Hitler's Terror Weapons by Brooks, Geoffrey (the best books of all time TXT) 📕

When President Truman learned of the decision on 1 June he admitted to Byrnes that he had been giving the matter serious thought for some days and that, after considering other plans, he had reluctantly come to the conclusion that there was no alternative. Although he did not give the order on 1 June, it appears that he had made the decision by then.

The political activity during the last two weeks in May 1945 was such that Stimson appears to have been a man overtaken by events. Somewhere in that period he ceased to treasure jealously the United States’ reputation for fair play and humanity. He never explained why satisfactorily. In retrospect he stated:

“My chief purpose was to end the war in victory with the least possible cost in the lives of the men in the armies which I helped to raise.”143

It had ceased to be his rule to “spare the civilian population, as far as possible, to the new weapons” and worse, with his words, he justified the perpetration of any atrocity against civilians in order to save military lives. If, and only if, the possibility existed that Japan might have been gifted a number of small-scale atom bombs by Germany would the American Government have had an arguable right to order the deployment of their atomic arsenal. It is one of the great ironies of war that Korvettenkapitän Heinrich Fehler disobeyed his last order and surrendered his submarine to the United States in the hope of obtaining better treatment for his crew in captivity and presented Washington with the justification for the terrible action against Japan which was to follow, and with a weapon under whose shadow the world has existed ever since.

CHAPTER 14

Gravity II

GERMANY BETWEEN THE two World Wars was a fertile ground for research into UFOs and alternative technologies. UFO sightings go back of course to the beginnings of recorded history. Research shows that celestial lights and flying saucer shapes have been reported since the days of the Ancient Greeks. In the more recent epoch of the last two hundred years or so, marine insurers at Lloyds of London have taken note of occurrences reported in the logs of registered vessels, the majority of which were written by the most serious minded and perhaps Godfearing ships’ masters and officers. The reports go on, backward in time to the first records of true oceanic navigation, proving that there never was “a time in 1947 when flying saucer sightings really began”, (an expression much favoured by those striving to prove that all UFO sightings are of terrestrial US origin), but only that there was a great spate of reported sightings from that year.

The oriental influence behind Nazism has already been remarked upon and will be raised again in the final chapter, and one of the areas to which the SS directed their attentions was the Aryan scientific treatises of pre-Hindu India. These Aryans of antiquity, far in advance of the rest of humanity in terms of scientific development, devised machines called Vimanas which “flew the skies like aircraft, utilizing a form of energy obtained directly from the atmosphere” and whose description resembles ‘flying saucers’.

There are some authenticated Sanskrit texts which, being technological, are called Manusa and are said by the writers to explain how certain machines were constructed for aerial flight. The Yantra Sarvasa deals with machinery, for example. Rukma Vimana144elucidates their construction, describing metal alloys, weights and heat-resistant metals.

According to the Samarangana Suradhara, the craft could fly “to great distances” and were “propelled by air”. The text devotes over 200 stanzas to building plans. As to propulsion, “four strong mercury containers must be built into the interior structure”. When these are heated, “the vimana develops thunder-power through the mercury, and at once it becomes like a pearl in the sky.”145 The vimanas were equally at home in the air, on water or submerged, confirming that the vimana could also be a submersible if so desired. Among the non-technical works known as Daiva, there would appear to be suggestions, if not evidence, that such vimanas could be put to the most gruesome and devastating use in wartime. One might be suspicious that it was for this very purpose that the Third Reich built vimanas, and not for the peaceful exploration of space, which was the supposedly secret reason why Wernher von Braun put so much effort into the V-2. There is alleged to exist a terrible sidereal force known to the Aryan rishis or wise men in the treatise Ashtar Vidya and to the mediaeval hermeticists as the ‘sidereal light’ or Milk of the Celestial Virgin and other such terms. It was the Vril of the coming races of mankind described in Bulwer-Lytton’s occult novel The Coming Race published in 1871, which influenced Hitler. The force is not doubted by the rishis, since it is mentioned in all their works. It is a vibratory force which, when aimed at an army from an Agni Rath, or, for want of a better term, gun, fixed to a vimana or balloon according to the instructions in Ashtar Vidya, reduced to ashes 100,000 men and elephants as easily as it would a dead rat. The force is allegorized in Vishnu Purana, the Ramayana and other Hindu volumes. The Vril would be the weapon par excellence and throughout the war a precise knowledge of its manufacture must have been earnestly sought by the Waffen-SS.

By a curious coincidence, in the edition of the periodical Science of 3 January 1969, Schubert, Gerald and Whitehead reported that when a heat source was revolved slowly below a dish of mercury, the mercury began to revolve in the contrary direction and then gathered speed until it was circulating faster than the flame. This is the projection of energy by an exceedingly simple process, and poses two interesting questions: where does the mercury obtain its surplus energy if not from the atmosphere itself, and