gunnerside was also a massive reason that the nazis couldn’t create nuclear technologies. Maybe do a mega/side project video On that operation?
Estonia has a site where a dirty bomb was tested.
How many channels is this man on
I really liked the few times your presentation persona cracked for a smile or reaction. Just a little of that is great.
Nope, I checked in an Incognito window. No ads.
It still amazes me at how advanced the Germans where in comparison to the Allied Forces in multiple of different ways, but i throw that to Hitler micromanaging the war and not allowing his generals to do there job.
Göreing and his friend Udet made their own contribution too.
@@r.ladaria135 Oh, i am sure about that and alot of factors, to much for this discussion area.
They were not advanced.
You should do one on Sputnik
That's a great photo at 1:20. How many people could the Army convince today, to climb down into a reactor and remove the fuel with bare hands? I wonder what the life expectancy of those troops was?
I would hope that by the time this photo was taken they had determined that the Uranium being used wasn't fissile enough to actually be dangerous, and that most of it had already been removed and was buried in a nearby field, from where it was recovered later. U238 isn't all that dangerous.
My Grandpa worked in Oak ridge TN he never talked about it much or even at all to even my dad or family we still wonder to this day what he knew and did
My late uncle worked at Bletchley Park during WW2. He never spore about that after the war either.
Big difference fish on,vs Fusion!
Here we go again.........this old chestnut. Anyone familiar with the Manhattan project knows it was a gigantic, super expensive industrial project. Enriching U-235 or producing Pu-239 fissile materials is extraordinarily difficult, most expensive materials ever produced per kilo. Nazi Germanys war economy was over stretched and under resourced in so many ways, the idea of a German Manhattan project is absurd beyond belief. Another issue is the will to use such a weapon.........Hitler had but never used nerve agents against opponents despite having the best delivery system in the V2 rocket. As for the research lab mentioned in this video.........it didnt get any further than what an American teenager achieved in his garden shed with Thorium mixed with graphite in little foil cubes that made up a working atomic pile.