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5. The Miracle Explosive.
The four items of literature appearing to relate to the explosive
tested at Ohrdruf in March 1945 are as follows:
a. British Security Coordination (BSC) was the largest integrated
intelligence network enterprise in history. Its Director was Sir
William Stevenson, a Canadian industrialist. His code-name was
"Intrepid". In his autobiography², Stevenson relates: "One of the BSC
agents submitted a report, sealed and stamped THIS IS OF PARTICULAR
SECRECY which told of "...liquid air bombs being developed in
Germany... of terrific destructive effect."
The reader should not be misled into thinking that these were modern
common-or-garden "liquid air bombs": Stevenson noted that they were
"as powerful as rockets with atomic warheads".
b. The book "German Secret Weapons" was authored by Brian Ford, Barrie
Pitt and Capt Sir Basil Liddell Hart.³ At page 28, the text states:
"...The Whirlwind Bomb produced an artificial hurricane of fire and is
absolutely authentic even though it may seem improbable. The explosive
was developed and tested by Dr. Zippermayr at Lofer, an experimental
Luftwaffe institute in the Tyrol. The explosive was pulverzied coal
dust and liquid air. Its effect was sufficient to create an artificial
typhoon and was intended initially as an anti-aircraft weapon able to
destroy aircraft by excessive turbulence. The effective radius of
action was 914 metres..."
c. This is a 4-page declassified US Intelligence document of the
Zalzburg Detachment of the US Forces Austria Counter-Intelligence
Corps, describing Dr. Zippermayr was interrogated at Lofer on August
3, 1945. His laboratories were established at Lofer with head office
at Weimarerstrasse 87, Vienna. Staff was 35, work financed by RLM and
under direction of Chef der Technischen Luftruestung.
Zippermayr worked on three projects of which one was the Enzian/
Schmetterling anti-aircraft rockets "charged with a coal dust
explosive so strong that the concussion could break the wings of a
bomber." This item "was proved successful by August 1943, but orders
for its production were not issued until March 9, 1945..."
d. This item is an extract from BIOS (British Intelligence Objectives
Sub-Committee) Final Report 142(g) "Information Obtained from Targets
of Opportunity in the Sonthofen Area, (HMSO London).
The report states that during 1944, an explosive mixture of 60% liquid
air and 40% finely powdered coal dust invented by Dr. Mario Zippermayr
was tested at Doeberitz explosives ground near Berlin, and was found
to be very destructive over a radius of up to 600 metres.
Waffen-SS scientists then became involved and added some kind of waxy
substance to the explosive. The bombs had to be filled immediately
prior to the aircraft taking off. Bombs of 25 and 50 kgs were dropped
on Starnberger See and photos taken. Standartenfuehrer Klemm showed
these to Brandt (Himmler's scientific adviser). The intensive
explosion covered an area up to 4.5 kms radius.
This waxy substance was a reagent of some kind which was said to
interact with air during the development of the explosion, causing it
to change its composition and so create meteorological change in the
atmosphere. A lightning storm at ground level consumes all the
available oxygen. Goering's statement upon his arrest in May 1945 is
significant: he claimed to have led a revolt against Luftwaffe use of
a bomb "which could have destroyed all civilisation." The bomb was not
a nuclear weapon, and it appears to have been a conventional explosive
which used a reagent or catalyst produced by Tesla methodology or
similar for its inexplicable effect.
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6. Conclusion.
The suggestion at this point is that by late 1944, Waffen-SS
scientists in Germany had developed a catalyst or reagent, apparently
a waxy substance, maybe a plasmoid of some kind, which when added to a
conventional explosive containing liquid air vastly magnified the
effect, killing everything within a three mile radius by blast,
tremendous heat and suffocation. It appears also to have had
undesirable meteorological effects.
On April 16, 1945 the Type XB submarine U-234 (KL Fehler) departed
Kristiansand, Norway for Japan direct. She had loaded at Kiel in
January and February, and besides a strategic cargo in the region of
260 tonnes carried ten German and two Japanese passengers, all of whom
were specialists in the military field or scientists.
On May 17, 1945, against his express orders, Kptlt. Fehler decided to
surrender his submarine to the US Navy, and arrived two days later at
Portsmouth Navy Yard, New Hampshire.
What is principally of interest is the cargo, and in particular ten
cases of "uranium oxide" of 560 kilograms weight, and several items
which were not included on the Unloading Manifest.
The Unloading Manifest (US NAT Arch, College Park MD, Box RG38, Box
13, Document OP-20-3-G1-A (Unloading Manifest) dated May 24, 1945) is
a falsified document purporting to show the entire cargo aboard U-234.
The true Manifests, both American and German, have never been
declassified. In the normal course of events, a Manifest upon
declassification would bear the censor's deletions where it was
intended that certain items should not be displayed. The USN alleged
Unloading Manifest is clean of any deletions and purports to be the
true Unloading Manifest. From a declassified cable, it is evident that
80 cases of Uranium Powder have been omitted, as was also, from the
statements of the U-boat crew members and Kptlt. Fehler, a two-seater
Me 262 bomber aircraft brought from Rechlin and stowed in its
component parts.
Germany had 1,200 tonnes of uranium oxide on hand at Oolen in Belgium
throughout the war, but made no strides towards making an atom bomb.
Nevertheless, many commentators fantasize an embryonic atom bomb in
the 560 kilos of "uranium oxide" aboard U-234. It is a fantasy, for
such evidence as exists points to this being a cover word for
something else.
Two official documents address the ten cases of "uranium oxide"
directly.
a. A report headed "Regarding 'URANIUM OXIDE' and other CARGO aboard
U-234" on the interrogation of Geschwaderrichter Kay Nieschling, U-234
passenger by USN Intelligence Officer Lt Best states that "Lt Pfaff
was the man responsible for loading the U-boat" and that "the meaning
behind the ore"-peculiar phrase suggesting that the ore was not the
ore - would be known by Kptlt. Falk (or Falck) who took some secret
courses before he boarded the U-boat. Kptlt. Fehler should also know
something about the ore."
It does not appear that Kptlt. Falk or Falck survived his
interrogation, for there is no record of his return to Germany, and
the US authorities have not been able to account for his movements in
their custody after interrogating him on May 26, 1945. There are other
indications that the "uranium ore" was extraordinary. Lt. Col. John
Lansdale, chief of security for the Manhattan Project, wrote in a 1996
newspaper article published in Britain and Germany that he had
personally handled the disposal of the ten cases. He stated that the
American military authorities "reacted with panic" when they learned
what the cases contained.
b. The second document was found by researcher Joseph Mark Scalia, a
former 12-year US Navy man, during a rummage through old boxes at the
Portsmouth Navy Yard. It is a secret cable from CNO to NYPORT on the
subject "MINE TUBES, UNLOADING OF" and states:
"Interrogation Lt. Pfaff IIWO U-234 discloses he was in charge of
cargo and personally supervised loading all mine tubes. Pfaff prepared
Manifest List and knows kind cargo in each tube. Uranium Oxide loaded
in gold-lined cylinders and as long as cylinders not opened can be
handled like crude TNT. These containers should not be opened as
substance will become sensitive and dangerous..."
The so-called "Uranium Oxide" would become sensitive and dangerous if
exposed to air. The so-called "Uranium Oxide" was perfectly safe in
its cylinders provided one respected it as one would dynamite. The so-
called "Uranium Oxide" was sealed in a cylinder lined with gold.
In nuclear physics gold is used to absorb fission fragments plus gamma
rays in containers, and is particularly efficient at capturing neutron
radiation as well. From this it is evident that the material in the
ten cylinders was not just highly radioactive-it was extraordinarily
dangerous and behaving as if it were itself a nuclear reactor. No
atomic physicist who has examined the evidence about these ten cases
has been able to deliver an opinion as to what substance kept within a
lead case might have required these extraordinary precautions.
On May 24, 1945, when the US Navy began to unload U-234, it is clear
from the US State papers that no decision regarding the atom bomb had
been taken by the US government. On May 30, 1945, both Secretary of
State Stimson and President Truman were agreed that no alternative
existed to deploying America's atomic arsenal against Japan.
They had no alternative to using the atom bomb, and no satisfactory
reason has ever been forthcoming why that decision was made. So what
could have caused these two decent men to decide that such a course of
action was unavoidable?
What was aboard U-234 might also be aboard other Japan-bound U-boats.
The Japanese had at least two submarines with a range of 30,000 miles,
that were capable of being used as aircraft launchers. The Japanese
had a plan of mixing the uranium from U-234 with standard explosives,
and loading them in bombs or planes which were to take off the
submarines and attack San Francisco. The target date was August 1945;
they were ready, only waiting for the shipment of uranium to arrive.
That would make no sense unless the "uranium" from U-234 was the waxy
substance which when mixed with conventional explosives turned the
material into the miracle weapon. These two Japanese submarines would
be very close to San Francisco, and the pilots of the bomber aircraft
would have to be kamikazes, for proximity to the waxy substance meant
certain death.
If the Japanese were indeed in the process of being supplied with this
material by German U-boats for use against the United States west
coast, then this was the reason for the nuclear attacks against Japan.
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The miracle explosive known nowadays as R-Waffe was not based on
uranium, although uranium was used in the creation of the plasmoid.
The plasmoid worked as a catalyst on a conventional coal-dust/liquid
air mixture to vastly expand the explosion.
¹ Lucky Forward: The History of Patton's 3rd US Army, Col. Robert S.
Allen, published by Vanguard Press, New York, 1947, ² A Man Called
Intrepid, Sphere Books, 1977, page 414, ³ German Secret Weapons,
Ballantyne Press, UK, also Libr. Edit. San Martin, Madrid, 1975,
authored by Brian Ford (military scientist), Barrie Pitt (academic
historian) and Capt Sir Basil Liddell Hart (military historian), º US
Forces Austria Counter-Intelligence Corps, Salzburg Detachment, Zell
am See report 4 August 1945, Case No S/Z/55 Dr Mario Zippermayr; NARA
RG 319 Entry 82a Reports and messages, ALSOS Mission.
Additional sources: US Nat Archive NARA/US Strategic Air Forces in
Europe-Air Intelligence Summaries, January 1945 et seq. 6 February
1945, Subject: Engine Interference Counter-measures. To: The Director,
Air Technical Service Command, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, Engineering
Division. From: Taylor Drysdale, Director Technical Services, HQ
European Theatre of Operations, PoW and X Detachment, Military
Intelligence Service, US Army.
Originally published under Ohrdruf by Geoffrey M. Brooks at the Axis
History Forums.
Rob