Horst Korsching Historical Figure Nationality: Germany Date of Birth: 1912 Date of Death: 1998 Cause of Death: Natural Causes Occupation: Physicist Turtledove Appearances: The Man With the Iron Heart POD: May 29, 1942; Relevant POD: May, 1945 Type of Appearance: Oblique contemporary reference Date of Birth: 1912 Date of Death: 1947 Cause of Death: Shot to death

Horst Korsching (1912–1998) was a German physicist. He was arrested by the allied British and American Armed Forces and incarcerated at Farm Hall for six months in 1945 under Operation Epsilon.

Horst Korsching in The Man With the Iron HeartEdit

Horst Korsching (1912-1947) was one of several scientists captured by the German Freedom Front in 1946.^[1] It had been Reinhard Heydrich's hope that the scientists might build the GFF an atomic bomb. Karl Wirtz disabused Heydrich of that notion.^[2]

Nonetheless, Korsching and his fellows were held in the underground Alpine Redoubt until 1947. When American forces arrived, Heydrich escaped, and ordered Korsching and several other scientists killed.^[3]

Literary CommentEdit

Korsching is not named directly in the text. However, there is no reason to believe that the Point of Divergence altered the composition of the ten scientists.

1. ↑ The Man With the Iron Heart, pg. 202-204.
2. ↑ Ibid., pgs. 227-228.
3. ↑ Ibid., pg. 467.

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