What must it have been like for Hans Edler? He was designing weapons that were to be used to destroy the United Kingdom. His wife and child were living in England.
As I wrote his story it occurred to me that he may have taken his time. He may have delayed tests or deliberately held up progress on perfecting this horrid killing machine.
A few weeks after I’d written this episode I read that indeed engineers working on the V2 thought it was such a horrible weapon that they deliberately went slowly with is manufacture.
Had those German engineers a greater conscience that those who worked on the nuclear bombs or is it just true that the latter didn’t realise how powerful those weapons were?
Werner von Braun and Walter Dornberger were two well-known engineers who worked in this area.
There are stories too of officials processing paperwork slowly.
Renate was protected to some extent by her teachers. They didn’t force her to join the BDM or to make the Nazi salute. They weren’t exactly hiding her but they just took their time making everything official
When the Waldorf School was inspected, the official delayed sending in his report. It didn’t stop the closure of the school but it did take attention away from them and so the special class was almost forgotten about and continued in the basement of the house that Clara Lehrs built.
Oskar Schindler is of course well-known for employing people in his factory and designating them as essential workers.
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German diplomat stationed in Denmark, informed the Danish authorities of the deportation of Danish Jews. This allowed for a large rescue operation and 7,200 Jews were ferried safely across to Sweden.
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