SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazis’ Incredible Secret Technology (50 page)

The second fact of the German atom bomb project we have likewise previously encountered: its emphasis on what was
practically achievable during the war.
Hence, while the Germans
knew
of the possibilities of plutonium and a plutonium-based atom bomb, and therefore knew that a functioning reactor used to produce plutonium for bombs would thereby enable Germany to develop
more
bombs for the same investment of fissile material, they also knew that a major technical hurdle lay across the path: the development of a successful reactor in the first place. Thus, as has been previously argued, they opted to develop a uranium-based bomb only, since uranium could be enriched to weapons grade purity
without
the necessity of the development of a reactor, and since they already possessed the technologies to do so, if employed
en masse.
Like its American Manhattan Project counterpart, the SS-run program relied on massive numbers of enrichment units to separate and purify isotope.

Now let us extend this line of reasoning further. Germany was also seeking to be able to deploy such bombs as warheads on its rockets. And that meant, given their limited lift capabilities, that the weight of the warheads had somehow to be
reduced
by several orders of magnitude for their rockets to be able to carry them. And there is an economic factor. Knowing that their industrial capacity would be strained by the effort, even with the help of tens of thousands of slave laborers from the camps, another problem may have presented itself to the Germans, a problem illumined for them by their own knowledge of the possibilities offered by plutonium-based bombs:
How does one get more bang for the Reichsmark without the use of plutonium? Is there a way to rely on less uranium in a critical mass assembly than is
conventionally thought?
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And at this point, the reader will recall the history of nuclear weapons generations given earlier in this chapter, for there is such a way, via “boosted fission,” i.e., through the addition of some high neutron emitting source to the atomic fuel to spit extra fast neutrons into the chain reaction than would be caused by the critical mass itself. In short, the Germans were already thinking in terms of
second
generation nuclear weaponry.
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And one such neutron emitting source is precisely deuterium and tritium;

Thus, “boosted fission” would have afforded the German bomb program a practical way to increase the number of bombs available to them,
and
a reliable method for achieving an uncontrolled nuclear fission reaction with lower purity of enriched material. It is perhaps quite significant, then, that Freier’s testimony concerning the Three Corners underground weapons factories also mentions the existence of an underground heavy water plant in the facilities, for heavy water, of course, contains atoms of deuterium and tritium (heavy hydrogen atoms with one and two extra neutrons in the nucleus respectively).
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And there I let matters lie, without going into further comment on the scientific and historical implications of Freier’s allegations. That some sort of atomic test
did
take place in Ohrdruf seems apparent from the physical evidence of the region: old tree stumps are flattened in a radial pattern from a common center, as if blasted away in a huge explosion. And the region also has the highest background radiation of any area of modern Germany, a background radiation that is anomalous.

But let us consider, for a moment, the implication of that 100 grams.
If
that 100 grams represented
plutonium
, then it is just barely conceivable that the weapon tested at Ohrdruf was a fully functional “boosted fission” atom bomb, for that is just about the minimum possible amount of plutonium for a conventional
modern
boosted fission tactical nuclear bomb.

But therein, too, lies the problem, for that very small amount of plutonium would require by the nature of the case a very
high purity
of plutonium. It would require not only a
reactor
technology, but a rather well-advanced one, and of course, German failures in building a conventional graphite moderated reactor are well-known, as are Heisenberg’s own clumsy attempts at construction of a heavy-water moderated reactor towards the end of the war.
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What all this leads up to is that
a third generation
nuclear weapon, not a neutron bomb as alleged by William Lyne, nor a “boosted fission” bomb as I implied in
Reich of the Black Sun,
but a pure fusion device, a pure
hydrogen bomb
, may in fact been the type of device tested at Ohrdruf, one relying, not on
fission,
but on
the fusion of heavy hydrogen
, to achieve its yield. Only such a device is in keeping with the very small weight and very high yield recorded for it. That the Germans had the technology to produce the heavy water for such a device is known. But to produce a conventional explosive to achieve the extremely high density and fusion energies necessary is another matter, unless, of course, one recalls the Bell and its mysterious “Xerum 525” and its eerily peculiar resemblance to the alleged ballotechnical explosive compound Red Mercury.

But we are still not off the hook yet, for
every
mention of ballotechnics, from the alleged “Red Mercury” to exotic nuclear isomers, require at some point in the recipe a process of synthesis of the compound by neutron bombardment and absorption in a reactor. In short, one still requires a
reactor
. So both the Ohrdruf test, and the Bell’s “Xerum 525” point unmistakably to the existence of a well-developed, though
still quite hidden and unknown reactor technology inside Nazi Germany
. And since their graphite moderated reactors were known to be failures, and since Heisenberg’s heavy water moderated reactors and their “failures” are also well-known proto-Chernobyl “disasters”, what other options were there?

2. The Implied Existence of a Reactor Technology: Hartek and Houtermann’s “Cold” Reactors and the “Recipe”

Oddly enough, it is the physicist Fritz Houtermanns and the nuclear chemist Paul Hartek who point clearly and unequivocally to the existence within Nazi Germany of some very unusual, and even very refined, ideas for reactors with unusual, and very
available
moderators.

Hartek had early on hit upon the simple expedient of using tons of dry ice as a moderator in a reactor, a solution that avoided the cooling and energy problems of a conventional graphite reactor and moreover served his purposes well: the creation of large amounts of nuclear waste to be dusted over enemy cities.
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More significantly, as outlined in chapter nine of
Reich of the Black Sun,
Houtermanns pointed the way to a
methane
cooled and moderated reactor. In any case, in both concepts one sees the same principles and aims at work: the creation of a relatively “cool” reactor that avoided the problems associated with graphite, and the creation of a reactor
for the express purpose of creating large quantities of isotopes.
Both concepts, in any case, would have leant themselves rather more easily to the insertion of materials for “salting” via neutron bombardment. In other words, both types of reactor, and especially some version of Houtermanns’ methane reactor, would have been ideal designs for creating a ”doped” compound such as Red Mercury or Xerum 525.

The question of whether or not the Nazis would have actually constructed and operated some version of either reactor is a moot one, since the SS-run black projects would have concealed their existence quite successfully, as it did with the uranium enrichment facilities at Auschwitz. Given the nature of this program it is extremely
unlikely
that the SS would
not
have attempted from the earliest date feasible to construct and operate a reactor. The existence of the Ohdruf test and the Bell’s mysterious “Xerum 525” point clearly, if not entirely conclusively, to the existence of just such a hidden and operational reactor technology inside the Third Reich, a technology that, as the existence of “Xerum 525” indicates, was used in some very exotic materials engineering. The Bell itself may thus be not only related to such technology, but it is also conceivable that it might, to coin a pun, be at its nucleus. Not only may the Germans have discovered some prototypical ballotechnic in “Xerum 525” but they may also have discovered some effect similar to the Mossbauer Effect.

D. Briefly Back to Roswell and MAJIC-12:
General Nathan Twining’s “White Hot Intelligence Estimate” Reconsidered

Readers of my previous book
Reich of the Black Sun
will doubtless be thinking that all this discussion about radioactively “doped” materials such as Red Mercury and “Xerum 525,” as well as all the discussion on high electrical discharges and spin, sounds vaguely familiar. But for those for whom it does not, the following MAJIC-12 document, the “White Hot Intelligence Estimate,” prepared as a technical overview of the craft and technologies recovered at Roswell, is cited just as it was cited in
Reich of the Black Sun:

18. The following elements were analyzed and found to exist in the small neutronic power plant that was found inside ULAT-1:
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a. UF6 in metallic form;
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b. Hydrogen-fluoride gas;

c. Water and uranium tetrafluoride;

d. Powdered magnesium and potassium chlorate;

e. Metal similar to lead with a chocolate brown color;

f. U-235 in metallic form;

g. Plastic-like material similar to NE 102;

h. Beryllium;

i. Pure aluminum;

h.(sic) Thorium isotope material;

j. (sic) plutonium powder.
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As I point out in
Reich of the Black Sun,
this list of materials, while exotic, was not beyond the technological capabilities of l940s manufacture, either for Germany or for America. But what
is
unusual is that these materials are all components of what the document itself specifies is a “neutronic engine.” Moreover, as other MAJIC-12 documents make clear, some of the scientists consulted by the early Roswell investigators were precisely the Paperclip expatriates Von Braun, Steinhof, and others.

As is likewise observed in
Reich of the Black Sun,
this exotic mixture of materials, like much else in the documents’ technical descriptions of the Roswell wreckage, points to technologies clearly associated with the Bell, technologiues similar to “Xerum 525”, and thus clearly point to Nazi Germany.
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E. A Summary and Conclusions

So, looking back over part two, what does one have?

1. The Bell represented the culmination of a project possibly begun in the mid-1920s, under the instigation and inspiration of Walther Gerlach;

2. The Bell was intentionally designed, if one combines the insightful views of Witkowski with my own speculations, as “a plasma trap” and
oscillator
designed to subject highly doped radioactive elements in compound with mercury to extremes of mechanical rotation and electrical stress;

3. The purpose of this device may have been, in part, to test the gravitational, vorticular, and “scalar” physics implications of Gerlach’s and his student Hilgenberg’s views of the vorticular structure of matter and of the aether itself, the ultimate ingredients in any planet-busting doomsday weapon;

4. Thus, the project may have been inspired in part by a paleophysical “reconstruction” of ancient esoteric and classical texts regarding the properties of mercury and its “transmutability”, as Gerlach’s references to “alchemy” suggest;

5. Thus, the project may have also been intended to study not only the uses of this theory and technology for energy production and propulsion, but, as the existence of “Xerum 525” and its similarities to the alleged “ballotechnic” Red Mercury suggest, it may also have been intended to create and or investigate the areas of extremely high density matter states and their use as potential weapons in their own right, as distinct from any “scalar” weapons potential as may have existed under point 3 above.

Thus stated it is small wonder that the SS went to such extreme lengths to protect and preserve the secrets of the Bell. After all, what little is known of it is known only from one war crimes trial affidavit of an SS general being tried in postwar Poland for crimes against his own SS, and from the handful of surviving concentration camp victims who worked on the project or in its immediate environs, and who witnessed its effects. And of course, one of its original team members, Dr. Kurt Debus, was subsequently employed by NASA in a very critical position: as a director of the Kennedy Space Flight Center in Florida. Interestingly enough, Debus
never once
mentioned any connection, or gave any inkling, of the existence of a project as secret and as advanced as the Bell. Were it not for the action of the Polish government declassifying SS General Sporrenberg’s – the general who was actually tasked with murdering the Bell’s research technicians for the SS - war crimes trial affidavit, were it not for the stories of the few remaining eyewitnesses, and for the efforts of Igor Witkowski, nothing whatsoever would be known of it to this day.

But what they
do
tell is enough, if one follows the technical and theoretical clues through to their modern physics analogues, for they tell of a physics, a technology, a
propulsion
and a
weaponry
so advanced and so potentially destructive, that their
conceptual
basis remains hidden and cloaked behind the “public consumption physics” of relativity and an equally if not more severely flawed nineteenth century electrodynamics. Something else altogether occurred in Nazi Germany; some other paradigm was adopted early on and pursued with all the economic and scientific resources and intellectual brilliance that a modern and technologically sophisticated great power could muster. A whole new paradigm of physics – a combination of vortex aether, scalar, quantum-electrodynamic and nuclear physics – appears not only to have been outlined, but
conceptually and experimentally developed
. And if the speculation introduced here is correct, the Bell may represent a project begun approximately nine years before the Nazis even took power.