Walter Gerlach

'''Walter Gerlach (1889-1979) was a German physicist who co-discovered space quantization in a magnetic field, the Stern-Gerlach effect. He served in World War I as a soldier. During World War II, he officially became head of the physics section of the Reichsforschungsrat and Bevollmächtigter of nuclear physics. After the war, he was detained by the Allied Forces, and then returned to academia.

Walter Gerlach in The Man With the Iron Heart
Walter Gerlach (1889-1947) was one of several scientists captured by the German Freedom Front in 1946. It had been Reinhard Heydrich's hope that the scientists might build the GFF an atomic bomb. Karl Wirtz disabused Heydrich of that notion.

Nonetheless, Gerlach and his fellows were held in the underground Alpine Redoubt until 1947. When American forces arrived, Heydrich escaped, and ordered Gerlach and several other scientists killed.