Flight of the Nazi Bell
Anyone from the former Third Reich who might know anything was interrogated to
piece together the facts and undoubtedly there was some awareness of Projekt
Thor, but not a thorough grasp. It is from various interrogations that we have
our clearest view. Three primary soures referred to:
- SS Lieutnant General Jakob Sporrenberg, Police Chief (ie Gestapo) Lublin (occupied Poland)
- SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Rudolf Schuster, from interrogation report at Berlin Document Centre
- Dr Wilhelm Voss, Chief Executive of Skoda Works, Czechoslovakia given to Tom Agoston
Kammler
oversaw removal and evacuation of the Bell project. He was frequently at
Gross-Rosen concentration camp which supplied labour for an immense underground
construction in the Eulengebirge Mountains. There is said to be a vast complex
of tunnels over 35 square kilometres of territory. Today several tunnels are
privately owned and open for tourists. Others are flooded and impossible to
access. The existence of this complex is confirmed in a Polish document dated
Warsaw 6 May 1947 "Action for De-Arming Oder Line" which speaks of
the removal of huge quantities of machinery from the interior of this location
before it was destroyed by explosives.
In April
1945 the Nazi Government in Berlin was preparing to evacuate key personnel and
records from the capital. A vast armada of transport aircraft was required for
this task. On 17 April 1945 Kammler responded to Berlin's request for use of
transport aircraft under his command. Kammler refused.
Betr: LKW Junkers
Gemaess Führerbefehl gehen Massnahmen Strahlflugzeug Militärischen voraus. Bin
deshalb nicht in der Lage gewesen, gewünschten LKW freizustellen. Bau-Insp. der
Waffen-SS Reich Süd, Gez. KammlerRe: Lorry Junkers In
accordance with Führer-Order jet aircraft measures take precedence over
military. Have therefore not been in the position to release the lorry you
require. Bau-Insp etc, signed Kammler.
Lorry was
simply code for the Junkers aircraft. This gives us an approximate date for the
Bell's evacuation. About 17 April 1945. Below is an excerpt from a Soviet
military map at the time:
As the story is told, In April 1945 as Soviet forces closed on Schweidnz (modern Swidnica). At an airfield merely described by Rudolf Schuster as "West of Opole" the Bell was loaded on a Junkers Ju-390 aircraft. Other sources suggest the airfield may have been Bystzyca Klodzka airfield situated in a valley within the Eulenbirge mountains themseleves and indeed west of Opole. Bystzyca Klodzka was connected by narrow guage railway with the Wenceslas mine at Ludwikowice.
Schuster noted the Ju-390 aircraft was hidden under tarpaulins at the airfield, but beneath those tarpaulins it was painted in pale blue with markings of the Sweedish Air Force. It departed with passengers engineer SS Mjr. Kurt Debus, mathematician Elizabeth Adler & scientist Dr Herman Obeth, for Bodo in Norway. Elisabeth Adler has proven impossible to identify with certainty, but she appears to have been Prof Walther Gerlach's previous laboratory assistant Elisabeth Borman. She was a mathematician in her own right.
At this point German sources fell silent however in 1993 under pressure from
the US Government a new administration in Argentina convened a Parliamentary
Commission to investigate wartime support for the Nazis. A previously
classified report of the Economic Ministry disclosed intelligence about a multi
engined german aircraft arriving at Entre Rios province (northern Argentina) in
May 1945. There it unloaded a device described only as a Bell. The report
itself was not published.
Many years later, Abel Basti's 2004 tourist guide to "Bariloche Nazi", disclosed the report's claims about the Bell arriving in 1945. Basti probably obtained this document by giving numerous undertakings to the Argentine authorities. This is not an abnormal procedure in this country. The Argentine Government does not wish to have sensitive matters involving its Nazi past given official airing, but occasionally Argentine authors are allowed to see documents unofficially. Undertakings usually include promising not to publish any photocopy, not to show the copy to anybody else, not to quote the issuing office, and to change important sensitive details - in this particular document it is not clear whether the aircraft landed in Uruguay, or Argentina because the location is deliberately obscured and confused.
At this point Witkowski re-enters the trail of evidence disclosing sightings witnessing a six engined Ju-390 aircraft being dismantled at a German owned ranch in Paysandu Province. The farm described is in an area east of Paysandu on the road east to Rivera at the village of "19 de abril" about 60 kilometres out of town. From there local inhabitants recall the aircraft's parts were taken away and dumped in the River Uruguay which is two kilometres wide at this point. // https://sites.google.com/site/nazibelluncovered/home/flight-of-the-nazi-bell
Many years later, Abel Basti's 2004 tourist guide to "Bariloche Nazi", disclosed the report's claims about the Bell arriving in 1945. Basti probably obtained this document by giving numerous undertakings to the Argentine authorities. This is not an abnormal procedure in this country. The Argentine Government does not wish to have sensitive matters involving its Nazi past given official airing, but occasionally Argentine authors are allowed to see documents unofficially. Undertakings usually include promising not to publish any photocopy, not to show the copy to anybody else, not to quote the issuing office, and to change important sensitive details - in this particular document it is not clear whether the aircraft landed in Uruguay, or Argentina because the location is deliberately obscured and confused.
At this point Witkowski re-enters the trail of evidence disclosing sightings witnessing a six engined Ju-390 aircraft being dismantled at a German owned ranch in Paysandu Province. The farm described is in an area east of Paysandu on the road east to Rivera at the village of "19 de abril" about 60 kilometres out of town. From there local inhabitants recall the aircraft's parts were taken away and dumped in the River Uruguay which is two kilometres wide at this point. // https://sites.google.com/site/nazibelluncovered/home/flight-of-the-nazi-bell
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