“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.
Sorry, Sir, but could you possibly tell us a little more about this story?
It sounds like a fascinating read- though being utterly utopian, of course.
But I always have been interested in utopian stories, just as Utopia by Thomas Morus, the City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella, The Time Machine by H.G.Wells and The Machine Stops by E.H. Foster.
I would appreciate your help so much 🙂