Albert Einstein Stays
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Oppenheimer would have a much more iconic status as 'the conscience of science' and Nazi Germany one more prominent victim.
Three problems:
1) The Nazis may well not believe he can get them the A-bomb. The going assumption was that Einstein's theorey was hogwash. Unless he could prove (and want to prove) he could do it, it's unlikely he'd be tapped.
2) It is nowhere near obvious that Einstein *could* have built the bomb. The man was a solitary, visionary genius, not a brute-force development engineer.
3) Given the resource base, the project would still be refining yellowcake by '45.
Much more likely the regime would fire Einstein, relegate him to second-class citizen status and evetually send him to the camps.
Maybe, but doubtful. Hitler tended to disregard nuclear physics as "jewish physics" and put more emphasis on bigger tanks, planes, and so on. Remember Germany's industry was stretched thin as it was, and that the Manhatten Project cost nearly $2 billion dollars ($23 billion today) and was spread out over three locations. I don't see Germany being able to afford the costs of the research, construction, etc. of an A-bomb. Besides if the Allies found out the Nazis were trying to build an atomic bomb, they would have put everything into stopping it, whether by bombing or a commando raid.
PaleHorseRiding
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The Nazi pre ww2 spent more on the funding of stupid occult and different societies like it then the Allies did on the entire manhattan project
if they had of put the money into things that actually could have helped them they might have won the war.
if they had of put the money into things that actually could have helped them they might have won the war.
Nietzsche
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Those "stupid occult" societies actually produced -some- results. Specifically the use of numerology or astrology to route Uboats.
Agree, the Nazi's technology of aircraft, rockets, guns were all ahead of the allies even in 45.
Nietzsche
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<_<; perhaps you misread. Himmler used the occult(late in the war) quite seriously. He used them to plot the routes of Uboats in the North Atlantic, and supposedly, kill-ratios went up 20%.
David S Poepoe
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Well, they did temporarily retrieve the Ark of the Covenant so there was some benefit from the funding of occult studies.
You may want to check the funding for Ahnenerbe. Could be a translation error - the whole million/billion thing tends to confuse Germans. But no, nowhere near what the bomb cost.