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Nuclear Weapons
German nuclear weapons research was competitive with American
research, as German physicists made important discoveries in nuclear
reactor construction, isotope separation, and heavy water production.
A variety of factors kept Nazi Germany from the breakthroughs needed
for a nuclear bomb, including interference from the government, the
expulsion of Jewish physicists, and other doctors being drafted and
sent into combat and limited resources. But their findings later
became key to Allied nuclear weapons research in the Cold War.
2. Space Planes
The German project codenamed “ Silbervogel” was a theoretical design
for a sub-orbital bomber aircraft that would have been able to attain
90 miles in height and bomb New York when launched from Germany. The
aircraft got as far as a wind-tunnel mockup, and work done on the
design continues to influence rocket and ramjet technology today.
3. Giant Super Cannons
Known by a variety of nicknames, including the V3 and the “London
Gun,” the German super powered cannon was a gigantic artillery piece
that could shell the British capital from tunnels dug into fields near
the coast of France. When complete, the cannon was 140 meters long and
could fire a 140 kilogram shell at a target over 165 kilometers away.
It fired through a series of charges igniting down the barrel,
increasing the speed of the shell as it went.
The cannon was immobile and impractical, and became an inviting target
for Allied bombers, but did manage to fire a few shells.
4. Gigantic Mega Tanks
German tank technology was second to none in World War II. But beyond
the already superior machines they were fielding, Germany was working
on a variety of heavy, super heavy, and gigantic tanks. Most
infamous of these were the P.1000 Ratte and P.1500 Monster tanks,
which would have weighed, respectively, 1,000 and 1,500 tons.
These two massive tanks would have been more comparable to battleships
with treads, armed with naval guns and crewed by dozens of men.
Neither design was the least bit practical, and the tanks never got
past the mockup stage. But if built, they would have been almost
indestructible by any means other than heavy bombing.
5. Stealth Bombers
The Arado E.555 and Horton HO 229 jet bombers were Germany’s prime
candidates to fly from Europe to New York for the purposes of dropping
an atomic bomb. They used the same flying wing designs and low radar
profile that the B-2 bomber would later adapt.
If the war had dragged on and Germany had the resources to complete
the bomber and nuclear projects, they could have destroyed Manhattan
without anyone seeing it coming.
6. Guided Missiles
Beyond using guided V1 and V2 rockets to terrorize civilians, the
Germans made use of guided anti-ship glide bombs (the “Fritz X”) and
guided air-dropped anti-ship missiles. They also had prototypes for
man-portable guided missiles, television-guided surface to air
missiles, and wire-guided air to air missiles.
None of these weapons had any appreciable impact on the war effort,
and most never advanced beyond the testing stages. But they pioneered
technology that would form the core of modern armies for decades to
come.
7. Spherical Tanks
Virtually nothing is known about the small, one man spherical tank the
Germans built, except that it somehow ended up in Manchuria and was
captured by the Russians. The “ Kugelpanzer” still sits in a museum in
Moscow, unexamined by Western scientists.
What is it for? Were there more of them? Was it even a real vehicle,
or a dummy mocked up by someone for unknown reasons? It’s likely that
nobody will ever know.
See also: Russell Brand Kicked Out of GQ Awards For Pointing Out Hugo
Boss Made Nazi Uniforms
8. Orbital Mirror Lasers
The German “Sun Gun” was to be a concave mirror one mile in diameter,
launched into space and used to reflect and focus light from the sun
onto a point on the Earth. Based on the theoretical work of German
scientist Herman Oberth, it later was worked on by Nazi researchers
looking for a magical weapon to turn the tide of the war.
It’s not clear if the Sun Gun was anything more than a fantasy, though
a Life Magazinearticle from 1945 uses unnamed sources in the US Army
to suggest that the crew would live in the mirror, and that the weapon
could have been ready as early as the year 2000.
9. UFOs
The Sun Gun is a good place to take this list from the theoretical to
the realm of conspiracy theories. None of what follows actually was
developed by the Nazis, but instead is attached to them through
Internet chatter, rumor, and urban legend.
Chief among these is the “ Nazi UFO ” conspiracy. This holds that the
Germans recovered crashed alien craft or discovered alien technology
in Antarctica to reverse engineer flying saucers. These craft were
used to ferry high-ranking Nazis to safety in the final days of the
war, and then retreated to space or the Moon to prepare for the coming
Fourth Reich. No evidence exists to support these theories.
10. Darkside Moonbase
Those Nazi UFOs have to go somewhere, and that’s where the supposed
“Darkside Moonbase” comes in. Conspiracy theorists believe that in the
closing days of the war, the Nazis evacuated their highest ranking
politicians and scientists and took them to the Moon in their flying
saucers. There, they established a base on the dark side, away from
prying eyes and spacecraft, and are about to unleash their renewed
assault on the planet.
The proof of this base is supposedly censored images from various NASA
probes that show “structures” on the moon. Of course, these pictures
don’t show anything like that, only blobby pixels that could be
interpreted to be just about anything. But the only way we’ll know if
it’s true is if the Fourth Reich shows up to pick a fight with us.
11. Anti-Gravity Technology
How does a Nazi UFO fly, anyway? Possibly through anti-gravity
technology, developed by SS scientists working on an ultra secret
project known only as “Die Glocke” – The Bell.
According to Polish writer Igor Witkowski, who claimed to have access
to stolen transcripts of an SS officer’s interrogation, the Nazis
built a massive rig to hold up a bell-shaped craft. This craft was
able to launch itself off the ground using the power of “red mercury”
and achieve propulsion without an engine. As the war was coming to an
end, all of the scientists involved were supposedly killed and the
Bell itself was taken away by the US. Witkowski’s evidence is complete
conjecture, as is all of the follow-up “research” done on The Bell.
But it makes for one of the most compelling Nazi “wonder weapon”
stories out there.
12. Time Travel
Another feature of “Die Glocke” that has been theorized is an ability
to see through time. This would be done through the use of a convex
mirror on the top of a device, theorized by author Henry Stevens.
Others have speculated that The Bell itself is a time machine, giving
the person inside it the capability to move into the past.
Theoretically, Hitler himself could have been sent back in time using
Die Glocke to found the Nazi Party, ensuring that Die Glocke would be
built to send him back in time …
13. Aspartame
We move from science fiction to pure conspiracy theory here, with
accusations that the Nazis are somehow linked to the creation of
aspartame . This is the artificial sweetener thought by some to cause
brain damage and mental slavery, though no reputable research backs
this up.
However, aspartame wasn’t synthesized until 1965, when James M.
Schlatter developed it by accident while working at Searle, the
company that later became Pfizer.
14. Fluoride
Despite decades of scientific research declaring the addition of
fluoride to water supplies to be safe and beneficial, many people
still believe it’s nothing more than government mandated mind control.
One of these people is Australian zealot Ian E. Stephens, who wrote a
pamphlet that quoted another anti-fluoride researcher, Charles
Perkins, who in turn quoted nameless “German scientists.”
These men supposedly told Perkins that the Nazis actually developed
fluoride and used it in large doses in POW camps to subdue and enslave
prisoners. This research was then exported to the US, where cities and
towns around the country use it to keep the masses down. Needless to
say, no solid evidence exists to confirm these allegations – not even
the names of the German scientists who made these claims.
15. Microwave Ovens
Finally, an urban legend has existed for decades that says the Nazis
were responsible for inventing the microwave oven, and that
microwaving food is actually harmful to humans, killing all its
nutrients and causing cancer.
No credible science supports the cancer causing accusation. As to the
claim that the Nazis developed the microwave oven, it usually presents
itself as a rumor that German troops invading the Soviet Union carried
a primitive portable microwave called a “ radiomissor ” that could
heat their food in the field.
The problem with this theory is that not only is there no proof, but
the power of microwaves to cook food wasn’t documented until 1946.
Additionally, microwave ovens run on electricity, and Russia’s
electrical grid in the ’40s was too primitive to power any such
machine.
Nuclear Weapons
German nuclear weapons research was competitive with American
research, as German physicists made important discoveries in nuclear
reactor construction, isotope separation, and heavy water production.
A variety of factors kept Nazi Germany from the breakthroughs needed
for a nuclear bomb, including interference from the government, the
expulsion of Jewish physicists, and other doctors being drafted and
sent into combat and limited resources. But their findings later
became key to Allied nuclear weapons research in the Cold War.
2. Space Planes
The German project codenamed “ Silbervogel” was a theoretical design
for a sub-orbital bomber aircraft that would have been able to attain
90 miles in height and bomb New York when launched from Germany. The
aircraft got as far as a wind-tunnel mockup, and work done on the
design continues to influence rocket and ramjet technology today.
3. Giant Super Cannons
Known by a variety of nicknames, including the V3 and the “London
Gun,” the German super powered cannon was a gigantic artillery piece
that could shell the British capital from tunnels dug into fields near
the coast of France. When complete, the cannon was 140 meters long and
could fire a 140 kilogram shell at a target over 165 kilometers away.
It fired through a series of charges igniting down the barrel,
increasing the speed of the shell as it went.
The cannon was immobile and impractical, and became an inviting target
for Allied bombers, but did manage to fire a few shells.
4. Gigantic Mega Tanks
German tank technology was second to none in World War II. But beyond
the already superior machines they were fielding, Germany was working
on a variety of heavy, super heavy, and gigantic tanks. Most
infamous of these were the P.1000 Ratte and P.1500 Monster tanks,
which would have weighed, respectively, 1,000 and 1,500 tons.
These two massive tanks would have been more comparable to battleships
with treads, armed with naval guns and crewed by dozens of men.
Neither design was the least bit practical, and the tanks never got
past the mockup stage. But if built, they would have been almost
indestructible by any means other than heavy bombing.
5. Stealth Bombers
The Arado E.555 and Horton HO 229 jet bombers were Germany’s prime
candidates to fly from Europe to New York for the purposes of dropping
an atomic bomb. They used the same flying wing designs and low radar
profile that the B-2 bomber would later adapt.
If the war had dragged on and Germany had the resources to complete
the bomber and nuclear projects, they could have destroyed Manhattan
without anyone seeing it coming.
6. Guided Missiles
Beyond using guided V1 and V2 rockets to terrorize civilians, the
Germans made use of guided anti-ship glide bombs (the “Fritz X”) and
guided air-dropped anti-ship missiles. They also had prototypes for
man-portable guided missiles, television-guided surface to air
missiles, and wire-guided air to air missiles.
None of these weapons had any appreciable impact on the war effort,
and most never advanced beyond the testing stages. But they pioneered
technology that would form the core of modern armies for decades to
come.
7. Spherical Tanks
Virtually nothing is known about the small, one man spherical tank the
Germans built, except that it somehow ended up in Manchuria and was
captured by the Russians. The “ Kugelpanzer” still sits in a museum in
Moscow, unexamined by Western scientists.
What is it for? Were there more of them? Was it even a real vehicle,
or a dummy mocked up by someone for unknown reasons? It’s likely that
nobody will ever know.
See also: Russell Brand Kicked Out of GQ Awards For Pointing Out Hugo
Boss Made Nazi Uniforms
8. Orbital Mirror Lasers
The German “Sun Gun” was to be a concave mirror one mile in diameter,
launched into space and used to reflect and focus light from the sun
onto a point on the Earth. Based on the theoretical work of German
scientist Herman Oberth, it later was worked on by Nazi researchers
looking for a magical weapon to turn the tide of the war.
It’s not clear if the Sun Gun was anything more than a fantasy, though
a Life Magazinearticle from 1945 uses unnamed sources in the US Army
to suggest that the crew would live in the mirror, and that the weapon
could have been ready as early as the year 2000.
9. UFOs
The Sun Gun is a good place to take this list from the theoretical to
the realm of conspiracy theories. None of what follows actually was
developed by the Nazis, but instead is attached to them through
Internet chatter, rumor, and urban legend.
Chief among these is the “ Nazi UFO ” conspiracy. This holds that the
Germans recovered crashed alien craft or discovered alien technology
in Antarctica to reverse engineer flying saucers. These craft were
used to ferry high-ranking Nazis to safety in the final days of the
war, and then retreated to space or the Moon to prepare for the coming
Fourth Reich. No evidence exists to support these theories.
10. Darkside Moonbase
Those Nazi UFOs have to go somewhere, and that’s where the supposed
“Darkside Moonbase” comes in. Conspiracy theorists believe that in the
closing days of the war, the Nazis evacuated their highest ranking
politicians and scientists and took them to the Moon in their flying
saucers. There, they established a base on the dark side, away from
prying eyes and spacecraft, and are about to unleash their renewed
assault on the planet.
The proof of this base is supposedly censored images from various NASA
probes that show “structures” on the moon. Of course, these pictures
don’t show anything like that, only blobby pixels that could be
interpreted to be just about anything. But the only way we’ll know if
it’s true is if the Fourth Reich shows up to pick a fight with us.
11. Anti-Gravity Technology
How does a Nazi UFO fly, anyway? Possibly through anti-gravity
technology, developed by SS scientists working on an ultra secret
project known only as “Die Glocke” – The Bell.
According to Polish writer Igor Witkowski, who claimed to have access
to stolen transcripts of an SS officer’s interrogation, the Nazis
built a massive rig to hold up a bell-shaped craft. This craft was
able to launch itself off the ground using the power of “red mercury”
and achieve propulsion without an engine. As the war was coming to an
end, all of the scientists involved were supposedly killed and the
Bell itself was taken away by the US. Witkowski’s evidence is complete
conjecture, as is all of the follow-up “research” done on The Bell.
But it makes for one of the most compelling Nazi “wonder weapon”
stories out there.
12. Time Travel
Another feature of “Die Glocke” that has been theorized is an ability
to see through time. This would be done through the use of a convex
mirror on the top of a device, theorized by author Henry Stevens.
Others have speculated that The Bell itself is a time machine, giving
the person inside it the capability to move into the past.
Theoretically, Hitler himself could have been sent back in time using
Die Glocke to found the Nazi Party, ensuring that Die Glocke would be
built to send him back in time …
13. Aspartame
We move from science fiction to pure conspiracy theory here, with
accusations that the Nazis are somehow linked to the creation of
aspartame . This is the artificial sweetener thought by some to cause
brain damage and mental slavery, though no reputable research backs
this up.
However, aspartame wasn’t synthesized until 1965, when James M.
Schlatter developed it by accident while working at Searle, the
company that later became Pfizer.
14. Fluoride
Despite decades of scientific research declaring the addition of
fluoride to water supplies to be safe and beneficial, many people
still believe it’s nothing more than government mandated mind control.
One of these people is Australian zealot Ian E. Stephens, who wrote a
pamphlet that quoted another anti-fluoride researcher, Charles
Perkins, who in turn quoted nameless “German scientists.”
These men supposedly told Perkins that the Nazis actually developed
fluoride and used it in large doses in POW camps to subdue and enslave
prisoners. This research was then exported to the US, where cities and
towns around the country use it to keep the masses down. Needless to
say, no solid evidence exists to confirm these allegations – not even
the names of the German scientists who made these claims.
15. Microwave Ovens
Finally, an urban legend has existed for decades that says the Nazis
were responsible for inventing the microwave oven, and that
microwaving food is actually harmful to humans, killing all its
nutrients and causing cancer.
No credible science supports the cancer causing accusation. As to the
claim that the Nazis developed the microwave oven, it usually presents
itself as a rumor that German troops invading the Soviet Union carried
a primitive portable microwave called a “ radiomissor ” that could
heat their food in the field.
The problem with this theory is that not only is there no proof, but
the power of microwaves to cook food wasn’t documented until 1946.
Additionally, microwave ovens run on electricity, and Russia’s
electrical grid in the ’40s was too primitive to power any such
machine.
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