Die Nacht der Physiker

In the spring of 1945, the Americans arrested the German physicist elite, including Heisenberg, Hahn, and Weizsäcker, and interned them at an English country estate. There, the scientists learned about the dropping of the Hiroshima bomb. Alongside the global catastrophe, this was also a personal defeat, as until then, the researchers were convinced that only they knew the secret of nuclear fission. Richard von Schirach thrillingly recounts how Nazi Germany almost came into possession of a uranium bomb in a southern German wine cellar at the end. He tells of superstars searching for world formulas and becoming entangled in German war crimes during both world wars. A drama of genius, hubris, naivety, and guilt, as could only unfold in Germany.