As for the device itself…it had vanished to God knows where.Īll that is known for sure: the Bell was real. All sixty-two scientists involved in the project had been shot. The Russian forces were the first to reach the mine. The research at this facility was code-named die Glocke or “the Bell.” People in the surrounding countryside reported strange lights and mysterious illnesses and deaths. One of the most mysterious was a converted mine outside the small mountain town of Breslau. Nazi research and weapons labs numbered in the hundreds, many underground, spread across Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. Scientists were murdered, research labs destroyed, and blueprints hidden in caves, sunk to the bottom of lakes, and buried in crypts. They also fought to secure their secrets in the hopes of a rebirth of the Reich. But many of the most sensitive patents disappeared into the well of deep black projects, like Operation Paper Clip, where hundreds of Nazi V-2 rocket scientists were recruited in secret and brought into the United States.īut the Germans did not give up their technology easily. Patents were stolen: for new vacuum tubes, for exotic chemicals and plastics, even for pasteurizing milk with UV light. A race between the Brits, Americans, French, and Russians was every country for itself. In the last months of World War II, as Germany fell, a new war began among the Allies: to plunder the technology of Nazi scientists.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |