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Chapter 21
The next day, I was back into Germany, on my way to Austria, making
good progress on the autobahns in the rental car I'd picked up across the
border, when the phone rang. It was Marckus. Hearing his voice, I felt a
wave of relief, the cellular link between us suddenly feeling like a lifeline.
I spent the next 20 minutes briefing him on the mine. To begin with,
he put up some resistance, trotting out his old belief that it was pointless
pursuing the Germans for anything remotely as advanced as antigravity
technology. But I had a feeling that Marckus was simply going through
the motions.
The longer I talked, the more he listened. By the end, he was firing the
questions at me.
I told him I had a hunch; that the Wenceslas Mine complex had been
some kind of nuclear installation, the strange, henge-like construction
being redolent of a reactor housing, with a tile-lined coolant pool in its
midst. I didn't buy Witkowski's test-rig thesis, but then again I wasn't
dismissing it either.
As for the Bell, I had absolutely no idea what it could have been, but
without my notes at hand, I couldn't give Marckus the kind of details he
required to conduct an in-depth analysis.
I promised to send him an email with the facts that night, as soon as I
got to my hotel in Bad Ischl, across the Austrian border.
"What happens in Bad Ischl?" Marckus asked.
I told him about the Junkers "truck" business and how it had altered
my plans. With long-range transport aircraft at his disposal, Kammler
had had the means to ship the core secrets of the Skoda Works anywhere
he wanted. And for all I knew, he had gone with them. It was pointless
trying to pick up the clues of his disappearance in Ebensee or anywhere
else for the time being. It was enough to know that the Nazis had, via
Kammler's special projects group, a repository of technical secrets that
had gone way beyond the V-weapons they had developed and used by the
end of the war.
It had taught me other things, too. For years, I had read of the SS'
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