SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazis’ Incredible Secret Technology

by Joseph P. Farrell

  167 Mary Bennett and David S. Percy, Dark Moon, p. 390.

  168 Ibid., p. 392.

  169 Ibid., p. 393.

  170 Ibid., p. 394.

  171 Mary Bennett and David S. Percy, Dark Moon, p. 393.

  172 Ibid., p. 392.

  173 Ibid., p. 391.

  174 Ibid.

  175 Mary Bennett and David S. Percy, Dark Moon, p. 391.

  176 Ibid., emphasis added.

  177 Ibid., p. 395.

  178 This neutral point figure raises another difficulty, one to which I averred in my book The Giza Death Star, pp. 219-220.

  179 To my knowledge, no such “occult” or “esoteric” analysis of Soviet launches, such as what Hoagland has undertaken for NASA, has ever been made. If this were found to be true of the Soviet program as well as the American then this would constitute evidence of secret coordination of both programs along the same ideological inspiration, whatever that inspiration may be.

  180 It does not lack a clear connection to Nazism either before, during, or after the war, as will be seen in a subsequent chapter.

  181 It goes without saying that not much at all is known of Germany’s Bundesnachrichtendienst. It alone, of all the major intelligence agencies of the world, unlike the Israeli Mossad, the Soviet KGB, the British MI-6, the French Surete or even Chinese intelligence, has had next to nothing written about its successes and/or failures, other than General Gehlen’s own memoirs.

  Part Two:

  “The Bell”:Nazis and Occulted Physics

  “’What I believe,’ Stanford said, is that the Canadian and American governments, quietly backed by the British, have been working jointly since the end of World War II on the development of supersonic flying saucers, that they now have a limited number of such machines hidden away in the wilds of Canada or in the White Sands Proving ground, and that those saucers are based on aeronautical projects that originated in Nazi Germany – but aren’t related to the vast majority of UFO sightings. What I also believe is that the U. S. Government knows the origin of the more extraordinary saucers, that it is frightened of what the capability of those saucers might represent in military and political terms, and that its building of its own saucers is a race against time and its secrecy a means of avoiding national panic.’

  “’The Canadian government has flying saucers. The U.S. government has flying saucers. But someone, somewhere, has flying saucers so advanced we can’t touch them. Those saucers don’t come from space. They aren’t figments of imagination. They are real and they are right here on earth and their source is a mystery.’”

  The character Stanford,

  from W. A. Harbinson’s novel, Genesis, pp. 398-399.

  “The irritating evidence of French success in the American zone was compounded by intelligence reports that the Germans already in France were working independently of their French controllers and maintaining secret contact with other scientists in Germany.”

  Tom Bower,

  The Paperclip Conspiracy: The Hunt for the Nazi Scientists, p. 181.

  4.

  “Das Laternenträgerprojekt”:

  The Bell and Igor Witkowski

  “…how did it happen that scientists from the 1940s understood exactly where they were heading? They had applied after all ideas from XXI century physics…. What arguments did they lay down (before the launch of work) that caused them to win the race for funds…? …The unusualness of all this is summed up by the fact, that descriptions of mercuric propulsion had appeared as long ago as in ancient times – in alchemy and old Hindu books…It may prove that an explanation of all the technical questions related to work from the time of the war, will reveal a far greater mystery…”

  Igor Witkowski, The Truth About the Wunderwaffe1

  A. Igor Witkowski on the Bell

  It is due to the research efforts of Polish military journalist Igor Witkowski, and the bestselling book by British author Nick Cook, The Hunt for Zero Point, that anything at all is known of the Bell. And until the publication of Witkowski’s The Truth About the Wunderwaffe, Nick Cook’s book was the only book in the English language that contained any information at all on the Bell, summarizing Witkowski’s years’ of investigation.2 With the publication of Witkowski’s research in English, however, one is in a position to see why the Bell was given the Third Reich’s highest classification. Indeed, one can see why some may have resorted to a program of murder to protect its secrets.

  To appreciate this object’s true significance, however, it is necessary to understand what it was, what it did, what the physics behind it may have been, and, thereby, what the Germans were possibly hoping to achieve with it. We will begin with a survey of Witkowski’s research and his own speculative reconstruction of the Bell’s operating principles in this chapter, and on the basis of his and other evidence, offer our own reconstruction and speculations of its possible significance and theoretical basis.

  1. The Significance of the Story of the Bell

  Before proceeding to summarize Witkowski’s lengthy and weighty research in his chapter on the Bell from his book on German secret weapons, The Truth About the Wunderwaffe, a word is necessary about its significance.

  As is well known to UFOlogists, the “Nazi Legend” of UFO origins has been around since the end of the Second World War and the publication afterward of Major Rudolf Lusar’s book on German secret weapons, where the first brief mention is made of the subject, accompanied by the first “schematic” of an alleged “suction-type” German saucer. As many have pointed out, the story rests on few sources, which, when traced back, seem to lead nowhere, except to those sources’ own questionable connections, associations, and agendas.

  With Witkowski’s research on the Bell, however, one has something entirely different. The story is significantly different from the stories surrounding the “Nazi legend” and its familiar names of Habermol, Miethe, Schriever, Epp, Schauberger and so on. With the Bell story, one has, as will be seen, clear descriptions of its design, mode of operation, and effects, as well as clear indications of known personnel involved with the project and clear corroborative evidence in the form of installations and residual physical signatures.

  To put it succinctly, the story of the Bell is the actual probable basis of the Nazi UFO legend.

  2. An Obvious Question and a Not So Obvious Answer

  For Witkowski, the investigation all began in August of 1997, when he was asked a very obvious question, a question that in fact hovers over every author who has ever investigated the mystery of wartime Nazi secret weapons research: Just exactly what was the so-called “Wonder Weapon”, or Wunderwaffe? For Witkowski, the journey began when a Polish intelligence officer, who had access to Polish government documents regarding Nazi secret weapons, first made him aware of the Bell.

  Among other things he asked me if I had ever come into contact with a device developed by the Germans, which was codenamed “the Bell”, and made a sketch of it. On a circular base was some kind of bell jar, cylindrical in shape with a semicircular cap and hook, or some other clamping device at the top. The Bell jar was supposed to be made of a ceramic material, resembling a high voltage insulator. Two metal cylinders or drums were located inside.3

  Nothing about the description of the object aroused any interest in Witkowski, but he could not let the subject drop, since the individual who had approached him impressed him with his knowledge. “This was no amateur living in a dream world. Of that I was sure.”4

  But what had really piqued Witkowski’s interest were the individual’s descriptions of the Bell’s “quite simply unearthly effects” when it was in operation, effects that conjured in Witkowski’s mind the final scene from Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, effects that were “absolutely shocking.”5 This description, plus the man’s evident sincerity and expertise, made the question he asked Witkowski even more significant:

  (He) asked me the outright disarming yet seemingly trivial question: if I was able to state wit
h full responsibility that the “Wunderwaffe” – that “wonder weapon”, was the V-1 or V-2, as was often mentioned. If in any German documents or in any original sources in general, I had come across information unraveling what the “Wunderwaffe” was. He stated that after all it could not have referred to the V-1 or V-2, since firstly these weapons had been from a military point of view not very effective (and therefore not “wonder”) and secondly that the term “Wunderwaffe” had begun to appear in earnest already after the “V” Weapons had been deployed in combat. This was indeed intriguing. Later from the point of view of this, I looked over various volumes from my library and in actual fact it appeared that some kind of unusual weapon had existed, practically unknown till this day.6

  In other words, Witkowski had come across one component of the Allied Legend – that the Wunderwaffe referred to the V-1, V-2 and various other rocket projects of Nazi Germany – and to nothing more.

  But the historical record suggested otherwise, as Witkowski notes; the term Wunderwaffe clearly began to be applied by the Nazis to something that was not any kind of rocket, even if that something was only a figment of Dr. Göbbels’ Propaganda Ministry. But the uniqueness of the Bell and the revelations of the intelligence man continued to preoccupy Witkowski:

  My aforementioned informer strongly emphasized that what was involved was a uniquely classified project, the most secret research project ever realized in the Third Reich! Therefore it is surely clear that regardless of the scale of difficulty it was worth verifying such a statement.7

  In other words, beyond atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, fuel air bombs, advanced rockets, stealth materials, guided missiles, sound cannon, wind and vortex cannon, electromagnetic railguns, laser beams, nuclear powered aircraft, and all the other exotic weapons technology the Nazis were developing, there was one project so important in its scope and terrible promise that it – as will soon be seen - merited its own unique classification, and that project was the Bell.

  Witkowski began to research the story, and uncovered what is perhaps the most important story to come out of World War Two.

  3. The Personnel and a New SS Player on the Scene: the Forschungen, Entwicklungen, Patente

  When Witkowski was able to assemble at least a partial list of scientists and military personnel involved with the project, a very odd picture emerged. To appreciate the oddity of the picture, one must examine each of the individuals Witkowski uncovered in their turn.

  a. SS Obergruppenführer Emil Mazuw

  Witkowski was quickly led to the SS, and to one of its departments that was responsible for vetting patents in the Third Reich, and classifying those that seemed to possess potential for further development:

  The whole project was coordinated by a special cell cooperating with the SS armament office, subordinate to the Waffen-SS. This cell was designated “FEP”, which was an abbreviation of the words “Forschungen, Entwicklungen, Patente” – research, development work, patents. The chief of this “FEP” cell was a certain Admiral Rhein, while the described project was coordinated by a quite mysterious individual – namely SS-Obergruppenführer (Four Star General) Emil Mazuw. Why mysterious? Simply because despite possessing one of the highest general’s ranks in the SS, practically nothing is known about him. I got hold of his dossier in the USA in 1999, but through this he became in my eyes an even more obscure figure. It followed both from his dossier as well as cards from the course of his service, that Mazuw had been at the very top of the SS elite. He was promoted to the rank of SS Obergruppenführer on 20 April 1942, in other words he had possessed the highest possible SS rank at that time (in 1944 the SS Oberstgruppenführer rank was further established, four people being promoted to it). He was awarded with the Honorary saber of Reichsführer SS (Ehrendengen des RFSS) and honorary SS ring with skull and cross-bones (SS Totenkopfring). Such a ring was given by Himmler for special service to the organization. Their bearers constituted the highest caste of SS-men, given admittance to the greatest secrets. Each ring was personally dedicated by Himmler….Mazuw already had it in 1936. He was therefore one of the powers behind the throne of the Third Reich, almost unknown to this day.8

  What is interesting here in the light of my own, and other’s, previous research into the secret weapons think tank of SS Obergruppenführer Hans Kammler’s, is that the Bell project appears to be under the mysterious “F.E.P.”, which in turn is under an Admiral, implying a Kriegsmarine connection with whatever exotic technology and physics the Bell represented. The significance of this fact will be examined below.

  SS Obergruppenführer Emil Mazuw

  Picture from Igor Witkowski’s The Truth About the Wunderwaffe

  A second unusual feature of Witkowski’s revelations is that the Bell project itself was not directly coordinated by Kammler, but by the enigmatic Emil Mazuw, though, as Nick Cook and Witkowski both indicate, Kammler’s connection with the project was direct, since he seems to have been involved in Bormann’s secret “evacuation command” structure that was apparently used to fly the Bell, scientific papers, and perhaps Kammler himself, out of Europe at the war’s end.9

  Witkowski, in answer to a personal correspondence from me, explained the odd relationship of the F.E.P. to the Kammlerstab and other agencies in the following way:

  As far as I know, Mazuw wasn’t tied with the Ahnenerbe. The situation was such that apart from Kammler’s office (Rüstungsstab) – which, what has to be emphasized, wasn’t directly responsible for the R&D activities as such but for armaments projects in general, there were “specialized” R&D authorities within the SS (the best proof that they were really important is that it would be virtually impossible to find anything in the literature about it … It was: the “R&D group” at the armament office of the Waffen-SS, headed by SS-Brigadeführer Heinrich Gärtner and the second was the FEP/Waffen-SS cell, headed by Mazuw…it was theoretically responsible for the protection of inventions in the period when the normal patent law was effectively suspended.10

  Note that this conflicts with the story of the Kammlerstab first broken by British journalist Tom Agoston, as recounted in my Reich of the Black Sun.11 Agoston, relying on the confidential statements of former German weapons expert Dr. Wilhelm Voss, clearly implied that it was Kammler himself, plus his “think tank” staff inside of the engineering division at the Skoda Works in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, that headed research and development. But this may only be an apparent contradiction. At the rarefied levels of SS Obergruppenführers, contact between Mazuw and Kammler – both involved in sensitive black projects – would have been inevitable. And we know for certain that Kammler himself was in charge of Bormann’s special evacuation command at the end of the war, the command which it appears successfully evacuated the Bell from Lower Silesia via a Junkers 390, about which more in a moment.

  But what of Witkowski’s statement that he knew of no direct or known association of Mazuw with the SS’ “occult bureau”, the Ahnenerbedienst? The answer, as in Kammler’s case, must be speculative. However, given that, at its highest level, Himmler intended for his SS to be a kind of “black knights of the round table”, and given that his chosen twelve “black knights” with access to the “SS occult center” at the castle of Wewelsburg had to be of at least Gruppenführer (general) rank, then again, it would seem unlikely that Mazuw did not know of the SS’ occult activities and interests.

  That a four star SS general, about whom almost nothing is known, is not only involved with the Bell project, but actually the overall director of it, raises as many questions as it answers. Did he, like Kammler, disappear into the bowels of some Allied country’s postwar classified projects or perhaps – an equal possibility – simply disappear, to continue the project independently? And the presence of a navy Admiral in the parent organization, the F.E.P., raises a further question: why the indirect connection to the German navy? Does this relationship perhaps indicate something about the nature of the Bell itself?

  b. Prof Dr Walther Gerlach


  Unlike Emil Mazuw, Prof. Dr. Walther Gerlach was and is quite famous, and for any number of reasons. As Nick Cook noted in his Hunt for Zero Point, Gerlach was a Nobel laureate for his work in spin polarization. A first class physicist, Gerlach went on to specialize in gravitational physics, on the basis of his pioneering experiment12 that earned him the Nobel prize. But as any researcher of the German atom bomb project knows, Gerlach was also nominally the head of atom bomb research in Nazi Germany by war’s end, and was one of the scientists interred by the British at Farm Hall in England, where the scientists’ conversations were secretly recorded.

  Gerlach was also expert in two other obscure topics, both of which, as we shall see, are closely associated with the Bell: the transmutation of elements, and the “fluorescence of mercury ions in a strong magnetic field, in other words, referring to the behaviour of mercuric plasma.” Gerlach had evidently been involved in the topic “for a long time, because as far back as January 1925 he wrote to Arnold Sommerfeld about the spin…of ionized mercury.” In such matters, Gerlach was “faultlessly well-informed.”13

  Even more mysteriously, Gerlach, one of the world’s premier gravitational physicists before the war, never returned to the subject after the war. Nick Cook comments in his well-known book The Hunt for Zero Point that Gerlach thus acted as if “something had scared him beyond all reason.”14 While Cook meant his comment in a speculative sense, there is perhaps some truth to it. If he was genuinely frightened, and if this is the reason for his curious postwar silence about spin polarization and gravitation, then this could be due to two causes.