tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70358403674153084872024-03-13T06:45:41.095-07:00Nazi TechnologyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7035840367415308487.post-26877171073334916142010-08-07T23:06:00.000-07:002010-08-07T23:06:12.991-07:00Hiroshima and Nagasaki are Hitler's bombs??...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vEABfEx40kY/TF5HVyrMm1I/AAAAAAAAAF8/_qZdYVE9Q0E/s1600/hiroshi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vEABfEx40kY/TF5HVyrMm1I/AAAAAAAAAF8/_qZdYVE9Q0E/s320/hiroshi.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><i><b>Hitlers Bombe</b></i> (<i>Hitler's Bomb</i>) is a <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonfiction_book" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Nonfiction book">nonfiction book</a> by the German historian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Karlsch" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Rainer Karlsch">Rainer Karlsch</a> published in March 2005, which claims to have evidence concerning the development and testing of a possible "nuclear weapon" by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a> in 1945. The "weapon" in question is not alleged to be a standard <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Nuclear weapon">nuclear weapon</a> powered by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Nuclear fission">nuclear fission</a>, but something closer to either a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiological_weapon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Radiological weapon">radiological weapon</a> (a so-called "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_bomb" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Dirty bomb">dirty bomb</a>") or a hybrid-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Nuclear fusion">nuclear fusion</a> weapon. Its new evidence is concerned primarily with the parts of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_energy_project" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="German nuclear energy project">German nuclear energy project</a> under<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Diebner" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Kurt Diebner">Kurt Diebner</a>.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyhS1F6xzWnOuWLL4toEFBW44HtKEnlhdFJY9ulDtTVKI0cPdsF1VlsS0kOfgJ7U7KC0d_bLorxu7nnrLXUHA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Under supervision of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Schutzstaffel">SS</a>, from 1944–45, German scientists in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuringia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Thuringia">Thuringia</a> tested some form of "nuclear weapon", possibly a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_bomb" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Dirty bomb">dirty bomb</a> (for the differences between this and a standard fission weapon, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Nuclear weapon design">nuclear weapon design</a>). Several hundred <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_of_war" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Prisoners of war">prisoners of war</a> are alleged to have died as a result. Karlsch's primary evidence are alleged vouchers for the atomic weapon attempts, a preliminary plutonium bomb patent from the year 1941 (which had been known about, but not yet found), and conducted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_archaeology" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Industrial archaeology">industrial archaeology</a> on the remains of the first experimental German <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Nuclear reactor">nuclear reactor</a>.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7035840367415308487.post-41059289215818594082010-08-07T22:35:00.000-07:002010-08-07T22:35:23.911-07:00Landkreuzer P1000 "Ratte", the ultimative war machine!<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">The development history of the Ratte originated with a 1941 strategic study of Soviet heavy tanks conducted by Krupp, the study also giving birth to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_VIII_Maus" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Panzer VIII Maus">Panzer VIII Maus</a>superheavy tank. The study led to a suggestion from Krupp director Grote, special officer for submarine construction, who on June 23, 1942 proposed to <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Hitler">Hitler</a> <script type="text/javascript">
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</script> a 1,000-tonne tank which he named a <i>Landkreuzer</i>. It was to be armed with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_artillery" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Naval artillery">naval artillery</a>and armored with 9 inches (23 cm) of hardened <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Steel">steel</a>, so heavily that only similar weapons could hope to affect it. To compensate for its immense weight, the Ratte would have been equipped with three 1.2 metre (3.9 ft) wide treads on each side with a total tread width of 7.2 metres (24 ft). This would help stability and weight distribution, but the vehicle's sheer mass would have destroyed roads and rendered bridge crossings completely impractical. However, it was anticipated that its height, and its <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_clearance" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Ground clearance">ground clearance</a> of 2 metres (6.6 ft) would have allowed it to ford most rivers with ease.<br />
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</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Hitler became enamored with Grote's concept and ordered Krupp to begin development on it. As of December 29, 1942 a few preliminary drawings had been completed, by which time the concept had been named <i>Ratte</i> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Rat">Rat</a>).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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The Ratte was to be propelled by two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAN_SE" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="MAN SE">MAN</a> V12Z32/44 24 cylinder marine <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Diesel engine">diesel engines</a> of 8,500 hp (6.2 MW) each (as used in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-boat" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="U-boat">U-boats</a>) or eight <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler-Benz" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Daimler-Benz">Daimler-Benz</a> MB 501 20 cylinder marine diesel engines of 2,000 hp (1.5 MW) each (as used in <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-boat" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="E-boat">E-boats</a>) to achieve the 16,000 hp (11.8 MW) needed to move this tank. The engines were to be provided with <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snorkel" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Snorkel">snorkels</a> also like those pioneered by German submarines. The snorkels were of course designed to provide a way for oxygen to reach the engine, even during amphibious operations passing through deep water.</div><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: black; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.17em; padding-top: 0.5em; width: auto;"><span class="editsection" style="float: right; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Landkreuzer_P._1000_Ratte&action=edit&section=3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Edit section: Armament">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Armament">Armament</span></h3><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">The Ratte's primary weapons would have been two 280 mm SK C/34 naval guns mounted in a modified naval heavy cruiser turret as used in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gneisenau_class_battlecruiser" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Gneisenau class battlecruiser"><i>Gneisenau</i>-class</a> warships, fitting two guns instead of three. One such turret was supposedly built before the project was canceled, although documentation of its whereabouts is missing. It is rumored that the prototype turret was used as a coastal gun emplacement in occupied Netherlands near <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotterdam" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Rotterdam">Rotterdam</a>, but it now appears this turret was actually built to the specifications of the <i>Gneisenau</i> class and was unconnected to the Ratte Program.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Further armament was to consist of a 128 mm anti-tank gun of the type used in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdtiger" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Jagdtiger">Jagdtiger</a> or Maus, two 15 mm Mauser <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_151" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="MG 151">MG 151</a>/15 autocannons, and eight 20 mm <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_38" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Flak 38">Flak 38</a> anti-aircraft guns, probably with at least four of them as a quad mount. The 128 mm anti-tank gun's precise location on the Ratte is a point of contention among historians, most believing that it would have been mounted within the primary turret, with some others thinking a smaller secondary turret at the rear of the Ratte more logical. The tank was to be provided with a vehicle bay sufficient to hold two BMW R12 motorcycles for scouting, as well as several smaller storage rooms, a compact infirmary area, and a self-contained lavatory system.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7035840367415308487.post-60338839866931456212010-08-07T22:07:00.000-07:002010-08-07T22:09:53.941-07:00Landkreuzer P1000 "Ratte", the ultimative war machine!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: red;">The Beast</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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