Hechingen

Hechingen is a university town in western Germany where Werner Heisenburg lead his countries inital effort to build an atomic bomb. The pile melted down in 1943 killing Heisenburg and irradiating much of southwestern Germany. However, the nuclear material was recovered by Jews and other prisoners and reassembled in Tubingen, another university town where Kurt Deibner led a team that successfully completed the first German atomic bomb.