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

by Joseph P. Farrell

  That is, Oberth’s presence on this trip, particularly in the company of the mysterious Dr. Elizabeth Adler, whose only known connection to German secret weapons projects is to the Bell, implies the presence already in Nazi Germany of two “space” programs, the one for “public consumption” represented by the V-2 and various other rocket projects, and the other, represented by the Bell. Oberth was perhaps the world’s then-leading theoretician of the problems and solutions for long term manned space flight. His presence in the circle of scientists involved with the Bell, such as Dr. Adler, Dr. Gerlach, and Dr. Debus, is yet another clue as to the possible principles of its operation and the possible purpose of the project.

  We may summarize the possible clues represented by these individuals and organizational relationships surveyed by Witkowski as follows:

  Individual or Organization Area of Expertise

  F.E.P. Patents Research and DevelopMent

  “Admiral Rhein” Connection to the Kriegsmarine

  A.E.G.(Allgemeine Elektricitäts

  Gesellschaft) and the HWA

  (Heereswaffenamt) High Voltage High Frequency

  Research, Army Ordnance

  Bureau

  SS Obergruppenführer Emil

  Mazuw Security??? Ahnenerbe connection???

  Prof Dr. Walther Gerlach Spin Polarization, Magnetism Gravity

  Dr. Kurt Debus High Voltage Discharge Parameters and Measurement, High Voltage Power Supply

  Dr. Elizabeth Adler Mathematician (specialty unknown) Univ. of Königsberg

  Dr. Hermann Oberth Space Flight Theorist and Rocket Engineer

  From this list of personnel and their known areas of expertise and research preoccupations, it is fairly easy to draw the conclusion that the Bell may have represented some revolutionary prototypical device for very advanced space flight propulsion that was not based on the inefficient reaction-driven chemical rockets. Indeed, such an interpretation would explain the nominal though tacit involvement of the German navy, for manned spaceflight would require the construction of pressure vessels for outer space flight that would entail similar types of expertise as used in the construction of submarine pressure hulls. Additionally, the German navy would clearly be interested in exotic propulsion for its U-boats, to allow them greater underwater cruising time as well as speeds.

  In any case, the presence of Debus, A.E.G., and the Army Ordnance Bureau (Heereswaffenamt) that also hovers in the background would seem to indicate a more exclusively “weapons” preoccupation with the project. This indication, while mentioned by Witkowski, is, in my opinion, given rather too short shrift in favor of the “propulsion” explanation he seems to prefer. However, as the next two chapters will seek to demonstrate, one must not be too quick to dismiss this aspect of the project.

  In any case, the interpretation of the Bell as a breakthrough “field propulsion” device of some sort is clearly the favored theory of British Jane’s Defense Weekly author and journalist, Nick Cook,34 and the “propulsion” theory is clearly that favored and implied by Witkowski.

  B. The Operation of the Bell and Its Effects: Witkowski’s

  Reconstruction of the Bell

  In outlining Witkowski’s presentation of the known operating parameters, construction parameters, and effects of the Bell, I shall attempt to be as thorough as possible in citation of his research, since much of what he says bears directly on my own admittedly more speculative interpretations of some aspects of the Bell. In doing so, I maintain, in concert with Witkowski and Cook, that at a minimum the Bell represented such a breakthrough in “field propulsion,” but I maintain that the Bell represents much more than that. I believe that a propulsion breakthrough was the motivation of the project, but I also believe, that along the way and perhaps even near the very beginning of the project before the full-sized “Bell” was built, that the Germans also encountered some un-anticipated effects that also became principal areas of investigation for the project. As I will attempt to show, in the light of contemporary models and experimentation, the Bell exhibits many hallmarks of a device deliberately designed to cohere or “tap into” the Zero Point Energy, and of a device designed to do so not only for propulsion purposes, but for weaponization. It is thus best seen, perhaps, as a prototypical “scalar” device, a prototypical technology of an extremely unified physics. With this in mind, we turn now to Witkowski’s survey.

  1. Where it All Happened

  According to Witkowski, the principal laboratories for the work on the Bell were in Lower Silesia, in the town of Neumarkt (modern day Sroda Slaska), and Leubus (modern day Lubiaz), disguised inside the facility Schlesische Wekstätten dr Fürstenau. The corporate backing was provided by A.E.G. (Allgemeine Elekticitäts Gesellschaft) and the giant Siemens electrical firm.35

  Yet another underground facility existed at the Schloss Fürstenstein (Fürstenstein Castle) in lower Silesia, as well as disguised in a coal mine at Waldenburg, where the Bell may have been initially tested.

  Castle Fürstenstein: Note the Hilly and Forested Terrain (From Igor Witkowski’s The Truth About the Wunderwaffe)

  A Wartime Tunnel Beneath Fürstenstein Castle

  (From Igor Witkowski’s The Truth About the Wunderwaffe; Mr.Witkowski is Visible in the Picture)

  A little further away, there is another complex that is a part of the project, the Wenceslas Mine at Ludwigsdorf (modern day Ludwikowize). Here in a very remote valley, again disguised in a coal mine, the SS built a rat’s run of tunnels, bunkers, and a very odd object that looks like a large concrete henge, self-evidently a test rig of some sort.

  The “Henge” At Ludwigsdorf (Ludwikowice) (From Igor Witkowski’s The Truth About the Wunderwaffe)

  This “henge” stands inside a pool or basin, around which there are ports for heavy electrical cabling.

  Witkowski’s Sketch of The Henge in its Basin or Pool,br/>(From Igor Witkowski’s The Truth About the Wunderwaffe)

  Witkowski also provided this author with more information that was not available when his book was published. Rainer Karlsch, a German historian who recently published a book in Germany on Hitler’s nuclear program, also

  Mentioned in his book that a team of physicists from a German university (in Giessen) has carried out a lot of research in Ludwikowice36, namely in (the Henge). The result is such that there are isotopes in the construction (in the reinforcement), which can only be the result of irradiation by a strong beam of neutrons, thus that there must have been some kind of device accelerating ions, rather heavy ones. It could be calculated what was the intensity of the radiation in 1945 and generally it was very high.37

  In other words, whatever had been tested at the Henge – and there is every indication that it was the Bell – it not only required a sturdy structure to keep it down but also it gave off strong, heavy, radiation.

  2. The History and CodeNames of the Project

  While experiments on the Bell first appear to have been undertaken in May and June of 1944,38 the project itself was conceived some two and a half years earlier, meaning that it required that long to bring whatever theory that underwrote it to practical and technical manifestation.

  The entire research project as such was created in January 1942 – under the codename “Tor” (“Gate”), which functioned until August 1943. After this it was renamed or rather divided into two “sub-projects”. The codename “Tor” was replaced by the codenames: “Chronos” and “Laternenträger”. Both referred to “the Bell”, but the project had been divided into physical and medical-biological aspects. It was not established which codename corresponded to a given aspect of the work. The system powering “the Bell” probably received the codename Charite-Anlage”.39

  The codenames are suggestive, since “Chronos” means “time” in the Greek, and “gate” is suggestive enough. Both taken together suggest that at least part of the intention behind the product was to engineer time. If so, it is another indicator that the Nazis had abandoned Special Relativity with its
locally flat space. Indeed, they were perhaps experimenting in a kind of “hyper-relativity” or a locally-engineered spacetime curvature. The significance of the code names, then, points to a very radical and exotic physics, one that, while based upon some of Witkowski’s speculations, far exceeds them.

  But what of the other codename, Laternenträger? Literally, it means a “lantern bearer” or “lantern carrier,” i.e., the individual who lit gas street lights in the era before electric lights and photovoltaic cells dispensed with the need for such lamp-lighters. But there may be something more significant in the choice of this particular codename, as Witkowski notes: “(One) can look at this from yet another angle. It could be, as it was suggested to me, a not too literal translation of a certain ancient name – the name of ‘Lucifer’, i.e., ‘he who carries the light.’”40

  In any case, the important points for our purposes are not only that the codenames may be indicative, at least in a general way, of the exotic physics the project was to investigate, but also that the project was apparently underway for at least two years before a practical technology – the Bell itself – resulted. This implies a high degree of theoretical background work was its inspiration, and that in turn means we must investigate the clues very carefully in an attempt to reconstruct what that theoretical basis might have been.

  3. The Last Flight of the Ju 390

  So what happened to the Bell and its research team? As detailed in two of my previous books Reich of the Black Sun and The Giza Death Star Deployed, most of the scientists and technicians were murdered by the SS, and the project hardware itself was evacuated. Indeed, there is now strong evidence that “Project Lantern Bearer” (or if one prefer, Project Lucifer) was evacuated in April of 1945 by a six-engine Junkers 390. This is intriguing, since one of the last pictures of the Junkers 390 was taken at approximately the same period at an airfield in Prague. Since at the end of the war there was only one Ju 390 left in existence, this means that it flew from Prague to near Ludwigsdorf (probably the aerodrome at Opole, in Poland), picked up its additional cargo there, and then, according to an SS officer who was involved in the project and his interrogation records which Witkowski found in the Berlin Document Center, it was flown to Bodo airbase in Norway, after which, like the Bell and General Hans Kammler, it simply disappears.41

  The Last Known Picture of a Ju 390, Coincidentally Taken in Prague in 1945. (From Igor Witkowski’s The Truth About the Wunderwaffe)

  In Reich of the Black Sun I followed Nick Cook’s hypothesis that Kammler had not, in fact, died in Czechoslovakia at the end of the war, but that he had either made his way into postwar America’s secret black projects along with the Bell as part of a comprehensive bargain struck between the United States and various high ranking Nazis, including Martin Bormann, or that he simply disappeared with it into an independently-run and continuing Nazi secret weapons project.

  Witkowski has uncovered certain circumstantial information that appears to corroborate the “American scenario.” Among the many other scientists involved with the Bell, there was one Herbert Jensen, whom we have not mentioned until now. Jensen accompanied the well-known Hermann Oberth, and the very mysterious Elizabeth Adler, on their “business trip” from Prague to Lower Silesia. Oberth and Jensen were some of the main “prizes” sought by the USA after the war, along with Kurt Debus. In other words, behind the mad scramble to acquire the Peenemünde rocket scientists and pry open the secrets of the Nazis’ atom bomb project, a concerted effort also seems to have been underway to reassemble as much of the personnel as were involved in the Bell as possible.42 Given the extremely secret nature of Project Lantern-Bearer, one must assume that the knowledge of the personnel involved with the project, as well as the knowledge of who escaped the SS’ execution of various scientists and technicians involved, could only have come from within the SS itself.

  As for Gerlach and Debus, we have already speculated that their high profiles perhaps saved them from the SS’ death squads. Perhaps this is also why Gerlach, having been thus “warned off” the subject of spin polarization and gravity research, never publicly returned to these subjects after the war. In this regard it is also noteworthy that Gerlach, after his internment by the British at Farm Hall, was also the only Farm Hall scientist who was subsequently transferred to the United States for further intensive interrogation. In my view it is extremely significant that his wartime work diaries were appropriated by the American OSS, where they remain classified in the CIA archives. Almost nothing is known of their contents.43 The fact that Gerlach was singled out for such interrogation and that his wartime diaries were placed under tight classification speaks volumes.

  Witkowski also entertains the notion that the Ju 390, which was one of the first aircraft in the world equipped for mid-air refueling,44 a technique pioneered by the Luftwaffe, might have flown its contents to Argentina to continue its research independently of the prying eyes of the Allies, and under the watchful protection of the Peron government. Indeed, Peron had built a modern laboratory for some of the exiled German scientists for research into plasmas and high voltage at Bariloche.45

  Unlike Witkowski, Geoffrey Brooks unequivocally maintains that the Bell, General Kammler, and the missing Ju 390, made their way to Argentina and eventually to the plasma and high voltage laboratory at Bariloche as part of their super-secret strategic evacuation plans known as Operation Regentröpfchen (Raindrop), in which the Gauleiter of Lower Silesia, Karl Hanke, played a significant role. In the light of Carter Hydrick’s thesis that Martin Bormann actually aided the United States in the surrender of the U-234 and its valuable cargo of fissile uranium and atom bomb components, Brooks’ remarks again underscore the significance and importance as a “decisive war-winning weapon” that the Bell had for the Nazis:

  The Nazis were particularly anxious to protect documents containing the highest classifications of secret knowledge designated Geheime Reichssache relating to the development of arms, aircraft and submarines. The most important of all these, files relating to a super aviation fuel and advanced aircraft, went by long-range Junkers Ju 390 transport aircraft directly to Argentina.

  From the point of view of the US Government, the 260 tons of strategic material aboard the German U-boat U-234 escorted into Portsmouth Navy Yard, New Hampshire, on 19 May 1945 is so absurdly secret that the fact that it is classified as top secret is a secret, as are the documents pertaining to Dr Heinz Schlicke and the nature of the assistance he afforded the Manhattan Project in the three months after his capture. The most secret item of cargo aboard U-234 remains the eighty small cases of uranium powder which have never appeared on any USN Unloading Manifest and which will have been the fissile material for a rudimentary atomic explosive. But as far as the German High Command was concerned, the voyage of this U-boat with its extraordinary cargo of war materials and passengers did not rate so highly as to fall within the ambit of the General Plan of Evacuation.46

  According to Brooks, whose information in this regard corroborates Witkowski’s own discovery of the Bell’s classification as Kriegsentscheidend, the Bell rated higher than the atom bomb in the German High Command’s estimation. While this may seem odd or unusual, it should be recalled that a similar classification scheme has been alleged for captured “UFO” technology in the postwar USA, rating it higher than the hydrogen bomb.

  In any case, Brooks then adds significant detail about the Bell in Argentina.

  A leftist correspondent of a leading Neuquen daily newspaper active in exposing Nazi war criminals in the Bariloche area of Argentina and who prefers anonymity for that reason has stated in writing that he inspected official documents confirming that the German antigravity experiments SS-E-IV and SS-U-13, together with the notorious Bell… arrived aboard a Junkers Ju 390 long-range transport aircraft which flew non-stop from Norway to Gualeguay aerodrome in Entre Rios province, Argentina, at the war’s end. If true, this might be seen by some as suggestive that the SS antigravity aircraft project was the p
ostwar utmost priority for the National Socialist scientific elite.47

  If Brook’s scenario is correct, then it is sobering in its implications, for it indicates that an independent and ongoing Nazi development of exotic weapons technologies continued after the war. As will be seen in the final chapters of this book, this prospect is chillingly corroborated in yet a different fashion. And it highlights the Two Space Programs Hypothesis in yet another fashion, for “one would also think it safe to assume that if the USAF had been able to make head or tail of German antigravity, they would not have bothered with the same old rocket propulsion methods at Cape Kennedy three decades afterwards.”48 Or perhaps, as was seen in the previous chapter, there was a space program within the space program, developing and utilizing an exotic technology, and wrapping it in rockets for show.

  4. The Design of the Bell and Its Effects in Operation

  Witkowski’s anonymous intelligence informant aroused enough interest in the Polish journalist in subject of what really constituted the so-called Wunderwaffe that he began to search for references to it. The quest began with yet another characteristic statement from Propaganda Minister Dr. Josef Göbbels relayed by his wife, Magda, to her sister-in-law. The Nazi propaganda minister, it seemed, had seen a weapon “so visionary” that it would guarantee ultimate victory.49Such statements were, of course, standard fare for the beleaguered Reich. But Witkowski soon uncovered odd corroboration from another source, this time from the aide to the well-known SS commando, Otto Skorzeny: Karl Radl. Radl disclosed, in documents Witkowski uncovered at the American archives’ Berlin Document Center, that Skorzeny had engaged in numerous acts of sabotage behind Russian lines in 1944 because he had “come into contact with the ‘wonder weapon’ and as a result (had) ‘been possessed’ by the idea of ‘Sonderkampf’ (‘Special Warfare’), regarding the use of this weapon, to such an extent, that he considered it the only sure way to win the war.”50 But the matter did not rest there.