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End of Innocence
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End of Innocence

1991-04-03 · 182 min / episode · ★ 6.0

Drama · War & Politics

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.

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Creators
Wolfgang Menge, Frank Beyer
Production companies
ARD
Countries
Germany
Status
Ended

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Jürgen HentschJürgen HentschWerner Heisenberg
Udo SamelUdo SamelKurt Diebner
Rolf HoppeRolf HoppeOtto Hahn
Walter KreyeWalter KreyeFritz Strassmann
Fred DürenFred DürenAlbert Einstein
Hanne HiobLise Meitner
Jörg GudzuhnJörg GudzuhnLeo Szilard
Nikolas LanskyEdward Teller
Rolf HennigerWalter Gerlach
Rolf IlligMax von Laue
Hanns ZischlerHanns ZischlerPaul Harteck
Götz SchubertGötz SchubertCarl-Friedrich von Weizsäcker
Klaus PohlKlaus PohlKarl Wirtz
Wolfram TeufelWolfram TeufelErich Bagge
Ulrich MüheUlrich MüheJulian Green

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