“The Germans were at least a decade ahead of us technologically”
On aircraft and rockets, absolutely. Not on nuclear, though.
It is amazing, though, how a country went from being such a clear leader in technological innovation to being something of an also-ran. Losing >5 million of their best men in the war didn’t help
“On aircraft and rockets, absolutely. Not on nuclear, though.”
Hitler initially dismissed atomic theory as “Jewish science”.
“It is amazing, though, how a country went from being such a clear leader in technological innovation to being something of an also-ran. Losing >5 million of their best men in the war didn’t help.”
And all their Jewish scientists were killed or fled. Most of the lead scientists in the Manhattan Project were Jews (Szilard, Bethe, Teller, von Neumann, Wigner, etc) or half Jews - Bohr) who fled Europe. It’s more if you count US Jews (Oppenheimer) or those who fled because of family connection (Fermi - Italian, but wife and kids were Jewish).
Talk about a brain drain.
There was a really cool science fiction story about the rise of a non-anti-Semitic Hitler. Long story short, they kicked our arse.
Hitler didn’t believe in “Jewish science”, so he purged them from the German techno sphere.
No one ever said that Hitler was an all around genius. Eventually, his weaknesses destroyed his country.
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