Cool story, but it seems like a bit much to credit that raid with foiling Hitler's nuclear ambitions. From what history I've read of it, it seems more important

Cool story, but it seems like a bit much to credit that raid with foiling Hitler's nuclear ambitions. From what history I've read of it, it seems more important that not only were may Jewish scientists lost to the Allies due to Nazi persecution, but even further, many of their ideas were discredited because they came from Jews. In order for a Nazi nuclear program to have any real potential, enough top leaders had to take the idea of it seriously, and there was plenty going against it - not only how radical the idea seemed and that it was seen as having come from the Jews, but just how much work it would take to actually carry out and how strained their resources were with all of the other wars they started. It seems like, as far as getting a budget priority comparable to the American project, they were way, way behind.