More than Five Stars
Hunting the Nazi Bomb: The Special Forces Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Deadliest Weapon by Damien Lewis
Suspenseful, intriguing, cliff hanger. and a true life narrative worthy of more than five stars. The frantic international scramble to develop the first atomic bomb spearheaded by Nazi Germany added intense impetus to the Allied advancement of nuclear weaponry.
This book held special meaning to me because I had family and friends involved in the resistance to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime and invasion of neutral Norway
Excerpts:
Adolf Hitler’s last will and testament. I’d never even conceived that he might have made one. What had the Fuhrer to bequeath to human kind, other than sixty million deaths and a world convulsed by war, not to mention the advent of a new barbarism, the industrialized mass killing of entire races of peoples?
Hitler rails against “the Jew, the race which is the real guilty party in this murderous struggle”, describing how the Second World War, will one day go down in history as the most glorious and heroic manifestation of the struggle for existence of a nation¦ Centuries will go by, but from the ruins of our towns and monuments, hatred of those ultimately responsible will always grow anew. They are the people whom we have to thank for all this: international Jewry and its helpers! “I die with a joyful heart,” Hitler declares, “in the knowledge of the immeasurable deeds and achievements of our soldiers at the front, of our women at home, the achievements of our peasants and workers and of the contribution, unique in history, of our youth which bears my name.” He was referring, of course, to the Hitler Youth, at a time when the German nation was gripped by terrible suffering and lay in ruins.
It didn’t take a wild leap of the imagination, or even a sophisticated grasp of nuclear physics, to envisage what a man like Hitler might be capable of if armed with a nuclear weapon. Churchill feared that Hitler would use it again and again, until every democracy in the West became a fascist state under iron fisted Nazi rule.
1939, Albert Einstein, himself a refugee from the predations of the Nazi regime had written to US President Roosevelt, alerting him to the nuclear threat.
