Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler (57 page)

102    
“Luftwaffe code-breaking unit”:
Loftus and Aarons,
Secret War Against the Jews
.

102    
“Dulles also exposed Henry Wallace”:
Srodes,
Allen Dulles
.

103    
“we must fish in troubled waters”:
NARA, College Park, Maryland; NA RG 226 Entry 134, Records of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), Director’s Office and Field Station Records.

103    
“similar remit”:
OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit Final Report (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, May 1946).

103    
Madonna of La Gleize:
Edsel,
Monuments Men
.

104    
“Eagle’s Nest”:
Franz W. Seidler and Dieter Zeigert,
Hitler’s Headquarters: The Führer’s Wartime Bases, from the Invasion of France to the Berlin Bunker
(London: Greenhill Books, 2004).

105    
German battle group in La Gleize:
Bruce Quarrie,
The Ardennes Offensive: VI Panzer Armee
(Oxford: Osprey, 1999).

105    
“We can still lose this war”:
Martin Blumenson,
The Patton Papers, 1940–1945
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1974).

105    
“If Germany beats us”:
The Eventful 20th Century: The World at War 1939–1945
(London: Reader’s Digest Association, 1998).

105    
“Hitler’s last gamble”:
Michael Veranov,
The Third Reich at War: The Rise and Fall of Hitler’s Military Machine
(London: Magpie Books, 1997).

106    
“She stood just as he had seen her”:
Edsel,
Monuments Men
.

Chapter 11: R
AIDERS OF THE
R
EICH

107    
“too much reliance on Ultra”:
Lewin,
Ultra Goes to War
.

108    
“return cylinder that made decryption much more difficult”:
Ibid.

108    
“Enigma Hour”:
Cornwell,
Hitler’s Scientists
.

108    
“TICOM teams”:
Richard J. Aldrich,
GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain’s Most Secret Intelligence Agency
(London: Harper Press, 2010).

109    
“German intellectual property”:
John Gimbel,
Science, Technology and Reparations: Exploitation and Plunder in Postwar Germany
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990).

110    
“thanks to Ultra”:
Lewin,
Ultra Goes to War
. The Me 262 gained its first victim on July 26, 1944, in an action against an RAF de Havilland Mosquito photoreconnaissance aircraft. It was not until February 1945 that it became truly operational as a fighter, but by then it was too late to have any significant effect on Allied air operations.

110    
“Hitler’s
Wunderwaffen
”:
Steven J. Zaloga,
Remagen 1945: Endgame against the Third Reich
(Oxford: Osprey, 2006).

110    
“considerable lead in weapons technology”:
Zaloga,
V-2 Ballistic Missile
.

110    
“Occupation of German scientific and industrial establishments”:
“Operation Paperclip,” from “History of Rocketry” at
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/P/Paperclip.html
.

110    
Operation Lusty:
Gimbel,
Science, Technology and Reparations.

111    
“exploitation of German technology”:
Ibid.

111    
“The Big Three”:
Jonathan Fenby,
Alliance: The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another
(London: Simon & Schuster, 2006).

112    
“our inflexible purpose”:
Thacker,
End of the Third Reich
.

112    
“their common hate”:
von Hassell et al.,
Alliance of Enemies
.

112    
“Auergesellschaft plant in Oranienburg:”
Baggott,
Atomic
.

113    
Operation Big:
Kelly,
Manhattan Project
.

113    
“all the German scientists”:
Rhodes,
Making of the Atomic Bomb
.

113    
“Soviet atomic research facility”:
Baggott,
Atomic
.

113    
“unidentified black substance”:
The National Archives, Kew, London; File ADM 223/214.

114    
“To hell with the Russians”:
After-action report by Col. John Lansdale Jr., quoted in Rhodes,
Making of the Atomic Bomb
.

114    
“advanced aviation designs”:
After the war, the renowned German aircraft designer Prof. Kurt Tank, famous as the creator of the Focke-Wulf Fw.190 fighter, emigrated to Argentina under the name of Pedro Matthies to avoid prosecution by the Allies. There he was engaged to design the Pulqui II or Arrow jet aircraft at the Instituto Aerotécnico in Córdoba, first flown on June 27, 1950, soon after the outbreak of the Korean War. Although largely successful, the Pulqui project was canceled in 1960 due to escalating costs and the availability of surplus F-86 Sabre jet aircraft. After the Perón regime fell in September 1955, the German design team was disbanded, and many of its members found employment in the U.S. aeronautical industry.

Similarly, soon after Bormann’s arrival in Argentina, the Perón government hired Nazi scientist Dr. Ronald Richter in October 1948 to develop a nuclear fission reactor for peaceful objectives. Instead, Richter persuaded Perón to fund the more advanced technology of nuclear fusion with the promise of producing limitless nuclear energy in milk-bottle-size containers to power all manner of household devices and vehicles. Construction of the fusion facility began in June 1949 on isolated Huemel Island in cold-water Nahuel Huapí Lake, not far from Hitler’s lakeside house at Inalco. On March 24, 1951, the Perón government announced that “On February 16, 1951, in the … Isla Huemel … thermonuclear reactions under controlled conditions were performed on a technical scale.” This would have made Argentina the first country in the world to harness nuclear energy for peaceful applications. It was, of course, all nonsense; controlled nuclear fusion remains the holy grail for scientists to this day. Richter and his team were sacked in November 1952 after Argentina had spent the equivalent of approximately $1 billion in today’s money and some 150 times the amount that the United States was spending on nuclear fusion research at the time. Nevertheless, the Centro Atómico in nearby Bariloche remains the focal point of Argentine nuclear research. Proyecto Huemel or Project Huemel lives on in the Argentine pun
Huele a mula
, which means “It’s a rip-off!”

115    
“massive discrepancies in military funds”:
Baggott,
Atomic
.

Chapter 12: B
ORMANN
, D
ULLES
,
AND
O
PERATION
C
ROSSWORD

116    
“Eagle’s Nest”:
Seidler and Zeigert,
Hitler’s Secret Headquarters
.

116    
“33,000 telex messages”:
von Lang,
Bormann
.

117    
“The more difficult the situation”:
Seidler and Zeigert,
Hitler’s Secret Headquarters
.

117    
“I will have you shot”:
Seidler and Zeigert,
Hitler’s Secret Headquarters
.

117    
“Germany will rise like a phoenix”:
Ibid.

117    
“whole senior Nazi hierarchy was present”:
Ibid.

117    
“Operation North Wind”:
Ken Ford,
The Rhineland 1945
(Oxford: Osprey, 2000).

118    
“the Führer was unhappy”:
Seidler and Zeigert,
Hitler’s Secret Headquarters
.

118    
“
treue
Heinrich”:
von Lang,
Bormann
.

119    
“Uncle Heinrich’s offensive did not work out”:
Ibid.

119    
Heinrich Hoffmann:
Ibid.

119    
Dr. Karl Brandt:
Ibid. After his trial at the Nuremberg International Tribunal, Brandt was hanged for crimes against humanity.

120    
“National Socialists! Party comrades!”:
Ibid.

121    
“best news we have had in years”:
Ibid.

121    
“clear and present danger”:
Srodes,
Allen Dulles
.