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How was Werner Heisenberg captured by American military intelligence in 1945?

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In the final days of World War II, Werner Heisenberg was not captured by American military intelligence while at his research facility. Instead, after the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics was evacuated to Hechingen and Haigerloch in early 1945, Heisenberg bicycled to his family’s vacation home in Bavaria. It was there that he was captured by an American military intelligence team. Following his capture, he was interned in England with several other German physicists.1