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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Kurt Diebner
Diebner's project was a rival to that of Werner Heisenberg, whose efforts in the German nuclear energy project were apparently directed primarily towards nuclear power.
Diebner's project at the Heerswaffenamt was termed Forschungsstelle E under the command of General Erich Schumann.
Diebner was rounded up at the end of the war as part of the Allied Operation Overcast.
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  Kurt Diebner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diebner's project was a rival to that of Werner Heisenberg, whose efforts in the German nuclear energy project were apparently directed primarily towards nuclear power.
Diebner's project at the Heerswaffenamt was termed Forschungsstelle E under the command of General Erich Schumann.
Diebner was rounded up at the end of the war as part of the Allied Operation Overcast.
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 Kurt Diebner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kurt Diebner (1905–1964) as described in the book The German Atomic Bomb by David Irving was head of the Heereswaffenamt (HWA; "army weapons office") project to develop an Atomic Bomb from enriched uranium.
Diebner's project was a rival to that of Dr. Werner Heisenberg, whose efforts in the German nuclear energy project were directed towards nuclear power and the creation of plutonium.
Diebner's project at the Heerswaffenamt was termed Forschungs-stelle E under the command of General Eric Schumann.
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 Science Fair Projects - Kurt Diebner
Prof Kurt Diebner as described in the book "The German Atomic Bomb" by David Irving was head of the (German Army's) Heereswaffenamt (HWA) project to develop an Atomic Bomb from enriched Uranium.
Diebner's project was a rival to those of Dr Werner Heisenberg, whose efforts in the German nuclear energy project were directed towards nuclear power and the creation of Plutonium.
Diebner's project at Heerswaffenamt was termed Forschungs-stelle E under tha command of General Eric Schumann.
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 "Copenhagen:" Kurt Diebner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
developer of a successful Nazi atom bomb, Diebner received his doctorate at Halle in 1931 with a dissertation on ionization of alpha rays.
He oversaw German atomic research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute from 1939-42, and he was responsible for the disposition of the labs of Frédéric Joliot when Paris fell and of the labs at the Bohr Institute after the taking of Copenhagen.
(The latter were allowed to remain under Danish control.) Diebner proposed using latticed cubes of uranium with heavy water as a moderator as a model for an atomic device; this arrangement achieved some success in generating chain reactions but is thought to have produced too few neutrons to go critical.
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 Ekoturism Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kurt Diebner (1905–1964) was a German physicist who, during World War II was a member of the German nuclear energy project in Nazi Germany which may have been trying to developed a nuclear weapon from enriched uranium.
According to (controversial) historian David Irving, Diebner was head of the Heereswaffenamt (HWA; "army weapons office") project in Nazi Germany to develop an atomic bomb from enriched uranium.
Diebner's project was a rival to that of Werner Heisenberg, whose efforts in the German nuclear energy project were apparently directed primarily towards nuclear power and the creation of plutonium.
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 UNIVERSITY PRESSES; Eavesdropping on Hitler's Scientists - New York Times
Two German physicists at Farm Hall, who had been party members, Kurt Diebner and Erich Bagge, felt very much on the defensive and sought desperately to win the confidence of their colleagues.
Diebner tried to ingratiate himself with the revered Otto Hahn, the co-discoverer of nuclear fission (his Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced while he was at Farm Hall), by stressing the opportunism of his decision to join the party.
Diebner claimed to have made a deal with the non-Nazi Karl Wirtz: if the Nazis won, Diebner would help Wirtz; if they lost, Wirtz would help Diebner.
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 BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi nuke'
He further speculated it was possible the author arrived at this figure by reading the Smyth Report into the development of the US atomic bomb, which was published in July 1945.
In Hitlers Bombe, Dr Karlsch suggests a team of scientists directed by the physicist Kurt Diebner, which was in competition with Heisenberg's group, tested a primitive nuclear device in Thuringia, eastern Germany, in March 1945.
Transcripts of conversations taped by MI6 when the scientists were held captive in England after the war showed Diebner lacked the knowledge to have done this, he says.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/4598955.stm   (768 words)

  
 Thirteen/WNET - Online Pressroom - Press Release
A: I was assigned a secret mission to find and evacuate the wife and child of a German scientist, Dr. Kurt Diebner, who had agreed to come to the U.S. after the war.
Diebner in halting German that she was to come with me and gave her one hour to pack.
I could not tell her where she was going and I am certain she thought she was headed for a concentration camp because her husband had worked for Hitler.
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 Operation Epsilon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The results of the transcripts were inconclusive; there were indications that many of the scientists were aware they were probably being listened in on and were not always being frank.
On July 6, the microphones picked up the following conversation between Werner Heisenberg and Kurt Diebner, both of whom had worked on the German nuclear project:
Diebner: "I wonder whether there are microphones installed here?"
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 Kurt Diebner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ab Sommer 1939 übernahm Diebner die Leitung des neu gegründeten Referats für Atomphysik bei der Gruppe Wa F I (Physik) des HWA in Kummersdorf bei Berlin.
Diebner fungiert ab 1955 als Initiator und Herausgeber verschiedener Zeitschriften wie „Kerntechnik“.
Diebners Rolle im Heereswaffenamt und bei der Entwicklung einer Nuklearwaffe im 3.
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 Declassified files reopen "Nazi bomb" debate | thebulletin.org
Among the scientists, Kurt Diebner's group was convinced that a bomb made of uranium 235 or plutonium might be built with destructive potential a million times greater than the equivalent amount of dynamite.
Diebner estimated that between 10 and 100 kilograms of fissile material would be required.
Walter Gerlach and Kurt Diebner faded into obscurity, at least from a historian's perspective.
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 Hitler abomb
Diebner's army team did actually attempt to create a fusion reaction by imploding conventional explosives on deuterium (heavy water), in one rudimentary experiment.
During the last months of the war, a small group of scientists working in secret under Diebner and with the strong support of the physicist Walther Gerlach, who was by that time head of the uranium project, built and tested a nuclear device.
Heisenberg never gave Diebner and the scientists working under him the credit they were due, but the Nobel laureate did take up Diebner's design for the last experiment carried out in Haigerloch in south-west Germany.
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 Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi nuke'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He further speculated it was possible the author arrived at this figure by reading the Smyth Report into the development of the US atomic bomb, which was published in July 1945.
In Hitlers Bombe, Dr Karlsch suggests a team of scientists directed by the physicist Kurt Diebner, which was in competition with Heisenberg's group, tested a primitive nuclear device in Thuringia, eastern Germany, in March 1945.
Transcripts of conversations taped by MI6 when the scientists were held captive in England after the war showed Diebner lacked the knowledge to have done this, he says.
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 Kurt Diebner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
With the exception of Max van Laue, all the scientists - Erich Bagge, Kurt Diebner, Walther Gerlach, Otto Hahn, Paul Harteck, Werner Heisenberg, Horst Korsching, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and...
Kurt Diebner wurden ab 1944 die bombensicheren Kellergewölbe einer alten Mälzerei unter der Mittelschule Stadtilm´s zum neuen Labor.
In Hitlers Bombe, Dr Karlsch suggests a team of scientists directed by the physicist Kurt Diebner, which was in competition with Heisenberg's group, tested a primitive nuclear device in Thuringia...
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 Stadt Stadtilm online - Wissenswertes und INformatives über die Stadt Stadtilm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sein Fazit, nach gründlicher Darstellung der Arbeiten der Forschungsgruppe Dr. Kurt Diebner in der Mittelschule von Stadtilm, lautet: Klein – Atombomben (angeblich nur 100 – 200 g Kernsprengstoff) sind aufgrund der notwendig zu erreichenden kritischen Massen von Uran 235 (10 – 15 kg) und Plutonium 239 (5–6 kg) nicht möglich.
Parallel dazu wurden in Diebners Regie „Experimente zur Erzielung hoher Temperaturen in Deuterium mit Hilfe einer mechanischen kugelförmigen Verdichtungsstoßwelle auf der Basis von Sprengstoffdetonationen“ durchgeführt.
Das Silber wurde auf eine etwaige Aktivität untersucht, die....wegen der geringen Größe der Anordnung nicht gefunden werden konnte.“ Von diesem Versuchsprinzip scheint Diebner bis Kriegsende nicht abgewichen zu sein.
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 Stadt Stadtilm online - Wissenswertes und INformatives über die Stadt Stadtilm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Goudsmith und Oberst Boris Pash sah in Stadtilm zum ersten Mal ein deutsches Atomlabor.
Der aus Obernessa bei Naumburg stammende Physiker Dr. Kurt Diebner richtete mit einigen anderen Wissenschaftlern voraussichtlich in der zweiten Hälfte des jahres 1944 (Über den genauen Zeitpunkt der Einrichtung des Labors gibt es unterschiedliche Angaben.
Diebner, ein Angehöriger des Heereswaffenamtes, setzte in diesen Kellern seine Richtungsweisenden Versuche mit Uranwürfeln und schwerem Wasser in einem Modellreaktor fort.
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 The Peenemuende Saucer Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Diebner's relationship to Schumann is made clear by Powers.Powers also introduces us to two additional players who were not officially involved with this project but who somehow interject themselves into things making their view heard.
Kurt Diebner's interest was the development of atomic energy for nuclear weaponry as well as for a variety of other applications.
It was Dr. Diebner who participated in the development of a German uranium bomb which was being prepared in one of the underground facilities at Jonastal, specifically at a facility "Burg".
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 Guardian | Author fuels row over Hitler's bomb
The true novelty of Mr Karlsch's research, though, is to have turned the spotlight off Heisenberg and onto a competing project run by one Kurt Diebner.
Mr Karlsch found evidence to show that, sponsored by Walther Gerlach of the Reich Research Council, this group abandoned its quest for an A-bomb to concentrate on a weapon made of conventional high explosives packed around a nuclear core.
Diebner eventually got a job in West Germany's defence ministry.
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 How Close Was Hitler to the A-Bomb? : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He then speculates that, under instruction from the SS, a team of physicists working with Kurt Diebner, a rival of Heisenberg, made use of the discovery.
He said one of the physicists in the group had told him that there were "two atomic bombs in a safe." Rundnagel later said the two bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
According to Karlsch, Diebner and his colleagues used a special device that combined nuclear fission and fusion to initiate a chain reaction.
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 Kurt Diebner - Schlauweb
Ab Warme Jahreszeit 1939 übernahm Diebner die Leitung des neugegründeten Referats für Atomphysik bei der Gruppe Wa F I (Physik) des HWA in Kummersdorf bei Berlin.
An seiner stelle trat Diebner die Stelle des Geschäftsführer des KWI für Physik an und besetzte diesen Posten von Jan. 1940 bis Sept. 1942.
Diebner fungiert ab 1955 als Persönlichkeit und Hrsg.
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 POSSENSPIEL BEI FARM HALLAND OTHER FARCES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Then, in the transcripts of conversations from August 1-6, 1945, Dr. Kurt Diebner briefly mentions a fact that carries great significance in the light of what we have discovered of the German atom bomb project and the SS Sonderkommando underground factories in the Harz Mountains in Thuringia.
Bernstein appears not to know, but given that Diebner has earlier referred to his supply of radium "in the Harz", we may rationally speculate that Diebner was referring obliquely, and no doubt intentionally so, to his colleagues in the SS run program.
Diebner, who clearly has some connection to Kammler's SS "think tank" special projects empire in the Harz mountains, alludes to an unknown "photochemical" process for isotope separation and enrichment.
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 Airdisaster.Com Forums - Junkers Ju-287 was Nazi A-bomber
Professor Kurt Diebner worked on an A-bomb for Heerswaffenamt forschunstelle E at a laboratory in Stadtilm.
Professor Werner Heisenberg often cited as the father of Nazi nuclear science was not part of this project and was unaware of it.
Professor Kurt Diebner developed a proper uranium 235 A-bomb with a gun slug mechanism.
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 ۞ Kurt Diebner - Infos und Erklärungen auf www.kunstToday.de   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Diebner studierte Physik an den Universitäten Innsbruck und Halle/Saale.
Literatur von und über Kurt Diebner im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Stadtilmer Uranarb...
Kurt Krömer - Na, du alte Kackbratze (Universal/Music/DVD)
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 adolfhitler.ws
And newly unearthed Russian documents show that in 1941 Heisenberg drafted a de-facto patent application for a plutonium bomb, although he referred to the substance as "element 94" in relation to its position on chemistry's periodic table, says Walker.
What is already known is that Heisenberg's organisational rival, German army physicist Kurt Diebner, pushed ahead with a design for a reactor which was tested in February 1945 in the village of Haigerloch, near Tuebingen.
In a controversial book, "Hitlers Bombe," published this March, independent German historian Rainer Karlsch said Diebner's team also tested a nuclear device in Thueringia, eastern Germany, on March 4 1945, killing several hundred prisoners-of-war and concentration-camp inmates who were used as guinea pigs.
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 New light on Hitler's bomb (June 2005) - Physics World - PhysicsWeb
For most of the war, there were two competing groups working on nuclear reactors: a team under the Army physicist Kurt Diebner in Gottow near Berlin; and scientists directed by Werner Heisenberg in Leipzig and Berlin.
Heisenberg never gave Diebner and the scientists working under him the credit they were due, but the Nobel laureate did take up Diebner's design for the last experiment carried out in Haigerloch in south-west Germany.
After a series of measurements had been taken, Diebner wrote a short letter to Heisenberg on 10 November 1944 that informed him of the experiment and hinted that there had been problems with the reactor.
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With the exception of Max van Laue, all the scientists - Erich Bagge, Kurt Diebner, Walther Gerlach, Otto Hahn, Paul Harteck, Werner Heisenberg, Horst Korsching, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and Karl Wirtz - had been involved in the uranium project.
Whereas the experiments under Heisenberg used alternating layers of uranium and moderator, Diebner's team developed a superior 3D lattice of uranium cubes embedded in moderator.
More surprising, if not shocking, is another revelation in RK's book: a group of scientists under Diebner built and tested a nuclear weapon with the strong support of both Walther Gerlach - an experimental nuclear physicist who by 1944 was in charge of the uranium project for the Reich Research Council.
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 NOVA | Hitler's Sunken Secret | Nazis and the Bomb | PBS
During the last months of the war, a small group of scientists working in secret under Diebner and with the strong support of the physicist Walther Gerlach, who was by that time head of the uranium project, built and tested a nuclear device.
With the exception of the scientists working on Diebner's nuclear device, however, they also clearly did not push as hard as they could have to make atomic bombs.
On the left is a schematic diagram of a "uranium machine" (nuclear reactor); on the right is a schematic of a nuclear explosive, either uranium 235 or plutonium.
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