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Nazis
and the Bomb
by Mitch on
January 12, 2012 0
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By Mark Walker

How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth
is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like
the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki. This was not because the
country lacked the scientists, resources, or will, but rather because its
leaders did not really try.

They were certainly trying to win the war. And they were willing to devote
huge amounts of resources to building rockets, jet planes, and other forms of
deadly and sometimes exotic forms of military technology. So why not the atomic
bomb? Nazi Germany, it turns out, made other choices and simply ran out of
time.

This is a schematic rather than a blueprint for an actual atomic
bomb, and its unknown creator may have drawn it after the war. But it supports
evidence discussed in this article that the Germans sought to develop
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The
Possible Weapon Alternatives
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Mitch on December 17, 2011
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Tales and legends of all kinds have grown up since World War II: stories of
super-bombs, deadly ray-guns and covert deals. Some sources say that the Nazis
had flying saucers ready to roll and had even exploded an atomic bomb. Yet there
are still dramatic new lessons to be learned. Although we think of the United
States as the home of atomic power, we should also recognize how far it
developed in Germany, Britain, Russia and Japan - all of these nations had
their own atomic bomb projects. 'Shock and awe' did not begin in the war with
Iraq, but was born back in World War II. We will find that many of the greatest
war criminals of all time were secretly pardoned and illicitly given sanctuary
in exchange for continuing their work on secret weapons, but this time for the
other side. Although the devastating raid on Pearl Harbor by ...
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Seydlitz

by Mitch on August 9, 2011 0
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Simultaneous with its approval of the resumption of work on the Graf
Zeppelin, the Seekriegsleitung also took some concrete action to address the
perceived need for additional carriers. The incomplete hull of the heavy cruiser
Seydlitz, on which there had been little progress since late 1940, was selected
for conversion into a carrier. The superstructure was razed to the upper deck in
preparation for erecting a hangar and flight deck but, as with the Graf
Zeppelin, all work ceased at the end of January 1943. The hulk was towed to
Königsberg and scuttled there in April 1945. The Kriegsmarine never commissioned
a carrier.

Following the loss of the battleship Bismarck in May 1941, during which
British aircraft carriers proved instrumental, and the near torpedoing of her
sistership Tirpitz in March 1942, the Kriegsmarine became convinced of the
necessity of acquiring aircraft carriers. Work on the purpose-built carrier Graf
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Britain
could have 'crushed Germany within three years' if RAF had not REJECTED
inventor's plans for world's first jet fighter
by Mitch on May
18, 2011 0
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Innovative: This week sees the 70th anniversary of the first jet
flight in the UK - the Gloster E.28/39, powered by Sir Frank Whittle's turbojet
design, took off from RAF Cranwell, in Sleaford, Lincolnshire on May 15,
1941

By Daily Mail Reporter

The Allies would have crushed Nazi Germany 'within three years' if the RAF
had not rejected plans by a British inventor to build the world's first
jet-powered fighter planes, according to new research.

Inventor Sir Frank Whittle was told his designs for a 500mph jet were
'totally unrealistic' and RAF chiefs refused to invest a penny in their
development.

It meant the RAF engineer was forced to circulate his patent internationally
in the hope of finding a private investor.

But the document fell into enemy hands and was used as the blueprint for
Germany's own jet development programme.

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Storm
Front - Star Trek: Enterprise
by
Mitch on April 22, 2011
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With the crew still reeling from Archer's supposed death while halting the
launch of the Xindi Superweapon, T'Pol and the others determine that they now
have somehow time traveled to the year 1944 during World War II. However, they
also realize that discrepancies loom for the WWII they know and the current
catastrophes taking place on Earth, particularly in the U.S., which seems to
have been invaded by Nazis.

The captain is assaulted by Secret Service agents, including the sinister
Ghrath – whom Archer suspects is an alien. Unbeknownst to Archer at the time,
Ghrath is a subordinate of Vosk, an alien of Ghrath's race and a leader in
league with the Nazis. Vosk is clearly troubled by Archer's appearance. With
help from insurgents named Sal and Carmine, Archer is rescued from the agents,
and taken to the apartment of Alicia, an African-American woman who soon
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DIE
GLOCKE
by Mitch on
February 26, 2011 0
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“The following are the salient features of The Bell, according to information
Cook received from both German and Czech sources.

“(1)  The Bell was
reportedly a metallic object, approximately 9 feet in diameter and 12 - 15 feet
tall.

“(2)  It looked like a bell; hence, its codename to the
Germans, die Glocke.

“(3)  It was comprised of two counter-rotating
cylinders, rotating a purplish, liquid-metallic-looking substance at high speeds
that was code-named ‘Xerum 525’ by the Germans.

“(4)  Xerum 525 was
apparently highly radioactive, purple in color, and was housed in cylinders with
lead lining about 30 centimeters (12 inches) thick.

“(5)  The Bell
apparently required high amounts of electrical power in its
operation.

“(6)  During use, it could only be run for approximately
one to two minutes, as it apparently gave off strong radiation and/or other
electromagnetic or unknown field effects.

(a)  Several scientist
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EMW
A12/(I) Rocket
by Mitch on
February 24, 2011 0
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EMW A12/(I): 3-stage Rocket for cargo-transportation between continents and
in space (Project Peenemünde/Bad Sachsa, 1945)

The A12 design was a true orbital rocket. It was proposed as a four-stage
vehicle, comprising A12, A11, A10 and A9 stages. Calculations suggested it could
place as much as 10 tonnes payload in Low Earth Orbit.

The A12 stage itself would have weighed around 3,500 tonnes fully fuelled,
and would have stood 33 m (108 ft) high. It was to have been propelled by 50 A10
engines, fuelled by liquid oxygen and alcohol

Thrust of first stage: 12800t

Lift capacity: 30.000 kg

Development stage at war end: unknown, CIOS-intel says it was 'beyond the
board', except one drawing no official known original sources left.

Source: Georg, Friedrich: Hitlers Siegeswaffen, Band 2, Teilband B,
AMUN-Verlag Schleusingen 2004, p.149 and 219f.

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H
CLASS BATTLESHIP (1939)
by
Mitch on February 15, 2011
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The H-39 design was a type of battleship proposed by Nazi Germany before the
outbreak of World War II. This was basically an enlarged version of the Bismarck
class, and was designed as part of the proposed Plan Z fleet.

Design

The Bismarck class

The F - G design, a 35,000-ton battleship program started in 1932, was laid
down before the Anglo-German Naval Treaty of 1935. These would become the
Bismarck class, the largest battleships built by Germany, and the heaviest
battleships in any European navy. Despite this they had a number of design
flaws, which the admirals of the Kriegsmarine were determined to correct in
their next design, the H class. In 1937, Germany's Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine
(OKM) ordered a study for a new battleship class to succeed the Bismarck
design.

Gunnery problems

From the beginning Adolf Hitler insisted on 50.8 cm (20.0 in) guns, instead
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HANS
ZINSSER
by Mitch on
February 15, 2011 0
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On a night in October 1944, a German pilot and rocket expert by the same of
Hans Zinsser was flying his Heinkel 111 twin engine bomber in twilight over
northern Germany, close to the Baltic coast in the province of Mecklenburg. He
was flying at twilight to avoid the Allied fighter aircraft that at that time
had all but undisputed mastery of the skies over Germany. Little did he know
that what he saw that night would be locked in the vaults of the highest
classification of the United States government for several decades after the
war. And he certainly could not have been aware of the fact when his testimony
finally was declassified near the end of the millennium, that what he saw would
require the history of the Second World War to be rewritten, or at the very
minimum, severely scrutinized. His observations on that one night on ...
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V-2
ROCKET
by Mitch on
February 14, 2011 0
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Unlike the V-1, however, the V-2’s supersonic speed and ballistic flight
profile precluded in-flight intercept, forcing the Allies into an expensive
bombing campaign to destroy the missiles before they could be launched. That
effort was further complicated by the V-2’s reliance on a mobile, quickly set up
launch system. The Western Allies directed hundreds of bomber sorties at V-2
production facilities and Germany’s transportation network to prevent the
missiles from reaching operational units. Hundreds of other fighter-bombers
conducted low-level sweeps over suspected launch areas to attack V-2 units
before they fired.

German strategic guided missile, first launched against London on 8 September
1944. Germany’s Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance Weapon 2, or V-2) had its origins
in the Versailles Treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers after World War
I. That agreement prohibited Germany from possessing long-range artillery or
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