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Eavesdropping on Hitler’s Reich
but only of the Russians.
GERLACH: Certainly.
HEISENBERG: The Russians are certainly two years behind us in
the separation of Uranium[-235], but if they put people like L – ko
and [D. P.] Landau etc. onto it they will most certainly succeed. . .
He [Landau] worked with me at Leipzig. He’s a very clever Russian
Jew. . .
GERLACH: Laue has only heard about the Uranmaschine since we
have been in detention.
HARTECK: He knew absolutely nothing.
Later that day, July 26, Bagge and Diebner conducted a whispered
talk about their co-prisoner von Weizsäcker.
DIEBNER: Do you think von Weizsäcker wants to stay here for five
years?
BAGGE: Oh yes, he wants to stay here. He likes it here. He says every
day that he has never had such a good opportunity to think and work
as he has here. . But I have lost hope, that is the tragedy. I’m frightened.
I’m reaching the end of my tether [half sobbing].
DIEBNER: About your family?
BAGGE: Yes, of course, that’s one reason. . . In the meantime my
family will be dead. After all, I feel responsible for my family. I saw it
for myself. The first day the French arrived in Hechingen and raped
the women one after the other. . . The day I had to leave three Moroccans
were billeted in the house. That’s been going on for three months
and I’m supposed to look happy here. I can’t stand it much longer.
DIEBNER: You must stick it. . . Bagge, you mustn’t think we’re all
complete fools. Heisenberg is no fool. . .
BAGGE: You must also realise that if, during the war, we (put)
people in concentration camps – I didn’t do it, I know nothing about
it and I always condemned it when I heard about it – if Hitler ordered
a few atrocities in concentration camps during the last few years, one
can always say that these occurred under the stress of war. But now we
have peace, and Germany has surrendered unconditionally and they
can’t do the same things to us now.
“I was not in the Party,” reminisced the young Dr. Bagge. “In