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Funny, I thought, how this much later on in the investigation I saw
things through a markedly different prism. At the time, I'd been focused
on the technology. Now, the fact that the Germans had been working on
directed energy weapons was subordinate to a subtly different observation:
that the Nazis had operated a compartmentalized security structure
like the one now operated by the black world.
It was then that I saw the Kammler special projects group for what it
was; not as a facility where experiments were conducted, but as an R&D
coordinating center. Testing wouldn't have been performed at Skoda
itself, but in the field.
It was exactly as Agoston said it was: a think tank, not an experimental
site.
I put out feelers into the Czech Republic and Poland. I now saw that if
there had been any truth at all in the reports of flying saucers developed
by the Germans at the end of the war, this was the place to start looking.
If the legend that had grown up around the supposed activities of Messrs.
Schriever, Habermohl, Miethe and Bellonzo was in any shape, way or
form based on truth—and while my earlier research had shown there
wasn't a shred of solid evidence to say they were, I was convinced there
was no smoke without fire—two places always seemed to recur in socalled
testimony.
The first was Prague, not a million miles from Skoda's twin hubs at
Pilsen and Brno (Bruenn). The second was Breslau in the German
province of Lower Silesia. Then part of Germany, Breslau—renamed
Wroclaw—is today in southwest Poland.
I turned my attention back to Kammler.
In March 1945, Kammler moved his headquarters from Berlin to
Munich, working out of the regional Waffen-SS and Reich Police
Construction Office. On April 16, three weeks after he had received his
mission from Hitler to change the course of the war, Kammler delegated
Gerhard Degenkolb, industrial plenipotentiary for the manufacture of jet
aircraft at Speer's ministry for armaments and war production, to assume
special responsibility for manufacture of the Messerschmitt 262,
Germany's last-ditch hope in the war in the air. On April 17, with the
Third Reich crashing around his ears, Kammler sent a message to
Himmler at SS Command Headquarters in Berlin denying Himmler the
use of a heavy truck that the Reichsführer-SS had requested from the
Junkers aircraft factory motor pool—an order so obsessive in its attention
to detail, given the inferno that was burning around Kammler, that Speer
later described it as "both terrifying and laughable."
Be that as it may. It was the last official message anyone ever received