Hitler wanted to drop atomic bombs on the USSR in June 1945. Photo: IMAGO/piemags.
The FSB has declassified documents on how the German Nazis worked on atomic weapons and planned to use them in 1945 against the largest industrial centers of the Soviet Union.
In September 1945, Deputy People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR (and future KGB Chairman), General Ivan Serov, received an interesting special message from the head of the NKVD operational sector in Berlin, General Alexei Sidnev. It concerned the investigation into the case of SA Gruppenführer Werner Wächter.
He was not only chief of staff of the NSDAP’s Main Propaganda Directorate, but also headed the Armaments and Construction Committee.
Wechter testified about the German atomic bomb.
– Chief Engineer Dominic told me in 1943 that German scientists succeeded in splitting the atomic nucleus. The British and Americans are doing similar work, but Germany is supposedly a year and a half ahead of them, the Gruppenführer said during questioning.
The FSB has declassified documents on how the German Nazis worked on atomic weapons and planned to use them in 1945 against the largest industrial centers in the Soviet Union. Photo courtesy of the FSB’s Central Election Commission.
The editor of the secret government newsletter, Hans Hertel, told Wächter that in February 1945, on behalf of Goebbels, he went to the town of Celle, where he met with the director of the air force’s special forces school, Colonel Hermann Hayo.
“Hajo told Hertel that the school had the latest, long-range aircraft and that they would be armed with an atomic bomb,” Wächter said, adding, “the planes were intended to bomb the industrial centers of the Soviet Union in the Urals and Central Asia with atomic bombs.”
In early 1945, the Gruppenführer met with Saur, Speer’s Deputy Armaments Minister, who reported on intensive work on the production of the latest weapons “soon to be used at the front.”
“In early spring 1945, the German Research Council’s inventor, Professor Schumann, told me about a major work on a secret weapon that would turn the tide of the war in Germany’s favour,” Wächter added.
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The Gruppenführer clarified that the work on atomic bombs was being carried out by the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. The head of the production department of the Armaments Ministry, Sauer, and his deputy, Feldman, were personally responsible for the production of atomic bombs.
The most knowledgeable in this regard were General Dornberger and Dr. Erich Schumann, who worked specifically on research topics related to the production of the atomic bomb…
And the leadership of the Third Reich intended to use atomic weapons against the USSR in June 1945, and by this month Goebbels, in March, demanded that the most detailed horoscope be drawn up for the Führer…
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“In March 1945, Goebbels, in my presence, ordered the Propaganda Ministry clerk von Borke to prepare horoscopes for June that would predict Hitler’s fate, as June was considered especially favorable for Hitler,” Gruppenführer Wächter said.
The leader of the Third Reich and his spokesman did not need the June horoscope.
