Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Germans caused their own demise
When we think of atomic bombs in World War 2 we think about the Manhattan Project, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, but the U.S. wasn't the only one developing the weapon. Germany also had an atomic program, which was led by Werner Heisenberg and Kurt Diebner. While the German program was disorganized and feeble, the reality is that they could have easily produced an atomic weapon if they weren't anti-Semitic. Many of the scientists working on the Manhattan project were Jews that had defected to the U.S. to escape the Holocaust, including Einstein and Enrico Fermi, leading nuclear physicists, whose contributions to the Manhattan Projects decreased the size necessary so it could be dropped from an airplane and increased the effectiveness of the fission reaction. If the Germans hadn't persecuted Jews, then most of the scientist would have stayed and strengthened the German bomb effort and weakening the U.S's. The Germans probably would have created a successful bomb and defeated the Allies, instead they were left with only one prominent physicist, Werner Heisenberg, that couldn't build a bomb by himself. The Allied victory is the result, not only of the efforts of Russian and American soldiers, but also Germany's strategic blunders and policy towards Jews.
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