by Frank Lost
In 1946, the remains of Hitler and Braun were repeatedly buried at night and exhumed in the morning by SMERSH on their way to a Soviet barrack in Magdeburg (Communist East Germany), where they rested there, buried in crates, until 1970. At that time, German-Soviet treaties reminded that the USSR had to hand over their facilities to the East German government. That is when former KGB director and future president of the USSR Yuri Andropov asked permission, in a letter dated March 13, 1970, addressed to then-president Leonid Brejnev, to destroy once and for all the remains of these historical figures so that they would never be used as a neo-Nazi shrine in the future.
On April 4, 1970, a special secret KGB team, following detailed burial charts, "exhumed five wooden boxes containing the remains of 10 or 11 bodies (maybe including the Goebbels family corpses) ... in an advanced state of decay." These final remains were once more burned and reduced to ashes and then thrown into the Biederitz river, near the Elbe, in a city called Schönebeck, 11 km away from Magdeburg.
Hitler was obsessed with not falling into the hands of the Russians alive, nor being publicly exposed in a humiliating way like Mussolini was after his death. This way of disappearing in the bunker was somehow also a willful way of staging his grand finale for history.
The Mystic Treasure of the SS
The treasure of the SS is a great secret according to Saint-Loup, a French author of many books about the history of the French volunteers of the Waffen-SS Division Charlemagne, who fought Bolshevism in the Soviet Union. Saint-Loup is a pen-name for Marc Augier, a French collaborator, a great sportsman and a journalist.
Saint-Loup in 1942 in Smolensk in German uniform
In many of his books, Saint-Loup presents the SS as a noble order, much like a modern version of the Teutonic Knights, forgetting the atrocities they committed during WWII.
He gives them an aura of heroism, and makes them the guardians of the Aryan race in a "decadent" post-war world. What makes them especially attractive is that they possess the great secret of the Aryan race, the one and only who is able to save the white race from vanishing from the surface of the world.
That great secret was, according to Saint-Loup, carved on stone tablets by the Cathars in the 13th century in France, at the time of the fall of the Montségur castle. They are an Aryan equivalent to the stone tablets on which Moses wrote the Ten Commandments, except that the Jews try to keep and understand these, whereas the Aryans do not know where theirs came from and are unsure about their content.
The Aryan tablets were allegedly found by Otto Rahn before WWII, and hidden somewhere in the mountains around Montségur, in the French Pyrenees. Otto Rahn was a specialist of Roman languages and literature, as well as an SS who reported directly to the infamous Ahnenerbe and Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler. He brought the tablets back to Germany, and was found frozen to death in the Bavarian Alps sometime after that, though he was an excellent mountain climber.
The Zillertal around 1898
When the Allies closed in on the Alpine Fortress, Saint-Loup claims that on May 2, 1945, a special SS unit made only of officers from various European nationalities gathered in Tyrol, Austria, at the crossroads of Innsbruck-Salzburg and Gmünd-Zell am Ziller. The day before, three high-ranking SS officers (a Frenchman, a Norwegian and an American, since there was even a few of the latter in the Waffen-SS as well) were taken probably to Tibet by a long range aircraft that landed on the Munich-Salzburg highway.
The rest of the SS unit was waiting for something really important, and therefore all necessary measures were taken to hold the advancing Allied armies. Eventually, a special convoy coming from Berchtesgaden, Hitler's Alpine chalet, transferred to the SS unit a crate made of lead. Their mission was to dump this crate at the top of the Zillertal glacier. It contained the Aryan tablets transmitted by the Cathars. These tablets contained a purely pagan message, addressed to the coming generations of Aryans. They were hoping that the crate would slowly flow down the valley at the pace of the glacier, and eventually reappear down below between 1990 and 1995.
The secret contained inside the lead crate was so important that it had to be read by absolutely all Aryans. If not, the whole white world would definitively be wrecked to havoc.
According to Saint-Loup, the secret was that the Aryans should always follow the holy rule of not mixing their blood with "inferior races" in order to not to be wiped out from the surface of the earth. This gnostic and Manichaean belief was that all non-whites and especially all Jews had to be considered evil and that the Holy Grail was a metaphor for pure Aryan blood.
Fantasy Wonder Weapons
The real German Wonder Weapons were so ahead of their time that they seemed like they came from the future. This is nevertheless not a good reason to make up stories about their origin that are not only ridiculous in their conception but also totally fraudulent in nature.
Die Glocke – One of the weirdest and most fraudulent of these post-war fictions is certainly Die Glocke (in German, The Bell). Igor Witkowski, a Polish journalist, claimed in 2000 that he had access to secret SS files talking about the purported existence of Die Glocke, in his book called the Prawda O Wunderwaffe (The Truth About the Wonder Weapons).
As usual with this kind of fantasy, Witkowski cannot name the Polish intelligence source that gave him this information, “for obvious security reasons.” This did not prevent British author Nick Cook from using this fantasy material very seriously as historical truth in his book called The Hunt for Zero Point, and reaching for the usual eager-to-believe-anything audience of science-fiction amateurs.
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, exc
ept 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)
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!”