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The second says that he died in a hail of bullets as he emerged from the
cellar of a bombed-out building to confront Czech partisans that same
day.
The third version says that he shot himself in a wood near Karlsbad
(Karlovy Vary in today's Czech Republic), also on May 9.
What these variations on a theme do manage to assert is that Kammler
was in or around Prague just prior to the German capitulation.
One witness quoted by Agoston, an official with the Prague regional
office of the Buildings and Works Division of the SS Economic Main
Office, recalled the date: "Kammler arrived in Prague early May. We did
not expect him. He gave no advance notice of his arrival. Nobody knew
why he had come to Prague, when the Red Army was closing in."
I could see only two reasons why Kammler should have made such a
journey. First to retrieve the mother lode of documentation on the special
projects group at Skoda and the Skoda administrative offices in Prague;
and secondly to bury it somewhere prior to setting up the deal that would
save him from the gallows and buy him his freedom.
Where in the crumbling, collapsing edifice of the Reich would
Kammler have considered hiding this priceless cargo? Certainly not in
Czechoslovakia, not with the Russians closing in. And it was unlikely that
he would have headed west through the partisan-infested forests between
Prague and the German border.
The fourth version of his death, I felt, offered the best possible clue.
The German and Austrian Red Cross, according to Agoston, held two
relevant documents after the end of the war, the first posting Kammler as
"missing," the second updating the first and listing him "dead." The first
report had been filed by a relative. It placed Kammler's last known
location as Ebensee in Steiermark, Austria. The updated report was
based on the testimony of unnamed "comrades." No burial place was
specified.
I did some thinking of my own, using the reference books I had
brought with me as pointers.
In early May, the province of Steiermark was putting up a vigorous
defense against the Russians, while bracing iself for the American
advance, under the leadership of Gauleiter Siegfried Ueberreither. The
gauleiter—the Nazi party's chief administrator for the Steiermark
"gau"—was backed in his decision to hold the province to the last by
large numbers of Wehrmacht and SS troops.
Kammler knew Ebensee well. Under his orders and supervision, work
had commenced there in 1943 on a giant underground complex for the
intercontinental A-9/A-10 rocket—the weapon that Hitler had intended