re: #133 William Lewis
And he was smart enough to see where the scientists - especially Heisenberg- were intentionally going the wrong way with the program.
Dunno if I’d attribute detailed knowledge of nuclear physics to Heydrich.
However, he would have appointed people to positions of power based upon how smart & efficient they were, rather than whether they sucked up like toadies (Goebbels) or were just sadistic & ruthless (Himmler, Borrman).
Smart, evil people can do only so much damage on their own. It’s when they’re joined by other smart, evil people that they really make a dent.
It’s why we have to look at getting rid of Fox News & all the right-wing think tanks that come up with schemes like winning statehouses in 2010 to gerrymander the fuck out of America and thus ruin Obama’s chances at rebuilding the economy.