A Nazi secret uranium enrichment facility was located near Oranienburg.
A treasure hunter from Germany has found an item that may be radioactive material from a secret research facility during World War II. In the vicinity of Oranienburg (northeastern Germany), 64-year-old Bernd Thälmann found an object with a metal detector, which "gave out" an unusual sound signal.
The pensioner brought the mysterious shiny piece of metal home and reported his find to the authorities. The police were able to establish that the object emits radioactive radiation. As a result, emergency services had to evacuate 15 residents from neighboring houses.
Specialists in protective suits examined Talmann's house, the suspicious object was placed in a lead container, which was then placed in a protective bag. According to the Berlin Courier, Thalmann was charged with "unauthorized storage of radioactive substances."
The German authorities established that in the Oranienburg area there was a Nazi secret uranium enrichment facility. The research center was tasked with enriching uranium oxide imported from South America for the production of weapons-grade plutonium. The ultimate goal of the Nazis was to create the atomic bomb.
According to police, Mr. Thalmann intends to continue his quest to find more compelling evidence for the existence of a mysterious Nazi-era complex. According to the authorities, the amateur archaeologist is unprepared for such research. According to a police statement, Thalmann "refuses to provide information about the location where he found the item."
The UK and the US have long had information about Nazi plans to create an atomic bomb. The US National Archives this year published documents on the plans of the National Socialists to create nuclear weapons. Here is what the German test pilot Hans Zinsser wrote in his diary: “At the beginning of October 1944 I flew 12-15 km from the nuclear test station near Ludwigslust (south of Lübeck). I observed a mushroom-shaped cloud with turbulent, swirling sections (about 7,000 meters high), with no visible connection to the explosion site. There was strong electrical interference and radio communication was disrupted."
Zinsser's words are corroborated by the testimony of another pilot, in addition, this explosion was seen by an Italian correspondent, who reported the incident to the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. As the Berlin historian Rainer Karlsch claims in his book Hitler's Bomb, German scientists conducted three nuclear weapons tests shortly before the end of World War II.
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However, Karlsch's claims were denied by Gerald Kirchner of Germany's Federal Office for Radiation Protection. In a statement to Der Spiegel, Kirchner says that the data from soil samples at the detonation sites showed no "signs of an atomic bomb explosion."
Fiona Keating
