How Close Did Hitler Come To Nuclear Weapons? | Secrets Of The Third Reich | Timeline

US scientists worked feverishly on developing the first atom bomb. They feared Hitler’s Germany was about to build it before them. Later it was reported that the Germans had abandoned their plans. According to new documents, allied military reports and existing construction plans, Hitler had already tested a new kind of nuclear weapon in March 1945. How far did the Germans really get?
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[@MH-nc5jd]

This will be a good one to fall asleep to.. night night everyone

[@kentdean3882]

For the life of me, I can't figure out what makes these documentaries so soothing, but I'm usually out within 15-20 minutes. Maybe it's like being read to at night by your mom or dad.

[@jenniferswanson3742]

I did.

[@lukefarnham2119]

Fr, I use one of these every night to put me down lol

[@johnathonsnape-mclean3457]

@@kentdean3882 actually 15-20 minutes is a normal time to fall asleep, apparently if you fall asleep sometime within 2min then your sleep deprived

[@deadP_music]

He Just Like me fr fr

[@stonehouseguitars3869]

Imagine paying for KZbin premium just to have the channel force feed ads into their own videos with editing so that you can't escape the constant interruption every 5 minutes because beating it into your head at the beginning of the video just wasn't enough so they decide 5-10 times is the charm. Thereby completely defeating the purpose of bringing people to your channel by making the ads so constant and disrupting that your videos aren't even enjoyable and people will not only not watch them but they'll actually avoid any related content from this channel altogether well done lads well done.

[@justwatchinguboob]

I use safari and Adblock what ads? Lul

[@ahahahahaha95]

Imagine still saying imagine before writing the longest run on sentences on KZbin possible

[@phoenixmodellingphotography]

​@@ahahahahaha95Eh, I could run on longer

[@jack18over]

@@ahahahahaha95I mean the guy has a point.

[@AstronomerRob]

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[@rammul7801]

75 years later, and WW2 doesn’t seize to surprise! How many stories we shall never know.

[@jockster5525]

Cease !

[@smtx2117]

Cease*

[@replynotificationsdisabled]

@@smtx2117 seize can be right.

[@willfungusman8666]

@@replynotificationsdisabled maybe if you're a m o r o n

[@christopherlewis1315]

@@replynotificationsdisabled I can't imagine any scenario where "seize" would make sense in this context.

[@phobiazzzero4935]

What a spectacular timeless documentary!! Bravo to everyone involved in producing this!!

[@ahahahahaha95]

Go back to English class bro. It’s “A spectacular” not “an spectacular”

[@payaj2815]

I love watching history documentary. You’re able to learn so much that still applies to what we’re dealing with today

[@merkcityboy834]

Same game just different players..

[@Jeremy-ks6lz]

Only if u haven't read some books. Germany had no hope of having a nuke in Time

[@decimustv4257]

@@merkcityboy834wrong. Same game, different players and devastating weapons now.

[@tarstarkusz]

This is pure propaganda and conspiracy theory from beginning to end.

[@dkoz8321]

This is not history. This is speculative pseudo-history gleaned from an interpretation of some of available evidence, most of which is not evidence but wishfull thinking.

[@dominiklau7446]

I'm surprised you did not mention any constructions made in Poland: Książ Castle and its underground structures... Riese complex, not far away from Książ... The site inside the mountains is uncovered in few percent. There is a solid ground to believe that what you are looking for in this episode was there.

[@phildurling7185]

Maybe the Norwegians should be given more credit for stopping the Nazi's from building an atomic bomb.

[@chevinbarghest8453]

Superfluous apostrophes get my goat

[@dustylover100]

They did have their resistance groups who fought the Quisling puppet regime.

[@helenfairhall6440]

The Nazism still did the bomb just from another land mass, to hide ( new identities, officials Argentina ) the scientists Oppenheimer (1 of them)

[@chevinbarghest8453]

@@helenfairhall6440 To Perdition with Google translator

[@cbroz7492]

That is a great story...how the Brits sent in teams of commandos to destroy the heavy water plant...itvwas fictiolized the the movie "The Heroes of Telemark"

[@paulzellman9632]

The Germans scientists knew that A bomb can explode by using Uranium in lieu of Plutonium. Uranium ore was available in German Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia tewn of Jachymov. The Germans built a reactor, possessed heavy water and knew how to split atom since 1938. The fact that the Germans ran out of time to complete a nuclear weapon, was good and lucky for the World.

[@buckhorncortez]

@Garcia Boii How do you know?

[@buckhorncortez]

The Germans had over 1,000 tons of uranium that they took from Belgium when they invaded. The largest uranium mine with the highest quality ore was the Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo. The Belgians controlled the mine and used it mainly as a source of radium. The Germans also had access to uranium in the Jachymov mine as you've indicated. The Germans forced war prisoners to work in the Jachymov mine. When the Russians invaded Czechoslovakia and unpacked their communist government, they took over the mine and it became the source of the uranium for their atomic program.

[@buckhorncortez]

No, they didn't know "how to split the atom," what they knew about was fission. The idea of a chain reaction was proposed by Leo Szilard.

[@scotttild]

They didn’t have all the information. They knew about heavy water and generally how to build one, they didn’t know all the specifics to make it work. They were close in that they had most of the pieces for a bomb just didn’t know all the technical aspects.

[@Dragonblaster1]

The Haigerloch reactor never went critical, and in fact was under half the size needed to make that happen.

[@SalemTheEgg]

I cannot get enough of these ww2 docs

[@pantherman8719]

The most deadliest and most fascinating war in the 20th century.

[@SalemTheEgg]

@@Adam-zq2mw no I won't

[@SalemTheEgg]

@@Adam-zq2mw "Well just to let you know; Germany looses everytime" you really don't know that much do you?

[@plorabare]

@@Adam-zq2mw "sick of them"

[@DeOranjeLeeuw]

A real good one is the greatest story never told

[@smckay6438]

It took 25% of all energy produced in the United states between 1941 and 44 to produce 2 atomic bombs ! It also took all of the silver , so German could not afford to do it or produce enough energy for one bomb !

[@DK-sc4gn]

It's highly unlikely to improbable that the Nazis were able to isolate weapons grade U235 from uranium ore. It took the Tennessee valley authority hydro electric system, gold and silver to use a efficient electric conductors to isolate enough U235!! The Nazis didn't have this ability. I very much doubt that 140 pounds of weapons grade U235 was recovered from Germany!

[@CYMotorsport]

This has long been understood to be in short: not close. Reference the note at 16:40. Even in the excerpt not highlighted you can get context clues. They were disrupted at every stage, most of which a reactor. But bombing raids wouldn’t have allowed them to finish regardless. Hence the “nevertheless”

[@khaleelibr96]

what are you doing here ? go make a video on how disappointing s-PAIN was for Ferrari and Leclerc :(

[@CYMotorsport]

@@khaleelibr96 actually writing some world war 2 motor sport stories haha I’m technically working

[@khaleelibr96]

@@CYMotorsport looking forward to it , keep up the good work

[@markbarker6739]

@B87 Beveiliging the USA also now have a vegetable in charge more reason to be worried

[@kingprone7846]

@@khaleelibr96 what it comes down to (and why the russians could develop a nuclear bomb so quickly) is that simple nuclear bombs cannot be scaled and rely on indepth knowledge of critical mass (which the russians obtained via spies), density, pressure characteristics etc. even getting the fissile material just isnt really enough. The americans developed these things through painstaking research with many casualties along the way. Being very close means you are still very far away. in theory after first year uni student can design a bomb but without knowledge of scale and quanities required its impossible.

[@Pumba424]

Perfect to fall asleep to. A good sleep video has to be just interesting enough to get you to care but not so riveting that it keeps you awake.

[@Roger-lt9fe]

Don't be stupid and naive ☝️🤬👊🚫🤥🤬🤥👎

[@rogergriffin9893]

At the octagonal structure they were using a particle accelerator to bombard thorium to transmute it into U-233. At that is the report from Gusen.

[@ioannisimansola7115]

Germans during the war had mainly an energy supply problem so their closest nuclear aim was a nuclear reactor. They still had some important way to cover until the chain nuclear reaction, to sustain an explosion , but they had the feeling , but not the experience , it was somewhere close . The problem was actually solved by a german scientist working in Los Alamos at that time !

[@MaciusSzwed]

The Nazis were first in the world with tactical nuclear bombs! And even went as far as starting a series production of them, they were used on the Kursk front, tested oustide the island of Rugen, several high ranking witnesses saw the explosions...

[@patrichausammann]

@@MaciusSzwed You are absolutely right! 👍 I found a lot of evidence to support this claim.

[@peckerwood780]

No they were not somewhere close they were not somewhere close.

[@MaciusSzwed]

@@peckerwood780 Keep believing the lies! Ignorance is a BLISS:)

[@fglatzel]

@@patrichausammann Same here. You are right. They even found increased radioactivity at the test sites in Turingia.

[@MH-fb5kr]

Cut to the chase… the Nazis were not at all close to having an atomic bomb at the end of WW2

[@7deuc2e38]

Nope, they refused to use the "Jewish" science

[@yonasamman6886]

Documentaries are no longer based on facts but produced for entertainment first.

[@zacharytracy3797]

Yeah I skipped through so much of this from 5:00-25:00. From 29:00-42:00-the end. Much better way to learn something than to watch this entire thing.

[@Black-Sun_Kaiser]

@@yonasamman6886 you realize this documentary is 40 years old right lol (it's a re upload of old American TV documentaries)

[@Brandonthesnifferofall]

This just seems like lame Soviet propaganda

[@stephenjacks8196]

In the Manhattan project, Fermi built a reactor with only natural uranium and Graphite moderator. (Allies destroying heavy water was to send them in the wrong direction.)

[@colinschaeffer3940]

The reactor contained 45,000 ultra-pure graphite blocks weighing 360 short tons (330 tonnes), and was fueled by 5.4 short tons (4.9 tonnes) of uranium metal and 45 short tons (41 tonnes) of uranium oxide. Unlike most subsequent nuclear reactors, it had no radiation shielding or cooling system as it operated at very low power - about one-half watt.

[@1wwtom]

From Wiki - The Heroes of Telemark is a 1965 British war film directed by Anthony Mann based on the true story of the Norwegian heavy water sabotage during the Second World War from Skis Against the Atom, the memoirs of Norwegian resistance soldier Knut Haukelid.

[@justinmattison1465]

I just watched a documentary on recovering the barrels that sank with the ferry

[@seafoodmonster3060]

It was a complete waste of civilian lives.

[@pop5678eye]

The Germans could figure out the science and design for an atomic weapon. What they lacked was spare industrial capacity needed to be diverted to produce enough fissile material. Just remember the immense scale of the plants here in the USA that for the time could barely produce material for a handful of bombs. At the same time in the war the German war economy was in no position to create such massive plants in secret nor secure them. Why do you think that to this day the number one concern about Iran's nuclear program is their uranium centrifuge capacity? It's because the most difficult part of the construction of a nuclear weapon to implement is producing fissile material.

[@Obiamajoyisrmd]

Can I ask you for a laypersons explanation of fissile material?

[@buckhorncortez]

@@Obiamajoyisrmd Fissile material is an element that produces excess neutrons when it is split by a neutron. With uranium 235, one neutron is used to split the atom and it releases either two or three neutrons. The average is 2.3 neutrons. Plutonium emits an average of 2.91 neutrons when it is split (more fission events produce three neutrons than two neutrons). When the atom releases neutrons, the excess neutrons cause another atom to split causing it to emit neutrons, and the process cascades causing a chain reaction.

[@Obiamajoyisrmd]

@@buckhorncortez great explanation. Thank you man

[@mikenite8869]

@@buckhorncortez Also, why does the chain reaction of neutrons being created create an explosion, and such a powerful one at that?

[@williamjpellas0314]

They had plenty of spare industrial capacity and they were awash in cash. What everybody misses about the WWII German nuclear weapons program was that it was primarily (though not entirely) under SS control. Do you have any idea how much captured war booty was liquidated by the SS, and how many slave laborers that organization used in its secret weapons projects? The answer is: billions of dollars, in present day terms, and millions of slave laborers. Further, the Germans, unlike the Manhattan Project, DID successfully design and build the ultracentrifuge, which was orders of magnitude more efficient at uranium separation - enrichment than the workable but huge and ponderous American version at Oak Ridge, TN. Still further, most of their nuclear weapons concepts involved utilizing fusion in synergy with fission, which not only greatly boosted the blast yield of any completed devices but also required significantly less fissile material.

[@bobbyboygaming2157]

Amazing production and narration. Concise and informative. Way to go Timeline, make more of these instead of just having some guy talking at us like we are in his lecture hall. Amazing production value very great quality congratulations!

[@adielstephenson2929]

I'll save you 40 minutes of your life: they were way off.

[@Antony_sebastian]

Timeline channel always gives the great times in straight line.

[@yaboybenderbending7346]

‘Great times’? Please elaborate on that part haha, not attacking just curious what you mean by that or if you were being sarcastic.

[@Antony_sebastian]

@@yaboybenderbending7346 “Always in life bad times will lead to great times.”

[@yaboybenderbending7346]

@@Antony_sebastianIt seemed like you were saying that during the video, like during the time period this video is based on is the ‘good times’.

[@yelnatsvonhindinbergh3277]

Lmao .... read books for the real truth ........

[@maphyous228]

Necessity is the mother of invention.

[@colinschaeffer3940]

Invention is the necessity of mother.

[@BearsArms45]

It doesn’t matter because when told about the possibility, even at the end of the war he replied “stop it. I won’t hear of it. Do you know the kind of destruction that would mean?” Similar to his orders regarding the tons of chemical weapons they had. Not to be touched, moved, or even suggested.

[@dionysus2006]

Who is "he" ?

[@tomflendodo7297]

Japan also had a ATOMIC Bomb Program !!! Very Little is known About it !!!!!!!!!

[@buckhorncortez]

Actually, quite a bit is known about it. They lacked a source of uranium but they had most of the physics correct. The United States Strategic Bomb Survey documented all of that at the end of WW 2.

[@Marc816]

It was called the Riken Effort. But the Japanese had only about 100 people working on it......nothing compared to Project Manhattan.

[@paulvinova]

I wonder what Mark Felton would say about this...

[@Seadog..11]

"No mouse has ever built a mousetrap" . Albert Einstein

[@pimpinaintdeadho]

Lost Battlefields w Tino Struckman has done extensive on the ground research about all this stuff on his channel.

[@captainobvious9233]

He HAD nuclear weapons. He was unable to launch them before he had to escape to his secret moon base.

[@buckhorncortez]

I think Bigfoot blocked the door and wouldn't let him out of his bedroom...

[@GB-gf3dm]

I was there. I was the guard at the Moonbase door. Nazis everywhere. "Sieg Heil!" all damn day for me!

[@jgedutis]

How did he plan on getting to the moon from a flat earth?

[@camel303]

Iron Sky : The Real Deal

[@TD1021-]

So given the advancement in technology regarding space travel, he's in Mars with Elon right now right?

[@fabiosunspot1112]

The atomic weapons used during ww2 are like little hand grenade compared to the H bombs built later.

[@anthonyfuqua6988]

During the cold war we had ridiculously sized bombs but they've gotten smaller since. A single missile carries many warheads and most are around 750kt. Not even a megaton.

[@aceklankb]

I didn't know Bane from Batman did voiceovers!

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

He didnt

[@aceklankb]

@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN it was a joke

[@dominiclowe3640]

And the music sounds like it's from the dark knight trilogy

[@johnnyp5913]

It's interesting to see that Bane branched out into narrating documentaries.

[@andrewschuschu3499]

Just imagine the wonder weapons countries have now. All this early development didn’t just stop, it merely changed locations. Knowing how huge some underground facilities/ cities, basically, are now, I’m sure the latest stuff would seem like magic.

[@TheDJOblivion]

Luckily, a ton of time, energy, and resources went into space exploration and advanced technology. Although, I think weapons research has had a new resurgence in the last decade, unfortunately. Imagine if we stayed focused on space with every metric of spare resources after the moon landing, instead of going to mars, we might've been gearing up to send a generational ship to Andromeda.

[@andrewschuschu3499]

@@TheDJOblivion yeah definitely agree- it comes down to goal- do you want a tool for a species or a weapon. We can use the energy we can master to get off our planet and become truly a cosmic species or we can use it to kill each other. As a type 0 civilization, we should be a lot more judicial with our use of energy we can derive from this planet.

[@bobbythomas6520]

@@TheDJOblivionyeah no, space exploration and nuclear physics are more closely related than you think, it’s not a research or money problem, it’s a material problem. We just don’t have the resources yet to do something like that, also you need to go light speed to actually traverse the cosmos unless something like a gravity drive we’re made but we don’t know if that’s possible or what it could theoretically create or destroy

[@TheDJOblivion]

@@bobbythomas6520 i don't believe I said anything counter to the points you just made, if the US alone spent the entire defense budget on space exploration over the last 65 years we most certainly could've built and launched a generational starship to Andromeda, even though it would take so long we'd probably pass it with whatever type of star drive we end up developing.

[@richardmcgowan1651]

Its already well known the Germans were no where near making or testing a nuke. America was only able to develop one because they had the time and peace to gather resources. Germany just didnt have access to the materials needed to make a nuke at that time. The Russians learned how to build one from spies they had in the American camp. In Rocket tech the Germans were miles ahead of everyone else. Would have even been more ahead had Germany saw its worth in the 1930s. Rockets were not seen as a weapon of total war in the 1930s because they were so small.

[@nuggetella]

Ughmkay, it's also well known US is 100% controlled by the same filth all pilgrims fled Europe from, but shhh, that's not advertising funded either... 🍺❤🤙 👉😷💉 🌳🍏🐍

[@gregorysgarrison]

They were using rockets at Waterloo more than a hundred years before. But yeah, they were pretty much giant bottle rockets.

[@petergarrow9697]

Young girls slips

[@bob8776]

Guess I won't watch this documentary after all

[@user-lw1cf9wr1m]

According to you ahahah

[@andrewbevan4662]

Underground complex? Just destroy the entrance, game over...

[@evanscammell4194]

They always make a second exit

[@xOubax]

They need to finish digging that site out!

[@Michael-oj5pr]

I can recommend looking into the huge amount of work done by Tino Struckmann and his youtube channel, he has researched many sites and made a brilliant connection between the administrative side of things and what we are being told today, i.e the amount of concrete and labour used for Riese and what we are being told what is currently identified as Riese do not add up.

[@victorhughes8251]

Thanks for that. I watched him last year abroad and could not find him until now with your help.

[@foobarmaximus3506]

Meh

[@mikehull5042]

Yeah watching Tino all the time. Its funny now to see so called historians debunk the German physicists, yet most of em went to Russia and the west, helped them with their nuclear projects and even got USA and Russians into space. So that being said. They probably did make nuclear reactors for fuel or set detonation off to see the outcomes. Helped by Hans kammler, via organisation group Todt, payed by seimens, ADG, the German postal service etc, well funded, used slave labour. Truth willout

[@sifridbassoon]

the whole idea is terrifying

[@jamesbarisitz4794]

Facinating episode. Excellent. ✌

[@TheIrishRushin]

If they did make those bombs they could have forced the war to an armistice and even regain territory. Cold war era would have been alot scarier.

[@GrizzlyCompany]

Even if they had made the bombs and successfully tested them it was already too late. They could have inflicted serious damage but the allies would have still moved on Berlin.

[@TheIrishRushin]

@@GrizzlyCompany No. Enough of those bombs being used would force a truce.

[@Veldtian1]

@@GrizzlyCompany yeah with hindsight you can say that.

[@kevinkoster8066]

There has been only 1 country who used them, never forget

[@buckhorncortez]

And there has only been one country that could have avoided being bombed with nuclear weapons if they had accepted the Potsdam Declaration sent to them on July 26, 1945, or at least agreed to use it as the basis of negotiations for ending the war. Never forget that they chose to sacrifice their own citizens rather than end the war.

[@jessiahfn2402]

Now Ik why the special guns on cod zombies are called wonder weapons

[@brettcowan9231]

They were alot close getting a nuclear bomb, than people know. If they could of held on a bit longer. There was a good chance America would of given them one, even before Japan

[@buckhorncortez]

No, they weren't. After talking with Heisenberg about how long it would take to create a bomb, Speer dropped nearly all funding for nuclear research. The funding available didn't even fund Heisenberg's program adequately. The Germans had no knowledge of building uranium separation and enrichment facilities and had no knowledge of plutonium production and chemistry. So, the Germans were not "alot (sic) close (sic) getting a nuclear bomb..." The Germans had ZERO knowledge of atomic cross-sections of uranium and plutonium and the interaction with fast neutrons. Without that - you can't even begin to design an atomic bomb.

[@shadowbasterds2389]

Sound so stupid even if they were were so close they weren't cuz it never happened USA was first. So there u go either u got it or u don't there is no such thing as close

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

Indeed paradoxically collapsing when they did shortly before the first atom bomb was ready saved Germany from a Hiroshima and Nagasaki experience

[@sasha5320]

Closer that anyone can dare imagine and in combination with a V-3 to be developed, it would be devastating for the allies and it would have been victory for the Third Reich.

[@kissmy_butt1302]

Imagine if the Nazis weren't anti-Semitic. You keep Einstein and all those scientist and who knows what happens.

[@buckhorncortez]

Einstein doesn't matter. He never worked on the atomic bomb. In fact, fission had to be explained to him in July of 1939 by Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner because he didn't keep up with current physics advancements as he dedicated his time attempting to develop a unified field theory.

[@181stTIE]

If true, this casts a whole new reason for the Allies 'Germany first' argument...particularly where the US wanted to deal with Japan themselves and then changed their mind so that Europe wasn't a race between only between the British and the Russians.

[@donoberloh]

They didn’t even need 10 years. Just a more logical leader.

[@jsl151850b]

*"None at all"* ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[@mikebauer6917]

Where is the evidence here? On the Ancients Aliens BS “documentary” scale this one scores between the “just trust that experts with credentials like ‘Russian historian who read a website’ say so” to “oh just believe it”.

[@Black-Sun_Kaiser]

It's a really old TV series. That's how TV works unfortunately

[@flashgordon3715]

exactly what I was thinking

[@bobmateljan6986]

After watching the vid I can see why Professor WWII Conspiracy teaches at Podunk State. Fun speculation with very little actual evidence.

[@s80key]

Thanks for this very informative documentary.Please could you look in and do one of Japan unit 731.You never hear about this when you watch ww2 documentarys.The western media never mentions it at all.Thank you

[@theShermanator]

They dont make most of these documentaries, they have permission to reupload old Nat Geo/History channel etc ones

[@kylealexander7024]

Remind me wat japan did in ww2? Not to america but the rest of the countries they attacked?

[@kurtvonfricken6829]

@@kylealexander7024 Murdered a lot of people, mostly civilians.

[@stevenbaer9061]

A few years ago I looked up Unit 731 on youtube and video's are on here, or at least they were. Unit 731 led by Shiro Ishii was brutal beyond believe, horrific.

[@bobmateljan6986]

And to America: Pearl Harbor, Bataan Death March, Iwo Jima, Singapore, Sandakan, Doolittle’s Raiders, Unit 731 vivisections, torture, human experiments, kamikazes, cannibalism on Ie Shima, Midway, Chichijima/ Ogasawara incident, Kempei Tai, Death Railway, POW slave labor IN Japan, bombing hospitals and hospital ships, Red Cross, and POWs, and on and on. Shall I continue?

[@northernone24]

When a 55 minute documentary ends at 5 minutes 10 seconds

[@dennisstorie4604]

After 80 years how is it possible that German government has not explored these facilities

[@bobbowie5334]

Because they were in E. Germany.

[@dennisstorie4604]

@@bobbowie5334 Germany has been reunited since mid 90s at least

[@daveshalikiani3305]

cuz they wanna bury their past, a really wack way of going about it. Largely cuz of Merkel. Maybe Olaf Scholz will.

[@alkirk6]

There is also the multi generational sense of national guilt to consider.Modern day Germany,does not want to do anything,that brings up any suspicion of them doing anything with the foul,odious stench of Nazism.

[@thomas_2285]

Very interesting they would get Bane to narrate this documentary.

[@markhugo8270]

Not that close. They had no way to make a "reactor" to make plutonium. The elimination of the heavy water plant in Norway helped assure that. They did NOT have pure enough graphite to make Converter reactors.

[@sammoseley9113]

Hello Mark could you concisely explain to me the general intricacies of nuclear production if you have the time? Cheers.

[@tylermiron6854]

If they weren't that close then how do explain what was going on in the Jonas valley in Germany near the end of the war?

[@wayneshilcock3027]

The Germans found another way to produce a nuclear bomb without using heavy water.

[@RyanWolfNZ]

Na we did have heaps, I was there. Franz lost the key to the storage room though, we spent the last months of the war trying to find it.

[@Calebe428]

@@tylermiron6854 they really werent, i doubt germany had enough resources to actually make a bomb

[@tomfrazier1103]

A man named Derek DeSolla Price wrote a book about Japan detonating their bomb 3 days before Hiroshima was hit.

[@Gutileonardo1]

That would've been disastrous for the world

[@Ligerpride]

Like the ones the Americans used on the Japanese?

[@mr.president3633]

@@Ligerpride yes except the intent would be different the U.S wanted to end the war. Germany would have wanted to crush its opposition to ruling the world.

[@joshfeehan6929]

What you mean? I see only good things 😳😂😂

[@PershingOfficial]

@@mr.president3633 I think it’s funny how desperate people are to make the US seem like they wanted world domination

[@taber1975]

@@mr.president3633 two sides of the sam coin, one just "lost". Both Germany and America had no intrest in perpetual war. They just wanted to make ends meet. Sad fact of the matter is America is the only country in the world to use Nucular weapons on innocent civilans, or on people in general. Every major country has kept pows. Israel is in charge so of course youre only gonna hear that side of the story

[@KidDynamite6]

Just think of Germany had another 10 years weapons development And much more stable leader that wasn’t drugged out of his mind before they started the war we would’ve been in trouble

[@smokeytheangler8387]

Maybe. At some point he would of still ran into supply issues. And he still had Canada to deal with if they landed in America. And Mexico. And they never would of been able to keep up with losses in Europe, America and Africa. A land attack in America would be the end for anyone. They never really fought Africa. They just hung out there. Really, anyone who thinks they can take the world is pretty stupid. But if he got the atomic bomb first... game over.

[@thechangelings3968]

No matter what country rises up. The greatest nation on earth "USA" and those who stand for democracy will always be there to grind these people to dust.

[@Sjaak_b]

@@thechangelings3968 did you just say that the usa is the greatest nation ? its not

[@tomtaylor5623]

lol at you believing the obvious drug propaganda. and he was the reason for their rise, so your scenario doesn't work out at all.

[@devilish2136]

@@thechangelings3968 🤣😂😂😂 its a troll right

[@haazsstarship7530]

44:19 "Neither of them knew the roles of the other people in the chain." | "A single link does not break." -Ogun

[@rivalow2512]

Just thinking of that mad man with nuclear power sends shivers down me

[@roberttelarket4934]

We have two new lunatics Putin and Xi!!!

[@johnsmith-mq4eq]

That madman used it Truman

[@Neetbiology0360]

Kim Jong : laugh in Korean

[@garydavid177]

Now that is one man that would've loved to watch all of humanity fry.

[@Alesxandros]

The only madman that used it to kill innocent is an american

[@sting1430]

In the search for History it should never be chained to keep us from learning, if anything to keep us from making more mistakes

[@mickmccrory8534]

To build an atom bomb, first you have to build a Hanford, or an Oak Ridge.

[@Crashed131963]

True The Manhattan Project need super large town size complexes like Oak Ridge .Hanford and Y-12 employing 120,000 but the Germans made one in a small cave dugout somewhere.

[@dougwainer8768]

I think that it more likely was a prototype of an air-fuel bomb. Those things can get really big and powerful.

[@telidoscope]

and with half-starved, recalcitrant slave laborers!

[@terryrose6208]

There are college kids who have the technology to build one the size of a small suitcase. The fissile material can be bought internationally if you have enough money. They are low grade bombs but still very dangerous.

[@TommygunNG]

@@terryrose6208 The Germans couldn't exactly buy the stuff like that then.

[@noldo3837]

This discussion really draws wehraboos like lamp draws moths...

[@waynenewby3522]

Excellent Narrator ....easy to listen to

[@johnbernstein7887]

Patrick Stewart is my guess

[@zero00seven]

I think it’s Frank Langella

[@ArtemisWarriorGoddess]

Odd Dr Hans kammler is also the leader in the development project for the Bell

[@dustylover100]

The US was largely undisturbed by war when they developed the atomic bomb, in much the same way they were able to outproduce the entire axis.

[@dustylover100]

Pearl Harbor had been attacked. What I'm talking about is the time just before the bomb was created.

[@rebimpskitzo8489]

Yea the Japanese plan should have been a blitz to push as far as they can, Pearl Harbor, then hit the west coast. Take LA, then you would have a much better bargaining chip than a few destroyed WWI era battleships.

[@henrytep8884]

And this is one of the only sane response in this comment thread. Basic occum razor being applied.

[@arjun63]

Superb show

[@Jagdtyger2A]

That 8" nuclear artillery shell used something called a "swan device" type atomic warhead. This is exactly the same design as the SS plan for nuclear weapons. Which may be the actual source of the Thuringia tests. If this is the fact, it is curious that Germany never deployed such a weapon. Even a inefficient warhead would have been useful for Germany at that stage of the war. I guess we should be thankful that they didn't deploy it

[@motiv311]

no doubt they tried, their infrastructure was probably just too far gone by that point to be effective enough to put it in the field

[@Jagdtyger2A]

@@motiv311 If that was the case, why did they do two tests? A two point ignition "swan type device" only requires something on the order of 250 grams of fissile materials. Yet the Reich sent a lot of such material to Japan at the end of the war

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

Fantasist, they were absolutely nowhere in nuclear weapons development, they were nowhere even close to making a critical reactor! Would they buy the ready materials from America?

[@ziblot1235]

Never deployed because they didnt have viable weapons.This whole doc plays out like a Hollywood horror movie. WIth Zombie SOldiers.

[@motiv311]

@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 according to this film , they got all the way to some sort of test

[@420247paul]

They had the Wunderwaffe yall never played zombies, damn.

[@fabiosunspot1112]

Von Braun,was interested in getting into space but the war came and his duties changed.

[@martinbynion1589]

"Ve aim for ze stars, but sometimes vee hit London". :-}

[@TheUglyGnome]

OMG! This is like "History" Channel. Lot of speculation based on "evidence" taken out of context.

[@igorbrille8222]

I guess this worldwide most known man never dies

[@mikeferrando5725]

He thought nukes were useless because of the work that would’ve gone into having planes big enough to carry one. How wrong he was…

[@dipiti8739]

He thought that a 20 ton weapon would weigh 20 tons.,

[@stephenjacks8196]

"Conventional Wisdom" is a-bombs need to be Uranium235. But contradictions are U235 advantage is only if neutrons are moderated; bombs do not have moderators. U238 fissions from unmoderated neutrons (all neutons during explosion). Difference is U235 emits 2.6 neutrons per fission; U238 only releases 1.6 neutrons per fission. Hence German "neutron multiplier" theory had basis.

[@buckhorncortez]

It doesn't matter. They had no fissile material, no way to make fissile material didn't understand the chemistry involved, etc. They were never close to an atomic bomb.

[@casachezdoom2588]

Is it possible that the technology used by the US to make the first atomic bomb was actually German technology?

[@terryrose6208]

Yes, a great deal of it was.

[@DaneOrschlovsky]

Considering who worked on the Manhattan Project, the science was undoubtedly German influenced.

[@TheUglyGnome]

Not German technology, but German science. And definitely not the way they speculate in this "documentary".

[@Calebe428]

no not really, i mean german scientists did work on it but they had left germany years prior when the 3rd reich rose to power

[@buckhorncortez]

@@terryrose6208 No, it wasn't. All of the technology used including engineering, chemistry, etc. were developed by the Manhattan Project. The main Germans who worked on the program were Hans Bethe, Klaus Fuchs, and Rudolph Peierls. People mistake Edward Teller for German - he was Hungarian, as was Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, and John Von Neumann. George Kistiakowsky was Ukrainian. Stan Ulam was Polish. Enrico Fermi was Italian. Then you had a whole host of American physicists Lawerence, Serber, Seaborg, Kennedy, McMillan, Wahl, Oppenheimer, Compton, Morrison, Feynman, Bradbury, Agnew, Alvarez, etc.

[@kevg3563]

Not a single mention of the heavy water plant that the Nazi's had in Norway dramatized in the movie 'The Heroes Of Telemark'

[@jameshastey3058]

Is it just me or does the narrator sound a lot like Sean Connery?

[@N_0968]

The voice is similar but there’s no Scottish accent.

[@sportmom2222]

You’re right, he does sound a lot like Sean Connery, but he doesn’t have the Scottish accent.

[@leedoss6905]

It's an Alabama accent so strong it doesn't sound like an Alabama accent.

[@Americanpatriot-zo2tk]

The Germans had an atomic bomb they didn’t have the opportunity to deploy.

[@glennhubbard5008]

How far is Berlin from New Mexico?

[@buckhorncortez]

8,690 kilometers or about 5,400 miles...

[@robertmatch6550]

Beat book on the subject: "The Making of the Atomic Bomb " by Richard Rhodes. This 'documentary' seems to be more a collection of rumors with no facts nor reputable interviewees.

[@jameswillis3848]

48:54 if the government tells you to stop digging, that means you're on the right path. Its obvious that the yanks found what they were looking for there in the 40s

[@jameswillis3848]

brilliant documentary, i must say, lots of places to visit in Germany, if any of them are even open to the public

[@Defx7]

yeeeaaas! I just hear megatron, this must be David Kaye.

[@snedzy1506]

New evidence and documents, unknown "and not created" until now tell a different story. I'm really loving the new level of truth about things these days. Makes me feel safe and sound. Can I get a WHO or CDC amen?

[@ropaul8006]

I'll save you time. They were years away from making a bomb

[@dahawk8574]

You would never suck in 200K views if you used an HONEST title like that.

[@dominiclowe3640]

Anybody else's noticed that the music seems very similar to the music in the dark knight trilogy

[@vsboy2577]

Incredible documentary

[@buckhorncortez]

In a searching for Big Foot kind of way...a lot of speculation and few real facts.

[@lonnybrinker377]

So many stories unspoken

[@khaleelibr96]

some times I wonder if we never developed nuclear bombs , would we still be in wars , or will we live in peace , although we never reached full peace ,but nukes stopped huge powers from colliding with each other .

[@unkledoda420]

Wars have been happening as long as there have been humans to fight each other. Why would war have stopped after WW2? As far as we know there has always been at least one war happening somewhere on earth at any given time. World peace is a nice idea and surely something we should always strive towards but will never actually be achieved for any meaningful length of time.

[@scotttild]

COVID is a war is just a different kind of war. They can only use proxy wars now, nukes have made wars like WW2 obsolete so they have to figure out another way. They want war and always have. We have had for the most part horrible globalists presidents with a couple exceptions. JFK was killed in part because he went rouge.

[@khaleelibr96]

@@unkledoda420 yes there have always been a war going , but huge wars stopped after WW2 , no major powers engaged directly in war with each other. now if we never reached nuclear destruction , would we still have major wars? (Ukraine and Russia), (Arab -Israel), (US in Vietnam) are not huge wars.

[@archiedavis5365]

@@khaleelibr96 same questions asked about WOMD when David took Goliath out.... Cain and Abel weren't the first. Mankind's been Hellbent on destruction since the Big Bang....and those touting 'peace' are most often the tyrants seeking absolute control. Only way to achieve any semblance of brotherhood on Earth's mutually assured obliteration... but then you get, what we got now...."Don't make me show you how insanely desperate I really am by killing everything but the cockroaches... Give me what I want!" The answer...."Kill everything and let God sort it out....He started it; let Him put all the pieces back in the box. Once done; bet He doesn't drag this game out of the closet ever again. Shame is...Hell's not even half full.

[@dahawk8574]

Pax atomica. We live in this most peaceful time _because_ of the bomb.

[@jarthuroriginal]

Germany did not have the resources to produce fissile materials. The US did only by assembling the equivalent of the auto industry with a cast of thousands directed by a very capable inner circle of dedicated scientists and engineers.

[@tonyelberg7814]

is that what you think, check your facts. they did it but we were not told the truth, it was just a matter of material.

[@jarthuroriginal]

@@tonyelberg7814 Read Making the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes.I have no idea what you mean by being lied to.

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

Indeed and safely far away from the fighting Germany was under too great an exergencies to have got to that stage even if they were aware of the concept

[@tallat8888]

The lost battlefields tino struckman channel has some great content about some of this Information.

[@saltypatriot4181]

My boi Tino 🤘

[@tirebiter1680]

By July 1945 we proved that it was technically possible to build an A-bomb. We also proved that only the USA had the resources needed to build one using 1945 technology. After a few years the Russians and the Krauts who had worked on Germany's A-bomb also made an A-bomb.

[@iansneddon2956]

By 1942 we proved it was technically possible, with the first artificially initiated chain reaction achieved in Chicago in December 1942. They had a good idea how a bomb might function but you can't make it work if you have no means of setting it off, so this was an essential discovery. (The German program never achieved this milestone).

[@vasileiosntinas7833]

1500 hundred German scientists and 15.000 kilos of documentation with Verner fon Brown a genious left to the united states just at the end of the war.

[@buckhorncortez]

Who is "Verner fon Brown"?

[@juanvaldez4575]

@@buckhorncortez . Wernher von Braun

[@buckhorncortez]

@@juanvaldez4575 Now that's totally different than whomever Verner fon Brown is...

[@dahawk8574]

Charlie's brother.

[@buckhorncortez]

@@dahawk8574 Now, that makes sense...

[@justinkase7307]

@ Mark Hugo, did you know Hugo Boss made their uniforms?

[@geoff3103]

General Kammler also had access to a very large Junkers 390 transport jet that was capable of long -distance flight; I'd be willing to bet he loaded up whatever he was working on and flew it to the Americans for asylum, probably first to somewhere in North Africa and then west.

[@geoff3103]

@Sean Embry interesting.

[@logancurl9526]

I think he came on a u-boat, specifically U-234 that supposedly came to American shores in early-spring 1945, with a "very high ranking" SS officer on board that brought with him a large amount of Uranium-235 sealed in 24K gold containers, as part of a surrender deal heal made with the U.S. I think it's a mighty big coincidence that we shortly after that time (July-August), had enough Uranium-235 to make at least 3 nuclear bombs, when the head of the facility that produced all of our U-235 at that time, in Oakridge, Tennessee wrote in a letter that we would "possibly" have enough U-235 to make ONE bomb by sometime in November.....🤔

[@Spartan-oj9dc]

@Sean Embry well Germany to this day do not have have nuclear weapons but they do have weapons grade enriched uranium which is possibly held in Argentina

[@Spartan-oj9dc]

@Sean Embry Argentina became a huge haven for fleeing Nazis especially the SS where they established entire towns and communities , when especially during the late 1970s and 1980s it was dangerous for western journalists to venture in Argentina

[@Spartan-oj9dc]

@@logancurl9526 I didn't know that very interesting 🤔🤔

[@mikefiero]

Look up mark Felton. He's awesome has everything about ww1 and ww2 and more.

[@buckhorncortez]

I'd rather read books by people who have spent 10x the amount of time researching a subject than Felton does. A lot of his work contains misinformation.

[@PapaMorty-]

Love your guys’ videos

[@jackiechandler6590]

I keep thinking to myself, damn, that person needs new brakes.

[@peterstinton9361]

Unfortunately, history is written solely by the victors. So, the whole truth will only ever be known to a select few. Needless to say however, is the fact that the Germans were so far more advanced than we'll ever know.

[@jacobh869]

Hail!

[@_Snapper]

Facts if you believe everything you are being told about WW2 pre,mid,end from your history books ,you truely don’t understand the art of war

[@kevatut23]

"Unknown until now". Let's stick a pin in that.

[@Sforeczka]

It's really not correct to say WvB made nuclear rockets. WvB designed and constructed proportion systems. He had precious little to do with payloads.

[@logancurl9526]

*propulsion systems

[@archiedavis5365]

He knew they were developed as weapons... He didn't care if they carried the heads if the vanquished or pig blood.... He knew they were built for purposes of evil...for the Axis or for the Americans. PERIOD

[@ajac009]

Wait American soldiers knew how close they were to solving a problem none of them know anything about Atomic technology?