Rainer Karlsch's claims, which will be published this month in a book, are at this stage receiving a skeptical response from the experts, who claim that Germany was far from an operational atomic bomb. According to Karlesh, hundreds of prisoners of war were killed in the experiments
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Nazi Germany not only tried to develop nuclear weapons, but also conducted nuclear tests towards the end of the Second World War - so claims a book publishing house that will soon publish a book written on the subject by a German historian. Historian Rainer Karlsch's claims made headlines in Friday newspapers in Germany, but the DVA book publisher refused to provide many details on the subject, and promised that all the answers would be found in the book itself, "Hitler's Bomb", which will be published on March 14.
Most historians dismiss outright the claim that Germany was even close to beating the US in the race to obtain the atomic bomb. However, according to the publisher, Karlsch states that the Germans conducted tests of "nuclear bombs" in 1944 and 1945 on the Baltic island of Rogan and in central Germany, under the supervision of The SS, however, did not reach operational capability before the end of the war It is claimed that German scientists registered the patent for the plutonium bomb as early as 1941, and that in 1944-45 the reactor near Berlin was operational.
The reference to the new claim among experts on the subject is skeptical. "I reject the suggestion that these experiments can be compared to the nuclear experiments conducted by the United States at the time in the 'Manhattan Project,'" says Bernard Fulda, a lecturer in German history in the 20th century at the University of Cambridge. According to him, Nazi Germany's interest in the production of nuclear energy is known and known , but the claim that Germany almost beat the US in the nuclear arms race is "unreasonable".
Markus Dasga, a spokesman for DVA Publishing, said that the book is based on research reports, construction plans, diaries, photographs, intelligence reports, testimonies of some of the scientists who were involved in the German nuclear program, radiation measurements and soil samples. He added that hundreds of prisoners of war died in the nuclear tests.
Rainer Karlsch is a faculty member at the Humboldt University and the Free University of Berlin. He is an expert in economic history, and has also published books on the development of nuclear weapons. According to Dasga, he will not be interviewed until the book is published.
