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Eavesdropping on Hitler’s Reich
feel rather isolated here. “
In fact Diebner had intervened to help a Polish professor as well
as the French communist Joliot, and he had prevented the German
army from removing a valuable cyclotron from Copenhagen.
“During the war, “ Heisenberg reminisced to Dr. Wirtz on July 18, “I
had five calls for help in cases where people were murdered by our
people. One was Schumann (?). . . I could do nothing in his case as
he had already been killed when I got the letter. The second one was
Couvens(?), the Belgian cosmic ray man; he disappeared in a Gestapo
camp and I couldn’t even find out through Himmler’s staff
whether he was alive or dead. I presume he is dead too. Then there
was the mathematician C——le; I tried to do something about him
through St—el but it was no good and he was shot. Then from
among the Polish professors there was a logistician with a Jewish
name – and then with the other Poles, the following happened; his
name was Sch—k, a mathematician.
He had written to me and I had put out feelers in order to see
what could be done. I wrote to Scholz (?) who had something to do
with Poland. Then ——r wrote to me the following ridiculous letter
saying he had also had something to do with the case. He wrote:
’Dear Heisenberg, I have just heard that the mathematician Sch—
—er is in great danger. He is now living in the little Polish town
of so-and-so under the false name of so-and-so.’ That came in a
letter which was of course opened at the frontier. It is unbelievable
how anyone can write that from Switzerland. I heard nothing more
about Sch——er and I have now been told that he was murdered.
“We have done things which are unique in the world,” conceded
Wirtz. “We went to Poland and not only murdered the Jews in Poland,
but for instance, the S.S. drove up to a girls’ school, fetched
out the top class and shot them simply because the girls were High
School girls and the intelligentsia were to be wiped out. Just imagine
if they arrived in Hechingen, drove up to the girls’ school and
shot all the girls! That’s what we did.”
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