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...German Nobel Prizewinners Otto Hahn (TIME, Jan. 21) and Werner Heisenberg said that Germany knew the secret of harnessing atomic energy in 1941. Said Heisenberg: "We were unable to apply it because of shortages of manpower and material. ... In June, 1942, we made a report on our progress to Speer [Albert Speer, Nazi munitions boss now on trial at Nürnberg]. At the same time American atom scientists made a similar report in the U.S. Then followed the great difference -America was able to start building the necessary factories. . . . Germany could not even begin work...
Around the world, scientists wondered what had happened to Dr. Otto Hahn, 66-year-old head of the chemistry department of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and the man who first smashed the uranium atom. At least one U.S. university (Chicago) wanted to offer the German scientist a position...
There was more of the same from Major General of Police Otto Ohlendorf, a drab little man who matter-of-factly told the court that he had been responsible for killing 90,000 men, women & children in one year (June 1941-June 1942). These were the fruits of his Special Task Force D, one of several assigned to liquidate Communists and Jews. Task forces A, B, and C were said to have killed more people than his own D, reported Ohlendorf, but he suspected that they were just boasting...
...Archduke Otto of Austria recently visited Austria for the first time in 26 years, but left at the behest of the Austrian Government...
...Plan Otto. The record read: in 1937 the Nazis began specific preparations for a two-front war. They told the people they were merely preparing to defend Germany. Yet the evidence showed that Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, as War Minister, had given this official appraisal...