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by Nancy Thorndike Greenspan


  “Conscience Without Reason!” (editorial), 320

  Corpus Christi College, 111

  Cove Fields, 114

  Cuba, 145, 347

  Cuno, Wilhelm, 29

  Curtis-Bennett, Derek, 295, 296–98

  Dachau concentration camp, 335

  Davis, Bette, 91

  Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon), 314

  Denmark, 44, 84–85

  Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), 13, 152

  Deprivation of Citizenship Committee, 316–17

  Deutsch, Martin, 168

  Deutschtum, 44, 47

  Dickens, Charles, 295

  Didcot Station, 212, 216, 221, 254

  Diels, Rudolf, 61

  Dimitrov, Georgi, 72, 81, 336–37

  Disraeli, Benjamin, 213

  Donaldson’s School, 99

  Dresden, 27–28, 84, 336, 337–38, 348, 352

  Dunworth, John, 224

  East Berlin, 331–33

  East Germany, 325, 331–39, 344, 346–48

  Eden, Anthony, 82

  Edinburgh Sheriff Court, 95

  “Effect of Fluctuation in the Flow of Nitrogen,” 5–7, 198, 199, 201

  Einstein, Albert, 72, 119

  Eisenach, 19–20, 22, 23–25, 27–28, 30, 31, 68, 333

  Elbe River, 90

  electrical conductivity, 78–79, 83

  XI International Brigade, 102, 116–17, 235

  “enemy aliens,” 11–12, 95–96, 97, 130, 134, 205

  Engels, Friedrich, 25, 42

  Essmann, Walther, 46, 51–52

  Ettrick, SS, 108–12, 115

  “Eugene” (Alexander Feklisov), 180–81, 184–85, 188–89, 282–83, 290

  Evangelical Community Newsletter, 12, 19

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

  Fuchs case, 7–8, 197, 198, 218–19, 225–27, 232, 236–37, 242, 264–65, 275, 286, 287, 290, 298, 299, 303–9

  Gold case, 173, 306–9

  Heinemann case, 202, 217–18, 232

  Peierls case, 217–19, 225

  “Raymond” interrogation, 190

  Feklisov, Alexander (“Eugene”), 351–52

  Feynman, Richard, 157–58, 161, 168, 280

  Flowers, Brian, 184

  Folkestone, 11, 77

  Forster, E. M., 82

  For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), 117, 132

  Fraenkel, Abraham, 52, 57

  Free German League of Culture, 131, 140, 294, 334

  Free Socialist Student Group, 32–36, 40–41, 47, 49–52, 55–56, 65–66, 349

  French and Indian War, 114, 120–21

  Friedrichsfelde Cemetery, 349–50, 351

  Frisch, Otto, 132–34, 136, 137

  Fuchs, Elisabeth. See Kittowski, Elisabeth Fuchs

  Fuchs, Else Wagner, 24, 30, 31

  death of, 35–36

  Fuchs, Emil, 19–24, 78, 225

  arrest and imprisonment of, 68–69

  in Bad Freienwalde, 69–70

  in Berlin, 79–80, 85, 90–91, 186–87

  in East Germany with son Klaus, 321, 324, 325, 332, 337

  death of, 346

  death of daughter Elisabeth, 93–94

  death of son Gerhard, 317–18

  death of wife Else, 35–36

  Harwell visit to son Klaus, 190–91, 283

  at Kiel Pedagogical Academy, 30, 31–32, 36, 56–57, 65

  pacifist beliefs of, 21, 37, 41, 62, 65, 346

  political activities of, 20–24, 25, 30, 35, 36–37, 56–57, 65, 68–70, 186, 320

  Quakerism of, 37, 41, 63–64, 65, 68, 78, 84, 89, 92, 93, 186

  Reichstag fire, 55, 68

  trial of, 69, 72–73

  at University of Leipzig, 186, 188, 190, 191, 228, 229, 232, 238, 269, 317, 324

  von Bardeleben incident, 68, 73

  at Woodbrooke Quaker Centre, 65, 68

  during World War I, 19–20, 21

  during World War II, 186–88

  Fuchs, Gerhard

  arrest and release of, 84

  in Berlin, 29, 30, 31, 47–48, 54, 61–62, 64, 65–66, 69, 84

  death of, 317–18

  “Kaspar” report on, 12, 196

  at Odenwaldschule, 20, 21, 22

  political activities of, 26–27, 32, 34–35, 36–37, 40–41, 43–48, 65–68, 79–80, 84–85

  in Prague, 79, 84, 89–92

  in Switzerland, 12, 20, 92–93, 186, 187–88, 317

  tuberculosis (TB) of, 84, 89, 93, 186, 187–88

  at University of Kiel, 44–47

  at University of Leipzig, 24, 26–27, 34–35, 36–37, 43

  Fuchs, Karin, 48, 65, 84, 85, 317

  Fuchs, Klaus

  at Air Ministry, 130, 132, 133–35

  arrest of, 272–84

  atomic research of, 132–35, 138–39, 143–44, 146–50, 342, 344–45, 346

  Los Alamos, 155–57, 160, 161–62, 167, 173, 176, 178, 265–66, 322

  ZfK, 335–39

  in Berlin, 58–62, 64, 66–68, 69

  confession of, 254–55, 257–67

  inducement, 229–30, 260, 261, 264, 268, 271, 289, 295, 296

  death of, 346, 348–49

  denaturalization of, 316–17

  early life of, 19–24

  in East Germany, 325, 331–39, 344, 346–48

  education of, 23, 24–27, 29–30, 31, 36–37, 66–68

  “enemy alien” status of, 11–12, 95–96, 97, 130, 132

  Erna and, 189, 208, 214–17, 222–23, 239, 240–41, 249–54, 261–63, 269, 289, 311, 319, 326

  espionage and meetings

  “Alexander,” 131, 136–37, 139, 281–82, 290, 294

  “Eugene,” 180–81, 184–85, 188–89, 282–83, 290

  “Raymond,” 145–49, 152–53, 160–61, 163–64, 166, 169, 170, 171–73, 180, 190, 265–66, 291, 305–11, 343

  “Sonya,” 139–40, 315, 350

  evil, question of, 352–53

  funeral of, 349–50, 351

  Grete and, 72, 337–38, 339, 349, 350, 351–52

  as “Margot” (Margarete), 323, 325, 336

  at Harwell, 176, 177–79, 181–85, 189–90, 202–9, 211–17, 247, 253, 269, 271–72, 281, 321, 346

  forced resignation, 247–50, 254

  imprisonment of

  at Brixton, 276, 278–80, 281–82, 288, 290, 293–94, 297

  release, 324–28

  at Stafford, 314–15, 321

  at Wakefield, 323–25, 327

  at Wormwood Scrubs, 303–4, 305–6, 313–14

  internment of

  in Britain, 97–99, 101–8

  in Canada, 113–24

  Ettrick crossing, 108–12

  in London, 77–78

  MI5 file, 8–15, 140, 300–301

  MI5 interrogations, 231–32, 237–43, 247–48, 250–51

  MI5 security investigation, 195–209

  MI5 security review, 179–80, 181–82

  MI5 surveillance, 198–209, 211–17, 221–22, 224–25, 227–30, 233, 234–35, 237, 239, 240–41, 258–59

  Moorehead interview, 319–20

  naturalization, 9, 129–30, 140, 179, 234

  in Paris, 71–74

  registration card of, 80–81

  student political activities of, 27–28, 29–30, 34–37, 39–43, 47, 49–56, 66–68

  death sentence, 53–54

  trial of, 285–86, 288–90, 295–98

  at University of Birmingham, 130, 132, 133, 135, 139, 201, 207–8, 263

  at University of Bristol, 9–10, 74, 77, 78–79, 81–86, 215–16

 
at University of Edinburgh, 86, 87–89, 91–92, 94–95, 129–30, 282

  work permit of, 9, 12–13, 132, 137

  Fuchs, Kristel. See Heinemann, Kristel Fuchs “Christel”

  Fuller Lodge, 162, 172, 177

  Furry, Wendell, 291–92

  gaseous diffusion, 138–39, 151, 198

  Geheeb, Paul, 20, 31, 41, 48, 58, 90

  General Electric Company, 213

  General Post Office (GPO), 211–12

  Geneva Conventions, 104

  German Communist Party. See Communist Party of Germany

  German federal election of 1930, 25, 28

  German federal election of 1932, 28–29, 39, 40, 43, 47

  German federal election of 1933, 53, 62–64

  German National People’s Party, 63

  German POWs, internment of, 12, 104, 106–7, 109, 112, 114, 115, 117–18

  German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, 94–95, 137, 301

  Germany

  during Cold War, 331–39

  Nazi era. See Nazis

  Weimar Republic. See Weimar Republic

  during World War I, 19–20, 21

  Goddard, Rayner, 296–98

  Goebbels, Joseph, 28, 60

  Gold, Harry (a.k.a. “Raymond” a.k.a. “Goose”), 180, 190, 291, 306–10

  arrest and interview of, 305–10, 343

  background of, 306–7

  Bentley and, 190, 307, 309

  Fuchs’s meetings with, 145–49, 152–53, 163–64, 166, 169, 170, 265–66, 308–9, 311

  Heinemann’s meetings with, 153, 160–61, 163–64, 172–73, 291, 308–9

  Göring, Hermann, 28, 53, 59–60, 63

  Gortipohl, 187

  Gouzenko, Igor, 173, 180, 218, 309

  Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), 3

  Graf Zeppelin, 28

  Grand Central Terminal, 280

  Great Depression, 4, 25–26, 27, 307

  Great Rollright, 315

  Greenglass, David, 308

  Groves, Leslie, 142, 143–44, 155–56, 159–60

  GRU (G.U.), 131, 147

  Gunn, Jessie, 74, 78, 79, 279

  Gunn, Ronald, 74, 78, 79, 81–82, 234–35, 279

  gun-type diffusion, 157–58

  Gurney, Ronald, 81

  Hager, Kurt, 338

  Hahn, Otto, 132–33

  Halperin, Israel, 218, 291–92

  Hamburger, Ursula. See Kuczynski, Ursula

  Hanfstaengl, Putzi, 61

  Harper, Russell, 223

  Harvard University, 145

  Harwell Laboratory, 176, 177–79, 181–85, 189–90, 193, 202–9, 211–17. See also specific scientists

  Haupt, Joachim, 33–34, 36, 57–58

  Heinemann, Kristel Fuchs “Christel,” 31–32, 336, 347–48

  brother Klaus at Wormwood, 313–14

  in Cambridge, MA, 92, 144–45, 152, 178, 188, 202

  early life of, 20, 22

  FBI investigation of, 217–19, 232, 248, 251, 290–91, 305–6

  marriage to Albert Holzer, 347–48

  nervous breakdown and hospitalization of, 188, 269, 290–91, 314, 317, 347

  at Odenwaldschule, 28, 31, 35, 36, 58

  “Raymond” and, 153, 160–61, 163–64, 172–73, 291, 308–9

  at Swarthmore, 83–84, 145

  Heinemann, Robert “Bob,” 145, 188, 217–19, 232, 290–92, 314

  Heinemann, Stephen, 314

  Heisenberg, Werner, 27, 87, 139, 159

  Hellwig, Joachim, 348, 351–52

  Hemingway, Ernest, 117, 132

  Herweg, Ludwig, 11

  Hill, B. A., 271–74

  Hindenburg, Paul von, 39–40, 43, 44, 52–53, 55, 59, 63

  Hiss, Alger, 286–87

  Hitler, Adolf

  appointment as chancellor, 52–53

  death of, 165

  election of 1932, 28–29, 40, 43

  election of 1933, 53, 62–64

  Kiel rally, 46

  Reichstag fire, 55–56

  Reichswehr trial, 28–29

  rise to power, 23, 26, 28–29, 32, 40, 43, 46

  during World War II, 13, 81, 90, 92, 94, 96, 118, 121

  Hitler Youth, 41

  Hodder, Hartley, 11

  Hoepner, 45, 49–50, 51

  Hollis, Roger, 207, 208, 303

  Hollywood Ten, 286

  Holzer, Heidi, 347, 348

  Holzer, Marianna, 347

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  Fuchs case, 265, 285–86, 287, 298, 299, 310, 311

  McCarthyism and, 287

  Venona project, 292–93

  Hornig, Don, 167

  Horst-Wessel-Haus, 60

  Hotel Fürstenhof, 23

  House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 286–87

  Howse, Philip, 292–93

  Humphreys, Christmas, 271, 274, 288–89, 295–98

  Huxley, Aldous, 82

  Huxley, Julian, 82

  Huyton, 101–4, 125

  Hyde Park, 2–3

  hydrogen bomb, 321–22, 322

  IG Farben, 79

  Immigration Act of 1924, 145

  Imperial Naval Station, 32

  Imperial Tobacco Company, 78, 234

  implosion bomb, 157–58, 164, 173, 267–68

  International Brigade, 102, 116–17, 235

  internment

  in Britain, 11–12, 97–99, 101–8

  in Canada, 106–7, 113–24, 301–2

  of Japanese-Americans, 156

  invasion of Poland, 94, 106

  invisible ink, 211–12, 218

  Irish Republican Army, 324

  Isle of Man, 104–6

  Italian declaration of war, 103

  Italians, internment of, 11–12, 109, 112, 156

  Japan, during World War II

  atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 2, 165, 166, 168, 267, 321

  attack on Pearl Harbor, 141

  Soviet invasion of Manchuria, 169

  surrender, 171

  Japanese-American internment camps, 156

  Jewish internment in Canada, 121–23

  Johnson, Peter, 332–33

  Joint Institute on Nuclear Research, 341–44

  Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), 1–2

  Journal of George Fox, 68

  Kadena Air Base, 312

  Kahle, Hans, 11–12, 131–32, 180, 224, 235, 350

  British internment of, 102–3, 108, 111, 179, 300

  Canada internment of, 116–19, 122–25

  Fuchs’s relationship with, 131–32, 137, 179, 196, 200, 207–8, 301, 302, 303

  as inspiration for Hemingway, 117, 132

  Kremer and, 131, 137

  Karl Marx Medal, 349

  “Kaspar,” 12, 196, 200

  Kearton, Frank, 143, 144, 150, 201–2, 225–26, 235–36, 278

  Keilson, Grete

  in East Germany, 323, 325, 331, 336–38, 347, 351–52

  Fuchs’s relationship with, 337–38, 339, 349, 350, 351–52

  in Paris, 72, 336–37

  Keilson, Max, 72

  Kellermann, Walter, 88, 92, 94, 96, 255, 282

  British internment of, 98, 99, 103–8

  Canada internment of, 116, 124–25

  Ettrick crossing, 108–12

  at Southampton College, 130

  at University of Edinburgh, 88, 89, 91, 129–30

  Kellex Corporation, 144, 151

  Kew Gardens, 185, 294, 314

  Keynes, John Maynard, 82

  KGB, 147, 153, 173, 189–90, 307, 309, 325, 332, 341–43, 352

 
Khrushchev, Nikita, 333

  Kiel, 31–34, 41–48, 52–53, 58. See also University of Kiel

  Kiel Daily News, 32

  Kieler Zeitung, 43, 55

  Kiel Pedagogical Academy, 30, 31, 36, 56–57

  Kittowski, Elisabeth Fuchs, 69

  at Academy of Fine Arts, 22, 24

  arrest and imprisonment of, 69

  in Berlin, 79, 80, 84–85, 90–91

  death of, 93–94

  death of mother, 35

  in Kiel, 30, 31–32, 65

  political activities of, 26, 34, 54, 58, 69, 90–91

  Kittowski, Guschi, 93, 145

  arrest and imprisonment of, 69, 84, 85, 90–91

  in Berlin, 79, 80, 90–91

  political activities of, 69, 84–85, 90–91

  Kittowski, Klaus, 84, 145, 181, 321, 346, 347

  in East Germany, 331, 337, 339

  education of, 190–91, 339

  visits with uncle Klaus, 190–91, 228, 323

  during World War II, 186, 187–88

  at Young Friends Work Camp, 323

  Klaus Fuchs: History of Atomic Treachery (movie), 345

  Klopstech, Johanna, 180, 294–95

  Koch, Erich, 23–24, 334

  Korda, Alexander, 320

  Korean War, 311–12, 354

  KPD. See Communist Party of Germany

  Kremer, Simon (a.k.a. “Alexander”), 131, 136–37, 139, 281–82, 290, 294

  Kristallnacht, 145

  Krugmann, Werner, 49, 50, 51

  Kuczynski, Jürgen, 130–31, 180, 294–95, 335

  background of, 131, 294

  Fuchs’s relationship with, 91, 103, 130–31, 139, 140, 294–95, 350

  internment and release of, 96, 98

  Kuczynski, Ursula (a.k.a. “Sonya”), 139–40, 315, 350

  kulaks, 83

  Kurchatov, Igor, 268

  Lamphere, Bob, 305–6, 308–11

  Leconfield House, 3, 212. See also MI5

  Left Book Club, 91, 92, 294

  Leipzig, 24–25, 28. See also University of Leipzig

  Lend Lease program, 140–41

  Lenin, Vladimir, 42, 81, 82

  Lichtenfeld, Karl, 44–45

  Liddell, Guy, 300–301, 304–5

  Fuchs case, 236, 247–48, 286, 293, 304–5, 316, 321–22

  arrest, 272, 274, 280, 285

  confession, 259, 260, 264, 268

  interrogation, 231–32, 233, 239–42, 247, 248

  German communist activities, 60–61, 64

  Gold’s arrest, 310

  MI5 purge, 287–88

  Liebknecht, Karl, 25, 349

  Lingen, Count (Prince Friedrich of Prussia), 111, 116, 117, 122, 123

  Liverpool, 108, 125, 208, 215, 275, 315

  London Airport, 327

  London School of Economics, 294, 301

  Los Alamos, 149–50, 155–72, 353. See also specific scientists

 

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