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david irving Secretly Overheard:
“I imagine, “ said Diebner, “that they will decide at the Big
Three conference which scientists are to go to Russia.” “He doesn’t
know anything about us,” persisted Otto Hahn, still thinking of
Lord Cherwell. “That’s the stupid part about it. – But perhaps he
does know.”
Bagge and Korsching were furious at the bootlicking by Dr.
Weizsäcker to the British:
KORSCHING: It makes me furious when people are so childishly
Anglophile. It was just the same in Hechingen –
BAGGE: How do you mean?
KORSCHING: – they handed them [the ALSOS mission] the
[Heavy] Water on a platter, they did the same with the Uranium, and
all the instruments and all the secret files in duplicate and – I don’t
know – 20 gr. of Radium. That’s awful.
BAGGE: Wirtz and Bopp buried 2 (10?) gr. of Radium which will
sell privately later.
Korsching was contemptuous: “Weizsäcker imagines he can negotiate
with them regarding the handing over of the Water, and on
what conditions. They discussed it with the Commander. . .: ’We
will only tell you on condition that you let us go on working on it.’
They imagined they could get away with that. He [Rittner] need
only threaten them with bread and water and they will give way.”
A few days later, on July 11, the microphones heard Bagge discussing
whether to work on atomic weapons with the Anglo-Americans
– “No one,” he explained, “has any money in Germany.”
KORSCHING: If one is convinced that Germany will be occupied
by the Russians for a long time and you work on the production of
weapons for the English, the end result will be that you will make
Germany into the future battlefield. . . From what I know of the Anglo-
Americans, I don’t relish the idea of their assimilating us as easily as all
that. The result will be that all the good work we may do in our lives
will go to the credit of Anglo-American brains.
BAGGE: What do you mean? The first thing Wirtz did was to ask,
“Will we be given British nationality?”
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