On January 3, 1946, in the immediate aftermath of World War II, ten German scientists who were thought to have worked on Nazi Germany's nuclear program were transferred from Godmanchester, England to Alswede. They were Erich Bagge, Kurt Diebner, Walter Gerlach, Otto Hahn, Paul Harteck, Werner Heisenberg, Horst Korsching, Max von Laue, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, and Karl Wirtz.