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1. expedition32 · 1790925650 · focus · HN ↗

   This was already known. The British put the German scientists into a big country house after the war and bugged all the rooms. After the US dropped the atomic bombs the German scientists spent weeks discussing with eachother how the Americans could have done it. They never got it right.

   1. gib444 · 1790963806 · focus · HN ↗

      I'm trying to reconcile such wildly clever people not wondering if they were being surveiled? Or didn't they care?

      1. xhkkffbf · 1790979749 · focus · HN ↗

         Perhaps they suspected and they deliberately said things that they knew their new overlords would want to hear?

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