Nazis 'built underground nuclear weapons facility using slave labour'

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New evidence has emerged of a possible underground nuclear weapons facility built by the Nazis that has lain secret since the Second World War.

Andreas Sulzer, an Austrian documentary-maker has put forward documentary evidence he claims to have uncovered that a sealed complex of underground tunnels built by the Nazis in Austria using slave labour may be far larger than previously thought, and include rocket launch silos.

Mr Sulzer has previously claimed higher than normal levels of radioactivity in the area are a sign the complex was used to develop nuclear weapons – although local authorities have disputed the results of radiation tests.

The possibility that the Nazis were close to developing an atomic bomb towards the end of the Second World War remains one of history's unanswered questions. There have been persistent rumours of a secret nuclear weapons programme in the final years of the war, but no proof.

Mr Sulzer believes he has found it in a complex of underground tunnels near the town of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen in Austria, that have lain largely undisturbed since the 1950s.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/11363199/Nazis-built-underground-nuclear-weapons-facility-using-slave-labour.html

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It would be interesting to see if anything comes of this.  The "obscuring" may in fact been done by the Allies themselves after capturing and reviewing the facility.  Either way, fascinating exploration.

The Nazi's had alot of issues in their bomb project.

- Heavy Water production in Norway (constantly sabotaged)
- Uranium fabrication and purification in Eastern Germany
- Significant loss of talent with the departure or death of scientists
- Higher War Priorities

The debate rages on just how far they got. All of the records were taken by the Soviets and moved east.

There is a book where one eye witness claims he saw a nuclear type flash in SE Germany months before the end of the war, but no residual artifacts can be found backing it up.

Of all the stuff I have read on it, the one thing they were critically short on was fissile material. While records show that after 1942 they made more efforts to solidify the workings of the program, many in the Reich hierarchy didn't take it too seriously not knowing the power within.

There is a documentary/movie somewhere that talks about the "last U Boat" going to Japan carrying uranium from Germany and surrendering to the US Navy.

What is interesting is that when the Americans found out the Soviets were going to reach the uranium processing plant, they bombed it to death 3 months before the war ended.