Paul Harteck (physical chemist): We might have succeeded if the highest authorities had said, “We are prepared to sacrifice everything.” Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (physicist): In our case even the scientists said it couldn’t be done. Erich Bagge (physicist): That’s not true. You were there yourself at that conference in Berlin. I think it was on 8 September that everyone was asked—Geiger, Bothe, and you, Harteck, were there too, and everyone said that it must be done at once. Someone said, “Of course it is an open question whether one ought to do a thing like that.” Thereupon Bothe got up
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