# Did the Nazis ever have a plan to assassinate Einstein?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 3, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-nazis-ever-have-a-plan-to-assassinate-einstein/601714 "2011-11-03T04:09:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-nazis-ever-have-a-plan-to-assassinate-einstein/601714/21 "2011-11-03T22:00:09Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Of course, after the fact, Heisenberg claimed that he was actively sabotaging the project from the inside. If true, it was a truly heroic sacrifice, since he can’t even be glorified by history for it.

Besides which Hesienberg clealry had no problem with Einstein, relativity or Jewish scientists and I think to suggest he did would be absolutely absurd and ignorant of Hesienberg’s life and work.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-nazis-ever-have-a-plan-to-assassinate-einstein/601714/22 "2011-11-04T14:30:54Z")

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Eh. I’m skeptical of Heisenberg’s claims to have been deliberately sabatoging the project. He was probably the highest-powered physicist in Germany by the mid-thirties, and I’ve never read anything to suggest that he was _forced_ to work on the Bomb. If Heisenberg had declined, that would have been a huge blow to the project in itself, and it’s unlikely he’d have been sent to the camps for it.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-nazis-ever-have-a-plan-to-assassinate-einstein/601714/23 "2011-11-04T14:50:27Z")

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> [@Mr.Excellent](#):
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> Eh. I’m skeptical of Heisenberg’s claims to have been deliberately sabatoging the project. He was probably the highest-powered physicist in Germany by the mid-thirties, and I’ve never read anything to suggest that he was _forced_ to work on the Bomb. If Heisenberg had declined, that would have been a huge blow to the project in itself, and it’s unlikely he’d have been sent to the camps for it.

Anyone want to talk about this in another thread? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14427913#post14427913](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14427913#post14427913)

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