PREFACE iv PART ONE: GOTTERDAMMERUNG 1. A BADLY WRITTEN FINALE 3 2. ELECTRICITY, SLAVES, AND ,,BUNA" 25 3. U-234, U235, AND THE STRANGE CASE OF THE MISSING URANIUM 53 4. MEIN HUT ER HAT DREI ECKEN": THE TEST SITES 66 M A. An Unusual Exchange at Nuremberg 66 B. A Marshal, Mussolini, and the First Alleged Test Site at Rugen Island 70 C. The Three Corners(Dreiecken) and the Alleged Test at the Troop Parade Ground at Ohrdruf 80 5. STRANGE MAPS, STRANGE FLIGHTS, AND UNKNOWN CARGOES 89 A. The Oberkommando der Luftwaffe's Unusual Map 90 B. Strange Flights 90 C. Unknown Cargoes and a Curious Airfield 93 6. THE STRANGE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING GENERALS: SS OBERGRUPPENFUHRER DR. ING. HANS KAMMLER AND GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON 99 A. Introduction: The Rediscovery of the SS Sonderkommando, Kammler, and a Brush with "The Legend" 100 B. The Four Deaths of SS Obergruppenfurhrer Dr. Ing. Hans Kammler 107 C. The Ironic Death of General George S. Patton 110 D. The Kammler SS Sonderkommando Secret Weapons Empire 114 7. THE HONORARY ARYAN BRETHREN 117 A. Strange Rumors 119 B. Strange Industrial Complexes: Kammler Revisited, Noguchi Style 122 8. THE HEERESWAFFENAMT AND HOUTERMANS MEMORANDA 130 9. POPENSPIEL BEI FARM HALL AND OTHER FARCES 140 10. GATEWAY TO THE BLACK SUN: CONCLUSIONS TO PART ONE 154 PART TWO: THE MYTH OF SURVIVAL AND THE REALITY OF PAPERCLIP 11. THE BLACK ORDER: THE OCCULT INFLUENCE ON NAZI SECRET WEAPONS 161 A. Some Necessary Definitions 162 B. Into the Labyrinth of the Beast 165 C. The Black Sun, thc Cclcstial Swastika, and Other SS Connections 172 D. The Will to Power as the Paradigm of "Occulted Science and Nazi Secret Weapons Programs 178 12. THE ALCHEMY OF ATLANTIS: AN INVENTORY OK NAZI SECRET WEAPONS AND THEIR HISTORICAL PROBLEMATIC 181 A. The Missiles 183 B. Prototypical Stealth (Radar Absorbent) Materials 184 C. Computers 187 D. The "Superbombs" 189 1. The "Molecular" Bomb: The Hydrogen Bomb? 190 2. The Fuel-Air Bomb 191 E. The Historical Problematic 193 1. The Cold War 193 2. The Alchemy of Atlantis: the "Mission Brief of the Kammlerstab 194 3. Whose Military-Industrial Complex? 195 13. QUANTUM NUMEROLOGY AND VORTICULAR PHYSICS, NAZI STYLE 196 A. Gravity, Vortices, and Quantum Numerology 198 B. Disks, Boundary Layer, and Turbines 200 C. Viktor Schauberger: Rotational Physics and Extreme Temperature Gradients 206 D. "Death Rays": An Unusual Installation at the University of Heidelberg 221 E. Indications of Zero Point Energy and Scalar Physics Experimentation 226 PART THREE: AFTERMATH 14. THE ANTARCTIC SIIANGRI-LA 238 A. The Antarctic Survival Myth 240 B. The Neuschwabenland Expedition 249 C. Spitzbcrgen, Greenland, and Artic Canada: The Other German Polar Survival Myth 255 15. THE PHOENIX RISES: THE BORMANN PLAN 263 A. Bormann's Special Evacuation Command and the Link to the Kammlerstab 269 B. Paperclip, Compartmentalization, and Capitalization 271 16. ROSWELL: THE "E.T. MYTH" VS. THE "NAZI LEGEND": AN EXAMINATION OF SOME MJ-12 DOCUMENTS 274 A Introductory Remarks 274 B. The Similarity of Evidence for Roswell and the "Nazi Legend" An Examination of Some MJ-12 Documents 274 C. The Majic-12 Documents: The ET Myth vs the Nazi legend 281 1. The "White Hot Intelligence Estimate" of General Nathan Twining 285 (a) Odd Language of a General Nature Describing the UFO Phenomenon and Its Area and Types of Activity 286 (b) Technical Language that Describes Something Simultaneously Both Very Advanced, yet Very Commonplace 287 2. The 16 July 1947 Air Accident Report by General Nathan Twining to Headquarters 303 D.Russians, Terrorists, Asteroids, and Aliens: The Rosin Affidavit 318 E. An Unlikely Source: Benito Mussolini's Secret RS/33 UFO-Marconi Study Group: The Original Italian "MJ-12" Documents 319 17. THE KECKSBURG ACORN RINGS THE BELL 331 A. The "Bell" 331 B. The UFO Crash and Retrieval at Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, December 1965 335 C. Analysis 339 18. FINAL THOUGHTS 345 APPENDIX: A SHORT NOTE ON THE KRAFTSTRAHLKANNONE 349 Preface When I was a boy, oddities fascinated me, particularly if they appeared to make no sense. Historical oddities or anomalous news stories especially attracted my interest, lingering in my mind for years to come. Like many Americans, I well remember where I was when President Kennedy was assassinated. I was home, sick, and watching television, sipping an endless stream of the chicken noodle soup that my mother always made for me when I was ill. My mother sat on the sofa, sewing and watching her shows. Then, the programs were interrupted by the familiar voice of Walter Cronkite, and the news began to break. Like many children in America, I cried that night. A year or so later when the Warren Report was published and excerpted in almost every newspaper in the country, I remember thinking "bullets just don't do that." And I listened intently as family members debated the official conclusions of Oswald, the "lone nut" in his Texas School Book Depository, versus what was beginning to emerge with the "Grassy Knoll." As a teenager I became fascinated with the history of World War Two, and particularly the European theater and the race for the atomic bomb. Physics was also an interest for me, and another oddity lodged in my mind as I read the standard histories: the United States had never tested the uranium bomb it dropped on Hiroshima. I thought that was an extremely odd oddity indeed. It seemed to have the same sharp angles and corners as the Warren Commission's "magic bullet". It just didn't fit. Other odd facts accumulated over the years as if to underline the strangeness of the war's end in general and that fact in particular. Then, in 1989, the Berlin Wall came down and the two post- war Germanies raced toward reunification. The events seemed to unfold faster than the news media's ability to keep pace. I remember that day too, for I was driving with a friend in his van in Manhattan. My friend was Russian, as was his family, some of whom were veterans of the harsh conflict on the Russian front. We listened to the reports on the radio with a kind og breathlessness and anxiety. My friend lurried to me and said "Now it will start to come out in the wash." I nodded in agreement. We had often discussed what would happen in the eventuality of German reunification, and were agreed that many things from the end of the war would begin to surface, answering old questions and raising new ones. Our long talks about World War Two had convinced us that there was much about the war that did not make sense, Hitler's and Stalin's genocidal paranoia notwithstanding. Gradually, and one must say, predictably, the Germans themselves raced to uncover what lay hidden in the formerly inaccessible archival vaults of East Germany and the Soviet Union. Witnesses came forward, and German authors endeavored to come to grips with yet another aspect of the darkest period in their nation's history. Much, if not all, of their work remains ignored in the U.S.A., both by mainstream and by alternative researchers. This present book is based in part on these Germans' efforts. It, like them, raises dangerous questions, and often presents dangerous and disturbing answers. As a consequence, while the Nazi regime's "image" becomes even more blackened, the image of the victorious Allies also suffers to a great degree. This book presents not only a radically different history of the race for the bomb, but also outlines a case that Germany was making enormous strides toward acquisition of a whole host of second and third and even fourth generation weapons technologies even more horrific in their destructive power. That in itself would not be too unusual. After all, there have been a wealth of books on World War Two German secret weapons projects and their astonishing results. Those seeking new technical data on these weapons will find some new material here, for the thrust of the book is not on the weapons per se. Rather, the present work seeks a context within Nazi ideology and in some aspects of contemporary theoretical physics for these projects. This book argues that the Nazis' quest for this barbarous arsenal of prototypical "smart weapons" and weapons of mass destruction was intimately linked to the Nazi racial and genocidal ideology and war aims, to the machinery, bureaucracy, and technologies of mass death and slavery that the Nazis had perfected. Even more darkly, this relationship points to a hidden core of occult beliefs and practices that, allied with certain very "German" advances in physics, e.g., quantum mechanics, drove their quest for ultimate weapons. Accordingly, this is not a work of history. But neither is it a work merely of fiction. It is best described as a case of possibilities, of speculative history. It is an attempt to make sense, by means of a radical hypothesis placed within a very broad context, of events during and after the war that make no sense. I would like to thank Mr. Frank Joseph of Fate magazine for encouraging me to write about these ideas, after he had patiently listened to me outline them while we were both attending a conference in 2003. And I would like to thank the many people - too numerous to mention - who listened, read, and critiqued the book along the way. Joseph P. Farrell Tulsa, Oklahoma P O : ART NE GOTTERDAMMERUNG "A comprehensive February 1942 (German) Army Ordnance report on the German uranium enrichment program includes the statement that the critical mass of a nuclear weapon lay between 10 and 100 kilograms of either uranium 235 or element 94.... In fact the German estimate of critical mass of 10 to 100 kilograms was comparable to the contemporary Allied estimate of 2 to 100.... The German scientists working on uranium neither withheld their figure for critical mass because of moral scruples nor did they provide an inaccurate estimate as the result of gross scientific error. " Mark Walker, Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atomic Bomb, p. 216. 1. A Badly Written Finale "In southern Germany, meanwhile, the American Third and Seventh and the French First Armies had been driving steadily eastward into the so-called 'National Redoubt'.... The American Third Army drove on into Czechoslovakia and by May 6 had captured Pilsen and Karlsbad and was approaching Prague." F. Lee Benns, Europe Since 1914 In Its World Setting1 The end of the Second World War in Europe, at least as normally recounted, does not make sense, for in its standard form as learned in history books that history resembles nothing so much as a badly written finale to some melodramatic Wagnerian opera. On a night in October 1944, a German pilot and rocket expert by the same of Hans Zinsser was flying his Heinkel 111 twin engine bomber in twilight over northern Germany, close to the Baltic coast in the province of Mecklenburg. He was flying at twilight to avoid the Allied fighter aircraft that at that time had all but undisputed mastery of the skies over Germany. Little did he know that what he saw that night would be locked in the vaults of the highest classification of the United States government for several decades after the war. And he certainly could not have been aware of the fact when his testimony finally was declassified near the end of the millennium, that what he saw would require the history of the Second World War to be rewritten, or at the very minimum, severely scrutinized. His observations on that one night on that one flight resolve at a stroke some of the most pressing questions and mysteries concerning the end of the war. By the same token, what he saw raises many more mysteries and questions, affording a brief and frightening glimpse into the labyrinthine world of Nazi secret weapons development. His observations open a veritable Pandora's 1 F. Lee Benns, Europe Since 1914 In Its World Setting (New York: F.S. Crofts and co., 1946), p. 630. 3 box of horrifying research the Third Reich was conducting, research far more horrendous in its scope and terrible promise than mere atomic bombs. More importantly, his observations also raise the disturbing question of why the Allied governments - America in particular - kept so much classified for so long. What, really, did we recover from the Nazis at the end of the war? But what precisely is that badly written finale? To appreciate how badly written a finale it truly is, it is best to begin at the logical place: in Berlin, far below ground, in the last weeks of the war. There, in the bizarre and surreal world of the Fuhrerbunker, the megalomaniac German dictator huddles with his generals, impervious to the rain of Allied and Soviet bombs that are reducing the once beautiful city of Berlin to piles of rubble. Adolph Hitler, Chancellor and Fuhrer of the ever-diminishing Greater German Reich is in conference. His left arm shakes uncontrollably and from time to time he must pause to daub the drool that occasionally oozes from his mouth. His complexion is gray and pallid; his health, a shambles from the drugs his doctors inject in him. His glasses are perched on his nose as he squints at the map before him.2 Generaloberst3 Heinrici, commander of the vastly outnumbered Army Group Vistula that faces the massed armies of Marshal Zhukov poised less than sixty miles from Berlin, is pleading with his leader for more troops. The general is questioning the disposition of the forces he sees displayed on the battle map, for it is clear to him that some of Germany's finest and few remaining battle worthy formations are far south, facing Marshal Koniev's forces in Silesia. These forces were thus, incomprehensibly, poised to make a stiff defense of Breslau and Prague, not Berlin. The general pleads for Hitler to release some of these forces and transfer them north, but 2 Contributing yet another nuance to the end of the war Legend of Hitler's delusional insanity, some have proposed that the German dictator's doctors had diagnosed him with heart disease and/or Parkinson's disease, and were keeping him drugged at the behest of Msrs Bormann, Gobbels, Himmler et al. in a desperate attempt to keep him functioning. 3 Generaloberst: i.e., Colonel Gcneral, the equivalent of a four star American general. 4