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184 The Hunt for Zero Point
"And the scientists?" I asked. "What happened to them?"
I thought the line had gone dead, but it was just Witkowski taking his
time, choosing his words.
"They were taken out and shot by the SS between April 28 and
May 4, 1945. Records show that there were 62 of them, many of them
Germans. There were no survivors, but then that's hardly surprising."
He paused. "It's quite clear that someone had gone to very great
lengths to clean up."
It was the second time in as many weeks that this expression had been
used in the context of Kammler. Within the hour, I had booked myself
on a flight to Warsaw.
It was thus—simply and irrevocably—that I was pulled into the
extraordinary story of the Bell.