+Digital Books - 31 Nazi Inventions That Changed the World

Of all the projects, the biggest effort was to produce a nuclear reactor, but in a short period of time, Germany began producing heavy water at Vemork plant in Norway, which was occupied by the Nazis. Heavy water, due to its peculiar molecular structure, is an excellent moderator of uranium nuclear fission and was vital for the study and construction of reactors and nuclear weapons at the time. Vemork produced the largest amount of heavy water in the world, an extremely rare molecule to be found in nature.

Afraid that Hitler would create an atomic bomb, Norwegian Joachim Ronneberg led a group of nine rebels on a mission to sabotage the Vemork plant. In the early hours of February 28th, 1943, the group detonated a bomb inside the plant, causing extensive damage and paralyzing the German nuclear research program. After the attack, scientists and resources from the German nuclear program were dispersed into other projects, making Hitler’s atomic bomb to never be completed.

Ronneberg died in 2018, at the age of 99. He dedicated his life to making younger generations aware of the dangers and horrors of war.

Sonnengewehr (“sun Gun”) is a theoretical orbital weapon that uses a concave mirror mounted on a satellite to focus sunlight on a small area of ​​the Earth’s surface, destroying targets or killing by heat. In practice, it would be a large magnifying glass that would use the sun’s rays to hit certain targets.

In 1929, German physicist Hermann Oberth developed plans to create a space station that contained a 100m wide concave mirror that could be used to reflect sunlight at a concentrated point on Earth. During World War II, a group of German Army Artillery scientists began studies on the viability of the project. The space station would be 8,200 km above Earth and a huge reflector made of metallic sodium, with an area of ​​9 km 2, could produce enough focused heat to make an ocean boil or burn a city.

Even after the creation of the powerful V-2s, the project was too grand to be carry out during the war period and the army set a 50-year deadline for the achievement and completion of the Sonnengewehr . If the Nazis had won the war, today we could have this powerful weapon pointed at our heads.

The plan to create a Nazi super soldier was a goal of the German government and was secretly developed by various agencies. During the war, German soldiers were given drugs to increase their stamina and courage during battles. These drugs were methamphetamine, cocaine and other stimulants, which caused dependence on tens of thousands of soldiers. The Nazi government believed that it was possible to create new types of drugs that could sharply increase the performance of their soldiers, creating a super army capable of winning any war.

The Nazis believed that they had a more evolved body than the others, due to their alleged superior lineage, and made several experiments with the aim of increasing their capacity to the maximum. Most scientific experiments were conducted in concentration camps, such as the Auschwitz camp, where Jews, Gypsies, gays, people with physical or mental disabilities underwent genetic, chemical and physical testing. Most of the prisoners used as guinea pigs died or had permanent sequelae due to the horrendous experiments to which they were subjected. The Nazis never created a superior soldier, but their research was archived, and when the Allies had access, the data obtained was used for ethical scientific research.

The truth is that the plan to create soldiers with spectacular attributes was also studied by the Allied countries. Documents released years later confirm that the United States and the Soviet Union had research on the subject and continued its development even after the end of the war.

Today we know that soldiers from various armies carry out various genetic tests and use some drugs to improve their performance during missions, such as stimulant drugs, which reduce hunger or desire for sleep and antidepressants to control the mental state of combatants. Sounds like comic book stuff, but the super soldiers are closer than we can imagine.

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