Nazi Secrets: An Occult Breach in the Fabric of History (9 page)

This prompted Joseph P. Farrell to use Witkowski's claims as well to reignite the overall lowering interest that readers were beginning to show on Nazi occultist hodgepodge. Funny how all these English-language writers who came forth as “we have the secret information" had to wait for years after an unknown Polish journalist first made revelations about Die Glocke. None of these authors bother to share their sources; neither do they refrain from frantic science-fiction fabrications (the “What if…” game).

Die Glocke was allegedly invented by Nazi scientists, helped by Jewish prisoners, as a way to travel through time and space using anti-gravitational science.

The Henge in Poland

It was built in the underground facilities of Der Riese, which truly existed as we already saw above, and was "made out of a hard, heavy metal approximately 9 feet wide and 12 to 15 feet high, with a shape similar to that of a large bell." The anti-gravitational effect was reached by two counter-rotating cylinders, filled with a mercury-like substance.

Witkowski claims that the metal-and-concrete ruins in Poland called "The Henge," close to the Wenceslas mines, would have served as a test rig for the experiments related to Die Glocke. In fact, such structures can be found in nearby places in the same Polish region, but are nothing more than the cooling towers of power plants.

The funny part is that none of these writers agrees on how the story ends. Farrell makes the Nazis kill no less than 60 scientists that contributed to the project to maintain its secrecy.

Cooling Tower in Siechnice, Poland. Does it ring a bell?

Witkowski claims that Die Glocke ended up somewhere in South America. Cook, for his part, states that it was taken over by the Americans probably as part of Operation Paperclip. There are even well-known and usually serious TV channels that dramatized these versions, where they showed a Glocke chained to The Henge, trying to fly away during a Doctor Evil-like experiment with many stunning 3D special effects.

Once more, of course, the evil SS General Hans Kammler is part of the plot, and according to the different versions of the story, he either negotiated with the Americans, or he literally disappeared from the face of the Earth ... maybe even from our space-time reality!

Strahlkanone
– There was at least one real project meant to send a lethal light ray against the Allied forces, something that one might call a "laser gun" nowadays. Nothing is known precisely about this mysterious plan, except that a certain professor Ernst Schiebold from Leipzig once managed to get funds from the Nazi government, to materialize this fantastic wonder weapon. More recently, his ex-secretary testified on German television about the reality of the project, but she admitted that she was never allowed to get into the bunker where the actual experiments took place. Once that project was stopped, nobody heard of Professor Schiebold anymore.

Alleged picture of a similar project: a Schallkanone ("Sound Gun").

This is not the typical case of a genuine "fantasy wonder weapon," but it lacks the thicker documentation required to distinguish facts from fiction. It is atypical enough to belong to the category of "intended wonder weapons" that did not succeed in turning the tide of the war against the Allies, because they were still at the earlier stages of being either prototypes or blueprints.

Nazi UFOs
– In Internet sci-fi underground lore and in the thriving world of conspiracy theories there circulate unsubstantiated claims that the Third Reich somehow managed to produce futuristic flying devices, far ahead of the scientific capabilities of their times. These so-called Nazi UFOs have even names: Rundflugzeug, Feuerball, Diskus, Haunebu, Hauneburg-Geräte, V7, VRIL, Kugelblitz, Andromeda-Geräte, Flugkreisel, Kugelwaffen, and Reichsflugscheiben. Many blueprints of these devices can be found on the Internet, all of them grossly concocted in German with "original Nazi fonts" and precise measurements to add a realistic touch.

These Nazi UFO fantasies stem mainly from 3 origins:

1 – The allegedly wider scopes and achievements of the real 1938-1939 German expedition to Antarctica in Neuschwabenland; Colin Summerhayes of the Scott Polar Institute scientifically debunked all claims that there ever were German bases in Antarctica (see chapter on Antarctica Expedition 1938-1939).

2 – The great advances that the Nazis possessed in rocketry, and the purported findings of Dr. Viktor Schauberger in the field of breaking new means of propulsion (his famous "Repulsine" engine). Some scientists proved, however, that his Repulsine was no more than a water turbine on which he was working to cool aircraft engines at the Messerschmitt plants.

Real Repulsine device

Repulsine appears sometimes with

a Luftwaffe cross as a Nazi UFO

3 – The Allied sightings of so-called "Foo Fighters," allegedly German secret weapons designed to harass an aircraft through electromagnetic disruption. Though real, the German pilots saw the same phenomena, and asked themselves what they could be, and where they possibly came from.

Rare picture of Foo Fighters flying around an aircraft

Unfortunately for true amateurs of such mysterious stories, there are just unsubstantiated books and unscientific websites that address this subject. The eagerness of the writers to make money or, in the best cases, to prove their claim, lead them more often than not to put together unrelated facts, and draw hasty conclusions from similar events which either did or didn’t take place at that same time or place. Their sources are either anonymous "deep throats" for "obvious security reasons," or based on other such books and websites as serious as their own. They feed on one another, and people who dare criticize them are usually considered to be part of "government cover-up operations" at worst, or very skeptic shrinks at best.

Some of the first reports on flying saucers, like Kenneth Arnold's in 1947, had even the US military involved, since its alleged shape was indeed very close to that of the Horten Brothers' Flying Wing. They eventually concluded that although the Germans were far ahead of their time in aeronautics, their plans were only blueprints or unreliable prototypes by the time the war was over.

A little bit later in the UFO wave, a Polish-American citizen named Adamski claimed to have made encounters of the third kind, like having made actual contact with ETs. These first extraterrestrials had this very odd feature of resembling the "perfect Aryans"; they were tall, blond and blue-eyed, though pretending to come from Venus.

Adamski even took a picture of their spacecraft, but the only problem is that it was later proved to be a ... simple street lamp. This finding has not prevented this picture from being used and re-used on the Internet as a model for so-called Nazi UFOs, sometimes digitalized as a 3D model with the Luftwaffe cross on it.

The first links made between UFOs and Nazis are the work of the Italian professor Giuseppe Belluzzo, a scientist and former Minister of National Economy under the Mussolini regime. He claimed in 1950 that "types of flying discs were designed and studied in Germany and Italy as early as 1942."

Adamski street lamp debunked UFO (left)