German UFO Secrets by the Thousands

When it comes to the Third Reich and what it really stood for, vociferous objections start the moment you utter the most timid politically incorrect thought. Revulsion is instant – and savage. Consensus is solid as granite. There can be nothing but nothing redeeming about the shocking Hitler years. If you think otherwise, you put yourself in Satan’s company – and that’s where you will stay.

Worldwide, our era has been reduced to nine letters.

I often ask myself: “Why such colossal vitriol against a government, long gone and never to return, that put in place a system and a plan which, at the very least, ought to evoke some curiosity?

Why turn into a bully on command and demonize a highly principled, self-disciplined, industrious people whose scientific legacy, if nothing else, is still enriching our lives?

Here is a partial answer. That vitriol against the Reich has warfare value to mankind’s enemies. It’s a control device. What’s being claimed as “facts” in media, books, and blatant anti-German movies defies the laws of science – but is there anybody who objects?

If so much righteous wrath can be unloaded by demonizing one’s opponent with lies and yet more lies, it makes wars possible.

It makes huge profits possible. Most folks, who never once in their entire lives have talked to an SS-man to probe the verity of hideous claims would shudder at the thought of being in the presence of a monster.

What’s wrong with impartial research?

We have been lied to about Pearl Harbor, the murders of the Kennedy brothers, Vince Foster, Martin Luther King, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Waco, 9/11, Iraqi incubator babies, the Boston Massacre, Sandy Hook, Malaysian planes that dropped out of the sky, Iran and its nuclear secrets, now Syria and ISIS – and we haven’t been lied to about the Third Reich? About her eminently reasonable strategies that sent the banksters packing – the ultimate political sin?

Mike Walsh, a gifted British essayist on the dissident Hard Right, has just released a little booklet titled REICH AND WRONG. In a promotional release, Walsh asks prospective customers:

The Third Reich was in conflict for five years; the Reich lasted 13.5 years – so what happened to the missing 7.4 years of peace? During those years the Reich created an economy, infrastructure, prosperity and lifestyle no Western country, then or now, could hope to match. Why is this period taboo?

It shouldn’t be taboo. There are some lessons there worth studying to our benefit. Brave folks can learn from them.

Below, I blog a Harper’s Magazine essay, composed in 1946. (!) It makes part of my arguments for me – that there was more to Third Reich plans and actions than Schindler’s List’s atrocity yarns repeated endlessly in German-bashing orgies.

German Secrets by the Thousands

by C. Lester Walker, from “Harper’s Magazine” (October 1946)

Someone wrote to Wright (military) Field recently, saying he understood this country had got together quite a collection of enemy war secrets, that many were now on public sale, and could he, please, be sent everything on German jet engines. The Air Documents Division of the Army Air Force answered: “Sorry … but that would be fifty tons.” (100,000 pounds!)

Moreover, that fifty tons were just a small portion of what is today undoubtedly the biggest collection of captured enemy war secrets ever assembled. If you always thought of war secrets, as who hasn’t? as coming in sixes and sevens, as a few items of information readily handed on to the properly interested authorities, it may interest you to learn that the war secrets in this collection run into the thousands, but the mass of documents is mountainous, and that there has never before been anything quite comparable to it.

The collection is today chiefly in three places: Wright (military) Field in Ohio, the Library of Congress, and the Department of Commerce. Wright Field is working from a documents “mother lode” of fifteen hundred tons (3,000,000 pounds!).

In Washington, the Office of Technical Services (which has absorbed the Office of the Publication Board, the government agency originally set up to handle the collection) reports that tens of thousands of tons of material are involved.

It is estimated that over a million separate items must be handled and that they, very likely, contain practically all the scientific, industrial, and military secrets of Nazi Germany.

One Washington official has called it “the greatest single source of this type of material in the world, and the first orderly exploitation of an entire country’s brainpower.”

How the collection came to be, goes back, from beginnings, to one day in 1944 when the Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff set in motion a colossal search for war secrets in occupied German territory.

They created a group of military‑civilian teams, termed the “Joint Intelligence Objectives Committee”, which was to follow the invading armies into Germany and uncover all her military, scientific, and industrial secrets for early use against Japan. These teams worked against time to get the most vital information before it was destroyed, and in getting it performed prodigies of ingenuity and tenacity.

At an optical company at Wetzlar, near Frankfurt, for example, the American colonel investigating felt positive that the high executives were holding out on him. But nothing would shake their story: they had given him everything.

He returned the next day with a legal document which he asked them all to sign. It declared they had turned over “all scientific and trade data, and if not, would accept the consequences.” Two days later they glumly signed the document, then led the colonel to a cache in a warehouse wall. From a safe tumbled out the secret files on optical instruments, microscopy, and aiming devices.

One, two‑man search team found itself completely stymied. Records that they had to find had completely disappeared. A rumor indicated they might have been hidden in a mountain. The two scoured the region in a jeep. Nothing. But keeping at it, they stumbled one day onto a small woods road whose entrance was posted: Achtung! Minen![1] Gingerly, slowly, they inched their jeep in. Nothing happened. But a concrete dugout sunk in the hill revealed another sign: “Opening Will Cause Explosion.”

“We tossed a coin,” one member of this search team said later, “and the loser hitched the jeep tow rope to the dugout door, held his breath, and stepped on the gas.”

There was no explosion. The door ripped from its hinges. The sought for secret files were inside!

The German Patent Office put some of its most secret patents down a sixteen‑hundred‑foot mine shaft at Heringen, then piled liquid oxygen, in cylinders on top of them. When the American Joint Intelligence Objectives team found them, it was doubtful that they could be saved.

They were legible, but in such bad shape that a trip to the surface would make them disintegrate. Photo equipment and a crew were therefore lowered into the shaft and a complete microfilm record was made of the patents there.

The earliest Joint Intelligence Objectives search teams were followed by others, which were to dig out industrial and scientific secrets in particular. The Technical Industrial Intelligence Committee was one group of these, composed of three hundred and eighty civilians representing seventeen American industries. Later came the teams of the Office of the Publication Board itself and many more groups direct from private industry.

Of the latter, called, in Germany, Field Intelligence Agencies, Technical (FIAT), there have been over five hundred, of one to ten members each, operating by invitation and Tinder the aegis of OPB.

Today the search still goes on. The Office of Technical Services has a European staff of four to five hundred. At Hoechst, it has one hundred abstracters who struggle feverishly to keep ahead of the forty OTS document‑recording cameras which route to them each month over one hundred thousand feet of microfilm.

What did we find? You’d like some outstanding samples from the war secrets collection?

The head of the communications unit of the Technical Industrial Intelligence Branch opened his desk drawer and took out the tiniest vacuum tube I had ever seen. It was about half the size of a thumb.

“Notice it is heavy porcelain, not glass, and thus virtually indestructible. It is a one thousand-watt tube, one‑tenth the size of similar American tubes. Today our manufacturers know the secret of making it! …And here’s something…”

He pulled some brown, papery‑looking ribbon off a spool. It was a quarter‑inch wide, with a dull and shiny side.

“That’s Magnetophone tape,” he said.   “It’s plastic, metalized on one side with iron oxide. In Germany that supplanted phonograph recordings. A day’s radio program can be magnetized on one reel. You can demagnetize it, wipe it off, and put a new program on at any time. No needle; so absolutely no noise or record wear. An hour‑long reel costs fifty cents.” (today’s “recording tape” E.K.)

He showed me then what had been two of the most closely‑guarded technical secrets of the war: the infrared device which the Germans invented for seeing at night, and the remarkably small generator which operated it. German cars could drive at any speed in total black‑out, seeing objects clear as day two hundred meters ahead. Tanks with this device could spot targets two miles away. As a sniper-scope, it enabled German riflemen to pick off a man in total blackness.

There was a sighting tube, and a selenium screen out front. The screen caught the incoming infrared light, which drove electrons from the selenium along the tube to another screen that was electrically charged and fluorescent. A visible image appeared on this screen. Its clearness and its accuracy for aiming purposes were phenomenal. Inside the tube, distortion of the stream of electrons by the earth’s magnetism was even allowed for!

The small generator, five inches across, stepped up voltage from an ordinary flashlight battery to 15,000 volts! It had a walnut-sized motor that spun a rotor at 10,000 rpm so fast that originally it had destroyed all lubricants with the great amount of ozone it produced. The Germans had developed a new grease: chlorinated paraffin oil. The generator then ran for 3,000 hours.

A canvas bag on the sniper’s back housed the device. His rifle had two triggers. He pressed one for a few seconds to operate the generator and the scope. Then the other kills his man in the dark.

“That captured secret,” my guide declared, “we first used at Okinawa, to the bewilderment of the Japanese.

We got in addition, among these prize secrets, the technique and the machine for making the world’s most remarkable electric capacitor. Millions of capacitors are essential to the radio and radar industry.

Our capacitors were always made of metal foil. This one is made of paper, coated with 1/250,000 of an inch of vaporized zinc. Forty percent smaller, twenty percent cheaper than our capacitors, it is also self-healing. That is, if a breakdown occurs (like a fuse blowing out), the zinc film evaporates, the paper immediately insulates, and the capacitor is right again. It keeps on working through multiple breakdowns, at fifty percent higher voltage than our capacitors! To most American radio experts this is magic, double distilled.

Mica was another thing. None is mined in Germany, so during the war our Signal Corps was mystified. Where was Germany getting it?

One day a certain piece of mica was handed to one of our experts in the U.S. Bureau of Mines for analysis and opinion.

“Natural mica,” he reported, “and no impurities.”

But the mica was synthetic. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Silicate Research had discovered how to make it and something which had always eluded scientists, in large sheets.

We know now, thanks to FIAT teams, that ingredients of natural mica were melted in crucibles of carbon capable of taking 2,350 degrees of heat, and then, this was the real secret, cooled in a special way. The complete absence of vibration was the first essential. Then two forces directly perpendicular to each other were applied.

One, vertically, was a controlled gradient of temperature in the cooling. At right angles to this, horizontally, was introduced a magnetic field, and this forced the formation of the crystals in large laminated sheets on that plane.

“You see this…?” said the head of the Communications Unit, TIIB. It was metal and looked like a complicated doll’s house with the roof off. “It is the chassis, or frame, for a radio. To make the same thing, Americans would machine cut, hollow, shape, fit, a dozen different processes.

This is done on a press-in-one operation. It is the “cold extrusion” process. We do it some with soft, splattery metals. But by this process, the Germans do it with cold steel! Thousands of parts now made as castings or drop forgings or from malleable iron can now be made this way. The production speed increase is a little matter of one thousand percent.”

In textiles, the war secrets collection has produced so many revelations that American textile men are a little dizzy. There is a German rayon-weaving machine, discovered a year ago by the American Knitting Machine Team, which increases production in relation to floor space by one hundred and fifty percent. Their “Links to Links” loom produces a ladderless, run-proof hosiery. New German needle-making machinery, it is thought, revolutionize that business in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

There is a German method for pulling the wool from sheepskins without injury to hide or Fiber, by use of an enzyme. Formerly the “Puller”, a trade secret, was made from animal pancreas from American packing houses. During the war, the Nazis made it from a mold called Aspergil Paracitus, which they seeded in bran. It results not only in better wool but in a ten percent greater yield.

Another discovery was a way to put a crimp in viscose rayon fibers which gives them the appearance, warmth, wear resistance, and reaction-to-dyes of wool. The secret here, our investigators found, was the addition to the cellulose of twenty-five percent fish protein.

But of all the industrial secrets, perhaps the biggest windfall came from the laboratories and plants of the great German cartel, I.G. Farbenindustrie. Never before, it is claimed, was there such a storehouse of secret information. It covers liquid and solid fuels, metallurgy, synthetic rubber, textiles, chemicals, plastics, drugs, and dyes. One American dye authority declares:

“It includes the production know-how and the secret formulas for over fifty thousand dies. Many of them are faster and better than ours. Many are colors we were never able to make. The American dye industry will be advanced by at least ten years !”

In matters of food, medicine, and branches of the military art, the finds of the search teams were no less impressive. And in aeronautics and guided missiles, they proved downright alarming.

One of the food secrets the Nazis had discovered was a way to sterilize fruit juices without heat. The juice was filtered, then cooled, then carbonated and stored under eight atmospheres of carbon-dioxide pressure. Later the carbon dioxide was removed; the juice passed through another filter, which, this time, germ-proofed it, and then was bottled. Something, perhaps, for American canners to think about.

Milk pasteurization by ultraviolet light has always failed in other countries, but the Germans had found how to do it by using light tubes of great length, and simultaneously how to enrich the milk with vitamin D.

At a plant in Kiel, British searchers of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Committee found that cheese was being made, “good quality Hollander and Tilster”, by a new method at unheard-of speed. “Eighty minutes from the renneting to the hooping of the curd,” report the investigators. The cheese industry around the world had never been able to equal that!

Butter (in a creamery near Hamburg) was being produced by something long wished for by American butter makers: a continuous butter-making machine. An invention of dairy equipment manufacturers in Stuttgart, it took up less space than American chums and turned out fifteen hundred pounds an hour. The machine was promptly shipped to this country to be tested by the American Butter Institute.

Among other food innovations was a German way of making yeast in almost limitless quantities. The waste sulfite liquor from the beech wood used to manufacture cellulose was treated with an organism known to bacteriologists as candida arborea at temperatures higher than ever used in yeast manufacture before. The finished product served as both animal and human food. Its caloric value is four times that of lean meat, and it contains twice as much protein!

The Germans had also developed new methods of preserving food with plastics and new, advanced refrigeration techniques. Refrigeration and air-conditioning on German U-boats had become so efficient that the submarines could travel from Germany to the Pacific, operate there for two months, and then return to Germany without having to take on fresh water for the crew!

A secret plastic mixture (among its ingredients were polyvinyl acetate, chalk, and talc) was used to coat bread and cheese. A loaf fresh from the oven was dipped, dried, re-dipped, and then heated for half an hour at 285 degrees. It would be unspoiled and good to eat eight months later!

As for medical secrets in this collection, one Army surgeon has remarked, “Some of them will save American medicine years of research; some of them are revolutionary, like, for instance, the German technique for treatment after prolonged and usually fatal exposure to cold.”

This discovery revealed to us by Major Alexander’s search already mentioned, reversed everything medical science thought about the subject. In every one of the dread experiments the subjects were most successfully revived, both temporarily and permanently, by immediate immersion in hot water.

In two cases of complete standstill of the heart and cessation of respiration, a hot bath at 122 degrees brought both subjects back to life. Before our war with Japan ended, this method was adopted as the treatment for use by all American Air-Sea-Rescue Services, and it is generally accepted by medicine today.

German medical researchers had discovered a way to produce synthetic blood plasma. Called “Captain”, it was made on a commercial scale and equaled natural plasma in results. Another discovery was “Periston”, a substitute for the blood liquid.

An oxidation production of adrenalin (Adrenochrome) was produced in quantity successfully only by the Nazis and was used with good results in combating high blood pressure (of which 750,000 die annually in the United States). Today we have the secret of the manufacture and considerable amounts of supply.

Likewise of great importance medically were certain researches by Dr. Boris Fojewksky of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt. These were in the ionization of the air as related to health. Positively ionized air was discovered to have deleterious effects on human well-being, and to account for the discomfort and depression felt at times when the barometer is falling.

In many persons, it was found, its presence brought on asthma, hay fever, and nervous tension. It raised high blood pressure, sometimes to the dangerous point. It would bring on the symptoms common in mountain sickness labored and rapid breathing, dizziness, fatigue, and sleepiness.

Negatively ionized air, however, did all the opposite. It was exhilarating, creating a feeling of high spirits and well-being. Mental depression was wiped out by it. In pathological cases, it steadied breathing, reduced high blood pressure, and was a check on allergies and asthma. The importance of its presence wherever human beings live, work, or recuperate from illness may someday make its production one of the major functions of air conditioning.

But of the highest significance for the future were the Nazi secrets in aviation and in various types of missiles.

“The V‑2 rocket which bombed London,” an Army Air Force publication reports, “was just a toy compared to what the Germans had up their sleeve.”

When the war ended, we now know, they had 138 types of guided missiles in various stages of production or development, using every kind of remote control and fuse: radio, radar, wire, continuous wave, acoustics, infrared, light beams, and magnetics, to name some; and for power, all methods of jet propulsion for either subsonic or supersonic speeds.

Jet propulsion had even been applied to helicopter flight! The fuel was piped to combustion chambers at the rotor blade tips, where it exploded, whirling the blades around like a lawn sprinkler or pinwheel.

As for rocket propulsion, the A-4 rocket, which was just getting into large-scale production when the war ended, was forty-six feet long, weighed over 24,000 pounds, and traveled 230 miles. It rose sixty miles above the earth and had a maximum speed of 3, 735 miles an hour, three times that of the earth’s rotation at the equator.

The secret of its supersonic speed, we know today, lay in its rocket motor which used liquid oxygen and alcohol for fuel. It was either radio-controlled or self-guided to its target by gyroscopic means. Since its speed was supersonic, it could not be heard before it struck.

Another German rocket that was coming along was the A-9. This was bigger still, 29.000 pounds, and had wings that gave it a flying range of 3,000 miles. It was manufactured at the famous Peenemuende army experiment station and achieved an unbelievable speed of 5,870 miles an hour!

A long-range rocket-motored bomber which, the war documents indicate, was never completed, merely because of the war’s quick ending, would have been capable of flight from Germany to New York in forty minutes. Pilot-guided from a pressurized cabin, it would have flown at an altitude of 154 miles.

Launching was to be by catapult at 500 miles an hour, and the ship would rise to its maximum altitude in as short a time as four minutes. There, fuel exhausted, it would glide through the outer atmosphere, bearing down on its target. With one hundred bombers of this type the Germans hoped to destroy any city on earth in a few day’s operations.

Little wonder then, that today Army Air Force experts declare publicly that in rocket power and guided missiles the Nazis were ahead of us by at least ten years!

The Germans even had devices ready which would take care of pilots forced to leave supersonic planes in flight. Normally a pilot who stuck his head out at such speeds would have it shorn off. His parachute on opening would burst in space.

To prevent these calamitous happenings an ejector seat had been invented which flung the pilot clear instantaneously. His chute was already burst, that is, made of latticed ribbons which checked his fall only after the down-drag of his weight began to close its holes.

A Nazi variation of the guided air missile was a torpedo for underwater work that went unerringly to its mark, drawn by the propeller sound of the victim ship from as far away as ten miles. This missile swam thirty feet below the water, at forty miles an hour, and left no wake. When directly under its target, it exploded.

All such revelations naturally raise the question: Was Germany so far advanced in air, rocket, and missile research that, given a little more time, she might have won the war? Her war secrets, as now disclosed, would indicate that possibility. And the Deputy Commanding General of Army Air Force Intelligence, Air Technical Service Command, has told the Society of Aeronautical Engineers within the past few months:

For the release and dissemination of all these one-time secrets, the Office of the Publication Board was established by an order of President Truman within ten days after Japan surrendered. The order directed that not only enemy war secrets should be published, but also (with some exceptions) all American secrets, scientific and technical, of all government war boards. (The Office of Scientific Research and Development, the National Research Council, and others.) And thereby created what is being termed now the biggest publishing problem a government agency ever had to handle.

For the war secrets, which conventionally used to be counted in scores, will run to three-quarters of a million separate documentary items (two-thirds of them on aeronautics) and will require several years and several hundreds of people to screen and prepare them for wide public use!

Today translators and abstracters of the Office of Technical Services, successor to the OPB, are processing them at the rate of about a thousand a week. Indexing and cataloging the part of the collection which will be permanently kept may require more than two million cards; and at Wright Field, the task is so complicated that electric punch‑card machines are to be installed.

A whole new glossary of German-English terms has to be compiled, something like forty thousand words on new technical and scientific terms! With so many documents, it has, of course, been impossible because of time and money limitations to reprint or reproduce more than a very few.

To tell the public what is available, therefore, the OTS issues a bibliography weekly. This contains the newest war secrets information as released, with titles, prices of copies currently available or to be made up, and an abstract of contents.

The original document, or the microfilm copy, is then generally sent to the greatest depository. To make them more easily accessible to the public, the Library sends copies, when enough are available, to about 125 so-called “depository” libraries throughout the United States.

And is the public doing anything with these one-time war secrets? It is – it is eating them up. As many as twenty thousand orders have been filled in a month, and the order rate is now a thousand times a day. Scientists and engineers declare that the information is “cutting years from the time we would devote to problems already scientifically investigated.” And American businessmen…! A run through the Publication Board’s letters file shows the following:

The Bendix Company in South Bend, Indiana, writes for a German patent on the record player changer “with records stacked above the turntable.” Pillsbury Mills wants to have what is available on German flour and bread production methods. Kendall Manufacturing Company (“Soapine”) wants insect-repellent compounds. Pioneer Hi‑Bred Corn Company, Iowa, asks about the “interrogation of research workers at the agricultural high school at Hohenheim.”

Pacific Mills requests I.G. Farbenindustrie’s industrie’s water repellent, crease-resistant finish for spun rayon. The Polaroid Company would like something on “the status of exploitation of photography and optics in Germany. And there are, incidentally, ten to twenty thousand German patents yet to be screened!

The most insatiable customer is Amtorg, the Soviet Union’s foreign trade organization. One of its representatives walked into the Publication Board office with the bibliography in hand and said, “I want copies of everything.” The Russians sent one order in May for $5,594.50 worth, of two thousand separate war secrets reports. In general, they buy every report issued!

Americans, too, think there is extraordinarily good prospecting in the war secrets lode. Company executives practically park on the OTS’s front doorstep, wanting to be the first to get hold of a particular report on publication.

Some information is so valuable that to get it a single day ahead of a competitor may be worth thousands of dollars! But the OTS takes elaborate precautions to be sure that no report is ever available to anyone before general public release.

After a certain American aircraft company had ordered a particular captured war document, it was queried as to whether the information therein had made it or saved it money. The cost of the report had been a few dollars. The company answered: “Yes, at least a hundred thousand dollars.” !!

A research head of another business firm took notes for three hours in the OTS offices one day. “Thanks very much,” he said, as he stood to go, “The notes from these documents are worth at least half a million dollars to my company.” !!

And after seeing the complete report on the German synthetic fiber industry, one American manufacturer remarked:

“This report would be worth twenty million dollars to my company if it could have it exclusively.” !!

Of course, you, and anybody else, can now have it, and lots of other once-secret information, for a few dollars. All the war secrets, as released, are completely in the public domain.

That was unmitigated highway robbery as practiced by the Allies – unworthy of civilized conduct. Even today, our world lives off of the carcass of that era.

It bears remembering that the United States was goaded into bloodlust by the proverbial Unseen Hand. Twice in a century, the Allies robbed Germany blind, not only of most of her scientists and patents but also of her foreign assets and possessions.

Why add, three generations hence, insult to injury and vilify a country and a government whose scientific footprints are still all over our landscape – and likely even our heavens? Read about so-called “Nazi UFOs.” Their potential existence, in many researchers’ opinion, is not a rhetorical question.

Can it be true, as evidence suggests, that we are still at war? Can it be true that the reviled “Nazis” still do what they do best – put the fear of the Lord into their underhanded opposition? Would that not be a joke supreme – and all we are taught to believe?

I say the last word on this scientific free-for-all at the end of the war has not yet been spoken – and heard.

I quote from Richard Edmondson, a columnist at VT:

“Molds, and all the assumptions and beliefs we have for years managed to fit into them, are increasingly becoming faulty and inapplicable and worthy of being tossed.

“But maybe in a way, there is a silver lining in that. For two molds that particularly seem to have exceeded their expiration dates are,

1) Jews as devout, holy, perennially guiltless, chosen by God, and unjustly victimized; and,

2) Nazis as vicious, depraved, bloodthirsty, sadistic and the personification of evil.

“How many things on this earth are really that black and white? Not many. And for this reason, it is probably time to toss both of them.”

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[1] Careful! Mines!