germany,atomic bomb,world war ii,nuclear bomb,history of science

End of Innocence (1991)

Poster for End of Innocence

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.

Cast & Crew

Director
Frank Beyer
  • Profile picture of Jürgen Hentsch
    Werner Heisenberg Jürgen Hentsch
  • Profile picture of Udo Samel
    Kurt Diebner Udo Samel
  • Profile picture of Rolf Hoppe
    Otto Hahn Rolf Hoppe
  • Profile picture of Walter Kreye
    Fritz Strassmann Walter Kreye
  • Profile picture of Fred Düren
    Albert Einstein Fred Düren
Poster for Season 1

Season 1

1991

2 episodes

Season 1 of End of Innocence premiered on April 3, 1991

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Keywords

  • germany
  • atomic bomb
  • world war ii
  • nuclear bomb
  • history of science