Delivery systems
Like the Japanese, the problem the Germans had was delivering the bomb in a way that would win the war. They wanted a target that was undefended. This was why the Americans chose Hiroshima. It wasn't so easy for the Germans. London was the first city to undergo aerial bombardment in 1916. The British then developed, over the next 25 years, the most effective system of air defenses in the world. The tactical nukes the Germans had in 1943 wouldn't do enough damage to end the war in their favor. The atomic bombs that came later were too heavy for V-1 or V-2 rockets. The B-29 that flew the five-ton uranium bomb to Japan barely got off the ground. The Luftwaffe had some heavy bombers but could they get through RAF air defenses? Even if they could with a night drop, the destruction of a large part of London would not have ended the war. However the elimination of America's financial center in New York and government conglomerate in Washington D.C. might force an American withdrawal from Europe. Both these targets were within Luftwaffe range. The Luftwaffe scouted New York City in 1944 with the gigantic 6-engined Ju-390 that had flight characteristics actually superior to both the B-29 and the post-war B-36. The Ju-390 had 20% more horsepower than the B-29 and 80% more wing area. A Ju-390 flight in August 1944 from Mont de Marsan, France, flew to within 12 miles of New York City. Unteroffizer Wolf Baumgart testified the crew took photographs of the New York skyline and returned to France. They tested the air defenses and determined, correctly, that New York didn't have any. Critics say the trip to New York was beyond the range of the Ju-390. At 232 knots the Ju-390 could theoretically fly 7,400 nautical miles at 12,000 feet for 32 hours duration. The trip from Oslo to New York is also within the range of the Ju-390 with a bomb-load. The Luftwaffe then launched some sort of attack upon New York on September 17/18, 1944. The plane, a Ju-390 flying a polar route from Oslo, went down near Owls Head and Brockport Maine. Three bodies were recovered and buried nearby. This event has been kept secret by compliant historians. This was probably an atomic attack. Luckily for the Americans the German Army collapsed none too soon.
From the Washington Post, June 29, 1945: RAF officers said today that the Germans had nearly completed preparations for bombing New York from a "colossal" airfield near Oslo when the war ended. Forty giant bombers with a 7,000 mile range were found on this base "the largest Luftwaffe field I have ever seen" said one officer. They were a new type of bomber developed by Heinkel. They now are being dismantled for study. German ground crews said the planes were held in readiness for a mission to New York.
Some odd questioning: Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 16: Friday, 21 June 1946
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Now, I have certain information, which was placed in my hands, of an experiment which was carried out near Auschwitz and I would like to ask you if you heard about it or knew about it. The purpose of the experiment was to find a quick and complete way of destroying people without the delay and trouble of shooting and gassing and burning, as it had been carried out, and this is the experiment, as I am advised. A village, a small village was provisionally erected, with temporary structures, and in it approximately 20,000 Jews were put. By means of this newly invented weapon of destruction, these 20,000 people were eradicated almost instantaneously, and in such a way that there was no trace left of them; that it developed, the explosive developed, temperatures of from 400Â degrees to 500Â degrees centigrade and destroyed them without leaving any trace at all. Do you know about that experiment?
SPEER: No, and I consider it utterly improbable.
Albert Speer was the famous architect and later Minister of (slave labor) Armaments. He didn't know everything. He maintained adherence to the standard official story and got off easy: twenty years of house arrest in Spandau Prison. After that came a life of fame and fortune with the publication of his ghostwritten books. Like Sergeant Shultz; Speer knew nothing. The fellow actually in command of the secret projects was SS ObergruppenfÃ... ±hrer Hans Kammler. His HQ was at the Skoda Works, in Pilsen, Sudetenland. This was one the largest military-industrial conglomerates in the world. It controlled the massive Luftwaffe underground factories and uranium mines that were all over the area. It was here, and not Auschwitz, where thousands of Hungarian Jews were sent in 1944 to work as slave laborers. General Patton's 3rd American Army captured the place, and Kammler, in April, 1945. What 3rd Army discovered there is unknown. Their war diaries are still classified top secret. After his arrest by the Americans, Kammler disappeared forever.
The American Bomb
Among the most persistent legends to emerge from the war is that the American bomb project was kept secret. It is often cited as an example of how a government can keep a large military mission undisclosed. If keeping it secret meant it didn't get into the newspapers and radio reports then yes, it was kept under wraps. The rest of the implication is complete fabrication. The Manhattan Project employed 120,000 people who were all in on it. Everybody knew they were working on a big project that would win the war. Most people figured it out. A steel cutter might not have any information for the enemy but a physicist would. Among them were hundreds of Soviet spies. Many of them were at the highest level: nuclear physicists like Theodore Hall, Morris Cohen and Klaus Fuchs relayed information to Moscow. However it is; the Soviet Union was not the enemy but an ally. None of the atomic spies relayed information to Germany, a nation that was the enemy. When the Americans began to share information with the British, who were infiltrated with nests of Soviet spies at every level of government, the atomic project news was on Joseph Stalin's desk as soon as it got to Churchill. There were at least 1,500 known data leaks.
The Rosenbergs get the chair
A further legend has it that the Russians would never have been able to build the bomb on their own without help from their spies. In 1943 Russia had its own set of problems, mostly that the European half of their country was occupied by marauding enemy troops. Even so, the Soviet Union built the best tanks in the war, the best ground attack aircraft, (the Sturmovik Ilyushin Il-2), the best infantry rifle, the best submachine gun, the best rocket launchers and much more superb military gear that defeated the German Army. They manufactured these designs themselves. They didn't need an atomic bomb because two years later they would be in Berlin. When peace finally came they built their own bomb albeit with help from Japan. The Americans could never accept that their exclusive invention might be used against them. This was a bitter pill to swallow. Instead they blamed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were low level worker bees in the Soviet intelligence apparatus. But the general principles on how to build a bomb were well known. The construction itself was a mechanical engineering problem that both Japan and Germany also solved. After the first explosion on Hiroshima there were no more secrets and the cat was out of the bag. Nevertheless, after a show trial worthy of Stalin, they strapped poor Ethel into an electric chair even though she never did anything but bake cookies. The couple was not even allowed a last meal together and Ethel, by design, took a long time to die.
Trinity
Robert Oppenheimer was the chief scientist on atomic bomb development and he informed new President Truman in May 1945 that the bomb wouldn't be ready until November, at the earliest. Then U-234 surrendered and its cargo of triggers was sent to Oppenheimer. Now he had working units thanks to the German war machine. Those 50 gold-lined tubes of uranium-235 sure came in handy too; as the Americans had problems extracting fissionable material from their limited stock of uranium-238. So, not in November, but just a little more than two months after Germany's surrender, the Americans were ready to test their Plutonium bomb on July 16, 1945. To tell it again: This was not the bomb type used on Hiroshima. The first bomb dropped on Japan was a uranium-235 device that the Americans never tested. The official myth is that the uranium bomb didn't need to be tested because "everybody knew it would work." Why and how is that? Nobody could know anything about these bombs. The simple answer is that they didn't need to test it because Germany already did. Without the German test the American military would not have used an untested bomb. That was far too risky. Suppose the thing was a dud? Then the Japanese could soon have a working model with bomb-grade uranium. This is the great secret of the Manhattan Project: America got the uranium bomb from the enemy. And that's why, three quarters of a century later, information about the German bomb is hidden and denied. When German collapse came in May 1945, the victors refused to recognize that Germany even had a government. They accepted only the surrender of the German armed forces (der Wehrmacht). The Allied Armies became Germany's new administration and they were ruthless and vindictive. The terror bombing stripped Germany of its national and cultural inheritance. Still occupied by American, Russian and British troops, a legal surrender was not signed until 1990. Emotionally and psychologically ruined, the German rump state was, and still is, allowed only partial sovereignty. The god of American consumerism replaced the apparent malevolence of German national identity. Neutered militarily, Germany became a flaccid banker's paradise cheerfully subservient to American geopolitical whims. Their green, grim, condescending but trendy pantsuit government now pimps the virtue of open borders. Ordinary Germans, dumbed-down into historical ignorance and lethargy by decades of drug and alcohol fueled material excess, are passive and supine. Befuddled both emotionally and politically, they do not and cannot grasp the completely evident scheme to physically eradicate them from the face of the earth by what the UN euphemistically names "replacement migration."
Legends of war
Most people think the history of the war is settled today. It was The Good War fought by A Band of Brothers, and part of the larger Greatest Generation. The enemy's infamy contributes to the notion that the war was righteous. Why then are so many documents still secret? Why are the records from Japanese germ warfare stations Unit-731 and Unit-100 still undisclosed? The medical doctors that worked there, by their savagery and callous (often gleeful) indifference to human suffering, make Joseph Mengele look like Florence Nightingale. Why were these murderous psychopaths given immunity and promoted to important positions in the Japanese medical establishment? The legend has it that Japan surrendered not only because of the atomic fires over Hiroshima and Nagasaki but because the Soviets invaded Manchukuo (now Manchuria) three days after the first bomb fell. Why should Japan care so much about Manchukuo when Okinawa, one of the home islands, had already fallen? Keep in mind that Japan had 1,200,000 troops in Manchukuo and Korea. No Japanese unit of any size ever surrendered in this war. They were ready to fall back to the mountains and Korea. Already severely bloodied after four years of combat versus the Wehrmacht and up against troops that did not surrender, the Red Army's task was formidable. What convinced Japan to quit was the loss of their germ warfare stations.
Kamikaze Nation
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