Post by skorzeny on Oct 15, 2006 8:13:24 GMT -5
Two more books I recently acquired dealing with supposed German secret weapon projects of WWII. I'm about halfway through Hitler's Flying Saucers by Henry Stevens. The book is rather fascinating, provided the old grain of salt is handy. What really interest me are all the different propulsion methods which are discussed, such as Viktor Schauberger's 'vortex' engines (a real device for which Schauberger had a patent after the war), 'field propulsion' drives operating on the principles of etheric physics (which was a real chain of scientific theory and thought before it was eclipsed and replaced by modern Einsteinian physics), as well as an amazing variety of theoretical rocket and jet engines. Even German atomic engines are discussed, a region of experimentation that did exist on paper during the Reich (American atomic research was much less broad, focused firmly on development of a bomb). Where possible, documents are reproduced to back the author's narative and the claims made by those scientists and researchers he quotes. The most intriguing, I think, are news stories, 'filler', from late 1940's newspapers that mention all sorts of revolutionary German inventions, even some describing robotic 'phoo bombs' that were supposedly able to disrupt the electronics on a bomber, even shorting out engines. Phoo bombs, of course, match very well with the famous 'foo fighters' of WWII and were even listed among the 'assets' of the German military in one military assessment of the Nazis' ability to continue to prosecute the war in 1945. Quite a bit of good stuff here for anybody looking into an 'alternative' WWII.
The other book is The SS Brotherhood of the Bell by Joseph P. Farrell, the author of Reich of the Black Sun. This book looks to concentrate on SS Obergruppenfuehrer Hans Kammler, the man who, by war's end, was in charge of most of Germany's 'wunderwaffen' projects and who maintained a circle of scientists in Thuringia called 'die Kammlerstab' or 'Kammler Group' who were engaged in, among other projects, experimentation with a strange device known as 'the Bell'. From what I have read about this device, it seemed to produce some very strange energy, possibly a form of intense radiation. Although not its intended function, one of the results produced by the Bell when active was to reduce organic matter within its proximity to a sludge-like residue! Historically, General Kammler died in the closing days of the war. Of course, there are four 'official' accounts of his death, all observed by other Nazis and all of them contradictory in the extreme. The premise favoured by Farrell seems to be that Kammler actually survived the war and either escaped to Argentina after the war, or else was 'brought in' by the US in exchange for some of the secret German black projects Kammler was in charge of. However much truth there might be behind the account, you have to admit it makes for a fascinating story.
Next up I have my eye on a book titled Man-Made Flying Saucers: 1944-1994 by Vesco and Childress. The worst thing about research, the more you uncover the more you find out is out there!
The other book is The SS Brotherhood of the Bell by Joseph P. Farrell, the author of Reich of the Black Sun. This book looks to concentrate on SS Obergruppenfuehrer Hans Kammler, the man who, by war's end, was in charge of most of Germany's 'wunderwaffen' projects and who maintained a circle of scientists in Thuringia called 'die Kammlerstab' or 'Kammler Group' who were engaged in, among other projects, experimentation with a strange device known as 'the Bell'. From what I have read about this device, it seemed to produce some very strange energy, possibly a form of intense radiation. Although not its intended function, one of the results produced by the Bell when active was to reduce organic matter within its proximity to a sludge-like residue! Historically, General Kammler died in the closing days of the war. Of course, there are four 'official' accounts of his death, all observed by other Nazis and all of them contradictory in the extreme. The premise favoured by Farrell seems to be that Kammler actually survived the war and either escaped to Argentina after the war, or else was 'brought in' by the US in exchange for some of the secret German black projects Kammler was in charge of. However much truth there might be behind the account, you have to admit it makes for a fascinating story.
Next up I have my eye on a book titled Man-Made Flying Saucers: 1944-1994 by Vesco and Childress. The worst thing about research, the more you uncover the more you find out is out there!
