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Episode 535: The Manhattan Project Part III - Sometimes You Need a Daddy

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Heisenberg Survived in the Chaos of Germany

When Hitler committed suicide on May 1st, Henry's birthday, we got a congratulations. We also got on my birthday. Werner Heisenberg meanwhile was surviving in the chaos of Germany only by the grace of God and through bribery Since he hadn't reported for duty in the Volkssturm, he was technically supposed to be executed on the spot for desertion. Soon after Heisenberg arrived at his dilapidated family cabin in the Black Forest, that's where he found his furious wife. She was freezing, starving and suffering from scarlet fever along with their six children. But when it became obvious that all was truly lost in the either the Americans or the Soviets were on their

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