Berlin – As Hitler’s armies began to crumble on fronts as far apart as Stalingrad and North Africa, he turned in increasing desperation to his scientists to create a war-winning super-weapon.
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Some, like the V2 rockets and the first jet fighters, saw action but came too late to halt defeat.
Others were so outrageously ambitious that they never got past the drawing board. The idea of building flying saucers to bomb London and even New York could have been just such a scheme.
But now it is claimed that Hitler’s scientists had indeed designed this type of aircraft – and were so far advanced with the project that a prototype may even have flown.
The programme, under the command of SS officer Hans Kammler, was said to have made significant breakthroughs with their experiments, says a report in the German science magazine PM.
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Target: Hitler ordered Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering to develop the super weapon that would change the war
It quotes eyewitnesses who believe they saw a flying saucer marked with the Iron Cross of the German military flying low over the Thames in 1944.
‘The Americans also treated the existence of the weapons seriously,’ it adds.
At the time the New York Times had written about a ‘mysterious flying disc’ and published photos of the device travelling at high speeds over the city’s high-rise buildings.
The magazine says that the Germans destroyed much of the paperwork on their activities but in 1960 in Canada UFO experts managed to recreate the device which, to their amazement, ‘did actually fly’.
The project was called the Schriever-Habermohl scheme. Rudolf Schriever was an engineer and test pilot, Otto Habermohl an engineer. It was based in Prague between 1941 and 1943.
Initially a Luftwaffe plan after Hitler ordered his airforce chief Hermann Goering to come up with a super-weapon, it was eventually taken over in 1944 by Kammler.
Prisoners of the Allies claimed to have seen the silvery flying saucer, which was about six yards across, on several occasions.
Joseph Andreas Epp, an engineer on the project, said 15 prototypes were built.
He described how a central cockpit was surrounded by rotating adjustable wing-vanes which formed a circle and gave the craft lift.
After take-off, horizontal jets or rockets were ignited.
After the war, many German scientists helped with the U.S. space programme.
The theory is further fuelled by the claims of Igor Witkowski, a Polish former journalist and historian of military and aerospace technology.
In his book, ‘Prawda O Wunderwaffe’ in 2000, he claims that a bell-shaped craft was being created by the Nazis and that Hitler wanted the best scientists and engineers at his disposal.
If it was identified as a Nazi aircraft, then it was not an “unidentified flying object” (UFO). I think they mean that it looks a lot like alien air vessels from the movies.
It is unfortunate that people are not more clear with their words.
So don’t be so quick to discount people that have seen UFO’s.
Whatever they say Hitler tried even if he didn’t he would have love to, as long as it was evil.
I get a Mazel Tov this week. That’s my revenge to Hitler.
“It quotes eyewitnesses who believe they saw a flying saucer marked with the Iron Cross of the German military flying low over the Thames in 1944.”
Whatever one says about Germans, they wern’t stupid. It is very highly unlikely that anyone would allow an advanced prototype aircraft to be tested over enemy territory where it might get shot down and examined. This all sounds like pure bunkom. The Germans were responsible for the beginnings of modern jet aircraft design but no one has yet built an aircraft resembling the one in the photo (can you say, “Photoshop”?) that could actually fly. The Germans did have advanced designs on the drawing board, such as the A-10 which was a multistage ballistic missile (pretty much like that the same German engineers built for us) designed to hit New York so why would they use manned aircraft, saucer shaped or otherwise, when they had already invented the ballistic missile.
I don’t understand what this would have accomplished? This was an actual bomb or another kind of airplane/balloon?
If it was an airplane, they already had jets?
everyone is sure he wanted to
whether that is what this thing they found is for is the question
I think he’s been dead for 70 years.
Hitler’s scientists worked on a atomic device and there was a heavy water reactor in Trondheim Norway later sabotaged by British agents, He also worked {werner von braun] on a successor to the V 2 rocket and unfortunately many Jews died in that factory. That rocket would have reached New York and would have been an intercontinental missles, the factory Nordhausen
To reign in your phantasy Messerschmitt was the first to produce a jet plane namely the Me 109 . This failed due to the heavy bombing by the USAF which destroyed the factories and airports from the planes took off
i know a Holocaust survivor in my community who said he was forced to work in an underground factory that was very close to producing an ICBM that could go across the Atlantic
It was Werner von Braun the darling of NSA who was the brain behind the German rocket program and in its factory thousands of Jews died a horrible death
I sincerely regret that the atomic bomb was not perfected a few months earlier than it was, as it could have been used against the Third Reich, and dropped right on the Fuehrer bunker.