Nazi bullshit

[tangaroa]

"The Rise of the Fourth Reich" by Jim Marrs was recommended to me as a book about how the Nazis reorganized after the war, with some interesting sections on Nazi military technology. Unfortunately, it is thin on the question of where the money and influence went and through which postwar connections, and the sections on the WunderWaffe are a hair removed from the stories of Nazi flying saucers in Antarctic bases piloted by lizard men from the moon.

A few parts of the book produce intriguing claims that could conceivably be possible and could theoretically be challenged, so it may not be a total loss. These include:

Lenin's Communist revolution was bankrolled by American capitalists

This section relies heavily on questionable sources including Jim Marrs's earlier book "Rule by Secrecy", William T. Still's "New World Order", G. Edward Griffin's "The Creature from Jeckyll Island", and Gary Allen's "None Dare Call It Conspracy". Among the potentially verifiable or disputable claims are that Trotsky was subsidized by Standard Oil before returning to Russia; that capitalists financing the Bolshevik revolution included Rockefeller banker Jacob Schiff, US Senator and Council on Foreign Relations president Elihu Root, "the Morgans, Warburgs, Schiffs, and Rockefellers", Britain's Lord Alfred Milner, and the American International Corporation; that the AIC represented the interests of the wealthy elite; and that the American Red Cross under Raymond Robins was a front group for American capitalists funding the Bolsheviks. Marrs writes that the same capitalists turned to supporting the Nazis once they noticed that the Communists really meant what they said about stripping the wealthy of their money and power.

Stalin was planning to invade Germany before Hitler invaded Russia

We all know the story of how Hitler made peace with Russia and then invaded Russia anyway. Marrs cites Viktor Suvorov's "Icebreaker", which cites Admiral Nikolay G. Kuznetsov, to say that Stalin had set a date for the invasion of Germany in July 1941.

Foo fighters were a Nazi air defense weapon

Marrs relays Renato Vesco's claim that the Nazis had a weapon called the Feuerball which "was powered by a special turbojet engine, also flat and circular, whose principles of operation ... generated a great halo of luminous flames..." It supposedly could track aircraft by their exhaust and could "wreck their radar gear" by flying nearby. (More discusison on Vesco's claims) This does not explain foo-fighter sightings over the Pacific, nor why Everlong is such a good song.

Germany had and used atomic weapons during WWII

The overall theory is that Germany developed uranium-based weapons using a "photochemical" enrichment process that was complex, expensive, and slow; Germany lacked delivery systems, so apparently their rockets wouldn't cut it; and the weapons were not ready until until Germany was overrun by infantry, and they decided that using the weapons at that point would have no effect on the outcome of the war if used on military targets and would lead to genocidal retaliation if used on cities, so they chose not to use them. An intertwining theory that the Nazis did have and use atomic weapons in 1943 but for some reason was unable to produce any more until 1945.

Marrs suggests that atomic weapons were responsible for "several massive explosions, such as the one that destroyed a section of Sevastopol... It was announced that a hundred-foot below-ground ammunition bunker was destroyed after being struck by a lucky shot from Dora, a 31 1/2-inch German railway gun..." According to some website, this refers to the June 1942 destruction of the White Cliff ammo dump; the weapon responsible was not Dora the Exploder but its sister gun, Schwere Gustav; and far from being "a lucky shot", White Cliff was specifically targeted and Gustav fired nine shells before it was hit. Marrs fails to identify any other unexplained massive explosions.

Marrs cites a 1944 US report "Reports on the Atom-splitting Bomb" which cites the Japanese embassy reporting that Germany used atomic weapons "up to 5 kilograms" to destroy the Russian 19th Infantry Regiment "in June of 1943 ... at a location 150 kilometers southeast of Kursk." There is no further discussion of weapons of this description.

Marrs cites three sources to place a German atom bomb test on October 11, 1944: an October 14 report of a three-day electrical failure in Berlin; a US report "Investigations, Research, Developments and Practical Use of the German Atomic Bomb" that includes a report from German pilot Hans Zinsser who described observing an atom bomb test near Ludwigslust "at the beginning of October"; and the report of Italian officer Luigi Romersa, "who claimed to have been present at the testing of a 'disintegration bomb' on the night of October 11-12, 1944" on the island of Rugen. Rugen is 150km from Ludvigslust and 200km from Berlin, and the distance from Ludvigslust to Berlin is about 150km. Marrs at one point places the weapons test "on Rugen Island near Ohrdruf, Thuringia". The two locations are 400km away.

Marrs writes that that Benito Mussolini claimed Hitler had three "well-known mass destruction bombs" in 1945.

Another claim is that the submarine U-234 carried 560kg of enriched uranium in gold-lined containers to the United States, and that this uranium was used to create the Little Boy bomb.

In this section, Marrs relies heavily on Joseph P. Farrell's "Reich of the Black Sun" and Igor Witkowski's "Truth about the Vundervaffe".

There exists an antigravity "white powder"

Apparently a guy named David Hudson discovered a form of matter wherein the atoms lose their bindings to each other and dissolve into a white powder that loses 44% of its weight; that has "a gravitational attraction of less than zero" when heated; that, in this state, can reduce the weight of materials it touches; that becomes invisible and immaterial at another temperature before reappearing when it cools down; and that can convert lead into gold. The properties of Hudson's white powder are further discussed on this page which seems to have been written by someone who used white powder very much.

The connection to the Nazis is that the Nazis had awesome science and this is awesome science, so they could have developed it and used it to power antigravity devices (flying saucers). Ayup.

The Bell was totally awesome magical technology

The Bell was a mysterious structure in the Wenzeslaus Mine near Ludwikowice Klodzkie, Poland, so mysterious that we don't know what it did or if it existed. Therefore, whatever technology it dealt with must have been beyond the understanding of modern physicists. Germany considered the Bell a military asset that could win the war, and the scientists who worked on it were killed so that their knowledge would not fall into Allied hands.

As for the bell itself:

... the bell was made from hard, heavy metal and cylindrical in shape with a semicircular cap and hook or clamping device on top... Inside, two contra-rotating cylinders filled with a mercury-like and violet-covered substance spun a vortex of energy, which emitted a strange phosphorescent blue light and made a buzzing sound... operators suffered from nervous-system disruption, headaches, and a metallic taste... [upon placing animal and plant tissue inside the Bell] a crystalline substance formed within the tissues, destroying them from the inside; liquids, including blood, gelled and separated into clearly distilled fractions...

This section relies on Nick Cook's "The Hunt for Zero Point" and Igor Witkowski's work mentioned earlier. What "most intrigued" Cook and Witkowski was a mysterious "huge circular concrete structure" "formed by twelve thick columns supporting a dodecagon-shaped reinforcing concrete ring about ninety feet in diameter." Somebody else visited the site and found it to be the frame for a cooling tower. That dampens the mystery.

Some guy on the web has a theory that the Bell was "a heavy particle accelerator used as an artificial neutron source to breed Protactinium 233 from Thorium 232. Protactinium would naturally degrade after 27 days into pure bomb grade Uranium 233." That makes the most sense of any explanation so far.

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The other sections of the book are similar in style. The section on Nazi political reorganization places much emphasis on the postwar activities of Martin Bormann (who died in 1945), and Marrs describes the European Union as the political conclusion of the Nazi plan to unite Europe without proving a link between the two.

Overall conclusion: the book was a waste of my time and a waste of Marrs's time as he read many source materials and gathered references to support every one of his claims. However, it is a house built on a foundation of sand.