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Secret weapons of the Third Reich

The declassified archives of the wartime gave historians a lot of sensations. Many secrets were hidden behind the parades of the Third Reich. The approach of the 60th anniversary of the Victory aroused among historians from different countries an interest in the still unsolved mysteries of the Third Reich. To a large extent, this was facilitated by the opening of previously classified archives of the special services of Russia, Germany, the USA, Great Britain and other countries. As a result, many carefully hidden facts became public, shocking not only the general public, but also worldly-wise scientists. What did you manage to find out? The more time separates us from the Second World War, the more interesting is the personality of the founder of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler, in the first place. Who really was this person?

It seems incredible, but the Fuhrer himself never killed anyone. The right to sign orders for the mass extermination of Jews, death camps, etc. he prudently provided to his assistants. "The Fuhrer's hands must be clean," Hitler liked to repeat. And yet, one day, as it turns out, he changed this rule by sending a loved one to the next world. Hitler's only assassination. In the declassified German archive, the journalists of the Facts newspaper managed to find an order signed by the Fuhrer on the destruction of a certain Aloisia V. The order was executed immediately. On December 6, 1940, Aloisia went to the gas chamber in the Hartheim concentration camp (Austria), sending curses on the head of "cousin Adolf".

The reason that prompted Hitler to kill the closest relative was very serious. For many years Aloysia suffered from a severe form of schizophrenia. The ideologists of National Socialism believed that people with such diseases had no right to life. And the sister's diagnosis could cast an indelible shadow on the Fuhrer, so he hastened to remove it. Unfortunately for Hitler, Aloysia was far from the only relative who made life difficult for him.

In 1931, his niece Geli Raubal committed suicide in Munich, with whom, according to rumors, the young Hitler had an affair. In July 1933, the newspaper "Osterreichische Abendblatt" came out with a revealing article "Sensational footprints of the Jews of the Hitlers in Vienna", printing as proof photographs of six tombstones of the Jews of the "Gütlers". At the same time, the Fuhrer's nephew William Patrick Hitler, who lived in Great Britain, began to share with the press sensational details about Adolf's difficult childhood in the village of Spital in the Waldviertel region, which caused his uncle's serious anger.

There was another reason that prompted Hitler to go to the gas chamber of Aloysia. In 1940, in Hitler's entourage, the idea arose of proclaiming him the messiah immediately after the "final victory." The chief ideologue of Nazi Germany, Goebbels, received a secret order: "With the help of appropriate propaganda, it is more careful to hide the origin of the Fuhrer." And here is a living compromising evidence in the face of a cousin ...

However, the entire power of the Nazi propaganda machine was not enough to hide the truth about Hitler's relatives from his party comrades. In early 1944, Heinrich Himmler, who had long sharpened his teeth against the Fuhrer, handed over to Martin Bormann a folder with "top secret information relating to Hitler personally." The report categorically stated that "some of the Fuhrer's relatives were semi-idiots and crazy", and a logical question was posed: is the "great Fuhrer of a healthy German nation" a pure-blooded Aryan, because he himself did not present any evidence of this "well-known fact"? Stalin's last love. The number one sensation in world historiography, of course, was the book "Hitler's Dossier" by German historians Henrik Eberli and Martin Uhl, which was published in March 2005. The book owes its appearance to Joseph Stalin, who had very strange feelings towards Hitler.

Prior to World War II, Stalin openly sympathized with Hitler, seeing him as a potential ally in the war against Western countries. That is why he so acutely experienced the betrayal of Hitler, who treacherously violated the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and attacked the USSR. All the years of the war, Stalin passionately wanted to look into the eyes of a defeated enemy, but he never succeeded. Eyewitnesses claim that, upon learning of Hitler's death, the Soviet leader was furious, refused to believe in the Fuhrer's suicide, believed that he was "hiding somewhere." Stalin personally examined his bunker and ordered the creation of a special investigation team that would shed light on this mysterious case.

I must say that the NKVD investigators were incredibly lucky. On May 2, 1945, in Berlin, they detained the Fuhrer's personal adjutant Otto Gunsch and his valet Heinz Linge. Based on their testimony, a 413-page report was compiled in 1949 containing comprehensive information about Hitler's death, his way of thinking and relations with his inner circle.

The dossier on Hitler exists in only two copies. The original version with Stalinist notes in the margins, apparently, is still kept in closed archives. Fortunately, in 1959 Khrushchev ordered that a copy be made of it and sent to the archives of the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow. In the summer of 2004, it was discovered by the German historian Martin Uhl. The authenticity of the dossier was confirmed by the famous historian of Nazism Henrik Eberli.

As a result, many interesting facts from Hitler's life became known. So, for the first time it was proved that the Holocaust, which claimed the lives of 6 million people, was carried out on the personal order of the Fuhrer. But Hitler, contrary to the assumptions of historians, did not know anything about the famous flight of Rudolf Hess to Great Britain in 1941 to conduct peace negotiations. And the leader of Nazi Germany did not take the threat of opening a "second front" seriously, repeatedly repeating that "American cars have never won races, American planes seem fast, but their engines are not worth a penny, the Americans have succeeded only in mediocrity and advertising."

No less interesting are the details of Hitler's private life. So, according to eyewitnesses, the relationship between Eva Braun and the Fuhrer was much closer than previously thought. They were not overshadowed even by the fact that Hitler, apparently, was impotent. “When Hitler hears the voice of his beloved, he joyfully rushes to meet her. Hitler leads her to his office, where hot chocolate and tea, cognac, chocolates, fruit and chilled champagne are ready. Both of them are in the room for hours. it never comes to fruition: Hitler, as usual, reads the evening paper, and Eva enjoys chocolates. Only after midnight, Hitler retires to his bedroom. Eva goes to the room prepared for her, "the report says.

As for the Fuhrer's personality, even Linge, who is devoted to him, notes that "Hitler's conversations were banal. At the dinner table, he praised the dresses of female employees and commented on how difficult it must be for them to do without styling their hair and sharpening their nails." Not escaped the attention of the valet and "some oddities in his behavior." So, when he sees a trace of Eva Braun's lipstick on a napkin, he notes with pleasure: "In wartime, lipstick is made from corpses." Hitler allowed German soldiers to marry residents of the occupied countries only by personally looking at their photographs. At the same time, he said with a laugh: "The soldiers who fell in love with such ugly women, after sobering up, will curse me for allowing them to marry."

Hitler's sickness intensified as the German army suffered defeat after defeat. In his last days, he was seized with such anxiety that he scratched his neck and ears until they bled and demanded that toilet water, as well as the water in which eggs were boiled for him, be tested for the presence of poison in it. Before committing suicide, he instructed the faithful Linge to douse his body with gasoline and set it on fire. "You must not allow my corpse to fall into the hands of the Russians. They will fill it in wax and show it in Moscow," he repeated.

However, Adolf Hitler is far from the only person during the Second World War who has attracted the attention of historians. "Doctor death" received the Nobel Prize. In March 2005, the German weekly Der Spiegel published the results of a sensational investigation into the activities of Nazi killer doctors in concentration camps. A commission of authoritative historians has established that the famous doctor Josef Mengele, who performed inhuman experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, was not alone in his crimes. He was only following orders from his senior comrades from the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (the leading German institute for biological, medical and biotechnological research).

One of Mengele's scientific leaders was Adolf Butenandt, who received the Nobel Prize for research in the field of sex hormones and proteins. During World War II, he actively collaborated with the Luftwaffe, developing hemopetin - "a complex of substances that could improve the quality of the blood of pilots, which would allow them to survive in cold water or cold climates." He was also interested in the effect of certain types of mold on liver cells. Dr. Butenandt set up his experiments on preparations from the human liver, which Dr. Mengele generously supplied him with, cutting it off without any anesthesia from still living Jewish children.

Another customer of the "doctor of death" was Otmar von Verschuer, a recognized authority on the study of twins. The research that brought him worldwide fame, Dr. Verschuer began to conduct on "Mengele preparations" - the eyes of twin children, blood samples of "people of a different race", the heads of decapitated children, the skeletons of Jews, newborns, still alive alcoholized in formalin. "Some twins had colorants injected into their eye sockets and pupils to change their eye color and explore the possibility of producing blue-eyed Aryan twins. In the end, the children ended up with granular clots instead of eyes, and they died in terrible agony," says expert Ernst Klee. Of the 900 pairs of twins handed over to Mengele at Auschwitz, only 50 survived.

The most paradoxical thing is that none of the killer doctors was ever punished for their crimes. At the Nuremberg Tribunal, Josef Mengele was recognized as a Nazi criminal, but managed to elude justice. Having emigrated to South America, he lived a long, serene life and died drowning on one of the Brazilian beaches. Adolf Butenandt was president of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft until 1972, Otmar von Verschuer headed the German Society for Anthropology (FRG) for many years. Both of them were considered respected people in the scientific world, for many years they advised the New York Times. Colleagues pretended not to know about their past.

However, one should not think that historians are only interested in the personalities of Nazi criminals.

No less attention is paid to Hitler's projects, which only miraculously were not implemented. The second coming of the messiah. In January 2005, the secret archives of the Vatican were opened. At the disposal of the journalists of the newspaper Avvenire, which belongs to the Catholic Church of Italy, were the testimony of the head of the SS in Italy, General Karl Wolf, which he gave to Vatican officials on March 24, 1972.

It follows from them that in the early 40s, Adolf Hitler planned "to occupy the Vatican, seize archives and art treasures of unique value, and then take the Pope away with the papal curia for their own safety, so that they would not fall into the hands of the allies and would not have a political influence." As Avvenire experts suggest, the kidnapping scenario was part of a larger plan to "eliminate" Christianity and replace it with a religion in which Hitler was assigned the role of the savior of mankind.

In 1943, Wolf managed to dissuade the Fuhrer from kidnapping the Pope, but a year later he returned to this idea. Having received the appropriate order, General Wolf immediately left for the Vatican. On the evening of May 10, 1944, he met with Pius XII and assured him that he did not intend to carry out the order given to him. As a gesture of goodwill, the Pope asked the general to save the lives of two condemned prisoners, and this was done. On the night of June 4-5, the Germans left Rome. Nuclear bomb for the Nazis. Another scandal, which erupted in March 2005, is associated with the publication of the book "Hitler's Bomb. The Secret History of German Nuclear Tests" by the German historian Rainer Karlsch. According to the researcher, German scientists have advanced much further in the development of the Wunderwaffe (the miraculous weapon with which Hitler hoped to win the war) than previously thought.

After analyzing the data of amateur historians from the former GDR and aerial photographs, Rainer Karlsch discovered traces of "the first German operating nuclear reactor for uranium enrichment" in the Berlin suburb of Gottow. It must be said that in the 30-40s there really was an "Experimental Center" run by the Waffen SS, in which children from enslaved countries were doomed to inhuman experiments, they worked on the creation of a nuclear bomb. Apparently, the young physicists who worked in it managed to get around even the famous Werner Heisenberg, who struggled with the same problem, first in Leipzig and then in Berlin.

In March 1945, the historian assures, a German nuclear bomb was tested on Soviet prisoners of war in the vicinity of Ohrdruf in Thuringia and on the island of Regen in the North Sea. Karlsch claims to have found traces of uranium, plutonium, caesium-137 and cobalt-60 in these parts, which could only have appeared there as a result of an atomic explosion. These data, however, are disputed by IAEA experts, who claim that Karlsz did not conduct standard tests. In their opinion, isotopes could appear in the center of Europe ... after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

But his American colleague, history professor Mark Walker from Union College (New York), who studied the protocols of interrogation of German physicists Dibner and Gerlach, who were taken to the English town of Farm Hall in 1945, agrees with the German historian. True, in his opinion, before the creation of a "real atomic bomb," Hitler's scientists were not mature enough. “They didn’t know how to calculate the critical mass, so they took enriched uranium at random, surrounded it with a conventional explosive and set it on fire. . However, another American historian Friedward Winterberg from the University of Nevada believes that German physicists simply did not have enough time and money: "In 1945 they had the technology to create a bomb, they lacked only uranium." Germany is the birthplace of "cymbals". However, the most sensational data was shared with the general public by journalists from the Discovery channel who made a film about Hitler's "flying saucers".

This story dates back to the 40s of the last century, when a young German engineer Andreas Epp sent the Luftwaffe leadership a description of disc-shaped aircraft, completely invisible to radar and having high maneuverability and payload. The letter remains unanswered. Imagine Epp's astonishment when, in 1943, he learns that his project is being implemented at the Skoda factory in the vicinity of Prague. Taking advantage of his official position, Epp enters the plant and sees with his own eyes "a flying disk built according to my drawings."

His data is confirmed by the Italian engineer Giuseppe Bellonze, who back in 1950 stated that Germany and Italy produced several flying discs of various modifications: heavily armed, transport, for sabotage operations and devices that interfere with enemy aircraft. Henry Stevens, an English aviation history expert, agrees with him, who claims that "by order of the SS, 15 prototypes of flying saucers were built, they had a propeller from below, and they had a jet drive."

In 1944, the first tests of "flying tops" were carried out, immediately after which Hitler went to his ally Mussolini to show off a new miracle weapon. The flying saucer was seen by several people from the Duce's entourage, who shared their memories with journalists. "It was something unusual. The flying saucer was round, in the middle it had a cockpit with a plexiglass dome. Jet nozzles were visible from all sides," says Mussolini's military adviser, 84-year-old Luigi Romers.

However, the flying saucers had significant design defects, which prevented their use on the battlefields. In May 1945, shortly before the arrival of the Soviet army, the Skoda plant in Prague was blown up, all drawings and prototypes were destroyed. However, the father of flying saucers Andreas Epp survived. Shortly after the war, he left for the United States, where, according to rumors, he continued to design disc aircraft for the needs of the CIA.

This information is indirectly confirmed by the report of the US National Institute for Scientific Discovery, published in the summer of 2002. After analyzing numerous reports of huge black triangular objects, which, starting from the 80s of the last century, were repeatedly observed over various regions of the United States, his employees came to the paradoxical conclusion that "UFOs are manufactured in American military factories." According to scientists, the mysterious objects are nothing more than "secret vehicles used by the US military."

This explains the fact that UFOs are often observed in the vicinity of military bases, and the US Air Force does not even think of attacking them. “Apparently, we are dealing with some variations on the theme of airships, which explains their size and noiselessness, high carrying capacity, speed and range, as well as the ability to climb to a height unattainable for ground-based radars,” the scientists conclude. True, they failed to explain how the Pentagon managed to hide such an innovative invention from the general public ...

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 start 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. There is still an increased background radiation in the adits. 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 plundered 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 helped them 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.

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Researchers of the secret history of the Third Reich today already know a lot about its mystical roots and those backstage forces that brought Hitler to power and directed Hitler's activities. How did a small country with a population of only 70 million people manage to take over half the world in 2 years? Nazism proved to be a force of colossal proportions. But what is the secret of this power?

The foundation of the ideology of fascism was laid by secret societies long before the emergence of the Nazi state, but this worldview became an active force after the defeat of Germany in the First World War. In 1918, a circle of people who already had experience in international secret societies in (Munich) founded a branch of the Teutonic Knights - the Thule Society (after the name of the legendary Arctic country - the cradle of mankind). Its official goal is to study ancient German culture, but true tasks were much deeper.

The theorists of fascism found a suitable candidate for their goals - the power-hungry, mystical experience and, moreover, drug-addicted corporal Adolf Hitler, instilling in him the idea of ​​world domination of real white people. At the end of 1918, the young occultist Hitler was admitted to the Thule Society and quickly became one of its most active members. And soon the ideas of the Thule theorists were reflected in his book My Struggle.

“Those who see in National Socialism only a political movement know little about it,” said Hitler. The fact is that the occult owners of "Thule" had another, no less important goal - to win in the invisible, metaphysical world, so to speak, "other world". For this purpose, more closed structures were created in Germany. So, in 1919, a secret "Lodge of Light" was founded (later "Vril" - according to the ancient Indian name for the cosmic energy of life). Later, in 1933, the elite mystical order "Ahnenerbe" (Ahnenerbe "Heritage of the Ancestors"), which since 1939, at the initiative of Himmler, became the main research structure within the SS. Having fifty research institutes under its control, the Ahnenerbe society was engaged in the search for ancient knowledge that would allow developing the latest technologies, controlling human consciousness using magical methods, and carrying out genetic manipulations in order to create a superman.

Non-traditional methods of obtaining knowledge were also practiced - under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, in a state of trance or contact with the Higher Unknowns, or, as they were called, "Outer Minds". The ancient occult “keys” (formulas, spells, etc.) found with the help of “Ahnenerbe” were also used, which allowed establishing contact with “Aliens”. For "sessions with the gods" the most experienced mediums and contactees were involved. For the purity of the results, the experiments were carried out independently in the Thule and Vril societies. Some occult "keys" are said to have worked, and some secret information was received through independent "channels". For example, drawings and descriptions of "flying discs", which in their characteristics significantly exceeded the aviation technology of that time.

Another task that was set before scientists and, according to rumors, was partially solved was the creation of a “time machine” that allows one to penetrate into the depths of history and obtain knowledge of ancient high civilizations, in particular, information about the magical methods of Atlantis, which was considered the ancestral home of the Aryan race. Of particular interest to Nazi scientists was the technological knowledge of the Atlanteans, which, according to legend, helped build huge sea vessels and airships driven by an unknown force. There is information about the development in the IV experimental design center of the SS, subordinate to the Black Sun society, of a highly secret "flying saucer" Honebu-2. In his book "German flying saucers" O. Bergmann gives some of its technical characteristics. Diameter 26.3 meters. Engine: "Thule"-tachyonator, with a diameter of 23.1 meters. Control: impulse magnetic field generator. Speed: 6000 km/h (estimated 21000 km/h). Flight duration: 55 hours and more. Adaptability for flights in outer space - 100 percent. Crew - nine people, with passengers - twenty people. Planned mass production: late 1943 - early 1944.

In the late 50s, the Australians found among the captured films a German documentary film-report on the research project of the V-7 flying disc, about which nothing was known until that time. To what extent this project was implemented is not yet clear, but it is known for certain that the famous specialist in "special operations" Otto Skorzeny was instructed in the middle of the war to create a detachment of pilots of 500 people to control "flying saucers" and manned missiles.

There is nothing incredible in the reports of gravitational engines. Today, scientists working in the field of alternative energy sources know the so-called Hans Kohler converter, which converts gravitational energy into electrical energy. These converters were used in the so-called Thule and Andromeda tachyonators (electromagneto-granitation engines), produced in Germany in 1942-1945 at the Siemens and AEG factories. It is indicated that the same converters were used as energy sources not only on "flying disks", but also on some giant (5000-ton) submarines and underground bases.

The results were obtained by the Ahnenerbe scientists in other non-traditional fields of knowledge: in psychotronics, parapsychology, in the use of "subtle" energies to control individual and mass consciousness, etc. It is believed that the trophy documents relating to the metaphysical developments of the Third Reich gave a new the impetus for similar work in the USA and the USSR, which until that time had underestimated such studies or curtailed them. Due to the extreme secrecy of information about the results of the activities of German secret societies, it is difficult to separate facts from rumors and legends today.

In search of the most ancient magical knowledge, "Ahnenerbe" organized expeditions to the most remote corners of the globe: to Tibet, South America, Antarctica ... Special attention was paid to the latter ...

This area is still full of secrets and mysteries. Officially, Antarctica was discovered by the Russian expedition of F. F. Bellingshausen and M. P. Lazarev in 1820. However, indefatigable archivists discovered ancient maps, from which it followed that they knew about Antarctica long before this historical event. One of the maps, compiled in 1513 by the Turkish admiral Piri Reis, was discovered in 1929. Others have surfaced: the French geographer Orontius Phineus from 1532, Philippe Buache, dated 1737. Fake?

But let's not rush ... All these maps depict the outlines of Antarctica very accurately, but ... without ice cover. Moreover, on the Buache map, the strait is perfectly visible, dividing the continent into two parts. And its presence under the ice layer was established by the latest methods only in recent decades. We add that international expeditions that checked the Piri Reis map found out that it is more accurate than maps compiled in the 20th century. Seismic surveys have confirmed what no one had guessed: some of the mountains of Queen Maud Land, which until now were considered part of a single massif, turned out to be in fact islands, as indicated on the old map. But where did such information come from people who lived several centuries before the discovery of Antarctica?

Both Reis and Buache claimed that they used ancient Greek originals when compiling maps. After the maps were discovered, a variety of hypotheses were put forward about their origin. Most of them boil down to the fact that the original maps were compiled by some high civilization that existed at a time when the coasts of Antarctica were not yet covered with ice, that is, before the global cataclysm.

It has been argued that Antarctica is the former Atlantis. One of the arguments: the dimensions of this legendary country (30,000 x 20,000 stages according to Plato, 1 stage - 185 meters) approximately correspond to the size of Antarctica.

Naturally, the Ahnenerbe scientists, who scoured the world in search of traces of the Atlantic civilization, could not pass by this hypothesis. Moreover, it was in perfect agreement with their philosophy, which asserted, in particular, that at the poles of the planet there are entrances to huge cavities inside the earth. And Antarctica became one of the main targets of Nazi scientists.

The interest shown by the leaders of Germany on the eve of World War II in this distant and lifeless region of the globe could not be rationally explained then.

In 1938-1939, the Germans organized two Antarctic expeditions, in which the Luftwaffe pilots not only examined, but also staked out a huge German-sized territory of this continent with metal pennants with a swastika - soon it was called "New Swabia".

Then the submarines secretly went to the coast of Antarctica. The famous writer and historian M. Demidenko reports that, while sorting through top-secret SS archives, he discovered documents indicating that a submarine squadron during an expedition to Queen Maud Land found a whole system of interconnected caves with warm air.

In 1943, Admiral Dénia dropped a mysterious phrase: "The German submarine fleet is proud to have created an impregnable fortress for the Fuhrer on the other side of the world." How?

It turns out that for five years the Germans had been carrying out carefully concealed work to create a Nazi secret base in Antarctica, code-named “Base-211. According to eyewitnesses, already from the beginning of 1939, regular flights of the research ship "Schwabia" began between Antarctica and Germany. Bergman, in his book German Flying Saucers, claims that from this year and for several years, mining equipment and other equipment, including railroads, trolleys and huge cutters for tunneling, were constantly sent to Antarctica. Apparently, submarines were also used to deliver goods. And not just ordinary ones.

Retired American Colonel Windell Stephens reports: “Our intelligence, where I worked at the end of the war, knew that the Germans were building eight very large cargo submarines (were Kohler converters installed on them?), And all of them were launched, completed and then disappeared without a trace. To this day, it remains unclear where they went. They are not on the ocean floor, they are not in any port that we know of. It's a mystery, but it can be solved thanks to an Australian documentary that shows large German cargo submarines in Antarctica, ice around them, crews waiting on the decks to stop at the pier.

By the end of the war, Stephens argues, the Germans had nine research facilities that tested "flying disc" projects: "Eight of these facilities, along with scientists and key figures, were successfully evacuated from Germany. The ninth building is blown up... We have classified information that some of these research facilities have been moved to a place called "New Swabia"... Today it may already be a decent-sized complex. Maybe those big cargo submarines are there. We believe that at least one (or more) disc development facilities have been moved to Antarctica. They were evacuated to secret underground facilities."

Well-known researchers of the Antarctic secrets of the Third Reich R. Vesko, V. Terziysky, D. Childress claim that since 1942, thousands of concentration camp prisoners (labor force), as well as prominent scientists, pilots and politicians with families and members of the Hitler Youth are the gene pool of the future "pure" race.

In addition to the mysterious giant submarines, at least a hundred serial U-class submarines were used for these purposes, including the top-secret Fuhrer Convoy, which included 35 submarines. At the very end of the war in Kiel, these elite submarines were stripped of all military equipment and loaded containers with some valuable cargo. The submarines also took on board some mysterious passengers and a large amount of food. The fate of only two boats from this convoy is known for certain. One of them, "U-530", under the command of 25-year-old Otto Wehrmouth, left Kiel on April 13, 1945 and delivered to Antarctica the relics of the Third Reich and Hitler's personal belongings, as well as passengers whose faces were hidden by surgical bandages. Another, "U-977", under the command of Heinz Schaeffer, repeated this route a little later, but what and whom she was transporting is unknown.

Both of these submarines in the summer of 1945 (July 10 and August 17, respectively) entered one of the Latin American rivers, and this became known to the American military, they blocked the river and captured the Germans. During interrogation, they confessed to the existence of bases in Antarctica. Soon the famous Admiral Richard E. Byrd was ordered to destroy the Nazi base in "New Swabia".

Operation High Jump was disguised as an ordinary research expedition, and not everyone guessed that a powerful naval squadron was headed for the shores of Antarctica. An aircraft carrier, 13 ships of various types, 25 aircraft and helicopters, more than four thousand people, a six-month supply of food - these data speak for themselves, -

It would seem that everything went according to plan: 49 thousand photographs were taken in a month. And suddenly something happened, about which the US authorities are silent until now. On March 3, 1947, the expedition that had just begun was turned off, and the ships hurriedly headed home. A year later, some details surfaced on the pages of the European magazine Brizant. The expedition was reported to have met with strong enemy resistance. At least 1 ship, dozens of people, 4 combat aircraft were lost, another 9 aircraft had to be left as unusable. What exactly happened can only be guessed at. We do not have original documents, however, according to the press, the crew members who dared to reminisce spoke about “flying discs” that “surfaced from under the water” and attacked them, about strange atmospheric phenomena that caused mental disorders. Journalists cite an excerpt from Byrd's report, allegedly made at a secret meeting of the special commission: “The United States needs to take defensive actions against enemy fighters flying from the polar regions. In the event of a new war, America may be attacked by an enemy that has the ability to fly from one pole to another with incredible speed!

Almost ten years later, Admiral Byrd led a new polar expedition, in which he died under mysterious circumstances. After his death, information appeared in the press allegedly from the diary of the admiral himself.

It follows from them that during the 1947 expedition, the plane on which he flew out for reconnaissance was forced to land by strange aircraft, "similar to British soldiers' helmets." The admiral was approached by a tall, blond, blue-eyed man who, in broken English, delivered an appeal to the American government demanding an end to nuclear testing. Some of the sources claim that after this meeting, an agreement was signed between the Nazi colony in Antarctica and the American government to exchange German advanced technologies for American raw materials.

A number of researchers believe that Nazi bases in Antarctica and the Canadian north exist and flourish today, they talk about the existence of an entire underground city called "New Berlin" with a population of 2 million people. The main occupation of its inhabitants is genetic engineering and space flights, but no one has yet presented direct evidence in favor of this version.

Indirect confirmation of the existence of the base is called multiple UFO sightings in the South Pole region. Often they see “plates” and “cigars” hanging in the air. And in 1976, Japanese researchers, using the latest equipment, simultaneously spotted nineteen round objects that “dipped” from space to Antarctica and disappeared from the screens. All the expeditions sent there either disappeared without a trace or returned with nothing. Later, some participants talked about tall people coming out right from under the ice, about tunnels leading to their cities, but no one believed them. Several artificial satellites have been discovered in orbit around the Earth, belonging to no one knows who.

In 1944, a German submarine of the same U-class was sunk in Canadian Arctic waters, one of the surviving crew members later recalled that the purpose of the expedition was to deliver a secret cargo of mercury. The only version of why they needed it is that mercury is used in space research.

The Third Reich (German for "empire", "state" and even "kingdom") is the German Empire, which lasted from 1933 to 1945. After the National Socialist Party came to power under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the Weimar Republic fell and was replaced by the Third Reich. Secrets, riddles and secrets of its rulers still excite the minds of mankind. Consider some of the features of this empire in the article.

Third Reich

The first Reich was a state in Europe - the Holy Roman Empire, which included many of the European countries. Germany was considered the foundation of the empire. This state existed from 962 to 1806.

From 1871 to 1918, a period began, which is called the Second Reich. Its decline came after the surrender of Germany, the economic crisis and the ensuing abdication of the Kaiser from the throne.

Hitler planned that the empire of the Third Reich would stretch from the Urals to the Atlantic Ocean. The Reich, which was prophesied for a thousand years, fell after thirteen.

The Fuhrer dreamed of the greatness of Germany and its revival as a world power. However, the Nazi Party became a product of bitterness and chaos.

From the very beginning, all of Hitler's speeches were filled with the spirit of violence and hatred. Strength was the only power he recognized. For the Germans, the new order meant, above all, the return of the national dignity that had been lost in 1918. Hitler managed to combine humiliation and the desire to rise, giving these feelings a new monstrous meaning.

The birth of the Nazi ideology. Aryan race

For outsiders, one of the secrets of the Third Reich was the phenomenon of National Socialism. Hundreds of rituals arose out of nowhere and fascinated millions of Germans.

Darwin's theory has led people into confusion. Centuries-old faith in God was undermined. Occult sects and circles sprang up all over the country. Secret societies were created that tried to revive ancient Germanic mythology.

They drew knowledge from the writings of Guido von List, an Austrian esotericist who claimed that the ancient knowledge of the German people was revealed to him.

Since the end of the 19th century, crowds of seekers of truth have flocked to ancient and mysterious Tibet. Many do not want to believe that man descended from a monkey, and come here in search of perfection and knowledge of the secrets of the world.

One of the travelers was Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who created the work The Secret Doctrine. In this book, she writes about how, in one of the Tibetan monasteries, she was shown an ancient manuscript that tells about the secrets of the world and reveals the secrets of the past. Blavatsky's books talk a lot about the seven root races, one of which, the Aryan, is supposed to save the world.

The List Society, together with German mythology, skillfully combines the works of Blavatsky. In its charter, it prescribes the laws of the future Aryan people.

Along with List's theory, the science of eugenics emerged, based on Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest. She proposes weeding out the weak and sick, giving evolution a chance to create a healthy generation. Increasingly, it is believed that the key to the well-being of the nation is heredity. From Britain, eugenics reaches Germany, where it is called "racial purity" and deeply influences German occultists.

After List's death, Jörg Lanz took his place and, combining occultism and eugenics, created theosoology - the occult religion of the race.

The history of the creation of the Third Reich is closely connected with the name of Lanz. When Hitler comes to power, he, being his ardent admirer, divides the inhabitants of Germany into two parts by the first law - pure Aryans and those who will be their subjects.

Secret societies

In his visions of the ancient tribes, Guido von List saw a secret order of priest-rulers, keepers of all the secret knowledge of the German people, and called it "Armanenshaft". List argued that Christianity forced the guardians to go into the shadows, and their knowledge protected such societies as the Freemasons, the Templars and the Rosicrucians. In 1912, an order is founded, into which many leaders of the National Socialists enter. They call themselves the "Armanist Assembly".

The renunciation of the Kaiser's power was a terrible blow to the heads of secret societies, since it was believed that the aristocracy had the purest blood and the strongest supernatural abilities.

Among the many groups organizing the counter-revolutionary nationalist opposition is the Thule Society, an anti-Semitic lodge that promotes List's teachings. This secret society was popular among high society and strictly observed the purity of Aryan blood. The hair of the true heirs of the race of the gods had to be blond or dark blond, the eyes were light, and the skin was pale. In the Berlin branch, even the jaw and head size were measured. In 1919, under the auspices of the Thule, the German Workers' Party was founded, of which Hitler became a member, and then the leader. Later, "Tulle" is transformed into "Ahnenerbe", another of the secrets of the Third Reich. The symbol of the party is the swastika, the exact shape of which was chosen by Hitler himself.

Mystery of the swastika

The Nazi Party adopted the swastika as its emblem in 1920. It spread everywhere - on buckles, sabers, orders, banners, being a symbol of the occult and esotericism.

Hitler personally developed a sketch of the flag of the Third Reich. The red is social thought in motion, the white represents nationalism and the swastika is the symbol of the Aryans' struggle and their victory, which will always be anti-Semitic.

The swastika was a symbol of the basic dogma of the Nazis, which stated that absolute will would triumph over the forces of darkness and chaos. In the world of social-nationalism, the Aryan race was the bearer and distributor of order. Before the swastika became a symbol of the Nazi party, Austrians and Germans began to use it in the form of amulets. This was back in World War I and had its roots in the teachings of Blavatsky and Guido von List.

Elena Petrovna was shown seven symbols, the most powerful of which was the swastika. In Tibetan mythology, the swastika is a solar symbol meaning the sun, as well as the fire god Agni. The swastika was a manifestation of light, order and fortitude.

Guido von List, while traveling into the past, discovers the secret meaning of the runes. Ancient signs, according to List, were the most powerful energy weapons.

The Nazis used runes everywhere. For example, the rune "Sig" - "victory", was the emblem of the Hitler Youth, the double "Sig" was the trademark of the SS, and the rune of death "Man" replaced the crosses from the monuments.

Photos of the flag of the Third Reich in the hands of Nazi soldiers still inspire fear in thousands of people.

Among all the strange symbols, List, like Blavatsky, put the swastika above all. He told a legend about how God created the world with a fiery broom, a swastika that symbolized the act of creation.

A lot of documentaries have been shot about the swastika and other secrets of the Third Reich. They provide facts and evidence about the secret symbolism that was filled with Nazism.

Black Sun of the Third Reich

One of the secrets of the Third Reich was the elite SS detachments, keeping many mysteries and secrets. Even members of the Nazi Party did not know what was going on inside this organization.

Initially, they were the Fuhrer's bodyguards, and then, led by Hitler's personal bodyguard, Henry Himmler, became a mystical elite. It was from their ranks that a new super race was to emerge.

People were considered as ideal samples of the purest Aryan blood. Getting there was not easy. Even one seal blocked the way to this select detachment of the Third Reich. True Aryans had to prove the presence of German ancestors since 1750 and study the racial biology and esoteric destiny of the Aryans.

The SS has become a secret occult order dedicated to building an empire. The Aryans were supposed to subjugate all peoples. According to Nazi mythology, it was believed that there are two suns in the solar system - visible and black, something that can be seen only by knowing the truth. It was the symbol of this sun that the SS detachments were supposed to become, the secret decoding of which was translated as the “Black Sun” (German: Schwarze Sonne).

"Ahnenerbe"

In 1935, the historical society "Ahnenerbe" - "the heritage of the ancestors" was created. His official task was to study the historical roots of the German people and the spread of the Aryan race throughout the world. This is the only organization that officially dealt with magic and mysticism with the support of the state. By 1937 it becomes the research department of the SS.

The Ahnenerbe scientists had to study history and rewrite it so that it was the Aryans, the blue-eyed and fair-haired Nordic race that brought light to the rest of humanity, that became the progenitors of all mankind. All the discoveries were made by the Germans, and it was they who created the whole civilization. The Nazis recruited philologists and folklorists, archaeologists and engineers. Special Sonderkommandos were sent to the occupied territories to search for ancient treasures.

Experts gathered around the world dealt with astronomy, mathematics, genetics, medicine, as well as psychotropic weapons and methods of influencing the human brain. They studied magical rites, the occult sciences, the paranormal abilities of people and experimented on them. The goal was to contact the higher minds of ancient civilizations and alien races to gain new knowledge, including high technology.

But above all, the Ahnenerbe scientists were interested in Tibet.

SS expeditions to Tibet

In the thirties of the XX century, Tibet was practically unexplored and difficult to access, and therefore full of mysteries. The legend was passed from mouth to mouth that the mythical Shambhala, a country of goodness and truth, is hidden in the Himalayas. There, in deep caves, lived the guardians of our world, who knew great secrets.

Interested in the secrets of Tibet and the Third Reich. The Nazis tried several times to enter the country.

In 1938, the Austrian biologist Ernst Schaeffer, under the auspices of the Ahnenerbe, went to Lhasa.

In addition to the mythical Shambhala, Schaeffer was to develop ties with the Dalai Lama and the Prince Regent. Germany promised to help Tibet in the fight against the British. Schaeffer intended to smuggle weapons for the Tibetans to attack the British posts on the border with Nepal.

After Schaeffer, the Nazis made many expeditions, taking out ancient texts written in Sanskrit from there. There is a version according to which "Ahnenerbe" got to Shambhala and came into contact with powerful spirits. The wise men agreed to help Hitler and for a long time provided magical support.

It is said that the gas chambers in the concentration camps and the people who were burned in them were sacrifices to the gods of the Nazis.

However, they did not hear the fascists' pleas for world domination, and the bright ones turned away, not recognizing violence and bloody sacrifices.

Underground cities of the Third Reich

Keep the secrets of the Third Reich underground SS cities and military factories. Some of these objects are still classified by special services.

The underground factories of the Third Reich have become one of the most ambitious projects of mankind. When Allied aircraft began to strike military factories, the Minister of Armaments in 1943 proposed moving them underground.

Thousands of prisoners were driven to concentration camps, who were forced to work in inhuman conditions.

In the town of Nordhausen, underground tunnels are located in the rock, where one of the secret developments of the Luftwaffe, the V-2 rocket, was made. From here, rockets were delivered by underground railway to launch points.

On the territory of Falkenhagen, in a dense forest, the Zeiverg object is hidden, which is still partially classified. The Nazis planned to produce a terrible weapon there - the nerve gas "Zarin". Death from him came within six minutes. Fortunately, the plant was never completed. He continues to keep the secrets of the Third Reich. Underground SS cities are located not only in Germany, but also in Poland.

Not far from Salzburg, an underground plant was built with secret tunnel branches, code-named "Cement". They were going to manufacture intercontinental ballistic missiles there, but the project did not have time to launch.

Fürstenstein Castle near Waldenburg hides one of the biggest secrets of the Third Reich. This is an underground complex in which a complex system of shelters was created for Hitler and the top of the Wehrmacht. In case of danger, the elevator lowered the Fuhrer to a depth of 50 meters. There was a mine, the ceiling height of which reached 30 meters. The building was given the code name "Rize" - "Giant".

Treasures of the Third Reich

After Germany begins to lose, Hitler gives the order to hide the gold that the Nazis confiscated in the conquered territories. Wagons loaded with treasures go to the untouched war lands of Bavaria and Thuringia.

In May 1945, the Allies captured a fascist train with untold riches, and boxes full of silver and gold coins were found in the Merkers mine. After that, rumors spread about the new secret of the Third Reich. Where are the treasures of Hitler, many adventurers wanted to know.

In total, the Nazis confiscated more than 8 billion gold from the occupied countries, but, as it turned out, this was not enough for them.

In concentration camps, Sonderkommandos collected gold from the crowns of murdered prisoners, as well as rings, earrings, chains and other jewelry confiscated during searches. According to some reports, by the end of the war, about 17 tons of gold had been collected. The crowns were melted down at a factory in Frankfurt, made into ingots, then taken to a special account of Melmer in the Reichsbank. When Germany lost the war, the gold was still in the deposits, but when the Russians entered Berlin, it was not there.

From the underground residence of the Fuhrer - "Rize", only a part of the drawings remained, so there were rumors that not all tunnels were found. It is said that a freight train filled with gold is hidden somewhere underground. The dimensions of the structures indicate that they were built, including for transport.

The legend of the "golden train" says that in April 1945 the train left for the city of Wroclaw and disappeared. Scientists say that this is impossible, since by that time the city was surrounded by Soviet troops, and he could not get there in any way. However, this does not prevent treasure seekers from continuing their search, and some claim to have seen wagons standing in the dungeons.

It is known for sure that most of the gold was hidden in the Merkers mine. In the last days of the Third Reich, the Nazis carried the rest of the treasures throughout Germany. They lowered gold into mines, drowned it in rivers and lakes, buried it at battlefields, and even hid it in death camps. The secret of the Third Reich, where Hitler's treasure is located, has not yet been unraveled. Perhaps he lies and waits for his master.

Nazi bases in Antarctica

In the summer of 1945, two German submarines from the Fuhrer's personal convoy moored to the shores of Argentina. When the captains were interrogated, it turned out that both boats had repeatedly been to the south pole. So it turned out that he hides many secrets of the Third Reich and Antarctica.

After the discovery of the mainland in 1820 by Bellingshausen and Lazarev, it was forgotten for a century. However, Germany began to show an active interest in Antarctica. At the end of the thirties, Luftwaffe pilots flew there and staked out the territory, calling it New Swabia. Submarines and the research vessel "Schwabia" with equipment and engineers began to regularly go to the shores of Antarctica. It is possible that important people and secret industries were transported there during the war. Judging by the documents found, the Nazis created a military base in Antarctica, which had the code name "Base-211". It was needed for the search for uranium, control over the countries of America, and so that in the event of a defeat in the war, the ruling elite could hide there.

After the war, when the Americans began to recruit scientists who worked for the Wehrmacht, they found that most of them had disappeared. More than a hundred submarines were also lost. This also remains a secret of the Third Reich.

The fleet, sent by the Americans to Antarctica to destroy the Nazi base, returned empty-handed, and the admiral spoke about incomprehensible flying objects, similar to saucers, that jumped out of the water and attacked the ships.

Later, drawings were found in the archives of Germany, which indicated that scientists were really developing disc-shaped aircraft.

To better understand the events in which Germany took part from 1939 to 1945, the documentary film "The Third Reich in Color" will help. It contains unique footage from the lives of ordinary people, ordinary soldiers and the Nazi elite, the country's public life in the form of parades, rallies and military campaigns, as well as its "dark side" - concentration camps with a monstrous number of victims.

We are used to watching all the horrors, mysteries, secrets and mysteries of the Third Reich from TV screens and book pages. Let these stories about Nazism be stored in the memory of people and, left in the past, will never be repeated again.

For Westerners, it has never been a secret that the Third Reich stubbornly tried to put secret, occult, at its service. However, in our country this topic was almost completely hushed up until recently. In the end, this secret of the Third Reich ceased to be such for us.

Real mediums, or, as they are now called, psychics, are people who have pronounced parapsychological abilities. Take, for example, the ability to foresee, which often allows their owner to avoid mortal danger. Here is one typical case.

A group of soldiers - and this happened during the First World War - settled down for lunch in a trench on the front line. Suddenly, one of the soldiers "heard" a voice ordering him to immediately get up and step aside. The voice sounded like an ordinary military command, and the soldier automatically followed it. He managed to retire 200 yards and was about to turn back, as at that moment a group of soldiers, from a direct hit by a projectile, was scattered along the trench. All of them were killed. The only soldier who survived was called. “It is an absolute miracle that I am alive ... It is only thanks to a miracle that I continue to remain healthy and unharmed,” the Fuhrer would later write.

Providence, Hitler admitted, continued to keep him almost until the last days of his life. As you know, they were unsuccessful (and there were, according to various sources, more than 40). In at least two of them, he actually miraculously survived. That's how it was.

1939, November 9, evening - members of the "Old Fighters" organization gathered in the Burgerbaukeller beer hall in Munich. They were about to celebrate the sixteenth anniversary of the famous Munich "beer putsch" and were waiting for the arrival of Hitler. Soon he arrived and began his traditional performance. All of Europe listened to Hitler's speech live.

As is customary in such cases, he first of all informed his faithful party genossen about the latest achievements: the victorious blitzkrieg in Poland and the non-aggression pact with the USSR. But he warned: the war will be long, we must be prepared for five years of struggle. After that, the sharp tone of speech changed to a gloomy solemn one - he paid tribute to the memory of the fallen in the first test of strength in 1923. The essence of the final part of the speech was that every National Socialist must be ready to give his life in the name of the goals of the movement, but no one knows when this will happen.

In addition to the unusual ending, for some reason the usual ritual of Hitler's participation in the festival was also violated. The Fuhrer changed his habit of staying after the official part for friendly conversations and reminiscences. And his speech was much shorter than usual. As if cutting off his speech, the Fuhrer left the beer hall much earlier than expected. It was 20 hours 57 minutes.

At 9:00 p.m., an explosion occurred. The bomb exploded directly behind the podium, where the Fuhrer was still there 12 minutes ago. There, within a radius of six feet, everything was covered in debris. Hall was blown to pieces. If Hitler had stayed, nothing would have been able to save him. During this explosion, 7 "old fighters" were killed, 63 were injured.

The attempt, which was made in February 1945, also failed. It was wanted to be carried out by Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and former architect of the Fuhrer. At that time, the Fuhrer, in fact, immured himself in an underground bunker in Berlin. It was Speer who designed this bunker, including the vital ventilation system, the exit from which was carefully camouflaged. Speer's plan was to let poisonous gas into the bunker through the ventilation. But it took two weeks to get the gas and make other necessary arrangements. However, towards the end of this period, Speer was horrified to find that, on the orders of the Führer, the vent had been extended by 12 feet with a pipe. And this time, as Speer believed, Hitler's almost supernatural intuition worked ...

Psychologists, psychopathologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, representatives of other human sciences have shown sufficient attention to the figure of Adolf Hitler. But the standard approach within these scientific disciplines does not give a complete picture of the Fuhrer's personality - the parapsychological aspects of his personality remain beyond consideration.

1975 - an attempt was made to fill this gap. Then in the "Review of Parapsychology" an extensive article "Hitler: a shaman, a schizophrenic, a medium?" Written by renowned American parapsychologist and psychiatrist Jan Ehrenwald. By the way, living in London before the war, he heard with his own ears Hitler's speech on November 9, 1939 in the Munich beer hall...

Ehrenwald compares the influence of the Fuhrer on the people of Germany with the influence of a shaman on a tribe. Over time, Ehrenwald notes, Hitler becomes more and more convinced of the truth of his forebodings and intuitions. His unusual flair in governing the country is noted in undoubted political insight. As if the occasional flashes of Hitler's strategic and political know-how more than once astonished the most skeptical generals. Some of the Fuhrer's know-how had all the hallmarks of rational reasoning, although their astounding accuracy clearly did not match his haphazard education and weakly disciplined mind. It is known that the Fuhrer was not inclined to solve problems on an intellectual level, he switched his attention to something else, while the subconscious seemed to provide him with the necessary answer. At the decisive moment, the Fuhrer was completely under the influence of his demon - intuition. This gave him unshakable confidence in his rightness and filled him with contempt for the demands of reality. Hitler's psi-functions acted contrary to the laws of ordinary logic. They rejected the canons of morality and the requirements of long-term pragmatic planning. Thus, the Fuhrer's psi-factor, according to Ehrenwald, returned to its archaic prototype of black magic, witchcraft and demonism.

But there were people who came to similar conclusions much earlier than Ehrenwald.

“It should be repeated again: . The people of our age, deformed by materialism, may be bewildered by its strange actions. Those initiated into the occult sciences will not be surprised. What seems strange to the layman is absolutely clear to the initiated.

This statement, which is not quite usual for our reader, belongs to the French writer Edouard Saby, whose book "Hitler and the Occult Forces" was published in Paris back in 1939. Payback was not long in coming. In December 1940, the Gestapo arrested E. Saby. 44 days in the investigation chamber, after the sentence: one year in prison for anti-German propaganda.

The second edition of the book by E. Saby was published already in 1945, but under the title "Nazi tyrant and occult forces." It was the first book about one of the most hidden aspects of the life and work of the possessed Hitler. Possessed, as some believe, not only in a figurative sense ...

The Fuhrer has always been odd. Even during the First World War, most fellow soldiers considered him an eccentric for unusual behavior and incomprehensible statements. “We could hardly bear it. He was a black sheep among us, ”his fellow soldier wrote about him. Another said that Hitler “often sat, paying no attention to anyone, in deep thought, his head in his hands. Then he suddenly jumped up and began excitedly talking about the fact that we are doomed to defeat, because the invisible enemies of Germany are more dangerous than the most powerful weapon of the enemy.

Having become the Fuhrer, he by no means lost his oddities. They increased even more, sometimes it seemed that Hitler really suffered from obsession. Here is one such observation:

“Hitler stood in his room, staggering and looking around with a lost look. "It's him! It's him! He's come here!" he exclaimed. His lips were white, sweat was rolling down his face. Suddenly, without any sense, he began to pronounce numbers, then words, fragments of phrases - strange combinations turned out ... It was terrible. Then he fell silent, continuing to move his lips soundlessly. Then they crushed him, forced him to drink. Then suddenly he roared: “There! There! In the corner! He is there!" - stomped his foot on the parquet and shouted. He was reassured ... Then he slept for a very long time, after which he reappeared almost normal and tolerable.

Some of the foreign authors draw attention to the fact that the Austro-Bavarian border town of Braunau an der Inn, where on April 20, 1889, the future Fuhrer was born to 52-year-old Alois Hitler and his third wife, 28-year-old Clara Pelzl, earned a reputation as would be a kind of nursery for mediums. The famous brothers Willy and Rudy Schneider were born in the same city, whose parapsychic demonstrations, in particular, telekinetic ones, became a sensation in the 20s and 30s of the last century. It is known that both Willy Schneider and the future Fuhrer had the same nurse, and that among the mediums found in Braunau (the psycho-researcher Baron Schrenk von Notzing was looking for them), one of the latter was Hitler's cousin.

More than 50,000 studies have been published on Nazism and Hitler. But these works mainly reflect the historical, social, economic, political and some philosophical aspects of the topic. Very little has been written about the occult phenomenon of the Third Reich since the publication of the first edition of E. Saby's book to the present day. One gets the impression that this side of the matter is hushed up on purpose!

The international journalist L.P. came to the same conclusion. Zamoysky. He substantiates his conclusion in the book “Behind the Facade of the Masonic Temple” published in 1990. In it, in particular, he examines the historical roots of Nazism's connections with the occult forces of Europe and Germany itself, with various Masonic cults, orders and lodges, with other mystical secret sects scattered around the world.

The sphere of secret knowledge in the "Third Reich" was dealt with by the special occult bureau of the SS Anenerbe (translated as "Heritage of the Ancestors"). Led by SS Colonel Wolfram von Sievers. In the bowels of the Ahnenerbe - "in the interests of Great Germany" unheard-of atrocities were committed against people who acted as guinea pigs. It also accumulated the entire range of occult and secret knowledge available to the Nazis, also "in the interests of Greater Germany."

When the concepts of Agharti and Shambhala, unfamiliar to journalists, sounded in the courtroom at the Nuremberg trials, they were not taken seriously. More like ironic. The picture of fascist atrocities was in no way connected with such a tolerant religion as Buddhism, and in general with the concept of faith.

Von Sievers was executed. But there was almost no publicity for the affairs of the Ahnenerbe. Why? To this question, L.P. Zamoyski's answer is that the silence was primarily caused by the fear of exposure. Revelations of what? The use of the occult sciences by the Third Reich and the role of these sciences in preparing the madness of Nazism. Who suffered such fear? And to this question, L.P. Zamoysky gives the answer: those who could tell a lot about the use of the attributes of Masonic mysticism, about the Masonic cult traditions adopted in the Ahnenerbe. (The attitude of the Fuhrer towards Freemasons and Freemasonry was by no means unambiguous. Rather, it was very pragmatic.)

Even before Hitler came to power, L.P. Zamoysky notes, the masonologist and novelist John Buchan warned of the danger of the accession in Germany of a satanic religion - a fusion of modern technology and Eastern mysticism. A considerable time later, already in connection with the confusion before the testimony of the murderers from the Ahnenerbe at the Nuremberg trials, which involved a number of prominent Freemasons in England and other Western countries, the Masonic author Trevor Ravenscroft wrote in the book "" published in 1982: "Those who knew kept silence . The leaders of the occult lodges and secret societies involved in shaping world politics in the Western Hemisphere knew they had nothing to gain from exposing the satanic nature of the Nazi Party.”

G. Rauschning (1887-1979), a member of the Nazi Party (in 1936 he emigrated to Switzerland as a result of a conflict with the Nazis), later identified National Socialism with the dance of St. Witt of the 20th century. But where did this strange disease come from? - the researchers ask and try to find the roots of this strange disease in history.

Approximately in the 80s of the century before last, in a number of European countries, in particular, in England, Germany and France, societies of "initiates", hermetic (secret) orders, were formed. They included some of the powerful faces and brilliant minds of those times. In Austria and Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a semi-occult pan-German movement was born. In 1887, the Golden Dawn Hermetic Society was founded in England, originating from the English Rosicrucian Society. The goal of the Golden Dawn was (through the mastery of magical rituals) to obtain the power and knowledge available to the "initiates". This society maintained contacts with similar German societies.

1912 - at a conference of German occultists, a “magic brotherhood” was created - the “German Order”. One of the members of this "brotherhood", torn apart by internal strife, in 1918 organizes an independent "brotherhood" - the Thule Society. His symbol was a swastika with a sword and a wreath. Those who were later destined to play a decisive role in the formation of the Nazi party were grouped around Thule.

The Thule Society, according to L. Povel and J. Bergier, was a serious magical brotherhood: “His activities were not limited to an interest in mythology, the observance of meaningless rituals and empty dreams of world domination. The brothers were taught the art of magic and the development of potentialities. Including the ability to control such an invisible and all-pervading force, called by the English occultist Lytton "vril", and by the Hindus "kundalini". Vril is a huge energy, of which we use only an infinitesimal part in everyday life, it is the nerve of our possible divinity. The one who becomes the master of the vril becomes the master of himself, of others, and of the whole world... And yet, perhaps, the most important thing: they taught (brothers. - Auth.) the technique of communication with the so-called Secret Teachers, or Unknown Supermen, invisibly guiding everything that happens on our planet. It is highly probable that Hitler learned something from the Thulists…”

After the failed "beer putsch" in 1923, the court sentenced Hitler to five years in prison, but he was released from prison at the beginning of 1925. In prison, Hitler sat with Hess, who was Haushofer's assistant when he taught at the University of Munich. Young Hess turned out to be one of the most diligent students of Haushofer, and he was soon involved in the activities of the occult circles at the Thule Society, the most influential Masonic-type lodge in Germany (The Institute of Geopolitics, headed by K. Haushofer, served as a “roof” for figures from Thule) . It was Hess who introduced Haushofer to Hitler. The latter eagerly absorbed Haushofer's revelations: the idea of ​​conquering living space, various occult and mystical constructions. The leaders of the Thule recognized Hitler as a person worthy of attention, which, however, should have been somewhat trimmed. Thule specialists taught him the secrets of influencing the masses, involved him in the activities of occult circles. He began to read books on astrology and the occult, attend seances, get acquainted with the esoteric doctrines of Freemasonry, communicate with various soothsayers and other carriers of "secret" knowledge and unusual abilities ...

Thule, the most powerful secret organization in Germany, was already firmly behind Hitler's party when he signed an order elevating the SS to the rank of an autonomous organization placed above the party. The formation of the SS was entrusted to Himmler.

Himmler, notes V. Prussakov, created the SS as a privileged military organization of the Kaiser times. But the Jesuits also served as a model for him, who did not hesitate to use “the ungodly knowledge of secret societies, which they themselves cruelly persecuted.

The Ahnenerbe organization was founded in 1933. It was created by the occultist Frederik Hilscher (aka Sievers' mentor), who is closely associated with the Swedish researcher Sven Gedin. The latter, being a specialist in the East, lived for a long time in Tibet, was in close relations with Haushofer and unwittingly played the role of an important intermediary in the creation of Nazi esoteric doctrines.

1935 - Himmler makes the Ahnenerbe an official organization attached to his black order. The goals of the Ahnenerbe were announced: “To search for the localization, thought, action, heritage of the Indo-Germanic race and to communicate to the people in an intensive form the results of these searches. The accomplishment of this task must be distinguished by methods of scientific precision.” As L. Povel and J. Bergier note in this connection, "the entire German rational organization was placed at the service of the irrational."

1939, January - Ahnenerbe, along with 50 institutions that it had (they were led by Professor Wurst, a specialist in ancient sacred texts), was included in the SS, and the leaders of the Ahnenerbe entered Himmler's personal headquarters. According to some authors, Germany spent colossal funds on research conducted within the Ahnenerbe, more than America spent on creating the first atomic bomb. These studies, write L. Povel and J. Bergier, “covered a huge area, from scientific activity in the proper sense of the word to the study of the practice of the occult, from vivisection of prisoners to spying on secret societies. There were negotiations with Skorzeny about organizing an expedition, the purpose of which should be, and Himmler created a special section, an information service, dealing with the "field of the supernatural." The list of problems solved by the Ahnenerbe is amazing ... ".

The Luminous Lodge Society, later called the Vril Society, also became part of the Ahnenerbe. This society, led by Haushofer, based on the ideas of occult anthropology, studied the possibility - a special mutation of the Aryan race, which emits "giant radiations of energy." The members of this society, trying to resurrect the "magical" properties of the Aryan blood, sat for many hours over the seeds of plants, "saturated" with their energy. It seemed to the Nazis that their specialists were not enough. Haushofer enlisted the help of members of the Japanese Green Dragon Society, in which he himself was once a member. The Tibetan sect Agharti, which is believed to be oriented towards black forces, was also involved in the work in the Ahnenerbe. Back in 1926, a small colony of Indians and Tibetans settled in Berlin and Munich. Later, when funds allowed, they began to send numerous, following each other almost continuously until 1943. These expeditions were organized by Haushofer. Another, "light" school of Tibet, did not cooperate with the Nazis.

The Vril group and the Agharti sect, which the SS called the Green People's Society, formed within the Ahnenerbe. The leading cadres of this order and the leaders of the Gestapo were required to take courses in meditation, the occult and magic.

The further fate of the "green people", lamas from the Agharti sect, a kind of servants of the devil - Nazi-friendly messengers of the dark forces - turned out to be sad. As the end of the Third Reich approached, the Nazis began to treat them worse and worse. Shortly before the capture of Berlin by our troops, the "green people" - and there were about a thousand of them - committed suicide.

It is unlikely that anyone will dare to challenge the thesis that the possession of "magic" weapons was perhaps one of the most secret goals of the top leaders of the Third Reich.

In conclusion, I would like to quote a fragment from the preface to the second edition of the book The Nazi Tyrant and the Occult Forces. E. Saby writes: “1944. The war is ending. Paris is liberated. But there is still a battlefield where Good and Evil, Truth and Falsehood, Christ and Antichrist are fighting for the world. We still have to suffer, and to understand this, read this book. It will help you understand the meaning of the drama that unfolded before your eyes... Paganism and brute force were raised to the rank of religion. Hitler achieved this, and it ruined him. Only social justice will open the era of universal brotherhood. Winning is not everything. You have to conquer yourself. Moral laws must rule the world, then mankind will be saved.

Isn't it wonderful words that sound so modern even today.