And in conclusion of the chapter, let's talk about another mysterious project, the fate of which has haunted researchers for a good half century.

On March 25, 1942, the Polish captain, pilot Roman Sobinsky from the British Air Force strategic bomber squadron participated in a night raid on the German city of Essen. Having completed the task, he, along with everyone else, turned back, rising to a height of 500 meters. But he just leaned back in his chair with relief to take a break, as the machine gunner exclaimed in alarm:

We are being pursued by an unknown device!

New fighter? Sobinsky asked, remembering the unsafe Messerschmitt-110.

No, sir captain, - answered the machine gunner, - it seems that this is not a plane. It has an indefinite shape and glows...

Here Sobinsky himself saw an amazing object that ominously played with yellow-red tints. The reaction of the pilot was instantaneous and quite natural for a pilot attacked over enemy territory. “I thought,” he later stated in his report, “that this was some kind of new diabolical thing of the Germans, and ordered the machine gunner to open aimed fire.” However, the device, which approached at a distance of up to 150 meters, completely ignored the attack, and there was something - it did not receive any, at least a little noticeable damage. The frightened machine gunner stopped firing. After a quarter of an hour of flying "in the ranks" of the bombers, the object rapidly rose and disappeared from sight with incredible speed.

A month earlier, on February 26, 1942, a similar object showed interest in the cruiser Tromp of the occupied Netherlands. The ship's commander described it as a giant disc, apparently made of aluminum. An unknown guest watched the sailors for three hours, not fearing them. But even those, convinced of his peaceful behavior, did not open fire. The farewell was traditional - the mysterious apparatus suddenly soared up at a speed of about 6000 kilometers per hour and disappeared.

March 14, 1942 at the secret Norwegian base "Banak", which belonged to Twaffeflotte-5, an alarm was announced - a stranger appeared on the radar screen. The best base, Captain Fisher, lifted the car into the air and at an altitude of 3500 meters discovered a mysterious object. “The alien apparatus seemed to be made of metal and had an aircraft fuselage 100 meters long and about 15 meters in diameter,” the captain reported. - Ahead could be seen something similar to antennas. Although he did not have motors visible from the outside, he flew horizontally. I pursued him for several minutes, after which, to my surprise, he suddenly took the height and disappeared with lightning speed.

And at the end of 1942, a German submarine fired cannons at a silver spindle-shaped object about 80 meters long, which quickly and silently flew 300 meters from it, not paying attention to heavy fire.
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On this, such strange meetings with both the one and the other of the warring parties did not end there. For example, in October 1943, the Allies bombed Europe's largest ball bearing factory in the German city of Schweinfurt. 700 heavy bombers of the 8th Air Force of the USA participated in the operation, and 1300 American and British fighters accompanied them. The mass nature of the air battle can be judged at least by the losses: the Allies - 111 downed fighters, about 60 downed or damaged bombers, the Germans - about 300 downed aircraft. It would seem that in such a hell, which the French pilot Pierre Klosterman compared with an aquarium full of crazy sharks, nothing could capture the imagination of the pilots, and yet ...

British Major R. F. Holmes, who was in command of the bombers, reported that as they passed over the factory, a group of large shiny disks suddenly appeared, which, as if curious, rushed towards them. We calmly crossed the line of fire of German aircraft and approached the American "flying fortresses". They also opened heavy fire from onboard machine guns, but again with zero effect.

However, the crews did not have time to gossip on the topic: “Who else has been brought to us?” - it was necessary to fight off the pressing German fighters. And then ... Major Holmes's plane survived, and the first thing this phlegmatic Englishman did when he landed at the base was to submit a detailed report to the command. It, in turn, asked intelligence to conduct a thorough investigation. The answer came three months later. In it, they say, then the famous abbreviation UFO was used for the first time - according to the initial letters of the English name "unidentified flying object" (UFO), and the conclusion was drawn: the disks have nothing to do with the Luftwaffe or with other air force on the ground. The Americans came to the same conclusion. Therefore, both in the UK and in the USA, research groups were immediately organized, operating in the strictest secrecy.
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Not bypassed the problem of UFOs and our compatriots. Few have probably heard about it, but the first rumors about the appearance of "flying saucers" over the battlefield reached the Supreme Commander back in 1942, during Battle of Stalingrad. Stalin at first left these reports without any visible reaction, since the silver discs had no effect on the course of the battle.

But after the war, when information reached him that the Americans were very interested in this problem, he remembered the UFO again. S.P. Korolev was summoned to the Kremlin. He was handed a pack of foreign newspapers and magazines, adding:

Comrade Stalin asks you to express your opinion...

After that, they gave translators and locked me up in one of the Kremlin offices for three days.

On the third day, Stalin personally invited me to his place, ”Korolev recalled. - I reported to him that the phenomenon is interesting, but does not pose a danger to the state. Stalin replied that other scientists, whom he asked to get acquainted with the materials, were of the same opinion as me ...

Nevertheless, from that moment on, all reports of UFOs in our country were classified, reports about them were sent to the KGB.
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Such a reaction becomes understandable, given that in Germany, apparently, the problem of UFOs was dealt with earlier than the allies. At the end of the same 1942, the Sonderburo-13 was created there, which was called upon to study mysterious air vehicles. His activities were codenamed "Operation Uranus".

The result of all this, according to the Czech magazine "Signal", was the creation of their own ... "flying saucers". The testimonies of nineteen soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht, who served in Czechoslovakia during the Second World War, have been preserved, in one of secret laboratories to create a new type of weapon, the magazine reports. These soldiers and officers witnessed the flights of an unusual aircraft. It was a silver disk 6 meters in diameter with a truncated hull in the center and a drop-shaped cabin. The structure was mounted on four small wheels. According to the story of one of the eyewitnesses, he observed the launch of such a device in the fall of 1943.

This information to some extent coincides with the facts set forth in a curious manuscript that recently caught my eye in the reader's mail. “Wherever fate threw me,” wrote electronic engineer Konstantin Tyuts in a cover letter to her. - I had to travel around South America. Moreover, he climbed into such corners that, frankly, they lie quite far from the tourist trails. I had to meet different people. But that meeting remained in the memory forever.

It was in Uruguay, in 1987. At the end of August, in the colony of emigrants, which is 70 kilometers from Montevideo, a traditional holiday was held - the festival was not a festival, but everyone “buzzed” famously. I'm not a big fan of "this thing", so I lingered at the Israeli pavilion (the exposition was painfully interesting there), and my colleague walked away "for a beer." Here I look - an elderly smart man in a light shirt, ironed trousers is standing nearby and staring at me intently. Came up and talked. It turns out that he caught my dialect, and this attracted him. Both of us, as it turned out, were from the Donetsk region, from Gorlovka. His name was Vasily Petrovich Konstantinov.

Then, taking the military attache with us, we went to his house, sat out the whole evening ... In Uruguay, Konstantinov ended up just like dozens, and maybe hundreds of his compatriots. Having been freed from a concentration camp in Germany, he moved not to the east, to "infiltration", but to the other side, which saved him. I wandered around Europe, settled in Uruguay. For a long time I kept in my memory that amazing thing that I took out from the distant 41-43s. And finally, he spoke out.

In 1989, Vasily died: age, heart ...

I have the notes of Vasily Konstantinov, and, offering a fragment of his memoirs, I hope that he will amaze you in the same way that the oral story of their author struck me at one time.

It was hot July 1941. Every now and then, unhappy pictures of our retreat rose up before my eyes - airfields pitted with funnels, a glow in the half-sky from entire squadrons of our aircraft burning on the ground. The constant howl of German aircraft. Piles of metal interspersed with mangled human bodies. The suffocating haze and the stench from the wheat fields engulfed in flames...

After the first skirmishes with the enemy near Vinnitsa (in the area of ​​our then main headquarters), our unit fought its way to Kiev. Sometimes, for recreation, we took refuge in the forests. Finally we came to the highway six kilometers from Kyiv. I don’t know what exactly came to our freshly baked commissar’s mind, but all the survivors were ordered to line up in a column and march along the highway towards Kiev with a song. From the outside, it all looked like this: a group of exhausted people in windings, with heavy three-rulers of the 1941 model, were moving towards the city. We only had time to walk just a kilometer. A German reconnaissance aircraft appeared in the blue-black sky from the heat and conflagrations, and then - the bombing ... So fate divided us into the living and the dead. Five survived, as it turned out later in the camp.

I woke up after an air raid with a shell shock - my head was buzzing, everything was swimming before my eyes, and here - a kid, his shirt sleeves were rolled up, and threatened with a machine gun: "Rusish Schwein!" In the camp, I remember the rantings of our commissar about justice, brotherhood, mutual assistance, until they shared and ate the last crumbs of my miraculously surviving NZ together. And then I fell down with typhus, but fate gave me life - slowly I began to get out. The body needed food. "Friends", including the commissar, at night, hiding from each other, crushed the unripe potatoes collected during the day in the neighboring field. And what am I - why transfer good to a dying person? ..

Then I was transferred to the Auschwitz camp for trying to escape. Until now, nightmares have haunted me at night - the barking of cannibal German shepherds, ready, on the orders of the SS guards, to tear you to pieces, the cries of the camp foremen-capos, the moans of the dying near the barracks ... Memories pile up like a terrible dream when in a pile of half-dead bodies and corpses I, a prisoner in the convalescent block, who again fell ill with relapsing fever, was waiting for my turn in the storage tank near one of the crematorium ovens. There was a nauseating stench of burnt human flesh all around. A low bow to a female doctor, a German woman (there was an article about her in the Izvestia newspaper in 1984), who saved me and got me out. That's how I turned out to be a different person, and even with the documents of a mechanical engineer.

Somewhere in August 1943, some of the prisoners, including myself, were transferred near Peenemünde, to the KTs-A-4 camp, as it turned out, to eliminate the consequences of Operation Hydra, a British air raid. By order of the executioner - SS Brigadeführer Hans Kampler - the prisoners of Auschwitz became the "katsetniks" of the Peenemünde training ground. The head of the range, Major General Deriberger, was forced to involve prisoners of KTs-A-4 to speed up the restoration work.

And then one day, in September 1943, I was lucky enough to witness one interesting event.

Our group was finishing the demolition of a broken reinforced concrete wall. The whole brigade was taken away under guard for a lunch break, and I, as having injured my leg (it turned out to be a dislocation), remained to wait for my fate. Somehow I managed to set the bone myself, but the car had already left.

Suddenly, onto a concrete platform near one of the nearby hangars, four workers rolled out a round, resembling a basin turned upside down, apparatus with a transparent teardrop-shaped cabin in the middle. And on small inflatable wheels. Then, with a wave of the hand of a short, overweight man, a strange heavy apparatus, shimmering in the sun with silvery metal and shuddering with every gust of wind, made a hissing sound like the noise of a blowtorch, broke away from the concrete platform and hovered at a height of about five meters. Having swayed for a short time in the air - like a "roly-poly-up" - the apparatus suddenly seemed to be transformed: its contours began to gradually blur. They seem to be out of focus.

Then the device abruptly, like a top, jumped up and began to gain altitude like a snake. The flight, judging by the rocking, was unsteady. Suddenly a gust of wind came from the Baltic, and the strange structure, turning over in the air, began to lose altitude sharply. I was doused with a stream of burning, ethyl alcohol and hot air. There was a blow, a crunch of breaking parts - the car fell not far from me. Instinctively, I ran towards her. We need to save the pilot - the man is the same! The pilot's body hung lifelessly from the broken cockpit, the fragments of the skin, flooded with fuel, were gradually enveloped in bluish wisps of flame. The still hissing jet engine was sharply exposed: in the next instant everything was on fire...

So my first acquaintance with an experimental apparatus that had a propulsion system took place - a modernized version of a jet engine for Messerschmitt-262 aircraft. Flue gases, escaping from the guide nozzle, flowed around the body and, as it were, interacted with the surrounding air, forming a rotating cocoon of air around the structure and thereby creating an air cushion for the movement of the machine ...
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The manuscript ended here, but what has already been said is enough for a group of voluntary experts from the Tekhnika-Molodezhi magazine to try to determine what kind of flying machine the former prisoner of the KTs-A-4 camp saw? And this is what, according to engineer Yuri Stroganov, they did.

Model No. 1 of a disk-shaped aircraft was created by German engineers Schriver and Gabermol back in 1940, and tested in February 1941 near Prague. This "saucer" is considered the world's first vertical take-off aircraft. By design, it somewhat resembled a lying bicycle wheel: a wide ring rotated around the cab, the role of the “spokes” of which was played by effortlessly adjustable blades. They could be put in the right position for both horizontal and vertical flight. At first, the pilot sat as in a conventional aircraft, then his position was changed to almost recumbent. The machine brought a lot of problems to the designers, because the slightest imbalance caused significant vibration, especially at high speeds, which was the main cause of accidents. An attempt was made to make the outer rim heavier, but in the end the "wheel with a wing" exhausted its possibilities.

Model No. 2, called the "vertical aircraft", was an improved version of the previous one. Its size has been increased to accommodate two pilots lying in chairs. Engines were strengthened, fuel reserves were increased. For stabilization, a steering mechanism similar to an aircraft was used. The speed reached about 1200 kilometers per hour. As soon as the desired height was gained, the bearing blades changed their position, and the device moved like modern helicopters.

Alas, these two models were destined to remain at the level of experimental developments. Many technical and technological obstacles did not allow them to be brought up to standard, not to mention serial production. It was then, when a critical situation arose, and Sonderburo-13 appeared, which attracted the most experienced test pilots and the best scientists of the "Third Reich" to research. Thanks to his support, it became possible to create a disk that left far behind not only all the then, but also some modern aircraft.

Model No. 3 was made in two versions: 38 and 68 meters in diameter. It was powered by a "smokeless and flameless" engine by the Austrian inventor Viktor Schauberger. (Apparently, one of these variants, and possibly even an earlier prototype of even smaller dimensions, was seen by a prisoner of the KTs-A-4 camp.)

The inventor kept the principle of operation of his engine in the strictest confidence. Only one thing is known: the principle of its operation was based on an explosion, and during operation it consumed only water and air. The machine, which received the code name "Disk Belonze", was ringed by an installation of 12 inclined jet engines. They cooled the “explosive” engine with their jets and, sucking in air, created a rarefaction area on top of the apparatus, which contributed to its rise with less effort.

On February 19, 1945, the Disk Belonze made its first and last experimental flight. In 3 minutes, test pilots reached an altitude of 15,000 meters and a speed of 2,200 kilometers per hour in horizontal motion. He could hover in the air and fly back and forth with almost no turns, but he had folding racks for landing.

The apparatus, which cost millions, was destroyed at the end of the war. Although the plant in Breslau (now Wroclaw), where it was built, fell into the hands of our troops, it did nothing. Schriever and Schauberger escaped Soviet captivity and moved to the United States.

In a letter to a friend in August 1958, Viktor Schauberger wrote: “The model tested in February 1945 was built in cooperation with first-class explosion engineers from among the prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Then they were taken to the camp, for them it was the end. After the war, I heard that there was an intensive development of disk-shaped aircraft, but, despite the elapsed time and a lot of documents captured in Germany, the countries leading the development did not create at least something similar to my model. It was blown up on Keitel's orders."

Schauberger was offered $3 million by the Americans for revealing the secret of his flying disc and especially the "explosive" engine. However, he replied that until the signing of an international agreement on complete disarmament, nothing could be made public and that its discovery belonged to the future.

To be honest, the legend is fresh... Just remember how Wernher von Braun unfolded in the States, on whose rockets the Americans eventually flew to the moon (we will talk about his activities in detail in the next chapter). It is unlikely that Schauberger would have resisted the temptation if he could show the goods with his face. But he didn't seem to have anything to show. For the simple reason that he, it can be assumed, if he did not deceive, then simply did not own all necessary information. And most of his assistants, first-class specialists, ended up in Mauthausen and other death camps.

However, the hint that similar works all the same, they were fought, the allies received. And not only from Schauberger. Our units, having seized a secret factory in Breslau (Wroclaw), also probably found something. And after some time, Soviet specialists launched their own work on the creation of vertical take-off vehicles.
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Evidence of this can be at least a "barrel", which I happened to see in one of the hangars of the aviation museum in Monin. The official name of this outlandish aircraft is a turbofly. It was tested in the late 50s by our famous test pilot Yu. A. Garnaev. Here is how an eyewitness, honored test pilot, Colonel Arkady Bogorodsky described this event:
“The engine is running, the flames cut through the ground, knocking out stones and turning them into dust. This dust disperses around in clubs, and nothing is visible except dust.

And suddenly, at the top of this tangle, an engine nozzle is shown, then a cabin, racks - and now you can see the whole turbofly hanging at a height of ten meters ... "

The turboplane hovered and moved due to the lifting force of a jet engine mounted vertically. And it was controlled by gas rudders. So here, perhaps, a variation of the “Belonze Disk” took place, which then led to the creation of rocket modules for landing troops on the moon and modern vertical take-off and landing aircraft, the varieties of which - both foreign and our domestic ones - today are many.

One of the most promising, in my opinion, is the “flying loaf”, or “EKIP” - the original aircraft, created in our country by a team of scientists and engineers under the guidance of Dr. technical sciences L. N. Schukina.

Aeronautical engineers have long sought to improve aircraft in traditional ways. They increased the aerodynamic quality and reliability, reduced fuel consumption and the mass of an empty car - because these parameters directly affect the cost of passenger and freight transportation. However, according to a number of researchers, the maximum flight weight of aircraft made according to the classical scheme has approached the limit, for example, this applies to the heaviest aircraft in the world, the An-225 Mriya. One of the reasons for this is the design of the take-off and landing gear, in other words, the landing gear.

An unexpected way out of this situation was proposed by L. N. Shchukin. The EKIP concern (ecology and progress) created under his leadership has already produced a number of projects for transport aircraft of a fundamentally new type with a take-off weight of 9 to 600 tons. The first thing that catches your eye is their shape, reminiscent of the notorious UFO. But if you approach the analysis of "EKIPs" from an engineering point of view, then nothing fantastic will turn out.

In terms of layout, they represent a small elongation flying wing with a very thick profile, up to 37 percent of the chord length. They do not have the usual fuselage, and the payload, engines, fuel, equipment, crew and passengers are housed in the body, and only the tail and small consoles with aerodynamic controls protrude beyond the contours of the device. Instead of a wheeled chassis - an air cushion.

Aircraft designers back in the 30s dealt with the problem of creating such a "inhabited wing". One of the first to address it was K. A. Kalinin, who built the seven-engine bomber K-7 in 1933. In its wing of 20 percent thickness, office space, fuel, cargo, and only the crew were located, for better view, planted in a gondola carried forward. Such a wing provided a very high aerodynamic quality, which directly affects the efficiency of the machine. A passenger version of the K-7 with large windows was also developed.

However, the Kalinin aircraft had a lot of unused internal volume, and it was possible to increase the layout density only by increasing the relative thickness of the wing, which was not possible at that time. As is known from the course of aerodynamics, the maximum values ​​of the lift coefficient are obtained with a relative wing thickness of 14–16 percent. Its further increase leads to a decrease in the limiting angles of attack, the amount of lift and an increase in drag, which adversely affects the aerodynamic quality of the machine and its efficiency. This phenomenon is associated with a forward displacement of the separation point of the boundary layer against the oncoming air flow.

As far back as the 1930s, aviation specialists proposed to control the flow around the wing. Imagine that it is with a slit at the top. Through it, air is sucked off by a special device and therefore does not collide with the boundary layer flowing in the opposite direction - therefore, separation does not occur. There is another way, by the way, which has become widespread in aviation - blowing off the boundary layer at the points of its separation from the bearing surface. A combined version is also used, when the boundary layer of the wing is both sucked off and blown off.

The main difficulty that designers face here is that this consumes a significant part of the power of the power plant, which is why they use only blowing off the boundary layer, and then during landing approach, when the engines are not working at full power.

It was this method that the engineers of the concern "adopted" - in the places of the alleged separation of the flow, along the supporting body, they proposed to make slots in which air microcirculation would be created. Then the oncoming flow will not slow down - its speed will be supported by artificial vortices. By the way, the first experiments on the so-called non-separated flow were carried out back in 1978 at the Geodesy Research Institute on a thick wing model. Everything may seem very simple, but EKIP had to work hard before a successful, economical device appeared.

In addition, the air intake located in its upper part should also improve the flow around a very impressive body. Designers have already turned to such a solution, because it still reduces the likelihood of foreign objects getting into the engine during takeoff and landing. However, there was a negative interference of the air intake and the airframe of the aircraft, especially at high angles of attack. And when flying at high speed, say, 700 kilometers per hour, air intake from the top of the carrier body could lead to the appearance of local supersonic zones that degrade the aerodynamic quality of the machine. At the same time, this arrangement improves its stability. As they say, in one we win, in the other we lose. So, you have to look for the golden mean ...

Compared to conventional aircraft, EKIPs will have a 3–5 times lower specific load on the bearing surface, therefore, the inductive drag will decrease, and the maximum aerodynamic quality will increase to 17–25, while flying in the ekranoplan mode - up to 22– thirty. Therefore, "EKIPs", according to the terminology proposed by the prominent Soviet aircraft designer R. L. Bartini, should be classified as ekranoletov.

The use of landing gear on an air "cushion" will make it possible to exclude takeoff and landing only on concrete strips. Note that there have been attempts to implement it on aircraft before, but things never went beyond experiments. One of the reasons for this is a “cloud” of water drops, dust and snowflakes that escape from under the flexible guard when moving and get into the engines, settling on the body. Instead of a flexible fence, the concern's specialists used a gas-jet curtain created together with the "cushion" of the auxiliary power unit - air jets flying out at a pressure of slightly more than 1 atmosphere from nozzles located around the perimeter of the apparatus will cut off the "cushion" from the atmosphere. In addition, it is supposed to mount ionizers in the nozzles so that if positively charged dust particles fall on the body, then only in the designated places.

Perhaps it was the work of such systems that the prisoner of the concentration camp noticed. Remember, in his manuscript, he mentions that at some point the body of the aircraft began to lose its sharpness, as it were? .. But let's return to our days.

Shchukin and his team had to solve the problem of controlling the EKIPs at the beginning of the takeoff run and hover mode, when the aerodynamic systems are ineffective. For this, it is proposed to use small-sized liquid-propellant engines from the Buran orbiter, modified for new operating conditions.

The entire power plant of the EKIPs is divided into three groups. The first includes marching PK-92 or D-436, the second - unique, unparalleled dual-mode AL-34, which will create increased pressure under the bottom of the vehicle during takeoff and provide a boundary layer control system, the third - LRE stabilization and control at small speed, takeoff and landing.

And now let's try to compare the largest of the "EKIPs" L4-2 with the giant An-225. With the same takeoff weight of 600 tons, the L4-2 will deliver a load of 200 tons over a distance of 8,600 kilometers, while the Mriya will deliver only 4,500 kilometers. In this case, the latter will need a stationary airfield with a runway length of at least 3.5 kilometers. For R4-2, you will need a platform six times shorter. Such characteristics can be achieved thanks not only to the high aerodynamic quality of the EKIP (for Mriya it does not exceed 19), but to a greater weight return.

The layout of the EKIP allows passengers to have an all-round view through the extensive portholes made of structural glass - "stained-glass windows", as the authors call them.

For almost 10 years, Lev Nikolaevich Shchukin had to prove the advantages of aircraft of a fundamentally new type. Initially, many authorities met his ideas with hostility, but over time, the ice of mistrust was melted, and today the prospects for the use of "EKIPs" in the national economy and in the armed forces are obvious. The first prototypes of the “flying saucer” have already been created and tested, inside which not mythical aliens are placed, but our compatriots.
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It is likely that the Americans have gone through a similar path in their time. And in the mysterious hangar No. 18, which journalists like to remember from time to time, there really are fragments of “flying saucers”. Only aliens have absolutely nothing to do with them - the trophies of the Second World War are stored in the hangar. And over the past decades, based on their study, the Americans have managed to create many curious aircraft.

So, recently a mysterious "unknown star" was seen at one of the secret US air bases.

At first, this name - "Darkstar" - was attributed to the mysterious strategic reconnaissance aircraft "Aurora". Recently, however, the fog of secrecy has gradually begun to dissipate. And it became clear that in reality it belongs to an unmanned high-altitude aircraft of Lockheed Martin, created as part of the Tier III Minus program. The official demonstration of the prototype took place on June 1, 1995 in Palmdale (Antelope Valley, California), where the company's factories are located. Prior to this, only vague guesses were made about the existence of the machine.

Unmanned high-altitude aircraft "Unknown Star" was developed jointly by Lockheed Martin and Boeing. The share of participation of each company in the implementation of the program was 50 percent. Boeing specialists were responsible for the creation of a composite wing, the supply of avionics and the preparation of the aircraft for operation. Lockheed Martin handled fuselage design, final assembly and testing.

The machine presented in Palmdale is the first of two being created under the Tier III Minus program. It is made using stealth technology. In the future, it is likely that comparative tests of these “invisibles” will be carried out with the Teledyne model, which was previously selected by the Pentagon as part of a program that provides for the creation of a whole family of unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.

In total, it is planned to purchase 20 vehicles from Lockheed and Teledyne each. This should allow unit commanders to receive operational information during exercises or combat operations almost around the clock in real time. The Lockheed aircraft is designed primarily for short-range operations, in high-risk areas and at altitudes above 13,700 meters, its speed is 460-550 kilometers per hour. He is able to stay in the air for 8 hours at a distance of 900 kilometers from the base.

Structurally, the "Unknown Star" is made according to the "tailless" aerodynamic configuration, has a disc-shaped fuselage and a high aspect ratio wing with a slight reverse sweep.

This unmanned reconnaissance aircraft operates in a fully automatic mode from takeoff to landing. It is equipped with the Westinghouse AN / APQ-183 radar (intended for the failed A-12 Avenger 2 project), which can be replaced by the Recon / Optical electronic-optical complex. The aircraft has a wingspan of 21.0 meters, a length of 4.6 meters, a height of 1.5 meters and a wing area of ​​29.8 square meters. The weight of the empty vehicle (including reconnaissance equipment) is about 1,200 kilograms, with a full load - up to 3,900 kilograms.

Flight testing is being conducted at NASA's Dryden Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base. If they are successful, then the aircraft can be put into service at the end of ours, the beginning of the next century.

So, as you can see, from time to time you can even benefit from seemingly empty talk about “flying saucers”.

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Whatever they say, one thing is indisputable: there is no more extensive and more branched underground fortified area in the world than the one that was dug in the Warta-Obra-Oder river triangle more than half a century ago. Until 1945, these lands were part of Germany. After the collapse of the Third Reich, they returned to Poland. Only then did Soviet specialists descend into the top-secret dungeon. We went down, marveled at the length of the tunnels and left. No one wanted to get lost, explode, disappear into giant concrete catacombs that stretched for tens (!) kilometers...

No one could say for what purpose double-track narrow-gauge railways were laid in them, where and why electric trains ran through endless tunnels with countless branches, dead ends, what they transported on their platforms, who was a passenger. However, it is known for certain that Hitler at least twice visited this underground reinforced concrete kingdom, coded under the name "RL" - Regenwurmlager - "Earthworm Camp".

The Third Reich goes underground
The spectacle is not for the faint of heart, when bats crawl and squeak out of the viewing slots of old pillboxes and armored caps in the forest twilight. The winged vampires decided that people had built these multi-storey dungeons for them, and settled there long ago and reliably. Here, not far from the Polish city of Miedzyrzecz, lives the largest colony of bats in Europe - tens of thousands. But this is not about them, although military intelligence has chosen the silhouette of a bat as its emblem.

Legends have been circulating about this area, circulating and will continue to circulate for a long time, one darker than the other.

“Let's start with,” says one of the pioneers of the local catacombs, Colonel Alexander Liskin, “that near a forest lake, in a reinforced concrete box, an insulated outlet of an underground power cable was discovered, instrumental measurements on the cores of which showed the presence of industrial current with a voltage of 380 volts.

Soon the attention of the sappers was attracted by a concrete well, which swallowed water falling from a height. At the same time, intelligence reported that, perhaps, underground power communication was coming from the direction of Miedzyrzecz. However, the presence of a hidden autonomous power plant, and also the fact that its turbines were rotated by water falling into a well, were not excluded. It was said that the lake was somehow connected to the surrounding water bodies, and there are many of them here.

The sappers discovered the entrance to the tunnel disguised as a hill. Already in the first approximation, it became clear that this is a serious structure, moreover, probably with various kinds of traps, including mines. It was said that once a tipsy foreman on his motorcycle decided to ride through the mysterious tunnel on a bet. We didn't see the scorcher again."

What for?

Any research is under the sign of this question. mysterious object. Why was the gigantic dungeon built? Why are hundreds of kilometers of electrified railways, and a good dozen more possible "why?" and why?"

A local old-timer, a former tanker and now a taxi driver named Jozef, took a fluorescent lamp with him and undertook to take us to one of the twenty-two underground stations. All of them were once designated male and female names: "Dora", "Martha", "Emma", "Berta". The closest to Miedzyrzech is Henryk. Our guide claims that it was to his platform that Hitler arrived from Berlin in order to go from here already over the surface to his field headquarters near Rastenberg - the Wolfschanze.

This has its own logic - the underground route from Berlin made it possible to secretly leave the Reich Chancellery. And the Wolf's Lair is only a few hours away by car.

Jozef drives his Polonaise down the narrow highway southwest of town. In the village of Kalava, we turn towards the Scharnhorst bunker. This is one of the strongholds of the defensive system of the Pomor Wall. And the places in the area are idyllic and do not fit in with these military words: hilly copses, poppies in the rye, swans in the lakes, storks on the roofs, pine forests burning from the inside with the sun, roe deer roam.

WELCOME TO HELL!

A picturesque hill with an old oak tree on top was crowned with two steel armored caps. Their massive smoothed cylinders with slits looked like Teutonic knightly helmets, "forgotten" under the shadow of an oak crown.

The western slope of the hill was cut off by a concrete wall one and a half human height, into which an armored hermetic door was cut into a third of an ordinary door and several air intake holes, again taken away by armored blinds. They were the gills of an underground monster. Above the entrance is an inscription sprayed from a spray can with paint: "Welcome to hell!" - "Welcome to Hell!"

Under the close eye of the machine-gun embrasure of the flank battle, we approach the armored door and open it with a long special key. The heavy, but well-oiled door swings open easily, and another loophole looks into your chest - a frontal battle. “Entered without a pass - get a burst of machine guns,” says her blank, unblinking gaze. This is the chamber of the entrance vestibule.

Once upon a time, its floor treacherously failed, and an intruder flew into the well, as was practiced in medieval castles. Now it is securely fastened, and we turn into a narrow side corridor that leads into the bunker, but after a few steps is interrupted by the main gas lock. We leave it and find ourselves in a checkpoint, where the guard once checked the documents of all incoming people and held the entrance pressure door at gunpoint. Only after that you can enter the corridor leading to the combat casemates, covered with armored domes.

One of them still has a rusty rapid-fire grenade launcher, another housed a flamethrower, the third housed a heavy machine gun. camouflaged emergency exit.

One floor below there are warehouses of expendable ammunition, a tank with fire mixture, an entrance trap chamber, it is also a punishment cell, a sleeping compartment for a shift on duty, a filter-ventilation enclosure ... Here is the entrance to the underworld: a wide one - four meters in diameter - a concrete well plummets down to a depth of a ten-story Houses. The beam of the lantern highlights the water at the bottom of the mine. A concrete staircase descends along the shaft in steep narrow flights.

“There are a hundred and fifty steps,” Jozef says. We follow him with bated breath: what is below? And below, at a depth of 45 meters, there is a high-arched hall, similar to the nave of an old cathedral, except that it was assembled from arched reinforced concrete. The shaft, along which the staircase wound, breaks off here in order to continue even deeper, but already like a well filled almost to the brim with water.

Does it have a bottom? And why does the shaft hanging over it rise up to the casemate floor? Joseph doesn't know. But he leads us to another well, narrower, covered with a manhole cover. This is the source drinking water. Might as well grab it now.

I look around the arches of the local Hades. What did they see, what was happening under them? This hall served the Scharnhorst garrison as a military camp with a rear base. Here, two-tier concrete hangars “flowed” into the main tunnel, like tributaries into the channel. They housed two barracks for a hundred people, an infirmary, a kitchen, warehouses with food and ammunition, a power plant, and a fuel storage.

The trolley trains also rolled up here through the lock gas chamber along the branch line leading to the main tunnel to the Henrik station.
- Shall we go to the station? our guide asks.

Jozef dives into a low and narrow corridor, and we follow him. The footpath seems endless, we have been walking along it at an accelerated pace for a quarter of an hour, but there is no light at the end of the tunnel. And there will be no light here, as, indeed, in all the other "holes of the earthworm."

Only then I notice how chilly it is in this frozen dungeon: the temperature here is constant, both in summer and in winter - 10oC. At the thought, under what thickness of the earth our gap-path stretches, it becomes completely uncomfortable. The low arch and narrow walls compress the soul - will we get out of here? And if the concrete ceiling collapses, and if water gushes? After all, for more than half a century, all these structures have not known any maintenance or repair, they are holding back, and yet they are holding back both the pressure of the bowels and the pressure of water ...

When the phrase “Maybe we’ll return?” was already spinning on the tip of the tongue, the narrow passage finally merged into a wide transport tunnel. Concrete slabs made up a kind of platform here. This was Henrik Station - abandoned, dusty, dark ...

I immediately remembered those stations of the Berlin underground, which until recently were in a similar desolation, since they were under the wall that cut Berlin into eastern and western parts. They could be seen from the windows of blue express trains - these caverns of time frozen for half a century ... Now, standing on the Henrik platform, it was not difficult to believe that the rails of this rusty double-track reached the Berlin underground.

We turn to the side. Soon puddles sloshed underfoot, and drainage ditches stretched along the edges of the footpath - ideal drinkers for bats. The beam of the lantern jumped upwards, and above our heads moved a large living bunch, molded from bone-winged half-birds, half-animals. Cold goosebumps ran down the back - what a dirty trick, however! For nothing that it is useful - it eats mosquitoes.

They say that the souls of dead sailors inhabit seagulls. Then the souls of the SS must turn into bats. And judging by the number of bats nesting under concrete vaults, the entire “Dead Head” division, which disappeared without a trace in the 45th in the Mezeritsky dungeon, is still hiding from sunlight in the form of bat-winged creatures.

Get out, get out of here, and as soon as possible!

OUR TANK - OVER THE BUNKER

To the question “why the Mezeritsky fortified area was created”, military historians answer this way: in order to hang a powerful castle on the main strategic axis of Europe Moscow-Warsaw-Berlin-Paris.

The Chinese built their Great Wall in order to cover the borders of the Celestial Empire for thousands of miles from the invasion of nomads. The Germans did almost the same, erecting the Eastern Wall - Ostwall, with the only difference being that they laid their "wall" underground.

They began to build it back in 1927, and only ten years later they completed the first stage. Hoping to sit behind this "impregnable" shaft, the Nazi strategists moved from here, first to Warsaw, and then to Moscow, leaving captured Paris in the rear.

The outcome of the great campaign to the east is known. Onslaught Soviet armies neither the anti-tank "dragon's teeth", nor the armored dome installations, nor the underground forts with all their medieval traps and the most modern weapons helped to contain.

In the winter of the forty-fifth, the fighters of Colonel Gusakovsky broke through this "impassable" line and moved directly to the Oder. Here, near Miedzyrzech, the tank battalion of Major Karabanov, who burned down in his tank, fought with the "Dead Head".

No extremists dared to break the monument to our fighters near the village of Kalava. It is silently guarded by the memorial “thirty-four”, even though now it has remained in the rear of NATO. Its cannon looks west - at the armored domes of the Scharnhorst bunker.

The old tank went into a deep raid historical memory. At night, bats circle over him, but sometimes flowers are placed on his armor. Who? Yes, those who still remember that victorious year, when these lands, dug up by the "earthworm" and still fertile, again became Poland.

"Undoubtedly every National Socialist must sooner or later come to terms with the so-called 'occult' facts." Reichswart newspaper, August 30, 1937. The most terrible thing in the fight against such an adversary as Nazism is not the answers to the questions. The worst thing is when they pretend that no questions exist at all.

When you start reading about the Nazi space project Aldebaran, it's hard to get rid of the thought that it's all just fiction. But as soon as you come across information about the same project in the name of Wernher von Braun, it becomes a little uncomfortable. For many years after the Second World War, SS-Standartenführer Wernher von Braun was not just anyone, but one of the key figures in the American project of flying to the moon. The Moon, of course, is much closer than the planet Aldebaran. But on the other hand, the flight to the moon, as you know, took place.

So there are questions, and a lot of them. It's all about who and how to answer them.

Here are just a few.

What was the SS expedition looking for, which was held under the auspices of the occult and mystical organization Anenerbe, in distant Tibet in 1938? And why were the SS men allowed to go where the Europeans were ordered to go?

What goals did another SS expedition pursue - not just anywhere, but to Antarctica?

Why in last years war, the Fuhrer throws the main finances of the Reich not on tanks and planes, but on mysterious and rather ghostly projects of the same Anenerbe? Does this mean that the projects were already on the verge of implementation?

Why on Nuremberg Trials so abruptly interrupted the interrogation of SS Standartenführer Wolfram Sievers - Secretary General"Anenerbe", as soon as he started naming names? And why was a simple SS colonel so hastily shot among the most important war criminals of the "Third Reich"?

Why was it Dr. Cameron, who was present in Nuremberg as part of the American delegation and studied the activities of the Anenerbe, then headed the CIA Blue Bird project, within which psychoprogramming and psychotronics were developed?

Why is it that in the report of the American military intelligence, dated 1945, the preamble says that all the activities of the Anenerbe were pseudo-scientific in nature, while the report itself recorded, for example, such a “pseudo-scientific” achievement as a successful fight against a cancer cell?

What is this strange story about the discovery of the corpses of Tibetan monks in SS uniforms in Hitler's bunker at the end of the war?

Why Anenerbe urgently seized documentation scientific laboratories and any secret societies along with the archives of special services in each of the countries just captured by the Wehrmacht?

Early nineteenth century. The daughter of a Russified German Helena Blavatsky between Europe and America. On the way, she stops by Egypt, then Tibet. Blavatsky is a great adventurer, she knows that the key to her success is constant movement. Where she lingers for at least a few months, behind her, like behind a comet, a trail of scandals and revelations is immediately created, including the disclosure of the very earthly mechanisms of her "clairvoyance" and "evocation of spirits." Blavatsky quickly became fashionable. Europe was waiting for something like that, and it appeared.

To begin with, Blavatsky told the world that she had observed flying Buddhist monks in Tibet. In the same place, in Tibet, some secret knowledge was allegedly revealed to her. Madame Blavatsky tried to present them in the book The Secret Doctrine, combining in it all possible information about Eastern occultism and Hinduism with breaking news science. It turned out to be unusual and attractive for contemporaries who are waiting for either the end of the world or the second coming.

It was Blavatsky who dictated the dangerous fashion of linking practical science, Eastern occultism and traditional European mysticism. If her ideas had not gone beyond the boundaries of European secular salons, trouble, perhaps, would not have happened. But the recipe for the explosive mixture also came to Germany.

Historians are absolutely right when in school textbooks they explain the prerequisites for Hitler's rise to power by the most difficult socio-economic conditions in Germany at that time, the geopolitical consequences of defeat in the First World War, the disappointment and resentment of the army, revanchist sentiments in society. But the main thing that united all this was national humiliation.

A nervous young man who wanted to become an artist stood idle for hours in front of the “magic spear” exhibited in the Vienna Museum. It was believed that whoever wields this spear can rule the world. And this former soldier really wanted to rule the world, because he lived in poverty, and his artistic talents were not recognized as talents. Who could be more dangerous young man? And in whose head can the darkest magical formulas and mystical ideas be implanted with such ease?

In any case, when the army counterintelligence informant Adolf Schicklgruber attended meetings of the Germanenorden secret society, his psyche was already sensitive to unusual spells and ritual rites. In its turn, key figures secret societies very quickly noticed a suitable candidate for the post of the future leader of the nation. The network of these secret societies actually developed the mechanism of the fascist regime.

As you know, "Mein Kampf" Hitler wrote in a Munich prison after the failed Nazi coup. In prison, he was sitting with Rudolf Hess. And Professor Haushofer, one of the most influential people in the Thule society, visited them there. Professor Hitler liked it, after which the leadership of the Thule moved his political career from its place. And while still in prison, Dr. Haushofer began to read some mysterious lectures to the future leaders, which prompted Hitler to take up literary work.

And here another question arises in addition to the above list - an extremely important one in order to understand what nevertheless happened in the "Third Reich". But was the faith of the highest SS hierarchs in everything mystical and otherworldly sincere?

It looks like yes and no. On the one hand, the leaders of National Socialism were well aware of what a strong effect, in terms of managing people, all these medieval visions with grails, flaming torches and so on can give. And here they exploited typical German romanticism with typical German pragmatism.

On the other hand, the daily performance of occult rituals and complete immersion in mysticism could hardly have left their own psyche without a trace.

And, finally, the third. All the years of their stay in power, the Nazis experienced an unconscious fear of future retribution. Was not the passion for mysticism the drug that helped to drown out this fear at least for a moment?

The world of mystical hobbies of the future Fuhrer, most likely, was miserable and painful. But the very warehouse of his psyche fully corresponded to the requirements that the people who nominated him had. Just like the warehouse of Himmler's psyche. With all the doubts that the chief of the SS was able to master Madame Blavatsky's rather intricate, heavy expositions, he could at least hear about her ideas from his party comrades. But there is no doubt that the Reichsfuehrer appreciated them. Moreover, this provincial school teacher sincerely considered himself the Prussian King Henry in a new reincarnation (he was captured at the end of World War II, when Himmler made his way to the grave of his ancient namesake). According to some of his associates, including the commander of the Belgian SS division de Grel, there was no other leader in the Reich who so sincerely and passionately wanted to eradicate Christianity in the world.

Whether the Fuhrers sincerely believed in the occult or not, in any case, these people, apparently, were eager to practice black magic in the national, and then preferably in the global.

Researchers who are trying to catch some kind of system in the mystical ideas of the hierarchs of the "Third Reich" and explain a huge number of strange mysteries - the history of secret orders and societies like "Germanenorden" and "Thule", the development of nuclear and psychotronic weapons, hard-to-explain expeditions under the auspices of the SS, let's say, to Tibet - these researchers make one serious mistake. Analyzing the events, comparing them, they proceed from the fact that the leaders of the Reich were people who knew a certain secret, initiated into something serious, who mastered - at least partially - Tibetan secret knowledge. But the Fuhrers were not like that! And this concerns, first of all, Hitler himself, who, solely on the basis of his "clairvoyance", forbade the development of the FAA project at the very moment when success was already looming on the horizon. Yes, the Wehrmacht generals and scientists were close to suicide when they heard about this "enlightenment" and the order of the leader!

Finding out which of the researchers is right - those who are looking for a secret meaning or insisting on a purely materialistic explanation of what happened - is a thankless task, because the truth does not belong to either one or the other. The future leaders of the "Third Reich" simply faced things and matters that they were unable to understand, much less manage, due to their lack of any serious educational base. Namely, it serves as a kind of protective barrier for any person who is interested in the otherworldly and mystical. With illiterate and insufficiently educated people, the “other world” is able to play too cruel jokes, completely subjugating their consciousness and paralyzing their will.

It seems that something similar happened to the not very literate leaders of the Reich. They became blind prisoners of their own hallucinoid ideas about the world of the mystical and the unknown. And on their example, the so-called subtle world has very clearly demonstrated that it is not worth experimenting with it without special training.

What happened in the Reich is very reminiscent of one of the Strugatsky novels, where on a distant planet a society in the early stages of development suddenly encounters modern technology. And the slaves there are busy sitting in cars and turning all the knobs in a row until the right lever is blindly found.

And now let's remember the concentration camps of the Nazis with pseudo-medical experiments on people that are incomprehensible either in their meaning or in their cruelty. Meanwhile, everything is not very complicated: these are theorists from Anenerbe - one of the most mysterious mystical organizations, either existing under the control of the SS, or even controlling the SS itself - they tried to squeeze out some secret knowledge of Eastern occultism and European mystics practical theories. For example, they were very interested in the so-called "blood magic". And in the concentration camps, the subordinates of the SS - and, therefore, to all the crazy ideas that were born in the depths of this organization - the doctors were already trying to put the same blood magic into practice.

Most of the time, nothing worked. But then they had a lot of human material, which could be experimented with without any restrictions. And as is often the case in the experimental sciences, the original goal is not achieved, but instead a pipeline of endless experiments leads to other - unexpected - by-products.

It is possible that the alchemists in black SS uniforms (and all the employees of the same Anenerbe were members of the SS and had the corresponding ranks) worked blindly, and therefore any practical results that they achieved can be considered accidental. But the question is not whether it was an accident or not. The question is that the results, in many respects, still were. We just don't really know what...

Aggressive materialists try to simply ignore obvious riddles. You can believe in mysticism, you can not believe. And if we were talking about the fruitless seances of exalted aunts, it is unlikely that the Soviet and American intelligence would spend huge forces and risk their agents to find out what is happening at these seances. But according to the memoirs of Soviet military intelligence veterans, its leadership was very interested in any approaches to the Anenerbe.

Meanwhile, getting close to Anenerbe was an extremely difficult operational task: after all, all the people of this organization and their contacts with outside world were under the constant control of the security service - SD, which in itself indicates a lot. So it is not possible today to get an answer to the question whether we or the Americans had our own Stirlitz inside Anenerbe. But if you ask why, you will run into another strange riddle. Despite the fact that the vast majority of intelligence operations during the Second World War are declassified today (with the exception of those that subsequently led to the work of active agents already in post-war years), everything related to the development of Anenerbe is still shrouded in mystery.

But there is, for example, evidence of the already mentioned Miguel Serrano - one of the theorists of national mysticism, a member of the secret society "Thule", at whose meetings Hitler visited. He claims in one of his books that the information obtained by the Anenerbe in Tibet significantly advanced the development of atomic weapons in the Reich. According to his version, Nazi scientists even created some prototypes of a combat atomic charge, and the Allies discovered them at the end of the war. The source of information - Miguel Serrano - is interesting if only because for several years he represented his homeland Chile in one of the UN commissions on atomic energy.

And secondly, immediately in the post-war years, the USSR and the USA, having seized a significant part of the secret archives of the "Third Reich", make almost parallel breakthroughs in the field of rocket science, the creation of atomic and nuclear weapons, in space research. And they begin to actively develop qualitatively new types of weapons. Also, immediately after the war, the two superpowers were especially active in research in the field of psychotronic weapons.

So the comments, which claim that the Anenerbe archives, by definition, could not contain anything serious, do not stand up to scrutiny. And in order to understand this, you do not even need to study them. It is enough to get acquainted with what was charged to the Anenerbe organization by its president Heinrich Himmler. And this, by the way, is a total search for all the archives and documents of national special services, scientific laboratories, Masonic secret societies and occult sects, preferably around the world. A special expedition "Anenerbe" was immediately sent to each country newly occupied by the Wehrmacht. Sometimes they did not even expect occupation. In special cases, the tasks assigned to this organization were carried out by the SS special forces. And it turns out that the Anenerbe archive is not at all theoretical studies German mystics, but a multilingual collection of the most diverse documents captured in many states and related to very specific organizations.

Part of this archive was discovered in Moscow several years ago. This is the so-called Lower Silesian archive "Ahnenerbe", taken Soviet troops during the storming of Altan Castle. But this is a small part of all the Anenerbe archives. Some military historians believe that much fell into the hands of the Americans. This is probably true: if you look at the location of the Anenerbe departments, then most of them were located precisely in the western part of Germany.

Our part has not been seriously studied by anyone so far, there is not even a detailed inventory of the documentation. The very word "Anenerbe" today, few people know. But the evil genie, who was released from the bottle by the black magicians of the SS and the Anenerbe, did not die along with the Third Reich, but remained on our planet.

edited news olqa.weles - 25-02-2012, 08:06

Although the history of Nazi Germany is one of the most studied topics, it still holds many secrets. So many that we can only tell you about a few that we think are especially interesting.

Wonder weapons and dungeons

Hitler's attempts to create a "miracle weapon" (Wunderwaffe), which was supposed to save the Reich from defeat, did not stop until the surrender of Germany in 1945. The Germans managed to make some achievements in rocket science, nuclear physics and in the creation of jet weapons. The mystery is what exactly they did not have enough time for. After the war, it seemed to many Germans that the promises of the Nazis in 1945 to begin using the life-saving "wonder weapon" were only a propaganda hoax to force the population and the army to continue resisting the Allies. But maybe it's not. For the sake of propaganda alone, the Nazis would not have built many kilometers of underground tunnels with bunkers in Austria (there are about 150 such objects). One such dungeon complex, called "Rock Crystal", has an area of ​​​​as much as 300,000 square meters.

Presumably, in such places, in addition to working on the V-1 and V-2 missiles, the Germans worked on the creation of nuclear weapons. In adits still elevated radiation background. Unfortunately, a significant part of the documents that could give a clear answer were lost or hidden at the end of the war by both the Germans and the Allies. Another part of the labyrinths, by order of the Austrian authorities, was bricked up with concrete after the war. The Austrian government for now forbids research and excavations there under the pretext of high levels of radiation.

Disappeared gold

The chaos of war and the collapse of such large states as the Third Reich are often accompanied by the loss of large valuables. For example, "Rommel's treasures". During the actions of the corps of this general in North Africa, the Germans robbed local settlements. Gold, currency, paintings - everything flowed into the hands of the SS. When the Germans began to suffer defeats from the British here, they managed to transport only part of the loot to Germany. The remains were allegedly sunk somewhere off the coast of Corsica. These values ​​are still considered not found. Something similar happened with the loot in the Crimea (the treasure allegedly sank during the retreat of the Kriegsmarine in the Black Sea) and in other places. Only the cache of Ernst Kaltenbrunner and the gold reserves of the Reichsbank have been found. A lot has not yet been discovered, perhaps because high-ranking SS men initiated into these secrets and surviving them took them after the war, after which they used them to hide their identities and legalize them in Europe and America.

Occultism

Hitler's belief in the occult sciences is widely known. In fact, perhaps he had such a hobby, but did it reach fanaticism? His artistic aesthetic predilection for the ancient pagan faith of the Germans can be explained by love for Wagner (which he had for the composer from his youth), animal nationalist frenzy and hostility to Christianity. There are suggestions that Hitler was not alien to mysticism, that part of it that was engaged in the interpretation of the Scandinavian runes and predictions based on them.

It is known that Hitler later drew attention to the political prophecies of various kinds of oracles. The mystery is which of them and why he believed or did not believe. For example, at the end of 1928, the Hamburg seer Wilhelm Wulff made a prophecy about the fall of Hitler, even predicted the date of his death (May 1945). Upon learning this, the Nazis did their best to keep Woolf's "Jewish lies" out of print. Who gave the forecasts that Hitler listened to, and whether there were such people at all, is unknown.

The mystery of Hitler's death

According to the official version, Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 in Berlin. But there is also speculation that he and his wife, Eva Braun, managed to escape and travel by submarine to Argentina, where many Nazi criminals hid after the war, including Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele, the monstrous killer of Auschwitz. In the chaos of the storming of the city, columns of equipment and individuals broke through on what behind the front line.

The SS men created an organization in Madrid in 1946 that ferried the Nazis to South America and helping them to settle down there. More than 30,000 Nazi criminals settled in Argentina alone. Probably, even before the surrender, some of their treasures went there. Journalists who collected information about them now and then stumbled upon witnesses who claimed that they had seen Hitler in Argentina as well. In 1988, the FBI declassified materials related to the search for Hitler after the war: the Allied intelligence services considered the version according to which the Fuhrer's double died in Berlin. However, there is still no solid evidence for all these assumptions.

Secrets of the Third Reich. After Stalingrad, few of the highest Nazi bosses and leaders of the Wehrmacht believed in the final victory. But there was still a chance to complete great war"draw" - at the beginning of 1943, the Reich still had powerful army; German troops occupied a vast space from the Atlantic to the Don. But after the defeat at Kursk, even the biggest optimists no longer counted on anything.

In a strange way, besides Hitler himself, one more person did not succumb to the general, poorly hidden despondency - the Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler. Although, it would seem, it was he who should have been worried in the first place.

Himmler was one of the most knowledgeable people in the Third Reich. Information from all over the world flocked to him - despite all the difficulties, the German agents worked well and, on the whole, presented a more or less correct (by no means embellished) picture of events.

The chief of foreign intelligence, Walter Schellenberg, repeatedly proved to Himmler almost irrefutably that the only saving way out for Germany was immediate negotiations (at least with the British and Americans).

But Himmler answered Schellenberg's numerous proposals vaguely and evasively. The general meaning of his strange answers tended to be that there are things about which Schellenberg (for all his knowledge) knows nothing. And it is these mysterious things that will save Germany ... But only he, Heinrich Himmler, and the Fuhrer himself know about them.

The last secret of Heinrich Himmler

What exactly, secretly from the other leaders of the Reich, Hitler and Heinrich discussed at their meetings, it became clear only many years after the end of the war.

They discussed the creation of a new miracle weapon. But it was not at all about the atomic bomb and not about the amazing rockets of Wernher von Braun, capable of flying hundreds of kilometers. Hitler and Himmler discussed the reconstruction of ... a flying saucer, spaceship aliens from another world.

After the war, this fact was completely accidentally leaked from the secret archives of the Allies. However, perhaps this was not an accident, but a deliberately organized leak of information.

The publication and investigation of new, completely unbelievable facts were extremely difficult. Few people wanted to do this, because from the very beginning it was clear that everything was so strange and implausible that the general public would in any case classify such messages as cheap sensations and would never believe in them.

But! There were several photographs, the authenticity of which was confirmed by numerous experts.

These unique images show several Nazi officers and an amazing disc-shaped aircraft hovering meters above the ground!

It is unlike any of the aircraft that have ever existed on our planet. And only the sign of the swastika on board confirms that this is a reality.

This device was built on the basis of drawings that were brought from the legendary Kullu Valley by a man who remained in history under the undercover pseudonym "Raja".

In addition to photographs, another very peculiar document has been preserved - a report from the designer addressed to Adolf Hitler on the progress of testing one of these disks in 1944.

It contains the most curious technical characteristics of the new weapon: “The F-7 apparatus. Diameter - 21 m. Vertical lifting speed - 800 m / s. Horizontal flight speed - 2200 km / h.

Aircraft designers of the world managed to achieve approximately similar characteristics only ... in the 80s, with the appearance of the SU-27 fighter!

It is no wonder that Hitler cherished ties with Tibet so much.

By the way, among the papers that the winners got in 1945, there was a letter from the regent of the Dalai Lama to the Fuhrer of the German nation:

“Dear Mr. King Hitler, Ruler of Germany. May health, joy of Peace and Virtue be with you! Now you are working to create a vast state on a racial basis.

Therefore, the head of the German expedition, Sahib Schaeffer (SS Sturmbannfuehrer, Himmler's confidant, who led the expedition to Tibet - ed.) had no difficulties on the way to Tibet.

Accept, Your Grace, King Hitler, our assurances of continued friendship!

Written on the 18th day of the first Tibetan month, the year of the Earth Hare.

The regent of the Dalai Lama sent almost a thousand ministers to help "King Hitler". After the capture of Berlin, the allies were extremely surprised to find several hundred charred bodies, in which experts recognized ... residents of Tibet!

Later it was found that they all committed suicide - according to the ancient custom, they burned themselves alive.

After Stalingrad, Hitler again decides to seek help from the Tibetan magicians. He is looking for connections with the shamans of the ancient Hindu religion Bon-po, who, according to his firm conviction, directly communicate with spirits (by the way, many tried to penetrate the secrets of Bon-po - an expedition of both the NKVD of the USSR and the British special services once visited Tibet ).

The next expedition was equipped in the shortest possible time. She had to ask the Bon-po priests for help, and also find a way to the location of which the previous expeditions had identified as the borderland of the state of the Dalai Lama and the Chinese province of Kham.

Hitler and Heinrich Himmler believed that it was the help of the inhabitants of Shambhala that should bring victory to the German weapons and force the Eternal Ice to retreat.

In early 1943, 5 SS officers secretly left Berlin for Lhasa. The expedition was led by Himmler's confidant Peter Aufschnaiter and climber Heinrich Harrer. But Hitler's envoys were not destined to reach Tibet - their path ran through British India, where, by sheer chance, they were arrested by representatives of the British colonial authorities.

Several times they made daring attempts to escape, but they managed to break free only after a few years. In 1951, Harrer (who nevertheless made his way to Tibet to the Bon-po shamans) returned to his homeland in Austria, bringing with him big number mysterious materials.

The archive was immediately arrested by the British secret services, confiscated and disappeared without a trace in the bowels of the special storage facilities. Some researchers argue that such interest of the special services in Harrer's documents was due to the film, which depicts the ritual with which Bon-po shamans communicated with spirits. But this rite could no longer help Hitler.

Why did Hitler order the Berlin subway to be flooded?

It was not military defeats, not strategic considerations, and not statistics on the ratio of resources of the Axis countries and the coalition of allies that convinced Hitler that Germany would be defeated in the war. The Fuhrer finally lost faith in victory after ... the collapse of the expedition to Shambhala.

Allied troops approached the borders of Germany even before the “finishing” of the F-7 apparatus was completed. Experimental versions of the outlandish design had to be destroyed so that they would not fall into the hands of the rapidly advancing allied armies. Meanwhile, there was no news from the expedition sent to Tibet. There was no more hope...

According to occult prophecies, the impossibility of the onset of the Age of Fire means one thing - the End of the World should soon follow. These days, eternal night will fall on the earth, and flood waves will overwhelm the cities, washing away the hated servants of the Eternal Ice.

But ... the long-awaited denouement does not come. The events are by no means bringing near the End of the World and not even the end of Germany, but only the end of the “thousand-year Reich”.

At this time, strange motives appear in Hitler's statements. He, who has always extolled the German people, the German race, and sworn allegiance to Greater Germany, suddenly begins to speak of the Germans with contempt and almost disgust. Dr. Goebbels, infected with Hitler's sentiments, welcomes ... Allied aircraft that bombed German cities:

“Let the achievements of the idiotic 20th century perish under the ruins of our cities!”

More and more orders are being issued for the destruction of cities and the massacre of prisoners of war. None of these orders has a military meaning - on the contrary, the forces needed at the front are spent on their execution. The reprisals against prisoners of war and concentration camp prisoners seem absolutely insane, as if Hitler is performing a mass sacrifice.

In fact, it was. Hitler continued to believe in mystical revelations. And according to his theories, the energy released into space from the simultaneous mass death of a huge number of people will shift the earth's axis by several degrees and lead to a flood and glaciation of the planet.

Last attempt to call global flood became a ritual that shocked with its cruelty the battered executioners of the Black Order of the SS. The failed Messiah of Fire ordered the floodgates to be opened and the Berlin subway to be flooded. In those terrible days, the subway tunnels were a refuge for hundreds of thousands of wounded soldiers and civilians who took refuge here from the fire that fell on the capital of the Reich during the battles for Berlin. The waters of the Spree, which rushed into the metro in a swift stream, claimed the lives of 300,000 people ...

Historians have long puzzled over how this horrific and, as it seemed, ABSOLUTELY POINTLESS act could be explained. Within the framework of common sense, he did not find ANY explanation. But by then, Hitler had long since traded common sense for the wild theories of the late Hans Gorbiger.

The Old Gods did not hear Hitler. When he committed suicide, the world did not turn over and the earth's axis did not budge.

Following his Fuhrer, another mystic, a brilliant doctor of philosophy and an admirer of Dostoevsky, the virtuoso propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, left this world. Before his death, he poisoned six of his children. His last appeal to the people ended with strange words: "Our end will be the end of the universe."

Few listened to Goebbels in those days. But those who heard him, for sure, thought that the chief propagandist, as always expressed figuratively. And it never occurred to anyone that Goebbels himself, most likely, understood his words absolutely literally.

Luckily he was wrong...

Secrets of the Third Reich. What was it

Modern man it is hard to believe that the head of the largest power in the world for many years in his political and military calculations was guided by the dictates of spirits, ancient legends, secret signs and magic spells.

Nevertheless, even skeptical historians unanimously admit that both Hitler and the top leadership of the Reich (primarily Heinrich Himmler) not only showed interest in occult practices, but also checked their decisions with the instructions of otherworldly forces.

The presence next to the leaders of the Nazi regime of various kinds of sorcerers, soothsayers and adherents of secret Eastern teachings, the epic with secret Tibetan expeditions, attempts to saturate the SS order with a mixture of ancient Germanic, medieval and Eastern mysticism - all these are historical facts, repeatedly confirmed by countless testimonies.

And here comes the most difficult question. What was it? Blurred mind of a psychopath Hitler? A clever quackery that used the ignorance and lack of culture of most of the leaders of the Reich? Or was there really something behind this that went beyond our usual materialistic ideas?

The version about charlatans will have to be dismissed on the move. Hitler's acquaintance with occult practices began long before he came to power and had a very long (more than twenty years) history. All this time Hitler lived in complete real world and was engaged in things that require earthly pragmatism, iron logic and common sense from a person.

If Hitler, like an impressionable and gullible young lady, had “hovered in the empyrean” all this time, he would never have reached the heights of power, and even more so, he would not have conquered half of Europe.

According to numerous memoirs (starting from the personal translator of the Fuhrer Paul Schmidt and ending with ministers and field marshals), Hitler had by no means a humanitarian mindset - he showed great interest in technology, was well versed in weapons, was excellent at the most complex economic issues and masterfully manipulated hundreds of figures and facts , which repeatedly baffled his closest associates.

Simply put, Hitler was a MORE THAN PRACTICAL MAN.

If we add to all this the Fuhrer's manic suspicion, it becomes clear that deliberately leading him by the nose with deft false mystical tricks was not only dangerous, but simply impossible.

Roughly the same can be said about Himmler. After all, he was not just an abstract dreamer who in the evenings from idleness fell into fantasies about other worlds and aliens. Himmler was the AUTHENTIC head of several secret services (from Schellenberg's foreign intelligence to the secret police of the Gestapo Müller). It was all the more impossible to captivate him with clever quackery.

There are also great doubts about the psychopathic manifestations of Hitler or the peculiarities of Himmler's psyche, as the reasons for their passion for secret knowledge. Signs of mental disorders in Hitler began to be observed only in 1943 (after the Stalingrad disaster). Before that, he gave the impression of a calm person.

His famous temper tantrums were often nothing more than a well-staged performance - there is quite a lot of evidence of this. Other than that, he was a completely normal person. Therefore, the version of madness will also have to be discarded, especially since, we note again, Hitler began experiments with the occult and secret teachings long before the end of the war, when his mental health really deteriorated.

Secrets of the Third Reich

The most plausible version seems to be the following.

At the beginning political career Hitler was really drawn to the attention of representatives of secret societies who had certain knowledge (perhaps acquired in the east) about non-traditional methods of influencing the human psyche and mass consciousness.

The leaders of these societies were by no means charlatans - they developed a number of amazing abilities in Hitler, above all the ability to magnetize the crowd.

Hitler was convinced with his own eyes that secret knowledge brings very real results. Apparently, the expeditions to the Kullu Valley also brought Hitler something that could eventually become a real superweapon in his hands. Perhaps mysticism had nothing to do with it at all.

If you do not believe in otherworldly forces, then it is quite logical to assume that the inhabitants of Tibet (cut off from the world for thousands of years) retained knowledge (including technical ones) that they inherited at one time from contacts with extraterrestrial civilizations.

In any case, the passion for Tibetan mysticism played a cruel joke on Hitler. While he equipped secret expeditions to the Kullu Valley and designed a superweapon in the form of a flying saucer, the real possibilities of creating new weapons passed by his attention.

In particular, the German leadership underestimated theories about nuclear fission and missed the opportunity to create an atomic bomb. The construction of the famous V-rockets was more successful, but, according to their chief designer, Wernher von Braun, this work began too late and progressed extremely slowly.

In a sense, one could say that the ancient legend of the Kullu Valley (and the amazing blueprints) paradoxically saved us all by diverting Hitler's attention from promising nuclear physics. After all, the majority of those living on the planet would never have been born if a nuclear bomb had been in the hands of a person who considered himself the Forerunner of Fire ...