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To round out this unpleasant picture, one must also mention two
further interesting facts:
Von Ardenne's close associate and theoretical mentor, Dr. Fritz
Houtermanns' specialty was thermonuclear fusion, indeed as an
astrophysicist, he had staked his claim to fame in physics by
describing precisely the type of nuclear process at work in stars.
Interestingly enough, there does exist, from 1938, an Austrian
patent for a device known as a "Molecular Bomb," a bomb that
upon examination is an early version of a hydrogen bomb. Atomic
bombs, of course, supply the necessary heat to get hydrogen atoms
to collide and produce the much more enormous and terrible
energies of thermonuclear hydrogen fusion bombs.
Secondly, it may now clearly be seen why, of all the German
scientists working on the atom bomb, that Manfred Von Ardenne
was the one nuclear scientist that Adolf Hitler most often went
personally to visit.28
In any case, all the evidence points to the conclusion that there
was a large, very well-funded, and very secret German isotope
enrichment program during the war, a program successfully
disguised during the war by the Nazis, and covered-up after war by
the Allied Legend. But this too raises its own questions. How close
was that program to acquiring sufficient stocks of weapons grade
uranium to make a bomb (or bombs). And secondly, why did the
Allies after the war go to such stupendous lengths to cover it up
As a final note to this chapter, and a tantalizing indication of
further mysteries that will be investigated subsequently in this work,
there is a report, declassified by the National Security Agency only
in 1978; the report is apparently a decoded intercept from the
Japanese embassy in Stockholm to Tokyo. It is entitled simply
28 Hydrick, op. cit, p. 29. Rose notes that Von Ardenne had written him
and stated that he had never tried to persuade the Nazis to develop his process
and employ it in large quantities. He then notes that the Siemens company did
not develop it (Rose, op. cit., p. 140, n. 38). This would appear to be pure
obfuscation on Von Ardenne's part, for it was not Siemens, but I.G. Farben,
that had developed the processes and employed them in large amounts at
Auschwitz.
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