The Nazi Bell Part 2

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2017

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Background The mystery of “The Nazi Bell” or “Die Glocke” is only surpassed by its reported potential. The Germans had the knowledge to build an atomic weapon in Otto Hahn, the chemist who first split the uranium nucleus in 1938. The next year the Nazis had control of Europe’s only source of uranium ore when they acquired the mine at Joachimsthal while invading the rest of Czechoslovakia. But was The Bell a device to aid them in enriching uranium-238? Many researchers of The Bell believe it was it’s own research project and given an even higher Top Secret classification than their atomic weapons program. When Germany surrendered in 1945, it was evident they were not able to bring their atomic weapon development to a successful conclusion, but was this because they were much more focused on creating a machine that would be a far greater solution to their goal of world domination, and did they fully know what they were dealing with? The glimpse inside Pandora’s Box is always both wondrous and deadly. Of the many questions surrounding The Bell, the two most important remain: If it exists today, where is it? And if it’s still being researched, could it, like uranium, change the world as we know it?

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Credits: Episode 63 - "The Count of Saint Germain, Part 3" Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Edited by Sarah Vorhees, Ryan McCullough Sound Design; Research Assistance by Tess Pfeifle and the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a,k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2017 Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess. All Rights Reserved.

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1:06.9	Well, I suppose he does have all the time in the world. What with being immortal at all?
1:23.8	Welcome back to Estonishing Legends. I'm Scott Philbrook and this is Forest Burgess. They
1:30.7	had the people to do it and would have forced us to surrender if we didn't have bombs
1:34.7	also. We had no choice or we thought we had no choice. Leo Zelard, the man who patented
1:40.9	the nuclear reactor, referring to Nazi Germany during World War II, joined us tonight for
1:45.2	part two of our series on the Nazi bell as we look at what it might have been and where
1:49.3	it might actually be today.
1:58.4	Okay, so it's time to talk about what exactly the bell was. Some people have, we had a few
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