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A. Introduction: The Rediscovery of the SS Sonderkommando,
Kammler, and a Brush with "the Legend"
As previous chapters have indicated, there is some entity within
the Third Reich that appears to have coordinated extremely
sensitive and secret weapons research projects, including possible
oversight of Germany's apparently large uranium enrichment
program. However, this entity, as we shall subsequently see, was
responsible for a great deal more than that. It is necessary at this
juncture to say something about it, however, as it now directly
enters the picture in the speculative reconstruction of the strange
death of the one, and the disappearance of the other, of these two
very important generals.
This entity first came to public light in the aftermath of World
War Two, in the 1950s, in a series of publications in West
Germany, and in a book by former German major Rudolf Lusar.
These publications alleged that Nazi Germany had created and
successfully tested "unusual" aircraft, including flying disks or
saucers. Thus was born the "Nazi Legend" of the "real origin" of
UFOs. More will be said about this Legend in the subsequent parts
of this book. Here it suffices to note that the Nazi Legend
maintained that this secretive development occurred under the
direct auspices of the SS.
The allegations of an ultra-top secret entity coordinating and
controlling the Nazi secret weapons research in the final years of
the war tended to be discounted, along with its more sensation
component, the "flying saucers" themselves. Moreover, discounting
these allegations was easy to do, since they rested upon the isolated
testimony of a disenchanted German major with definite Nazi
sympathies (Lusar) and the "eye witness" statements of one or two
others who came forward to corroborate the story, each with their
own shady associations.
All that gradually began to change, however, by a sequence of
events ranging from the publication of a book by a former British
intelligence officer, Tom Agoston, in 1985, by the German
reunification itself in 1989, which made a host of archives of the
former East Germany available to researchers. A number of books
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