SOIL TESTS IN GERMANY ON 'HITLER'S ATOM BOMB'

Haaretz, 15 February 2006

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By DPA

Braunschweig, Germany - Soil tests in Germany have revealed no evidence whatever
that Adolf Hitler tested a nuclear weapon just two months before losing the
Second World War, government scientists said Wednesday.

A Berlin historian, Rainer Karlsch, published a book last year on Nazi nuclear
research and offered circumstantial evidence that the Germans may have tested a
bomb on March 3, 1945 at the Ohrdruf army training camp in central Germany.

The site, near Gotha, is currently used by the German armed forces. Germany's
main nuclear-research agency, the PTB, based in the northern city of
Braunschweig, conducted soil tests there at the expense of German public
television channel ZDF.

A statement Wednesday said radioactive material was found at the site, but this
could be explained by the fallout all over Europe from the 1986 explosion of a
nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, Ukraine.

The PTB stressed that it found no evidence to disprove the Karlsch hypothesis,
either.