Originally Posted by
etudiant
That needs a bit more documentation than the History Channel.
Afaik, Speer allocated enough resources to Heisenberg to perform basic research experiments, but nothing like the scale of support that could generate a bomb. There was no shortage of uranium, but a mistake in measuring the utility of graphite to serve as a moderator meant the Germans were forced to try for a heavy water moderated reactor, which never came about. Other claims of a separate SS run program producing test explosions are undocumented and unverified.
After the July 1944 plot against Hitler, Hitler (probably Himmler, in reality) apointed the pyschotic and paranoid architect and SS General Herr Dr Frans Kammler to progressively take over the two main V weapons production and delivery programmes and all jet aircraft production. I have seen reference that he also took over nuclear research, which would have been logical, as he took over all other innovative weapons programmes. Luckily he was grossly incompetent and regularly issued countermanding orders on the same day.
Unfortunately if you try to do scholarly research on the German weapons programmes, the internet is a dangerous place. It is festering with Nazi fanboi material and pure fantasy (such as
Antactic bases, Amerika Racket, 'the Bell' anti-gravity aircraft, flying saucers etc). Each has a germ of truth about them but been then allowed to run riot in the fevered minds of some rather sick people. A classic example of this is:
Hans Kammler - The Fairfield Project
Here's a much better researched article on the V2 being deployed to attack specific operational level targets (which I hadn't hear of before). By this stage the batteries had been withdrawn from around The Hague and therefore couldn't reach London.
V2ROCKET.COM - SS Werfer Abteilung 500 in Hellendoorn / Dalfsen
Kammler died near Prague in May 1944 in a partisan ambush where he took his own life. He driver later gave evidence to Allied investigators.