End of Innocence
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End of Innocence is a two-part television film that focuses on the work of the German Uranium Association during World War II. At Farm Hall in England, the ten German nuclear scientists interned there as part of Operation Epsilon learn of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945. In flashbacks, the development of the German uranium project is recapitulated chronologically from the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn to the work of Kurt Diebner at the Heereswaffenamt to the experiments of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics under Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker at the Haigerloch research reactor in spring 1945.
Production
ARD
Language
DE
Status
Ended
First Aired
April 3, 1991
Last Aired
April 7, 1991
Networks
Das Erste
Created By
Wolfgang Menge, Frank Beyer
Cast
Jürgen Hentsch
Werner Heisenberg
Udo Samel
Kurt Diebner
Rolf Hoppe
Otto Hahn
Walter Kreye
Fritz Strassmann
Fred Düren
Albert Einstein
Hanne Hiob
Lise Meitner
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