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Episode 534: The Manhattan Project Part II - A Numbers Game

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The History of the German Intelligence Unit

The Nazis were on track to produce an atomic bomb by 1945. They'd started work on it in 1942. Part of his job was to also actively prevent Germany from getting the bomb. So he and his deputies came up with a plan to deploy their own intelligence units made up of scientists and soldiers. These guys were going behind enemy line. We will hide all of the secrets in hot sauce. There's no way the German can handle the hot sauce. I think it's important, we'll put it inside this case of salt. Well, the Germans have a little bit of salt in it. They don't know hot sauce. Oh, no, there's a there's a hot there

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