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by marksweston 2689 days ago
> Fascinating stuff, really interesting characters. I for one never knew the Germans were pursuing fission for the production of "engines". Do yourselves a favor and read the entire transcript.

I'm fairly sure that by "engines" they meant reactors.

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They talk about a 'Maschine' in the German version 'a machine' and clearly mean a machine to produce energy i.e a reactor.