I have just finished the movie “Oppenheimer”, and wanted to share my experience with Mr. A Anderson. Since now I understand a little better the whole story. Mr. Anderson like to tell me about his experiences and one was about how he worked with Einstein. Because when i heard Mr A tell the story he told that when he had spoken on the phone to a friend of his in German. He was questioned by his superiors and about the call.
Since Mr. A was an important doctor of chemistry in the early 1940’s and currently in the Air Force. he was invited (enlisted) to work on the Manhattan Project. He told me stories about how he worked with Einstein and others and all the secrecy involved. One story he told was about a phone call he had with a friend of his in Germany and he spoke fluent German. after that phone call he was questioned by many of his superiors about he and his friend in Germany. At the time they didn’t know they were building. They were chosen because they were excellent in their field (his was chemistry). I didn’t understand what the connection was with Germany and the bomb until I watched this movie. Now I understand that when we were building the bomb we intended to drop it on Hitler and Germany. And when Hitler killed himself in that bunker – and Germany surrendered, World War II was over. Since we were at war with Japan at the same time, and everyone said that Japan would never surrender it was decided to use the bomb on Japan instead,
This was also interesting because I had just happened to watch the series band of Brothers before this trip and learned about a place called the Eagles nest Hitlertook his high ranking officers retreats, and it was in Austria. I had already intended to go to Austria to see where the sound of music was filmed. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to see the Eagles nest or not it is now renovated into a restaurant at the top mountain in Salzburg, Austria. Already decided it was important to go to see this place, but as it turns out, it was on one of the stops on the tour that I took there. You had to take a separate bus up the rest way of the mountain to see it. I chose not to go.
