Hitlers Bombe

Hitlers Bombe
First edition
AuthorRainer Karlsch
LanguageGerman
GenreNon-fiction
Publisher
Publication date
  • March 2005 (DE)[1]
  • November 2005 (NL)[2]
  • June 2007 (DE)[3]
  • October 2007 (DE)[4]
  • October 2007 (FR)[5]
Publication placeGermany
Pages
  • 415 (DE, 2005, DVA)
  • 336 (NL, 2005)
  • 464 (DE, 2007, dtv)
  • 352 (DE, 2007, Waxmann)
  • 528 (FR, 2007)
ISBN978-3-42105-809-6

Hitlers Bombe (Hitler's Bomb) is a nonfiction book by the German historian Rainer Karlsch published in March 2005, which claims to have evidence concerning the development and testing of a possible "nuclear weapon" by Nazi Germany in 1945. The "weapon" in question is not alleged to be a standard nuclear weapon powered by nuclear fission, but something closer to either a radiological weapon (a so-called "dirty bomb") or a hybrid-nuclear fusion weapon. Its new evidence is concerned primarily with the parts of the German nuclear energy project under Kurt Diebner.

Summary

Under supervision of the SS, from 1944 to 1945, German scientists in Thuringia tested some form of "nuclear weapon", possibly a dirty bomb (for the differences between this and a standard fission weapon, see nuclear weapon design). Several hundred prisoners of war are alleged to have died as a result. Karlsch's primary evidence are alleged vouchers for the atomic weapon attempts, a preliminary plutonium bomb patent from the year 1941 (which had been known about, but not yet found), and industrial archaeology conducted on the remains of the first experimental German nuclear reactor.

Follow-up research

In February 2006, full tests on the soil at the proposed test site were released by the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), revealing no abnormal background levels of radiation after taking into account the already elevated background levels as a result of the Chernobyl accident in 1986. The PTB release emphasized that while it could not necessarily rule out a German test conclusively, that soil analysis of that site revealed absolutely no evidence of it.[6]

Reception

Writing in Berliner Zeitung, physicist Michael Schaaf, another author on the same subject,[7] recognized the historical value of Hitlers Bombe but criticized the work for "a catastrophic lack of understanding of physics".[8]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Die Bombenbastler Hitlers". Faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Archived from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  2. ^ "Hitlers Bom". De Slegte. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  3. ^ Hitlers Bombe: Die geheime Geschichte der deutschen Kernwaffenversuche. ASIN 3423344032.
  4. ^ "Für und Wider "Hitlers Bombe"". Waxmann Verlag. Archived from the original on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  5. ^ "La Bombe de Hitler". Calmann-Lévy. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  6. ^ In Bodenproben keine Spur von "Hitlers Bombe"
  7. ^ Cassidy, David C. (December 2002). "Michael Schaaf. Heisenberg, Hitler und die Bombe: Gespräche mit Zeitzeugen. 148 pp., frontis., illus., app. Berlin/Diepholz: GNT‐Verlag, 2001. €22.50 (paper)". Isis. 93 (4): 720–721. doi:10.1086/376027. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved March 11, 2026.
  8. ^ Furlong, Ray (March 14, 2005). "Hitler 'tested small atom bomb'". BBC News. Archived from the original on November 22, 2024. Retrieved August 10, 2017.

References

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