The Rise of the Third Reich

"Mr. Fermi, Mrs. Fermi, welcome to Germany."

At the Berlin airport, General Hersmann and Werner Heisenberg, Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, and Hans who had just become members of the "Uranium Committee" S. Bethe, Fritz Strassmann, von Neumann, and Albert Einstein, chairman of the European Council of Jewish Scientists, greeted him at the airport.

These scientists who are with Hirschmann are all great figures! And most of them are Jews - Jews who have lived and worked in Germany for a long time! Historically, except for Hahn, Fritz Strassmann and Heisenberg, everyone else would leave Germany because of Hitler's anti-Semitic policy.

In addition to Meitner, these Jewish scientists who left Germany will become the backbone of the Manhattan Project in the United States!

Among them, Leo Szilard is an expert in chain reactions and reactors; Edward Teller is the father of the hydrogen bomb; Hans Bethe and the American scientist Feynman completed the calculation of the nuclear weapon efficiency formula; von Neumann He is the father of computers and an expert in quantum mechanics and chemistry.

In addition to Enrico Fermi, whom they are about to welcome today, more than half of the backbone of the Manhattan Project in the United States are here!

Moreover, there are far more than these scientists (Jews) originally belonging to Germany who participated in the Manhattan Project in the United States. As far as Hessman knows, there are about 1,400 top scientists of Jewish descent who were expelled from Germany in history, 77% of whom went to the United States. They support almost half of the American scientific community!

But now, because Hirschman has controlled the scale of anti-Semitism, he has issued honorary Aryan certificates, supported Zionism, and even spent a lot of money to win over Jewish scientists. Therefore, the number of Jewish scientists who left Germany in these years was very limited, only about one or two hundred, and there were no leading figures among them.

Therefore, the level of scientific research in Germany in this era is far higher than in history - every scientist of this level is a "golden finger" of the country, and having 1,000 more scientists is like opening a "golden dinosaur leg."

And this "golden dinosaur leg" originally grew on the body of Germany, but Hitler chopped it off... This is not the biggest sin. The biggest sin is that he actually let these people go to the United States!

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"Oh God, this is what happened. How could I not have thought of it?"

In a conference room of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Enrico Fermi saw Meitner's calculation formula and immediately forgot even his strong protest.

In fact, Fermi had discovered nuclear fission in many experiments over the past few years, but he had no way to explain this phenomenon. Lize Meitner used the theory of relativity to perfectly explain this phenomenon.

With Fermi's knowledge, he soon understood why he was kidnapped and taken to Germany!

"Oh my God, you Germans are going to build a nuclear fission bomb!" Enrique Fermi exclaimed, "Are you going to destroy the world?"

Then, without waiting for anyone else to speak, he said categorically: "I won't make this kind of bomb for you, and I won't make this kind of bomb for anyone else!"

Anyone... However America is an exception!

"Mr. Fermi," Hersman replied with a smile, "we won't force you to do anything, but I can't let you help Mussolini build a nuclear fission bomb... You know he was in Abyssinia and What did Spain do? I don’t want you Italians to blow up Vienna with nuclear bombs. Of course, we won’t use such bombs to blow up Rome, Paris or London!”

For Germany now, one less Fermi is not a problem. Germany is now the world center of physics, chemistry and mathematics. A giant of science, Hersmann brought Fermi here just because he didn't want him to "figure out" the principles of nuclear fission outside of Germany. Hersman wasn't going to take any chances on the atomic bomb...

Hersman then said: "Mr. Fermi, you can participate in our work, or you can not work temporarily... We will prepare a residence for you in the beautiful scenery of Austria, and arrange a superior life for you and your wife. In After the Kingdom of Italy and the German Empire stand together, we will send you back to Rome. I believe that the Italian leaders will figure it out soon, because only by standing with us, Germany, can Italy realize its dream."

According to Hersmann, it was only a matter of time before Italy sided with Germany. Because Italy cannot expect Britain and France to give up their hegemony in the Mediterranean, just like Britain and France cannot tolerate Germany's dominance of Central and Eastern Europe!

"But you will still develop this kind of bomb?" Fermi looked at the people in the conference room, a little frustrated, and sighed softly, "You Germans can build it. I think you are the only one in the world who can." done……"

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"10 billion? Oh my god, General, you mean 10 billion marks?"

At the first meeting of the Arms Commission in 1939, Hermann Göring, the German Minister of Economy and Director of the General Administration of Armaments, suddenly heard a figure that almost made his jaw drop.

"Ten billion is just a rough estimate," Hersman nodded, "and it's just a financial investment. If the uranium project wants to be successful, it needs to ensure investment in manpower and materials. I think the uranium project should be included in priority development. in the directory.”

"Isn't it a waste of resources to prioritize a secret weapon that can't be developed for four years?"

Field Marshal Schleicher also expressed different opinions, and now the Arms Committee is very tight on the allocation of resources and manpower. Only projects related to the Air Force, Naval Aviation, Navy Submarine Forces and Army Armored Forces are slightly more generous.

"The nuclear fission bomb is the ultimate weapon," Hersman looked at Schleicher. "With it, Germany will never be defeated again. And most of the resources to support the uranium project are sufficient. We have a lot of uranium, and various The reserves of non-ferrous metals are sufficient, and there is relatively sufficient electricity. Moreover, we have some hydropower plant projects under construction, and their supply can be prioritized.”

Germany's current power generation capacity is several billion kilowatt-hours more than at the same time in history, with the total reaching more than 70 billion kilowatt-hours. In addition, after annexing Austria and Bohemia, and actually taking control of Slovakia. The Economic Promotion Company controlled by Hirschmann began to build hydropower plants in Austria, Bohemia and Slovakia, which have relatively rich water resources.

"But we still have to build many large factories and test bases in Bohemia... a lot of workers are needed, and the labor force is also in short supply." Fat Goering didn't know that in Germany in another time and space without atomic bombs, he would eventually have to swallow *** ***suicide. He said: "If we upgrade those hydropower plants and prioritize the construction of the uranium engineering base in South Bohemia, we will need to add at least 50,000 construction workers."

Hersman said decisively: "We can reduce some people in other places. Anyway, by this time next year, we will not be short of labor, and there will be many Polish prisoners available by then!"

"Polish prisoners of war?" Goering scratched his head, "Is it really that fast?"

At this time and space, Goering was not a soldier and did not know much about Germany's military power. In fact, like Hitler, he was not sure whether Germany could easily defeat Britain, France, and Poland.

"Of course!" Hessman was very sure. "The Polish problem will be solved by October this year at the latest. The General Staff has conducted many war games, and we won easily."

Although the Polish Federation in this time and space is stronger than in history, it also has a much larger territory to protect. It is impossible for them to give up a territory as large as Ukraine on the right bank, so there are not many troops that can really be used to fight Germany.

The German side is also stronger than in history. Although Hessmann did not invest much in German army equipment. However, the German Army will still have more 38t tanks by the time the war starts in September 1939 (basically 1:1 with the No. 2), and it also has a lot of No. 1 self-propelled anti-tank guns and No. 1 self-propelled infantry guns. , there is no difficulty at all in defeating Poland.

Hersmann looked at Goering, who was a little skeptical, and added: "So the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the General Administration of Armaments must be prepared to take over Poland and resume production as soon as possible."

"Will we annex Poland?" Goering asked uncertainly.

"The first is the Polish Protectorate," Hersman said. "Whether we want to merge depends on the situation, but we should strive for merger as much as possible."

Poland has quite vast and fertile plains and produces a large amount of agricultural products every year, which is exactly the territory Germany needs. In addition, the Lviv (Ukrainian Free State, part of the Polish Federation) region also has rich reserves of coal and iron, and it was developed during the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After Poland became independent, investment was made again, and now it has a pretty good foundation. . With proper management, it will soon become just another Bohemia.

"A bomb destroys a city?" Adolf Hitler was also shocked after receiving the report submitted by Hersmann and Goering.

"When can we have such a weapon?" Hitler asked immediately.

"It's planned to take four to five years to develop," Hersman said. "If all goes well, we'll have it in 1944."

"In 1944..." Hitler frowned, "Then it seems that we were too impatient."

"It's not impatient," Hessman smiled. "It's just right now. In a few years, Britain, France and Poland will be fully armed." His tone suddenly became serious, "Leader, I think we should In the second half of this year, between July 1st and September 1st, this is the best time.”