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The Bastard Brigade - The Accidental A-Bomb | 1

American History Tellers

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Nuclear Theory and Nazi Politics Collided

Otto Hahn worked closely with Lisa Meitner the Austrian physicist who'd embarrass the Jolio Curie's a few years earlier. She also happened to be Jewish during the rise of Nazism in Germany and was suddenly at risk. When he tried to mail her belongings to her Nazi officials opened the boxes and smashed everything inside Just to send a message Zeke Hyle says.

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