Hitler's Terror Weapons by Brooks, Geoffrey (life books to read .txt) 📗

ground to supply current to a city the size of Berlin. At least one underground power source there has been running without any maintenance since 1945. The German writer Dieter Meinig148 reported that when the Bundeswehr reclaimed the territory on the reunification of Germany in 1989 they discovered a large thick electric cable which emerged from the ground directly above facility Olga. On examination it was found to be of wartime manufacture and carrying a high voltage current. The cable was cut to see if a consumer complained, but nobody did. This deep underground facility was sealed by the SS from the inside as well as at the surface. It has never been investigated and is probably the origin of the strange glow in the night sky occasionally reported even nowadays, leading one to assume that the power plant could not be shut down and is continuing to produce energy over 55 years later. After the war the US air force photographed the region from the air and saw the underground construction as being shaped like the spokes of a huge Celtic cross. A senior American officer who saw below ground wrote of it:

“The underground installations were amazing. They were literally subterranean towns. There were four in and around Ohrdruf: one near the horror camp, one under the Schloss, and two west of the town. Others were reported in nearby villages. None were natural caves or mines. All were man-made military installations. The horror camp had provided the labour. An interesting feature of the construction was the absence of any spoil. It had been carefully scattered in hills miles away. The only communication shelter which is known is a two floor deep shelter with the code Amt 10. Over fifty feet underground the installation consisted of two and three galleries several miles in length and extending like the spokes of a wheel. The entire hull structure was of massive reinforced concrete. Purpose of the installations was to house the High Command after it was bombed out of Berlin. The place also had panelled and carpeted offices, scores of large work- and store rooms, tiled bathrooms and tubs and showers, flush toilets, electrically equipped kitchens, decorated dining rooms and mess halls, giant refrigerators, extensive sleeping quarters, recreation rooms, separate bars for officers and enlisted personnel, a cinema and air-conditioning and sewage systems.”149

According to witnesses, from 1943 onwards Ohrdruf was a testing ground for new weapons systems above ground and new panzer weapons, guns and remote control systems are well remembered, as is the Motorstoppmittel, which could bring down aircraft by means of a strong electro-magnetic field. While the machine was thought to be operating at Ohrdruf automobile and panzer engines for miles around would cut out and refuse to function. The Allies do not appear to have photographed or bombed the area during the war, which suggests that the area was deliberately avoided by their aircraft.

The Motorstoppmittel was reported in 1944 by a member of the Technical Intelligence Division of the US Strategic Air Force:

“We were getting reports from a number of overlapping sources: planes returning to England from bombing missions over the continent kept experiencing engine trouble. The engines would suddenly become rough, cutting in and out. As the stories accumulated, scattered spy and POW reports reinforced the suspicion that a secret ground installation was responsible for our engine trouble.

“There was considerable discussion among Intelligence people as to what should be done. The general feeling – that some new German device was causing the electrical problems – presented one major difficulty: the amount of electricity required to short out a B-29 engine was calculated as greater than all the known electrical energy output of Europe!

“A special plane was fitted out with monitoring equipment. A volunteer was found to fly the plane. He flew his mission and when he returned to base, he behaved like a madman. He was angry and hysterical and raved about ‘How we could have subjected him to such things’. When we tried to debrief him he cursed and screamed. He was so wild that nobody could find out just what had happened to him. He was finally sedated and put to bed.

“But the strangest thing of all was that when he woke up next day, he acted as if nothing unusual had happened. He had completely forgotten the previous day’s insanity. He had no memory of his anger or hysteria. He was feeling fine, ready to return to duty. Of course, the plane’s instruments showed nothing.”

An interesting account of what it was like to experience this from ground level is provided by Frau Cläre Werner150 who was a watchtower lookout on the Wachsenburg, close to the Ohrdruf military testing centre. She often observed a strange lightning effect across the territory lasting several minutes which lit up the whole horizon at night and so bright that she could read a newspaper by it. Frau Werner and two other witnesses reported that, after these phenomena, they would suffer a feeling of being completely drained and exhausted for the next three days. Scientists explain the exhaustion as a form of shock caused by waves of energy from a gravitational field.

This development probably resulted from the observation that spinning experiments with mercury caused electrical equipment and motors to short-circuit and malfunction. By stepping up the output of the device the gravitational field expanded over a far greater area. Possibly the manufacture of the gelatinous organic-metallic serum was carried out on a larger scale at Ohrdruf for the flying saucer programme.

Most of those who had worked at Ohrdruf under the SS, whether concentration camp inmates from the Buchenwald satellite camp S-III nearby, local civilian workers or lower ranking German technical staff, disappeared on or before the arrival of American forces under General Patton on or about 11 April 1945. As many as 3,000 local people remain unaccounted for. Elite SS units murdered even Wehrmacht personnel who had seen the Ohrdruf technologies and therefore knew too much151. In addition there are substantial