Hitler's Terror Weapons, Brooks, Geoffrey [cat reading book .txt] 📗

Odd Goings-on at Führer-HQ Waldenburg

Near the town of Waldenburg in Lower Silesia was a coal mine turned by the SS in 1944 into a laboratory for V-weapons research.146 The entire site, Führer HQ Riese, was started in the spring of 1944 and consisted of six underground systems with a 30-square kilometre area plus tunnels housing the proposed Führer HQ below Schloss Fürstenstein 25 kilometres away. Each system was a design of mostly concreted cross-tunnels on one or several levels. The most secure was Säuferhofen, whose entrances were protected by steel doors and machine-gun emplacements.

The research, which replicated a larger project at Ohrdruf in the Harz, took place between November 1944 and May 1945. It was code-named Laternenträdger (Torch bearer) and Chronos. Professor Walther Gerlach, Plenipotentiary for Nuclear Science, coordinated the programme with Dr Ernst Grawitz, Chief of SS Medical Services.

The experiments were conducted within a 20-cm thick ceramic cover in the shape of a bell. The studies were aimed at analyzing the effects of contra-rotating at very high speeds two cylinders containing about 250 kgs of mercury or a mercury amalgamate around a hard and heavy metal core.

Another experiment codenamed Leichtmetall (light metal) used thorium and beryllium peroxides. Thorium oxide is one of the most heat-resistant metals known and beryllium has a very high melting point. By 1944 Germany had cornered all available European stocks of thorium, but, on enquiring the reason, the US Alsos Mission was unable to establish a satisfactory answer.

The research room was 30 metres square with ceramic-tiled walls, the floor covered with rubber mats which were burned after three experiments. The entire contents of the room were destroyed after each ten experiments. After each test the room would be doused with brine for up to 45 minutes.

Each test lasted from 45 seconds to one minute when the apparatus emitted a strange, pale blue light. Some members of the research team suffered health problems from exposure to this light. Despite the precautions employed, many personnel complained of insomnia, memory loss, imbalance, muscle spasms and a permanent unpleasant metallic taste in the mouth. The first scientific team in May-June 1944 had been disbanded after the death of five of its seven members. While the test was proceeding, all personnel stood back 200 metres from the epicentre and wore thick rubber protective suits and helmets with large red glass visors.

During the tests electrical equipment up to 150 metres from the bell would short-circuit or break down.

The research involved tests on small animals, animal substances, plants such as mosses, ferns, ivies and fungi and possibly on humans as well. It was found that, during the spinning experiments, samples exposed inside the bell were completely destroyed by an alien crystalline matter which could not be described precisely, being unknown to science. The substance formed within the host and destroyed its tissues. Liquids such as blood gelled and separated. In plants, chlorophyll disappeared after 4-5 hours, followed by decay within 14 hours. However, there was no smell of decomposition and the plants transformed into matter of the consistency of axle grease. Efforts were made to reduce the damage inflicted by the unknown substance and by 25 March 1945 this had been cut to no more than 3%.

The menial work was carried out by prisoners from the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. These people, and some lower-level German scientific workers, sixty-two in all, were murdered near Pattag at the beginning of May 1945 when the project closed down, indicating its high level of secrecy.

The interruption of electrical current is symptomatic of most close-contact UFO reports. It is an electromagnetic effect and occurred at Waldenburg, where one assumes it was directly related to spinning containers of mercury at high speed in order to achieve some effect in the various indescribable materials being experimented upon. It was suggested in the Polish bulletin that there was reason to suspect that the subject was connected with the Waffen-SS Haunebu flying saucer research project under the SS-E-IV and SS-U-13 research teams, but nothing is known about the work of either.147

The Motorstoppmittel

The valley of Jonastal lies in the heart of Germany, south-west of Weimar in the Harz Mountains, at the centre of a ring of the towns of Erfurt, Waltershausen, Crawinkel and Stadtilm. Since Imperial times there had been a Military Training Area at Ohrdruf on a plateau in Jonastal. Organization Todt began work building a vast underground city in the limestone in 1937. The entrances were disguised as ‘weekend chalets’. The actual size of the development is difficult to estimate since the entrances to the lower galleries were sealed off by the SS with explosives and, after exploring what remained accessible, the Americans closed down the rest.

A number of surface structures – five giant halls which can be seen in immediate post-war Allied aerial photos – were demolished in the DDR period and covered over below an unbelievably thick layer of industrial rubbish to make a hill. Exploration below ground is strictly prohibited. With a Land Rover in dry weather it takes several hours to tour the perimeter of the area. The Feldherrn hill and Musketierberg are central elevations offering a good view over a plateau of grass and scrub extending for several kilometres in all directions. The terrain is dangerous and remains littered with shrapnel, unexploded bombs and shells.

In 1944 the SS took over at Ohrdruf, which had been established as a V-weapon centre some time previously, and soon strange things began to happen. Ohrdruf was the largest underground factory city of the Third Reich and the most impregnable place on earth. The mapped tunnel system is 1.5 miles in length, although that is definitely only the tip of the iceberg.

Below ground there are thought to be four facilities consisting of many long galleries on as many as four levels designated Jasmin, Wolfsturm, Siegfried and Olga. Huge ventilation shafts are still to be found at the surface. It is known that there are sufficient generators below