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Oral History Interview with Heinz Lettau
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Topics include: early life, family, interest in science, education, WWI, Heisenberg, Kate Lettau, the Livsic School of Meteorology, pendulum and salt mine experiments, ballooning, WWII, time as a POW in Washington DC, re-education after the war, moving to America, German mistakes in forecasting during the war, spying. Oral history interview with Heinz Lettau, 2002. Interviewed by Sharon Nicholson. 7 sound cassettes (ca. 10 hrs.) : analog, mono + transcript (102 pgs.). AMS 171-177; one physical version (one master). Forms part of American Meteorological Society Oral History Project.