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Hahn comes across very sympathetically throughout this.

>HAHN: I must honestly say that I would have sabotaged the war if I had been in a position to do so.

>HAHN replied that he too loved his country and that, strange as it might appear, it was for this reason that he had hoped for her defeat.

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Otto Hahn is well known for his opposition to Nazism and to nuclear weapons.

And he matched that by action, delivering the results of his radio-chemistry masterpiece (e.g. getting results from just a few thousand atoms!) first to his exiled colleague Lise Meitner, which follows a very straight line to the scientific success of the Manhattan project through her nephew, who did his Christmas vacation with her when she got them, and then in England with Peierls figured out the fast fission path to a practical device, and then on to America.

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