re: #298 wheat-dogg
Werner Heisenberg was related to Jews, IIRC, perhaps by marriage. There is some debate whether he and other scientists working on the German A-bomb “dragged their heels” to delay completion of the project. I’d need to look it up in Richard Rhodes’ history of the atomic bomb, which I don’t have handy now.
I think it has more to do with how the US dedicated resources to the Manhattan Project that Germany could only dream of.