Nazi Secrets: An Occult Breach in the Fabric of History (10 page)

and a Nazi UFO (right)

There have also been subsequent claims that underground FIAT factories, mainly located in vast tunnels around the Lake of Garda in Italy, were used to produce Nazi UFOs. These stories were propagated by the Italian Renato Vesco who claimed, among others, to have studied at a German Aeronautical Institute during the war, but was later discredited because of discrepancies concerning his very young age at that time.

Rudolf Schriever's flying device as

it appeared in Der Spiegel (1950)

In 1950 the famous German magazine Der Spiegel tackled the subject of possible Nazi UFOs for the first time, and reported the dubious stories of former engineer Rudolf Schriever and his round flying device. Schriever did indeed show discrepancies in later versions of the same story, notably in 1952 during another interview.

True enough, some prototypes that never achieved mass production status, like the Sack AS-6, had a shape very close to those of the after-war UFO sightings.

Prototype of the Sack AS-6

The soar of Nazi UFOs is nevertheless historically attributed to writers like Jan van Helsing, Norbert-Jürgen Ratthofer, and Vladimir Terziski, who developed the background stories and added to them detailed features, in order to become the sophisticated myths of the ‘80s and ‘90s we still know today. They mixed up the Thule and the Vril societies, invented the Vril girls (among whom we find the famous Maria Orsitsch) who made make-believe contact with aliens from the Albebaran star system, thanks to their long hair that acted as antennae. From these contacts and a crashed UFO found in the Black Forest in 1936, they would have reverse-engineered alien technology in order to produce all the flying machines that you can find in the Antarctica sky today!

Some of these writers had even rightist political agendas, and surfed on the Nazi occultist wave initiated by Pauwels and Bergier in the early ‘60s. This is mostly the case of the Vienna Circle with Wilhelm Landig at its head that we already mentioned. On the other hand, a famous Holocaust denier by the name of Ernst Zündel almost admitted in an interview that he used the UFO madness to draw attention on his books and beliefs. He even tried to organize a trip to Antarctica for a $9,999 fee per seat to locate the polar entrance to the Hollow Earth, but the project did not go through. Finally, right wing extremists like Miguel Serrano seem to genuinely believe in their own stories, and have largely contributed to the Nazi sub-genre of UFO sightings and SS esotericism.

In popular culture, we find such harmless works as Robert Heinlein's book Rocket Ship Galileo (1947); it was a popular book for children that got special public attention for showing a Nazi base on the moon, among other adventures. In the same vein, the recent sci-fi comedy movie Iron Sky (2012) staged vengeful Nazis living on the dark side of the moon, ready to re-conquer the Earth to establish a Fourth Reich.

The author of this book can only humbly report one strange case that a friend shared with him. It is not confirmed by other independent sources. This friend’s grandfather was among the first French aviators to fly over and bomb German soil even before ground troops set foot on it. He said to my then 16-year-old friend that he saw aircrafts or “space crafts” from “other worlds” on the German airfields, things like he never saw before in his entire life. He added that there were plenty of them and, that scared him tremendously since the Allied propaganda had promised to quickly defeat the Third Reich. He took many pictures of these “machines” and duly reported them in his flight book. He showed these pictures to my friend after the war sometime in the ‘70s.

When his grandfather eventually died, nobody in the family ever found these pictures again. They were just gone. Could it have been the work of the French secret service?

Worth mentioning is his grandfather’s fear in 1989 when he saw on television that the Berlin wall had collapsed. The whole family was rejoicing loudly at this progress of freedom, whereas he stayed still in front of the TV set, bleak and scared, just whispering aghast: “Oh no! It is coming back!”

The Amerika Bomber Project
– The Amerika Bomber project was a German plan to bomb American soil, especially New York City, thanks to a customized long-range aircraft capable of returning safely back home. The project was eventually abandoned for being too expensive and too resource-consuming compared to the relatively small explosive payload it could deliver crossing over the Atlantic.

The possibility of dropping a nuclear bomb would have given more credit to the project, but it would have taken even more time and resources; the Germans did study nuclear fission and they used heavy water from Norway for their experiments, but these researches were spread among so many different administrations that it made it practically impossible for the high command to gather compelling evidence of its feasibility.

In 1955, there was a public allegation that such a round-trip drop could be made to New York by a six-engined Ju 390 aircraft, as published in the British magazine called the RAF Flying Review (see chapter about Wonder Weapons). The story was based on "unspecified German aircraft records" that claimed the aircraft had flown over New York City for one hour; it was, however, revised later to a more humble version, which claimed that the Ju 390 made a 32-hour reconnaissance flight in late 1944, departing from near Bordeaux (France) and coming as close as 19 km (12 mi) to New York. The pilots allegedly even took pictures of the New York skyline.

After the war ended, aviation historian Dr. Kenneth P. Werrell cast serious doubts on this story, where he emphasized that the pictures taken by the pilots had never been found. At a later date, Werrell studied meticulously all available data regarding the Ju 390's range, and he thought that it would have been a most unlikely thing to do.

Six engines Ju 390 on the ground

The final blow to this exciting aviation mystery was given by the German authors Karl Kössler and Günter Ott in their book about the Junker aircrafts. Like Werrell, they thought that a return flight was not feasible, and they even proved that there never was a flight from which the New York skyline was visible. The reason is simple: France was the "closest" location to fly to America, but the only customized version of the Ju 390 available for such a flight (the Ju 390 V1) was not on French soil at that moment, since it was in Prague (Czechoslovakia) from November 1943 until late March 1944.

These German authors offered one more reason why this could not have been done, namely because the Ju 390 V1 prototype was unable to take off with the fuel load necessary for a round-trip flight to America. As for the second and last model of the Ju 390, named Ju 390 V2, it was not completed prior to October 1944.

The Genocide

The first Allied soldiers who liberated the death camps had no words to describe what they had witnessed. This was a massive irruption of horror and barbarian practices of a primitive era. The comparison with the torments and tortures during the Inquisition in the Middle Ages can only be evoked for the way the victims were put to death, but the main difference with these Dark Ages was the magnitude of the plague that had struck these innocent victims: they could be counted by the millions.

Most historians saw this as the mere and logical consequences of the eugenics of the Nazi anti-Semitism that lied at the core of the national-socialist ideology. This can be true. But there remains at least one question that cannot be answered by pure Nazi fanaticism: Why did the Germans give priority to trains transporting Jews to death camps over their own army convoys, full of soldiers and tanks, right when the tide of war had turned and they needed these resources more than ever on the Russian front?

The first ones to tackle the subject, though not necessarily the most serious authors, were Pauwels & Bergier in their Morning of the Magicians. They linked the Thule Society with certain magic practices that could reach the Powers, and thus be anointed to dominate the world while being protected against all possible dangers. This pact was supposed to last for a thousand years, until the next Big Flood. In return, these Powers demanded that each member of the Thule Society who made a mistake die from his own hand. In the mind of the highest-ranking Nazis in charge of perpetrating the genocide, these sacrifices would serve to get the attention of the Powers, and have them on their side against their enemies. In the mid-20th century, they behaved in the same way as did the Mayans in pre-Colombian America, sacrificing human lives to the sun.

In 2003, David Brin & Scott Hampton published The Life Eaters through DC Comics. This is a sci-fi comic that belongs to the alternate history or uchronia genre. A uchronia always chooses a turning point in history and asks the question, "What if it did not turn out the way it did?"; like, "What if Hitler had won the war?" or "What if the Confederates were the victors of the Civil War?"

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allied armada approaching the landing beaches of Normandy is wiped out by the lightning attack of the Norse gods, who came to fight side by side with the Nazis. Some say that the ancient Norse gods died with their last believer. The purpose of the occultist Nazis is to resuscitate them, by feeding them with the millions of souls of the victims they exterminated in their death camps.

All these fantasies are directly linked to the extent of the murders and the genocide, and yet they could not be understood by the victors: how could a very civilized nation like Germany do it ... if not under an evil spell?

Nazism Becomes

a Semi-Religious Movement

The birth of a new religion needs a cosmogonical myth of creation, a God or a deified prophet, a clergy, a ritual and of course, followers who possess a strong enough holy Faith for proselytism. It is a much more subtle step, and it takes a much longer time to crystalize those ingredients in a successful alchemy than, for example, the more simple "Cargo Cults" that developed in some islands of the Pacific Ocean particularly during WWII.

These religious ingredients were not all present at the time of Jesus, but they developed in the decades and even the few centuries after His earthly disappearance. The Catholic Church gave a structure and a hierarchy through its bishops, formalized the dogma and the canon laws much later in time. This was especially the case in 325 AD, during the Council of Nicaea convened by the Roman emperor Constantine, who was acting mainly for political reasons. This process could of course be demonstrated with all other religions, or sectarian movements alike. Some go even so far as to state that a new religion is just a sect that has been proven to be historically successful.

National-socialism was not really seen in its time as a religion, even by its most fanatic followers. The fact that Himmler did try to revive ancient pagan Germanic creeds was not linked to the ideological content of national-socialism. On the contrary, the post-World War II period saw the emergence of different esoteric currents, claiming that there had been more to the Third Reich than what was studied by mainstream historians.