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Fascinating stuff, really interesting characters. I for one never knew the Germans were pursuing fission for the production of "engines". Do yourselves a favor
by andrew_ 8y ago
Fascinating stuff, really interesting characters. I for one never knew the Germans were pursuing fission for the production of "engines". Do yourselves a favor and read the entire transcript.
The comments about how they see history being written, specifically about the German contributions, comes across as particularly naive but evident of men who were clearly distraught and disoriented.
And their predictions about Stalin and Russia were ominous but nearly correct several times over.
- matt4077 8y agoThe terminology was obviously not settled at this point. I’m almost certain ‚engine‘ refers to a reactor.
- marksweston 8y ago> Fascinating stuff, really interesting characters. I for one never knew the Germans were pursuing fission for the production of "engines". Do yourselves a favor and read the entire transcript. I'm fairly sure that by "engines" they meant reactors.
- mgoetzke 8y agoThey talk about a 'Maschine' in the German version 'a machine' and clearly mean a machine to produce energy i.e a reactor.