How Close Did Nazi Germany Get To Nuclear Weapons? | Last Secrets Of The 3rd Reich | War Stories
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- As World War II dragged on, American scientists worked feverishly under the Manhattan Project to develop the first atom bomb. One Nazi leader saw the potential of this powerful weapon to win the war in Europe. According to new documents from a Soviet spy, Hitler's forces tested a nuclear weapon just before the war ended in 1945. How far did the Germans really get?
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Its weird how technologically different WW1 and WW2 were, especially when they were literally 21 years apart, WW1 the Tank was invented and machine guns took 6 people to operate, WW2 the Nuclear Bomb was being developed and compact machine guns were common
Necessity is the engine of innovation
@@badman477 you can say that again
Not to mention there was a lot of money to be made, nothing drives innovation like profits, even if it means millions of deaths
@@SplashyGames Necessity is the engine of innovation
Or more death equals more profit
My god could you imagine if he just didn’t launch a war and focused all of his resources on just developing the atomic bombs and then decided to start wars?! We’d be living in a very different world today.
Correct. He would have nuked the world!
*rushes nuke tree in hoi*
That's a scary thought for sure
Just stop talking in if
@@withamberarya what???
If they had, we would be living the world of the Wolfenstein universe, where Germany dropped an atomic bomb on New York City in 1948.
I'm order for Germany to be the level of Wolfenstein they would have had to build experimental weapons one at a time instead of doing how they did, multiple at once leading to ALOT of abandoned weapons and projects, some we know some were actually made and some we will never even imagine, had they worked one one project at a time, they would have alot more technology, and it might have been a lot sooner as they started a nuclear project before WW2 even started in 1938, they just didn't know what ingredients they needed to actually make a atomic bomb.
It’s gonna happen except it’s not gonna be Germany doing it
How exactly were they delivering that bomb to NYC? They never had a bomber that could reach the U.S
@@sisilotau2185 they were working on long range bombers to reach the east coast of usa the "amerika bomber"
The theory is not that complicated. The industrial base needed was enormous. Only the US had that size.
Not only the US but the British as well since they were way bigger and way more powerful during that time compared to now.
USSR was also able to catch up quite fast afterwards.
@@kbabioch The Chinese use the same method. Steal the technology.
@@UltimatelyEverythingNazi Germany controlled half of Europe at one point so don't say they didn't have the resources
@@kbabiochrealistically only because of the stolen plans that were stolen just after the war by I believe the rosenbergs
My uncle.. born 1907.. was the foreman who lead 1.100 men that built the Hanford Plant.. he became sick.. disabled in 1955..
I'm guessing chrome 6 paint used to coat the hot water pipes and heaters. It's nasty stuff that disables people over the years. Starts with the lungs and nerve system. My dad died at 56 but in his case it was Silica poisoning.
I am in EEOICA program may help his surviving family .
Look that up.
😮
Well dam how old are you? Must be 85-100 years old yourself…
@@ssherrierable
Not necessarily my grandfather was born in 1907, and I'm 56, 57 in Jan. Born in 1966,
My Father was born in 1947, just after Grandpaw came home from the War he was getting busy
We have to be scared of Governments rightly said
I've always been concerned at the apparent combination of a ballistic missile (which definitely existed, as we all know) and a nuclear warhead would of cost the Allies the war at the very last minute, or used against the continental United States had Britain/ and or the Soviet Union been defeated. It was only a matter of time, the Nazis had to be destroyed and the correct decision to prioritise that regime over Japan was indeed made.
Thanks for enlightening the people who are watching this 📺 ❤
I’ve always wondered about this very thing. Thanks for the documentary 👍🏼
Check into Project Riese.
@@williambryant5946what is that?
An assessment of the quality of the heavy water recovered from a barrel of a ferry in norway showed the quality of the heavy water was so weak it would have taken until the year 1983 for the germans to build up enough quality heavy water to be used in the german nuclear weapons program...so effectively the germans were nowhere near developing a nuclear weapon.
I agree to disagree. I have read, which could be wrong, that Nazis were close but the details are blurry.
Plus they could have figured out how to steal it in a cargo ship. The theory of not close becuz lack of heavy water would be nullified.
With respect, I may be wrong about the heavy water situation but I think u are incorrect about number of yrs it would take. No offense.. and they were making it and obviously did it secretly to hide it from the allies. Just one man's opinion.
You concluded from that one barrel(come on man)that they weren't developing heavy water. Obviously, that's ridiculous. Has it crossed your mind they could have heavy water elsewhere. GEEZ
This is such an underrated voice over artist !
Yeah mish money moneypenny
Drama for the sake of drama. At no point after 1943 did Germany possess the industrial capacity to process the uranium for a low-yield weapon, and most definitely not the resources for the heavy water and graphite moderated reactors necessary to produce the plutonium and centrifuges for enriched uranium for a higher yield weapon. The high voltage facility discussed was intended to be used to produce heavy water after the Norsk Hydro facility in Norway was destroyed in 1943. The allies bombed the factories that manufactured the components to build electric generators and power plants. That's why the facility was never completed. This is all very open knowledge.
EXACTLY. War Stories is a hack site so ignore anything they put out
In the late 1937
In the late 1937
This documentary presented information that laid the plot to the movie "Company of Heros"
Thank you.
It's crazy bc the US barely pulled off project Manhattan, I don't see Germany having the industrial capacity to replicate that even on a smaller scale.
Perhaps had the Nazi's not murdered or forced so many scientists to flee it might have turned out differently.
nah, they never had the money or the resources
@@bclmax Quite the contrary, they did. Their V weapons program cost just as much... and that's WITH slave work force. Many smaller countries with much smaller industry and capital have since developed nuclear weapons. So no, you are not correct on this one. Germany had both the resources and capacity, but as OP stated, they didn't have the brainpower or the drive to go with the project.
no, your totally wrong. not close to a nuke, never had the resources.@@Wustenfuchs109
Or had waited a year before going to war. Having a disillusioned/arrogant dictator. Whom always over ruled good sound judgement.surely slowed up technical progress . Why on earth 🌎 have the likes of Himmler involved with an atomic energy project???
@@Wustenfuchs109 they certainly did have the bran power
Heavy water sabotage!
Close enough that we faught a war over heavy water 💧 😮
*fought
Very unlikely they had an atomic weapon. The U.S needed the Manhattan Project to get the bomb, one of if not the most expensive complex projects every carried out. I think if the Nazi's had such a huge project that would be needed to process fissile material it would have been found and known about.
It may be a highly classified subject though. We the common people shouldn't assume with know the complete truth.
@@matthewburns9409 Conspiracy theorist !
Correct. Read "Making of the Atomic Bomb" (Rhodes), "Heisenberg's War" (Thomas) and "Wages of Destruction" (Tooze): No way the Nazis would have developed a nuke weapon at all, even ignoring Hitler's idiocy.
By early '43, they were economically hamstrung with the demands of the eastern front and thereafter, the bombing campaigns prevented any sort of organized research as required for nuclear weapons,@@grahamstevenson1740
It's not unlikely at all. The Germans were at the forefront of technology the entire war. From the Stg44, first assault rifle, to the ME262, the world's first jet powered fighter plane
All wonderful and all irrelevant. Logistics matter, fantasy doesn't.
Pretty sure the AK was at least contemporaneous, the 262 had engines which lasted at least 5 hours or so, and didn't have any fuel.
Did you have a point, loser?@@corydunaway
This is what happens when syndication influences speculation.
Great documentary😀
Not that the truth matters but Japan was closer to a "dirty radiation bomb" than Germany was to a fission device.
Good point Max; I guess that might have messed up D day if they had such a bomb in normandy. Of course it may have also provided power.
I am convinced, but these are very small bombs compared to what we have nowadays.
How close did they get? Not very close at all. They completely miscalculated the amount of uranium it would take to reach critical mass.
They weren't just a little off they weren't even in the right ballpark. So they assume that there was no way that you would ever be able to build an atomic bomb than an airplane would be able to lift. They also thought that the amount of uranium required would be massive.
There is some controversy surrounding this massive mathematical error.
Descendants of the man in charge of the program insist that he made the error on purpose so that the Nazis would abandon the research.
There is no other proof to really back that up that I'm aware of but it should be noted that the claim has been made
@Todd Robbins,
You could completely dismiss all the reasons why Germany didn't get close to solving the problems of creating the bomb, because they didn't have the resources or infrastructure, It required massive facilities to refine the uranium that could not be covered up and, even if it could be, the radioactive remains would have been easily found.
Yep..
source trust me bro
@@mukbangheat3080 Pretty much what the Soviets are saying with these bogus reports.
thanks for saving me 50 mins
They would have no doubt used it on US, USSR and England
Well who else would they have used it on ?? America was going to drop it on Berlin first . I guess being first is better than being second . Wouldn't you agree ? Lucky for Germany they surrendered when they did .
They would of drop it straight away on all 3 no questions asked.
If the war in eorope had lasted a few more months, Germany would have been the first.
Can you imagine a MADMAN having atomic/nuclear bombs.😮 It's very😮 scary for the whole world
I was concerned about it when DJT was President, and although I don't worry about it all the time, the possibility of North Korea using the Bomb against Japan, South Korea, and/or the US, thus triggering a nuclear exchange with the US/UK/France is a terrifying scenario that I hope NEVER plays out. We all call the Earth our home, and radiation poisoning would kill billions of folks and destroy the Environment beyond our worst fears.
Now you've got that mentally unstable muppet Biden running the place, the world should be and is concerned...
DJT wasn't a war monger, that's historically, factually, Biden's territory. Funny how there weren't issues with Russia or China when Trump was running the show, now look at the mess the world is in.
Liberals are so incredibly ignorant and arrogant.
@@kH088_2couldn’t be any worse than a dribbling old man with dementia holding the red button
"I was concerned about it when DJT was President"
no new wars Trump?
Have you always been stupid?
Dang, looks like they used some livestock as test subjects at 1:31
very weird to think about that
Germany never succeeded in developing a nuclear reaction. They did come close but still far away from a nuclear weapon. It's also proven there where never tests with nuclear (enriched) weapons. I can appreciate a speculative documentation. But this all taken a bit out of context.
Heisenberg had split the atom way back in the 30s..he wasn't able to control the reaction
Back up your claim. I have seen docs that even Japan had tested a nuclear bomb. The US did succeed but just barely.
@@mikefoehr235 yes even my country the Netherlands did nuclear tests. Einstein even took class here. Doesn't say anything about a bomb. Besides there's no nuclear residue found in Germany from that period. Japan clearly didn't had the resources to make a fully functional bomb that's for sure. Germany could have but their main focus was energy and than a bomb and they didn't come close to either. Just listen to what the experts in this video say. Some of it is even wrongly dubbed kind of funny. But they al give answers to questions and than they are put in narrated context. And non of them say straight forward this is, or that was. It's all might be and could be. So even this documentation doesn't come with proof it would surprise me if you did!
@@mikefoehr235 The Manhattan project was located in the US but was an international effort. The research papers provided by Britain and Norway gave them a decent start. Scientists from all over the free world participated including Norway, UK, German expats, Canada, Australia also participated, to name a few. Without the international science help an A bomb would have taken years longer.
It goes beyond speculative; it's claiming an actual device, supposedly based on GRU documents. The descriptions (eg. 'interconnected spheres') are pseudo-engineering bafflegab. It's a pity Sean Connery lent his voice to the travesty.
I follow a channel on youtube of someone who regularly explores these Kinds underground locations Lost Battlefields w Tino Struckmann there is also a vid where he is at that reactor
And some of the sites are still quite radioactive.
Janneman 77. He's brilliant
The Germans worked on heavy water moderated reactor designs. These came to nothing when the Norwegian heavy water plant and its product was blown up by Norwegian commandos.
Main narrator voice remind me medal of honour early games 😂😂
So the title of this video is just a rhetorical question (clickbait) !
Imagine the terror had Germany got the bomb first. The allies would seriously have to consider a cease fire
Every time I think about it, the more grateful I feel for a full Allied victory.
@LC-qn8bg Yeah. Had they gotten the A Bomb first, they'd definitely try to drop it on Moscow and/or London immediately. If not, the war would end on a Cease fire with the US and the Soviets getting the A Bomb a couple years later, then the cold War would've been 3 super powers Fascism Vs. Capitalism Vs Communism. The proxy wars all over involving the spread of all 3 ideologies would've been a nightmare and the inevitable end of mankind.
German scientists were genius with their inventions and ingenuity, not so great on health and safety with their own people and others back in the day, nowadays Germany is the complete opposite one of the coolest countries in the world!.
No, they still are wretched. Poltroons decided to get the majority of their gas from Russia.
The Germans didn't get that close. Heisenberg was set up to be removed by Moe Berg, if needed.
Their tanks and engines are still the best lol
Not breeding to replacement.
Overengineered junk
@@jgs1703 Move 100 Shermans from point A to B, 100 get there. On their tracks. The Tigers and Panthers need to be transported by rails.
Why didn't they use v1 and V2 against the Soviets?
If you're developing expensive new technology, don't expect good results from starved tortured slave labor.
Imagine what would have happened if they would have made a nuclear bomb before anyone else the world would have looked totally different than it is today
There's a propaganda reel of it. Not sure if it's on yt
They did
Just finished watching other episode of nazis in the montains hiding v2 and gold
Why don't you watch one about the holodomor or the "great leap forward" in china?
About as far as I did when I was 16. Basically nowhere
"Mein Hut hat Drei Ecken"
The Nazis had heavy water facilities, so it's no stretch of the imagination that they were close to atom bombs.
We also see this in the multiverse of The man in the high castle. They throw one at San Francisco.
If they was around today… I might thank them for it that place seems to be run by people who aren’t American 🇺🇸, have ya seen the videos of people being asked questions about usa that are so easy a fourth grader should know & these people are completely clueless & will sign almost any petition.
yes true
I can save every one a lot of time by saying They we’re not close 👍
You didn't put enough ads in
Sounds a bit more like historical Fantasy . Can't believe a lot of this little fable.
The narrator at certain points sounds sorta like Bane from The Dark Knight Rises haha.
tino struckmann and his lost battlefields channell kicked all this off with real on camera eveidence and nuclear analysis of the first ever nuclear meltdown site LOL,big props tino!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
material was enormous , needed alot of electricity , though think a dirty bomb almost went off in chicago in 1920 , or more than a little radiation , can most likely make two blocks radioactive these days if your a genius
Music to loud couldn’t hear what was being said
Not close as you already know.
I'm much more interested in the Die Glocke. It could be an engine, a time machine or interdenominational. The thing we know is that it exists/existed and something exactly like it crashed outside of Kecksburg PA. Also the X-ray cannon that was supposedly in prototype stages
We don't know it exists... it comes from sci fi writings from the 1950s.
Sean Connery did docos haha
A: not even close. I’m reading a book written by Groves, the guy in charge of the Manhattan project. The means required to produce fissile material and build a bomb are so enormous and expensive that even the US almost failed, the biggest project of WW2. It is not a problem of smarts. It is a problem of a requirement for massive industrial infrastructure with unknown technology, materials and processes with no idea of the probability of success.
Despite Britain’s contribution to the Manhattan Project, the US refused to share Nuclear secrets. Britain invented its own bomb, during that terrible post war austerity period. Other nations followed with their own bombs. I don’t think that the augment that only the US was a big enough Industrial power fits this picture.
@@johnwilletts3984 The reason for the about turn was that, while Roosevelt knew about the agreement, Truman didn't, and Secretary of State Stimson, who didn't like the UK, didn't tell him about it.
Right on. Even up to the last minute at Trinity they didn't know if it would go off.
@@lucialamprey2690they didn’t know if an implosion-type weapon could be made to work. They thought the gun-type was so likely to work it was not necessary to test. They needed the implosion-type to work because the production of enriched uranium was so time-consuming and costly while plutonium could be produced do much more efficiently.
Ah. Thanks. I'll dig out my Rhodes book to refresh my memory. @@vanguard9067
Who was the narrator at the start of this video?
I am not certain, but it may have been William Conrad. He was the voice of Matt Dillon "Gunsmoke" on the radio before the television show. He also had a television series playing a detective, Cannon... William Conrad had a deep voice...
Not close at all: you're welcome
Maybe the russians where remixing , so to get the Allies to pull there finger out and do some more leg work?
When will we know the truth about WW2 ?
@@TheMonkey747 Follow the money , a banking cabal has financed both sides of every major war since the battle of waterloo. Of course it’s all lies isn’t it ?!
LOL what is up with the GOOFY thumbnails on this channel?
They came real close to getting one dropped on them.
That's some damn fine clickbait.
Short answer: not really.
Close only counts if your playing horseshoes and hand-grenades
This was my Great Grandfather's favourite saying. He narrowly missed being killed by a German grenade in WWI. Fortunately for him the grenade in question was a dud, otherwise I wouldn't be here.
@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 that’s cool man; cheers buddy
& atom bombs...
@@ajknaup3530 true that
Horseshoes,hand grenades and nukes
Germany would have never had the resources or logistics to produce what the US did for the presents they sent Japan.
I'm at 13:12 and what I heard so far is as believable as the show Ancient Aliens. I'm stopping now with that waste of time.
Supposedly, the Germans did carry out 3 crude nuclear bomb tests, but they werent near as powerful as the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. It isn't known if they were high explosive chemical weapons or cruse nukes.
Rommel knew a little as he prepared the beach’s...( possibilities for d-day) he said give me a few of those bombs and I will turn those beaches into glass....
Where did he say that?
Damn he really could have completely halted D-Day. Just drop one or two over the invasion ships a few miles before landing
Could be, long before the war the existence of a nuclear bomb was foreseen. Many countries did nuclear tests, nothing special about that. So also not weird that Rommel would say such a thing. Doesn't proof anything tho.
@@Geojr815 Than we would have just bombed france in to oblivion if we couldn't get boots on the ground. Us had enough power and supplies to bomb germany 24/7 for months straight
@@Geojr815 With what airplanes? The Luftwaffe was kaput by D-Day.
The Nazis never had the facility to produce bomb grade Uranium which is very complicated and expensive. Unless these facilities were discovered post WW2 then they had no possibility.
Apparently you didn't watch the whole video. They were still excavating a possible bunker/facility and then sudden ordered to stop. And they said it's not impossible other secret sites exited.
Who told you 👀
I'm I the only one who I didnt knew bill Clinton, narrated documentaries ???
time is a thief
Argentina!! like so many other Nazties, was where all these people escaped to. No extradition treaties.
Not close at all
I mean they invented sarin gas and V2 rockets right? If they wanted they could’ve sent sarin gas straight to downtown London, but they didn’t 🤷♂️
Because the British would have used chemical weapons in response
@@Sotsuffererthey didn’t have sarin gas like the Germans
@@Roodski no, they had mustard gas, phosgene and weaponised versions of the bubonic plague and anthrax. They also had the ability to deliver them on huge quantities unlike the v1s.
Is this narrated by Sean Connery?
Even i they did have them, they'd be unable to send them to their targets. Since bombers were easy pray for allied fighter aircrafts and ballistic missiles weren't perfected.
They where several years away at best
13:14 - 13:20 it is as if...
👍👍👍!!!
Think how many hours was fought in all the wars then think how many hours it took to develop an drop the bombs on japan thats progress then it all stopped an instead of disintegrate guns we got verile an bio generated weapons progress
Okay, calm down Mr. Narrator. That's a lot of inflection.
If you research it a lot closer than you think
Heisenberg's cell was bugged by the Brits.
They were close. Very close,, but wouldn't share it. We Germans are not all bad guys.
To???
Element 115
Germans made it a completion and divided fissionable material and the lack industrial complex and money made it impossible at the time.
They had already at least a few nuclear weapons ready to go . But it was too late. It would not have changed the end of the war. They would need more of them .and means of delivery as well.
By the way those two bombs that us dropped on Japan were actually German made...
right...
Save yourself a time watching it. They weren't anywhere close to Nukes.
Your opinion. How sure are you?? Offer proof to back your claim.
@@mikefoehr235 Plenty of publication on this subject and documentaries.
@@kamilpotato3764There's also a lot of documentation that they were closer than everybody thinks...
Hans, didn't die he disappeared in dei clocka
10k killed? are you kidding me, try about 100k... dumbie down the NUMBER, SMH!!
All the adds make it bot watchable
The paranoia was real
Hmmmmmmmmm
They made it a face 2 to the USA,well 3 .
If you think your life is not great , what about these poor prisoners so mistreated by Nazis.
Like no.420 👍😀
Nukes weapons don't exist. Einstein said nuclear weapons impossible.
Germans was superiors in military technology
Right! That is why they lost the war! Ciao, L
Embarrassed by what? That's a joke it happened a long time ago.