How The Fall Of Austria-Hungary Led To The Exodus Of Jewish Geniuses | The Atomic Bomb | Timeline

This is the story of a band of six geniuses whose names carry meaning to this day. The research and scientific achievements of John von Neumann, Edward Teller, Eugene Paul Wigner, and Leo Szilard were vital in the invention of the atomic bomb and modern warfare as we know it. Robert Capa became the world’s most famous war photographer. And Michael Curtiz’s film “Casablanca” is considered to be one of the most iconic propaganda films of all time.
Individually and collectively, each of these Hungarian Jews declared war on totalitarianism. Each in their own way, but all with the same goal, the same mission, and the same enemy. None of them wanted to give Europe up without a fight.
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[@rachelgates509]

I didn’t know plutonium was an artificial element! Makes sense though.

[@israel_started_it_ALL_in_1947]

oh

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

We are the bringers of etc..

[@Nero-ho6gt]

Lol

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

Edward Teller's vigrous advocacy for strength through nuclear weapons, especially when so many of his wartime colleagues later expressed regret about the arms race, made him an easy target for the "mad scientist" stereotype.

[@dpm2515]

Enthusiastically promoted idea of developing hydrogen bomb or thermonuclear weapons... and he was 100% right... USA & USSR have nuclear weapons (1951,52,53ish this debate was happening publicly in congress etc). Oppenheimer and like 3/4 of the Los Alamos scientists were against developing a hydrogen bomb. And Teller didn't differentiate between the Nazis and the communists... He thought that letting the Soviets develop the thermonuclear bomb unilaterally was insane... it would be like not pursuing the development of a nuclear bomb in letting the Nazis develop it unilaterally during World War II...also I could be wrong but I dont think he wax german...prolly emigrated to the United States from east euro country afflicted with equal measures of tyranny from the right and left

[@hermanehrentraut4956]

This video makes it seem like the US was open to Jewish refugees when in truth they were not, in fact laws existed that limited the number of Jews allowed to enter the US but when the war began laws were passed that restricted their numbers even more, and the US was not alone but all the allied powers did, in fact they held a conference making their stance of Jewish refugees quite clear, in short they would be turned away. Now clearly not all were turned away if the US saw value in admitting you in they did so, such as those who worked on the Manhattan Project. However after the war the US had very little problem not only admitting Nazi's into the US but giving them new identities in what was called Operation Paperclip.

[@newyorkeranew]

I have read of no US laws passed during WWII that further restricted immigration. However, the US State Dept failed to issue as many visas as allowed under the 1921-1924 immigration acts. Those acts were highly restricted. The failure to fill its quotas, much less expand them, led to the death of many thousands of desperate refugees who could have been saved.

[@maughan3061]

When the Nazis were defeated it was then decided they still actually needed the bomb to, you know, save our boys from having to invade mainland Japan.

[@henryjohnfacey8213]

Unholy trinity, John Lofthhouse and Aron, a Great book on this. Also The Bomb a BBC podcast is brilliant on Szilard and the theory of atomic bomb I hope I can get the book.

[@HumbleMentorGaming]

Well, look at Gaza and thank your lucky stars.

[@hermanehrentraut4956]

@@newyorkeranew The Evian conference held in 1938 where the Allies discussed the Jewish refugee problem, which did include the US, and amounted to no change in helping them leading to more being harmed.

[@lvgaben]

Some other Hungarian genius from early 20th century: Theodore von Karman, father of the jet engine and supersonic flight, and also He known for Karman-line Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures William Fox, founder of Fox Film Corporation (20th Century Fox) Joseph Pulitzer, helped to establish the pattern of the modern newspaper. Was in favor of erecting the statue in New York City, The pieces of the statue was in wood crates for years in storage.... He collected the money for the Statue in his newspaper, and built it where is it today. John G. Kemeny, BASIC programming language In 2024 two Hungarians got Nobel price, Ferenc Krausz for Physics and Katalin Karikó for Medicine (foundations for mRNA-based medicine) for vaccines against COVID-19 Hungarians also have so so many very important inventions....

[@MarioNobre65]

Reading a book called Vienna, by Richard Cockett

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

ERROR : "Casablanca" f a r from being the most famous film of all times !! The GWTW or CITIZEN KANE are, if meaning just the 2 most obvious contemporary ones. THE GODFATHER, GIANT etc are another matter - many others; the bottom line : ALL ranking is childish !

[@pikiwiki]

Any claim to "the best" "the brightest" the most accomplished" is doomed to failure.To try and frame the world through specialized achievement as the greatest arbiter of value will suffer when compared to the context of that time

[@infiniti28160]

Jeremiah 4:4

[@KP-cc5mv]

Lucifer 6-6-6

[@infiniti28160]

@@KP-cc5mv E - Identity has a gematria of 666, and the total collapse of nations forcing citizens to depend upon statehoods is the plan.

[@robynw6307]

I wish they'd made a blockbuster movie about Szilard, rather than the terrible, badly edited, movie called Oppenheimer. Much more interesting character.

[@tatumfanclub8295]

Lol

[@roberttelarket4934]

Budapest is correct pronounced BudapeSHt.

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

It's two cities, isn't it? Buda on one side of the Danube, and Pest on the other.

[@mohabatkhanmalak1161]

Yes, two cities make it up.@@huwzebediahthomas9193

[@roberttelarket4934]

@@huwzebediahthomas9193: Yes they are.

[@knochildiko]

Well, I would say each language has the right to pronounce foreign words and names according to the rules of pronounciation of that language. How do you pronounce the name "Emerson Fittipaldi", for instance? Surely not the way a Brazilian does. You pronounce it the English or the Hungarian way. It is all right. I do not think we should correct English speakers because of calling the Hungarian capital Budapest instead of BudapeSHt. The Hungarian way of pronouncing London or Los Angeles differs from the English (American) pronounciation. And yet you are not corrected constantly by English speakers, I presume.

[@PrinceBlake]

Thank you. Because of your input, the matter is now being addressht.

[@carlsmith8815]

Extraordinary story of an often very enlightening series that "Timeline " can be. All that is said is true, but of balance could be introduced by mentioning. Vienna and Britain. Vienna is the first city of Austro-Hungary and the twin capital. It's also a huge source of Jewish emigre talent that nourished both Britain and America. Billy Wilder comes to mind. In 1900 Vienna was probably the most modern city in the world in terms of its cultural, scientific and creative endeavours. The British and the Germans were ahead of the Americans on a wide field of scientific endeavours in the late 1930s'. The British had a top secret nuclear program centred on Birmingham and Cambridge universities and the Birmingham engineering giant Tube Investments. The Birmingham researchers. went to the Los Alamos program and an important number of them were Jewish refugees. . A German non Jewish scientist Klaus Fuchs was among them. He had fled Germany as a Communist and was working as an agent for the Russians.

[@lucasgssilveira]

From Szilard to Orban, how the world turns, and sometimes in the wrong direction.

[@dpm2515]

Orban lol?? I don't know why he's the boogeyman anytime I ask someone for substantive criticism they can't give me any

[@lucasgssilveira]

@@dpm2515 Can't and won't are different things. My guess is that people don't even bother, like pearls to pigs

[@trevski9265]

Lol nuclear bomb was based on british supplied science

[@happyatheists9361]

Jewish peoples are so smart❤🎉❤❤

[@mrmikes4553]

Oh I thought they were German scientist migrated to United States after the war that created the nuclear bomb in Los Amos

[@dalemcconnell-zt4dn]

Yes they also where German scientist

[@HUNVilly]

You are thinking of NASA and Wernher von Braun

[@wlipman]

You have a lot of reading to do.

[@di3486]

Germans of Jewish descend. They were ethnically Jewish.

[@silasclayton7777]

That's NASA and Operation Paperclip

[@justlisa9220]

The Jews are born genies 🇮🇱

[@pokemonjt]

Creating weapons that kill humanity…. is truly an ongoing Jewish-genius

[@pokemonjt]

@@hu9912 u think ur love for bloodshed and genocide is a cause of jealousy?!!, no wonder u were loved by everyone throughout history

[@lvgaben]

Does not make sence what you said.... Since cavemans, all ages, centuries, nations created weapon.