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216 The Hunt for Zero Point
is busily engaged in secret work in Czechoslovakia. In late 1941, he found
himself in a "weapons factory" at Neudek (now Nejdek) near Karlsbad
(Karlovy Vary), around 120 km southwest of Gablonz. In December
1941, he was back in Gablonz eagerly awaiting the arrival of a starter
motor—presumably, the little electric engine that was needed to kickstart
his implosion device. At one point he tells his son that he is having
to make frequent visits to the train station at Reichenberg (today, Libérée
in the Czech Republic) to see if the "apparatus" has arrived.
In early 1942, Schauberger transferred to the Messerschmitt prototype
works at Augsburg in Bavaria. There, he worked on the further development
of a Repulsator implosion machine. In his correspondence, it
is not clear if this is the same machine as the ones on which he was
working in secret at the two locations in the Czech Republic, although it
seems unlikely. What appears to be the case is that Schauberger's work
was central to a number of parallel activities during 1941 and 1942: Heinkel's
mysterious work at Marienehe, the two secret weapons factories in
Czechoslovakia, the Kertl company in Vienna and Messerschmitt at
Augsburg.
From Schauberger's writings, we know what happened to the Kertl
and Messerschmitt machines. Work on the former ceased due to the
company's inability to obtain essential supplies for the repair of the
damaged device. This is not unreasonable, given Germany's growing
inability to get hold of strategic raw materials from this period on, but
Schauberger still voices his doubts, being convinced that somebody has
ordered the work to be slowed deliberately.
The Messerschmitt device suffered a catastrophic failure due to the
use of substandard casting techniques (and probably low-grade metal
alloys) during the manufacture of the turbine. According to Schauberger
it suffered a "meltdown" as soon as it reached its maximum rotational
velocity. A company in Vienna, Ernst Kubiznak, was ordered to repair
the device under a "Führer directive," but this, like the Kertl work,
appears to have come to naught.
This leaves the Heinkel work and the secret activities in Czechoslovakia.
After the war, when Schauberger picked up on rumors of German
flying saucers that supposedly flew near Prague during the closing stages
of the conflict, he voiced his conviction that these were developments of
his own ideas—and, given the way Heinkel had behaved, this may have
been the case. It was already quite clear that the Sudeten region was the
epicenter of some of the Nazis' most secret and unconventional research
of the war period. But flying saucers? Antigravity propulsion?