Hitler's Terror Weapons

by Brooks, Geoffrey

  In a separate article Robot Aircraft over Skane the same newspaper said that “a foreign robot aircraft – probably a flying bomb” crossed over Sweden that afternoon, flying from west to east or north-east at great velocity. The aircraft was at so high an altitude that it could not be seen even using binoculars. However, it left a very long white condensation trail which could be seen clearly. The engine made a noise reminiscent of a four-engined bomber. The speed of the aircraft exceeded the velocity of the newest fighter aircraft. From all this we deduce that the aircraft was a multi-engined, possibly remote-controlled, compressed-air-launched missile resembling a boomerang which brings to mind various Horten brothers’ designs, including the cresent-shaped Parabola.

  The Svenska Dagbladet for 14 October 1944 reported another infringement of Sweden’s airspace by a flying bomb the previous morning. On 28 October the London Daily Telegraph carried a report of an announcement of the Swedish Military Staff that a “small number of robot or rocket bombs were seen flying high over southern Sweden this afternoon”. It is not clear from this article if the objects were in formation or overflew singly. On 15 January 1945 the London Daily Express reported an infringement of Swedish airspace by flying bombs the previous day. The objects came from the north-west and were believed to have originated from the Hardanger Plateau. On 20 January 1945 Ralph Hewins of the Daily Mail reported that Swedish military authorities were compiling a dossier of infringements of their airspace by German flying bombs for a diplomatic protest to Berlin. Quoting an expert writing in the Swedish journal Expressen, Mr Hewins reported that the new robot bomb was a hybrid of the V-1 and V-2. It could fly at very high altitude and was very fast. It could be steered better than the V-2, but did not fly as fast or as high as the V-2. It was a flying bomb of the rocket type and could be steered from the ground to a certain extent – “German experts have for long been interested in radio-steering instruments and have been carrying out research in this field”. All very true, but of this advanced flying bomb, a cross of two different species of missile, no evidence exists.

  In any case, none of this talk of robot flying bombs in Norway makes sense. Germany had impregnable mountain tops in the Harz, Tirol and other alpine areas. The logical place to try out a new remote-control system, no matter how sophisticated, was Peenemünde. The manufacturing centres of the V-1 were in underground factories dotted around the Reich proper. Supplying even a few dozen V-1 flying bombs by sea to Oslo, and thence by mule and cable-car, to remote mountain peaks in Norway for experimental flights in late 1944 seems ludicrous. As for teleguidance systems, as has been mentioned, serious experiments were made using the Radieschen homing radar and Sauerkirsch radio remote for the V-1 in the last few months of the war. The American peacetime project to build a pilotless bomber based on the V-1, the Martin B-61 Matador, probably with all the German preparatory design papers in front of them, still took a full five years from its inception in 1946.

  Of several things we can be tolerably certain. The excavation of the emplacement on a remote mountain peak, and the stringent security measures in force, indicate a project of the highest secrecy, and the two great radio and radar masts in the vicinity suggest a remote-control system. The contents of the hangars could be concealed as easily at ground level as in the clouds: what altitude and cloud provided was secrecy for whatever emerged from the innards of the mountain and took off – either the form of the aircraft or something peculiar about its mode of ascent – which nobody alien to the project could be permitted to see.

  The Germans were never going to manhandle their special aircraft even once up that huge mountain: obviously it would fly there under its own power and land on the small apron before the ‘firing hall’. Accordingly, the aircraft can only have been a Fieseler Storch, a helicopter or a flying disc or crescent. Since neither a Storch nor an orthodox helicopter could fly at 40,000 feet and faster than the latest jet fighter, we are left with only one possibility, and all the claims made for it seem true. Overflying Swedish airspace on a north-easterly heading would eventually bring the flying disc or saucer across the polar seas towards – Spitzbergen.

  As to whether the proposed Swedish diplomatic protest was ever made in Berlin we do not have the information. What we do know is that in the latter half of 1946 thousands of ‘ghost’ flying bombs described as a cross between a V-1 and V-2 appeared in the skies over Sweden. Newspaper accounts of the time described them as ‘cigar-shaped’ with orange flames issuing from the tail. They were generally seen at night, at low altitudes up to 1000 metres, and estimates of their speed varied “from that of a slow airplane to 500 mph”. Over the period 9 to 30 July 1946, for example, the Swedish military received more than 600 reports. The matter was taken extremely seriously. It was concluded that it must be Germans working for the Russians at Peenemünde who were responsible and it was to help investigate the phenomenon with Swedish Intelligence that USAF General Doolittle arrived in the summer of 1946. As was mentioned earlier in the chapter, his immediate interest was a visit to Spitzbergen, where it was rumoured that the wreckage of a flying disc was to be found, and actually was found.

  The ghostly V-1s over Sweden could sometimes be picked up on radar, were not meteors, weather balloons, Venus or any other such natural phenomena and half the Swedish population appears to have seen them. The furore died down once it was clear that these “robot flying bombs” were not doing anything aggressive, they were merely interested in overflying Sweden’s airspace which of course was nothing new. Ten per cent of Sweden’s land surface is under fresh water, and it was not possible to get hold of a single ghostly rocket flying bomb because “all of them fell into the lakes”, although curiously nobody thought that was strange.

  This is German humour, and the coincidence here is so great that if the apparitions were not UFOs we would immediately suspect that the Germans had put on the show for a laugh at the Swedes. If, in fact, the Germans were responsible for the UFO activity, the whole thing would become clear.

  The German flying saucer assertion quoted earlier in this chapter was made by Senior Engineer Klein, former special adviser to Reich Minister Speer. The curious fact that neither Speer nor Hitler’s Luftwaffe ADC Nicolaus von Below, who was also Speer’s direct liaison officer to Hitler, nor General Koller, last Chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff, ever once mentioned in their copious memoirs the subject of helicopters, of which the German Reich was the world pioneer and had at least sixty operational models, or flying discs, underlines the fact that even on the German side the whole subject was for some reason still taboo decades later.

  We require no great stretch of the imagination to see that if a four-foot diameter remote-controlled turtle-shaped object can change into a glowing sphere visible but intangible at altitude, then the same must also be possible for a giant manned VTOL disc. The Germans might not have reached the stage of constructing interplanetary UFOs, but they did not need to go that far, any more than they needed to build supersonic flying saucers or work on anti-gravity fields for the craft. The objective was and is world conquest, and by early 1945 they had the vehicle they needed for their purpose. This was the miracle weapon for which the shrinking perimeter of the Third Reich had been defended so desperately for no obvious reason for so long.

  The scheme of things should now be becoming clear. Of the dimension coincident with the space of the physical Earth nothing can be predicted except that it is probably the Underworld of myth and the domain of hierarchies of beings normally imperceptible to man who worked on this plane through Adolf Hitler. The craft built by Schriever and Reimar Horten were to be crewed by men and women of a particular level of psychological development as to permit them to enter that region and associate with the entities there. Hitler once asked the scientist Horbiger if it were possible to shift the Earth’s axis. To do so would provoke a catastrophe of unimaginable magnitude and it is possible, for the great palaentologist Dr Immanuel Velikovsky proved165 that it is something which has befallen the Eart
h on more than one occasion in recent prehistory. The cause was always the effect of an external magnetic field ten and often up to one hundred times stronger than terrestrial magnetism. The cause is unknown, but the facts are well attested. If the date when the external agent was to operate next against the Earth’s axis were known, then the National Socialist mystics, assisted by their allies, would return afterwards to mop up when the waters receded, assuming their rightful role as Lords of the Earth since they would be the only survivors.

  If many modern UFO sightings are of Reichsdeutsche flying saucers and some of the remainder are their allies from elsewhere beyond this planet and dimension, allies moreover who know all there is to know about magnetic fields, it is understandable that certain Governments who know what the threat is would rather that the UFO phenomena were ignored, since nothing can be done to prevent the cataclysm when the time comes.

  The UFO phenomenon is a psychic phenomenon. If there is any truth in what has been suggested by this chapter, some evidence of a serious long-term project in Hitler’s Germany aimed at expanding psychic consciousness in particular groups of young men and women for the specific purpose of their obtaining supernormal powers must be presented. And that is something which is investigated in the concluding chapter.

  CHAPTER 17

  The Vril Reich

  “Hitler saw his own remarkable career as a confirmation of hidden powers. He saw himself chosen for superhuman tasks, as the prophet of man’s rebirth in a new form. Humanity, he proclaimed, was in the throes of a vast metamorphosis. A process of change that had lasted literally for thousands of years was approaching its completion. Man’s solar period was coming to its end. The coming age was revealing itself in the first great human figures of a new type. Just as, according to the imperishable prophecies of the old Nordic peoples, the world has continually to renew itself, the old order perishing with its gods, so must man now turn back, in order to attain a higher stage.”

  Hermann Rauschning: Hitler Speaks: A Series of Political Conversations with Adolf Hitler on his Real Aims, Thornton Butterworth, 1939.

  THE NAZI SWASTIKA was the expression in symbol of the italicized phrase above, in which Hitler says that Man’s solar period is coming to its end. The anti-clockwise direction of spin of the Nazi swastika does not signify evil but cosmic dissolution. The present solar period, particularly since the Industrial Revolution, is the nadir and final point of Man’s progress. In the citation at the head of the chapter we have the very simple idea that Hitler was the prophet of man’s rebirth in a new form. The German race was not yet the Master Race, Man-becoming-God, rather that was the goal for which they had to strive. It was a Herculean task, the like of which, so far as we know, no race had ever been set previously. The attempted destruction of the Jews and gypsies, whatever the rationale behind it, was only the first stage of a process culminating in the elimination of all homo sapiens, including the Germans themselves, mankind as we know it being replaced by the New Man, homo mysticus germanicus. A widespread grasp of this fact in the greater Reich would most certainly have led to the failure of the programme, or at least moderated the enthusiasm of the Germans for National Socialism, and the need to eliminate all influential elements in society likely to divine correctly the course of future developments can now be understood. Sixty years later, however, the occult fraternity at large has still not perceived correctly what was afoot.

  Vril and The Order of the Green Dragon

  The Rt Hon Edward Bulwer-Lytton MP (1803-1873) was a popular Victorian novelist. In 1838 he was created a baronet and thereafter indulged his fascination for the occult by becoming a Rosicrucian adept. As author, the book for which he is best remembered, at least in circles interested in the paranormal, is The Coming Race, published by George Routledge in 1871. It is a short novel about the Vril-ya, a race possessing intelligence and powers far in advance of normal humanity and living in deep tunnels from where ultimately they intend to emerge to the surface of the Earth to take control of the planet. Their ruler is a supreme magistrate called the Tur (a runic symbol). There is sexual equality, although the females are sinewy and both taller and superior in physical strength to the males. The race was an ancestor of the great Aryan family “from which in varied streams has flowed the dominant civilisation of the world”. It looked down on the human nations “with more disdain than the citizens of New York [once] regarded the negroes”. They believed in the survival of the fittest, the triumph of the strong over the weak, and the dominance of the Aryan race. The Vril-ya dismissed democracy, free institutions and elected government as “one of the crude and ignorant experiments which belong to the infancy of political science”. Their ultimate objective was “to attain to the purity of our species and supplant all the inferior races now existing”.

  The Vril-ya were named after the all-permeating fluid in nature which they denominate Vril. They had discovered the latent powers stored in Vril to which can be ascribed their mastery over the elements: Vril could “be raised and disciplined into the mightiest agency over all forms of matter, animate and inanimate.” Although no language had a word exactly synonymous with Vril, it seemed to be electricity comprehending in its manifold branches other forces of nature, “the unity in natural energic agencies conjectured by many philosophers.” The narrator described a hollow rod of adjustable length with several keys or springs in the handle to modify the force. The exercise of Vril power could only be acquired through heredity. A 4-year-old Vril female infant could accomplish effects which would be impossible for an ordinary human technician after a lifetime of trying.

  The Coming Race was supposed to be simply an occult novel, although it reads like a treatise and, bearing in mind its author’s affinities, was considered by many to be fiction containing a number of occult truths. For Hitler and the National Socialist Movement it crystallized into the blueprint for the world’s future.

  What could Vril be? The aviation historian and author Trevor James Constable wrote:

  “The daily etheric breathings of the Earth produce a barometric pressure wave twice daily, which formal science has never been able to explain. There is enough energy in these barometric waves to run the world’s machines – if we can but find the transducer. The torque drive of the Earth itself is an inexhaustible, life-positive energy source of staggering magnitude. Before long, someone will uncover that all important step (discovered by Wilhelm Reich but not disclosed by him) by which etheric force can be transduced … the price for this new technical epoch is a forced overhaul of our whole mode of existence. We will see the beginning of a reunion between science and religion as the cosmic energies – pervaded with life and themselves the milieu of living beings – come into technical utility. Man will find the central parts of his own physical existence inseparably bound up with etheric energies, and he will be opened to a wider understanding of himself and the cosmos that produced him. The ultimate consequence will be a new humanity.”166

  And how was this to be achieved? First there had to be produced by mutation the men and women who would form the new humanity capable of understanding and controlling Vril power. Bulwer-Lytton had stated that the power could only be acquired through heredity, indicating that the secret was transmitted through the blood. At once we begin to suspect a mystical answer involving siddhis or super-normal powers. The only access to the sum total of the knowledge in the Universe is through mystical enlightenment which, so it is claimed, involves changes in the blood. The progeny of enlightened mystics would themselves be enlightened mystics from conception.167

  According to Rudolf Hess, the Master Magician of the Third Reich was Karl Haushofer.168 Prior to the Great War, Haushofer was attached to the Staff Corps of the German Diplomatic Mission in Tokyo. He was a clairvoyant of mystical inclination and during his tour of duty in Japan, the language of which he spoke fluently, was initiated into a Buddhist sect known as The Green Dragon. He left the Army following the defeat of 1918 in the rank of general and graduated in polit
ical geography at Munich University shortly afterwards. The periodical Geo-Political Review which he founded was dedicated to propagating the idea of Aryan supremacy, a belief he had embraced while travelling in Central Asia in 1905. Karl Haushofer believed that the Earth was a living being and a cosmic organism: the world was a system of undulating waves, matter was nothing more than vibration and energy. This is Hermetic doctrine. If an initiate of an esoteric monastic order professes Hermeticism, it is a safe bet that his order is Hermetic. A disciple of Karl Haushofer was the Egyptian-born Rudolf Hess, a fanatical vegetarian and abstemient, who served as his assistant at Munich University and was the intermediary between Haushofer and Hitler. The first meeting with the latter occurred in 1924 at Landsberg Prison. Subsequently Haushofer visited Hitler every day and spent hours expounding his theories. It was the doctrine of Haushofer which eventually formed the basis for Mein Kampf, compiled by Hess at Hitler’s dictation and published in 1925. That same year Haushofer founded an occult organization known as The Luminous Lodge of the Vril Society. Hitler was allegedly much impressed by Bulwer-Lytton’s book, a copy of which he received in 1924 from Haushofer, who believed it contained occult truths dressed as fiction.

  The German rocket scientist Willy Ley who left Germany in 1933 stated that the purpose of the Vril Society was to create the Aryan super-race.169 For this purpose a large contingent of Tibetan lamas with connections to the esoteric disciplines was invited to take up domicile in Berlin. They wore a green cap and gloves and one assumes there was a connection with Haushofer’s Order of the Green Dragon in Japan. As it also had initiatory centres in Turkey for its clandestine connection with Islam through Sufi, Druze and Dervish doctrines it was also transreligious. The Tibetan lamas were not particularly secretive. The senior lama gave an interview to the Berliner Zeitung predicting correctly on three occasions the number of deputies that the NSDAP would send to the Reichstag. The French spy Teddy Legrande wrote extensively about these Tibetan lamas in Berlin in his book published in 1933, the year of his mysterious suicide.170 Hitler often made visits to one particular Tibetan lodge in Berlin where he consulted with the senior lama.171