Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, Albert Speer (wearing Swastika) - Courtesy of Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz
June 1942
The German bomb program essentially comes to an end, although the allies will not discover this until near the end of the war. In Germany, after the Dec. 6, 1941 Russian counterattack, all new weapons programs had to show they could produce workable items in a short period of time. In February and June 1942, two meetings were held between scientists and Nazi officials. At both meetings, Heisenberg said that bombs were theoretically possible and would be very small and very powerful. At the June 4 meeting, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and War Production, questioned Heisenberg and was basically willing to give him anything he needed. However, the scientists only requested several hundred thousand marks for chain reaction research. Heisenberg had convinced himself that the possibilty of making a bomb to be used in the present war was very small.

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