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13 Witkowski, op. cit., p. 224.
14 Ibid.
15 Project Lusty, Frame 601, cited in Witkowski, The Truth About the Wunderwaffe, p. 226.
16 Project Lusty, Frame 597, § 9, cited in Witkowski, The Truth About the Wunderwaffe, p. 226, emphasis Witkowski’s.
17 Q.v. Nick Cook, The Hunt for Zero Point, pp.
18 For the escape and role of Bormann in negotiating these high technology transfers, see Carter Plymtom Hydrick, Critical Mass, pp. 157-247.
19 Dulles later became CIA chief, was dismissed by President Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and then later appointed by Lyndon Johnson to head the Warren Commission “investigating” the President’s murder!
20 Joseph P. Farrell, Reich of the Black Sun, pp. 243-244.
21 Witkowski, The Truth About the Wunderwaffe, p. 126.
22 Q.v. Joseph P. Farrell, Reich of the Black Sun, pp. 242-245.
23 Witkowski, The Truth About the Wunderwaffe, p.126.
24 Ibid., p. 127.
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
28 Witkoski, The Truth About the Wunderwaffe, p. 204.
29 Ibid., p. 205, citing W. Kozakiewicz et. al. „Bron rakietowa“ (Głowny Instytut Mechaniki, 1951).
30 Project Lusty, frame 590, cited in Witkoski, The Truth About the Wunderwaffe, p. 225.
31 Thus, if one is to believe all the reports about Wright Patterson, it is home to a very odd collection of aliens – both extra-and sub-terrestrial – and Nazis!
32 Witkowski, The Truth About the Wunderwaffe, pp. 200-201.
33 Ibid., p. 226.
34 Ibid.
35 “Jäger”: fighter airplane.
36 Project Lusty, frame 599, cited in Witkowski, The Truth About the Wunderwaffe, p. 226.
37 Project Lusty, Frame 601, cited, Witkowski, The Truth About the Wunderwaffe, p. 226.
38 Ibid., pp. 203-24. It seems worth mentioning that some sources indicate that Chuck Yeager was the first American to break the sound barrier, suggesting that someone, somewhere, knew something that the general public did not.
39 Ibid., p. 222.
40 Ibid.
41 Q.v. Reich of the Black Sun, pp. 191-192.
42 Otto Skorzeny, La Guerre Inconnue(Paris, Albin Michel: 1975), cited in Witkowski, p. 95.
43 Witkowski, The Truth About the Wunderwaffe, p. 96.
44 These bombs would not have been of the same colossal size as I reported on pp. 191-192 of Reich of the Black Sun, since the range of these rocket launchers was relatively short.
45 Witkowski, The Truth About the Wunderwaffe, p. 227.
46 Witkowski, The Truth About the Wunderwaffe, p. 92.
47 Joseph P. Farrell, Reich of the Black Sun, pp. 221-222, 351.
48 See chapter six for more discussion of X-ray lasers.
2.
“The Peenemünde Problem”
“…Germany’s ‘Amerika-Raket’ was to be armed with a nuclear warhead. The report sounds utterly fantastic. But was the danger real?”
Friedrich Georg, Hitlers Siegeswaffen1
In August 1946, a highly placed department of the English War Office disclosed that “Hitler wanted the Moon.”2 In the race of “disclosure” after the war’s end and before the iron vaults of “national security” slammed shut and the Allied Legend of atomic engineering superiority was born, such extraordinary revelations were commonplace. Indeed, one must wonder if there was not a psychological or disinformation operation being run behind these early postwar disclosures, to direct attention, particularly Soviet attention, away from areas of Nazi accomplishments that were not merely paper studies and fantasies. Even here, however, one must pause, for if Nazi Germany was successful, or even perilously close, in obtaining atom bombs prior to the war’s end, as argued in the previous book on this subject, The Reich of the Black Sun,3 then the comment cannot be brushed aside so easily. The War Office comment, and Consolidated Vultee’s two page Life magazine advertisement disclosing the possible existence blueprints a 3,000 mile range rocket in an underground factory implies the existence at least of a rocket technology – and hence the delivery systems for a nuclear warhead – considerably more advanced than the puny V-2 with its limited lift and range. As German researcher Friedrich Georg notes, the comment points to the existence of Von Braun’s A-14 moon rocket, a design for a five stage rocket to lift three astronauts to the moon and return them to the earth where they would then land in a version of Eric Sänger’s “rocket plane.”4 And additionally, Consolidated Vultee’s disclosure also prompts a question: how did they know there were blueprints for such a rocket? Blueprints imply something either ready to go into production or something already being built. Where did Consolidated Vultee get its information? The answer, as we shall see, is rather surprising.
And if five-staged moon rockets to carry three astronauts to the moon and back, and orbital “space planes” sound uncomfortably familiar, they should, for it would seem that Von Braun’s later Saturn V booster – the actual three stage booster of the three-manned Apollo moon missions – and the space shuttle itself, are but later developments of some prototypical Nazi design concepts for manned space missions.
A. The U.S.A. Gets the Crème de la Crème
Such disconcerting disclosures raise the other components of the Allied Legend, namely:
(1) that in the race to acquire Nazi secret weapons, scientists, and engineers and the associated technologies, the Western Allies in general and America in particular made off with the lion’s share of the loot, the crème da la crème of the Third Reich’s scientists and technology, enabling its successful Apollo moon program and likewise its early ICBM development;
(2) that the German “secret weapons” projects consisted mostly of the V-1 “buzz bomb”, the V-2 rocket, and half-hearted and failed attempts at atom bomb research, and that after 1942, the Peenemünde scientists developed little else of practical value to realize the fantasies of the Nazi leadership.5 No progress was made by the Nazis in long-range rocket bombardment beyond the V-2 besides paper projects that never were practically realized;
(3) the Germans were incompetent bunglers when it came to nuclear bomb physics and nowhere close to obtaining the atom bomb, much less enough weapons grade uranium (and plutonium?) to make one work.
As my previous book The Reich of the Black Sun demonstrated, the Allied Legend as regards number (3) is in serious trouble given recent declassifications and research based upon them.6 Indeed, one may say that the Allied Legend is in need of serious revision, if not of being disposed of completely.
We now turn to examine the first two components of the Allied Legend. However, this step may seem an odd place to begin a book whose principal subjects are not rockets and atom bombs, but (1) even more destructive and fantastic weapons and the technologies and science they imply, (2) their continued and possibly independent development, and (3) the possible implications of that development in the most famous political assassination in modern history, the cold-blooded murder of President John F. Kennedy. Even here, however, the actual state of affairs in German accomplishments in long-range rocketry are completely at variance with the Allied Legend. However, they also afford the best entry into a discussion of the physics and technologies associated with their most highly classified wartime secret weapons project, “The Bell.”
A moment’s reflection demonstrates why components (1) and (2) of the Allied Legend should be questioned, for if the U.S.A. got the crème de la crème of German rocket scientists – Von Braun, General Walter Dornberger, Hermann Oberth, Arthur Rudolph, et al. – then how does one account for the very early, and consistent, Soviet Russian lead in space achievements during the Cold War, right up to the Apollo moon landings? Soviet achievements indicate, as nothing else does, yet another very large hole in the Allied Legend.
B. The U.S.S.R.’s Early Space Achievements
Sergei Korolëv, the brilliant engineering genius and mastermind of Russia’s earl
y ICBM and space exploration development, like his counterpart Wernher Von Braun in the U.S.A., laid a firm and lasting foundation for Russian space achievement. His influence persists to this day, if one considers that Russia’s (and by implication, China’s) Proton boosters are still the largest conventional chemical rockets in service, boosters that rely heavily on the basic concepts Korolëv pioneered. On the basis of his principles and accomplishments, Soviet Russia maintained an early lead over America, racking up the following impressive list of “firsts”:
(1) It was the first to launch and orbit an artificial satellite, the famous Sputnik;
(2) It was the first to launch an animal – the little dog Laika – into space;
(3) It was the first to orbit and successfully return a man into space, Colonel Yuri Gagarin;
(4) It was the first to orbit and successfully return a woman into space;
(5) It was the first to land unmanned probes successfully on the Moon;
(6) It was the first to conduct successfully “extra-vehicular activity,” i.e., a space walk, by humans in orbit; and last but not least,
(7) It was the first to place nuclear and thermonuclear warheads on an ICBM, the SS-6 and SS-7 “Sapwood.”
Then, suddenly and quite inexplicably, the Soviet Union seemed to have “lost its drive” when the Apollo 8 mission successfully orbited, and the Apollo 11 mission successfully landed, humans on the Moon and returned them safely to the Earth. Inexplicably, the Soviet Union seemed to “just give up” and, as far as we know, never launched its own manned Moon mission, even though it was well within Russian capabilities. And perhaps equally inexplicably, the U.S.A., sighting “budget cuts” and public disinterest, discontinued its own Moon program, abandoning the scheduled Apollo 18 through 21 missions, and breaking up its remaining Saturn V boosters. The U.S.A. would not return to the Moon until the 1990s, with the Pentagon’s unmanned “Clementine” orbiter. Then suddenly China orbited a human, and declared its intention to go to the Moon. Suddenly American interest seemed to change again, and the Bush Administration decided it would be a good idea for America to go back while on our ultimate way to Mars.
From World War Two to the present, space represents a strange cast of characters and a strange plot indeed: Hitler, the Soviets led by Korolëv and his team of German engineers, the Americans and their team of German engineers, the French-dominated European space agency and their team of German engineers, the Japanese, the Indians, and now the Chinese. China is significant for it underscores the actual Soviet achievement, for China’s space technology is but re-worked Soviet technology updated with the latest American..
1. Booster and Lift Capabilities
All this implies that the Soviet Union developed very early on boosters with enormous thrust and lift capabilities, as the following comparative chart of American and Russian rockets from the 1950s and 1960s illustrates:
American Boosters:
Russian Boosters
As even a simple physical comparison demonstrates, in terms of raw boosting power, the Russians were consistently ahead of America throughout the earliest years of the Cold War, right down to the Apollo landings themselves.
Of course this is in part explained by the fact that the Russians had to develop rockets with greater thrust than America for two important reasons. First, they were less successful in miniaturizing components than the Americans, and consequently, pound for functional pound, their rockets tended to be heavier. But there is a much more important and obvious reason. Given its relatively more northern latitude, the Russians could not take advantage of the greater angular velocity of the earth as could the Americans, situated as they were at more southern latitudes. At the latitude of Cape Canaveral, the angular velocity of the earth is greater than at the Soviet Baikonur Kosmodrome, and hence, American rockets were not required to generate as much thrust to lift similar payloads.
But all this really only serves to underscore the Russian achievement all the more. Working under more restrictive conditions, they overcame them. How then was Korolëv and his design team able to achieve such early and stunning success with their boosters, especially since the U.S.A. was supposed to have gained the “crème de la crème” of German rocket scientists and engineers?
The First ICBM: The Russian “Sapwood”; The Same Booster was used to Launch Mankind’s First Artificial Satellite, the Sputnik
2. The First ICBMs and the Characteristic Russian “Bundle” Rocket
A closer glance at the first Russian ICBM, the same rocket used to launch and orbit Sputnik, with their typical “shape” distinctive of Russian boosters all the way up to the massive Proton booster, shows how. As the close-ups of the “Sapwood” show, the typical Russian booster is not so much a single rocket but a “bundle” of rockets fastened around a central shaft which is itself another engine.
C. What’s Wrong with This Picture?
Clearly, something is wrong with this picture. The U.S.A. did get the best and brightest of Nazi rocket scientists and technology, yet, the Russians made away with scores of “middle” echelon scientists and engineers. How then did Korolëv hit upon the brilliant and simple expedient of the “bundle” rocket?
The standard explanation is that Korolëv while on a walk in the woods around his dacha in Moscow was inspired by the root systems of enormous trees. They suggested to him the distinctive shape and concept of the Soviet “bundle rocket” boosters.7 In the light of the now known state of German wartime rocketry, however, this cannot be anything other than an attempt to deflect attention away from the real origin of the concept, for as a simple expedient to achieve quick heavy lift capability, it is a characteristic more of a nation at war – and in a hurry – straining to achieve a swift entry to space and long-range rocket bombardment capabilities. It is an expedient that – like the Nazi decision to pursue only a uranium-fueled atom bomb – fits the practical requirements of Nazi Germany.
D. The Real Origin of the Bundle Rocket: “Projekt Zossen”
Not surprisingly, then, the real origin of the “bundle rocket” booster concept was in wartime Nazi Germany, where the idea was born – in 1942! – to “bundle together” five V-2 rocket engines, and fire them simultaneously, to achieve greater lift and range capability. The plan was called “Project Zossen,” a clue, perhaps, that the origin of the idea came from within the OKW’s super secret underground communications and command bunker in Zossen, a suburb of Berlin. In any case, the project was more than just a “paper project” for two designs were actually modeled and wind tunnel tests were performed on them, as indicated by the following pictures of German wind tunnel test models:
The Bundle Rocket Design Test Model: The Rocket Model is in Front of a Larger Rocket inside the circle
Close-up of the German “Bundle Rocket”
This expedient had the advantage over designing, testing and building an entirely new rocket in that the V-2’s components and performance capabilities were known quantities, already tested, and in production. And clearly Korolëv’s boosters are but a streamlined second generation version of the earlier Nazi prototype. But was a full scale version of the rocket, or for that matter, any of the other intercontinental rocket designs the Nazis had proposed, ever tested? To answer that question, we return to Peenemünde, at the end of the war, and notice yet another “problem.”
E. SS Obergruppenführer Hans Kammlers “Evacuation” of Peenemünde and the Russian Arrival
Is there any indication that these early German ICBM “bundle rockets” or any other long-range strategic rockets went to actual construction and testing? If so, then the logical choice was Peenemünde, for in spite of the heavy attention of Allied bombers, it was the only place presumably with facilities large enough to achieve the task.
1. Strange Events at an “Empty” Site
General Walter Dornberger made it clear that as early as 1939 the ultimate goal of the Peenemünde center was to create a long range rocket capable of striking New York City and oth
er targets on the east coast of the United States. Of course, this implies a capability to strike all of European Russia as well.8 By July 29, 1940, at Peenemünde the engineer Graupe had already produced the first designs for a trans-Atlantic 2 stage rocket. Hermann Oberth began his own formal studies for the fuel and lift requirements for such a rocket in October of 1941,9 as the Wehrmacht continued to liquidate the Red Army in Operation Barbarossa.
But more to the point is a letter from the Reich’s emerging “plenipotentiary for secret weapons development,” SS Obergruppenführer Hans Kammler, dated October 1943, and stating that the development of the Amerikaraket continued apace.10 Moreover, there exist estimates for cost, labor, and material for the “America Rocket” that strongly suggest that it had become more than a mere “paper project.” As with anything else in Kammler’s black empire of black projects, anything suggesting “labor” meant the slave labor of concentration camps, and to suggest that the project was merely a “paper project” is to diminish the human suffering that was involved in its very real flesh and blood actualization.