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204 The Hunt for Zero Point
Many of the companies that had benefited from SS money, and
employed concentration camp labor in the process, are still in existence
today.
Bosch, Siemens, Zeiss and AEG all maintained highly secretive
research and development operations in Lower Silesia.
It remains in their interests for their activities at this time to stay
largely undocumented. I doubted, in any case, even if they were to open
up their archives, whether anything of real value remained in them. Like
the records pertaining to Kammler's past, I suspected they'd long since
been cleaned out.
This, I said to Marckus, was how secrets came to be locked away,
buried for all time, leaving nothing but myths and legends in their
aftermath.
Maybe the Nazis had initiated a flying saucer program; maybe some of
the technology had borne fruit. There was certainly enough anecdotal
evidence to support the view that a variety of disc-shaped craft had flown
before the end of the war. It was simply that there was no proof.
My journey into Kammler's kingdom had opened my mind to
possibilities I wouldn't have begun to entertain a few months earlier. And
in the process of this willingness at least to confront new ideas, I had
found myself drawn to Bad Ischl.
It was there, before leaving London, that I had arranged to meet with
the family of Viktor Schauberger.
I had picked up on the Schauberger story via the Legend forwarded to
me by my friend and former colleague, Lawrence Cross, in Australia. I
had initially dismissed it out of hand because not being an engineer but a
simple forester, what this Austrian inventor was said to have achieved
technically hadn't made any sense. And the phone conversation I had had
with his son Walter, who back in 1991 had urged me to visit the familyrun
"bio-technical institute" in the Salzkammergut mountains so I could
make up my own mind, had only served to alienate me further.
But Bad Ischl was less than 15 minutes' drive time from Ebensee. And
a lot had changed in the interim. I knew, for example, thanks to
Podkletnov and his lab assistant's pipe smoke, that whatever antigravity
was or wasn't, it had to be induced by something highly unconventional.
And Schauberger's approach to the energy-generation process he
referred to as "implosion"—if the Legend as relayed to me by Cross
contained even a grain of truth—was certainly unconventional.
The Schaubergers maintained a large archive dedicated to Viktor's
work in their house, the location of the institute, on the outskirts of Bad
Ischl. If they would allow me to take a look at it, perhaps I would be able