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A fact from Operation Epsilon appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 April 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that at the end of World War II, ten German nuclear scientists were detained and wiretapped at a house in England as part of Operation Epsilon in order to determine how close the Nazis had come to building an atomic bomb?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/April.

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More information on the exact context of the detention, the participants, the location etc would be interesting, before diving into what was found. On what pretext were the scientists brought there? Some sources for the claim that "most historians" believe that Heisenberg's comment was fake would be useful too. Stevage 11:28, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. The article also makes no mention of the circumstances of the prisoners' release - how and what became of them.Twang (talk) 23:29, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Click on each name and you'll find out. 137.188.108.203 (talk) 22:28, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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the right term

I am wondering what the right term for this is. Specifically, incarceration (used once, but also used in Otto Hahn) seems to imply a criminal penalty. As far as I know, in either the Farm Hall case, or the Internment of Japanese Americans that they committed any crimes. There is discussion in Talk:Internment of Japanese Americans about the naming of that page. Gah4 (talk) 07:08, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]