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Why did Hitler sabotage the German Nuclear Weapons project during World War 2?
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Hitler did not actually sabotage it, however he was uncomfortable with some aspects of it that sounded like the Jewish Physics that he had had banned from the Universities.
Hitler gladly supported the project as long as Heisenberg and Albert Speer were promising him a powerful weapon to use in the war, he really didn't care where that weapon came from nor did he need to understand it. But after the setbacks of the Allied destruction of the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant followed by the Norwegian Partisan's destruction of the heavy water taken from that plant, those promises began to fade.
Finally Albert Speer reduced the priorities on the project and limited it to reactor research only (no bomb), with the goal of developing nuclear power plants after Germany had won the war.
Hitler in many ways hurt his own cause by holding back, to a large degree, the development on the jet fighter plane. He showed a hesitancy to make radical changes in "advanced" types of weaponry. From testimony at the Nuremberg trials he "ticked off" Goering on the jet fighter project delays. Plans for jet fighter were postponed by Hitler more than once. He later caused delays & confusion by insisting that the ME-262 fighter be made as a light bomber. The only plan for producing 60 jet fighters a month by July of 1944, was delayed. Speer believed that the jet fighter with 2 jet engines producing a speed in excess of 500 miles an hour was a necessity. He witnessed their prototype tests as early as 1941.
In a war documentary, a large German U-Boat carrying a dissembled ME-262 along with the way to produce a "dirty nuclear/atomic" weapon, was surrendered to the US Navy. The U-Boat captain was under orders to get his U-Boat to Japan via the Arctic Ocean course. The dirty bomb was intended to be tried near the western Pacific side of the Panama Canal. This was just before Germany's surrender in 1945. Why the German captain turned his U-Boat over to the US Navy was not clear.
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