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Degussa took over the Auergesellschaft (Auer werke) in 1934. In 1939 Russian born Nikolaus Riehl, after reading a paper on the potential use of uranium for nuclear energy, approached the Nazi Army Ordnance office with the idea. With a Russian mother and German father one wonders if, after World War II, he did willingly go back with the Russians and work on their nuclear project for a decade before returning to Germany. CIA research from the period say that he volunteered. Pretending that he was forced appears a re-writing of history by him and/or the West German government to excuse his return from Russia. His colleague under the Nazis and Russians, Günter Wirths, also returned to Germany and formed Nukem, itself a co-founder of URENCO. Nukem bragged in 1985 that they went back to 1940, calling it their 25th anniversary! It is easy to suspect that Riehl and/or Wirths may…