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D. The Kammler SS Sonderkommando Secret Weapons Empire
Were the secrets of Kammler's SS empire worth changing the
entire Allied operational plan at the end of the war, and were they
worth the possible deliberate assassination of one of the war's most
famous generals "Pilsen and the Skoda Works were captured by
Combat Command B, Third Armored Division, the same unit that
captured Kammler's unique metropolis, with its treasure-trove of
missiles and jet engines, at Nordhausen in Saxony on April 11." 32
Suspiciously, Agoston's Freedom of Information Act request for
the war diaries of Patton's armored units that captured the SS
facilities in Pilsen and Prague could not be located in he US
National Archives. 33
However, Agoston presents evidence that Allied intelligence, at
least from the British point of view, had little to no knowledge of
the Kammler Group. British Lieutenant Colonel James Brierley,
commanding the first British intelligence group to arrive in Pilsen
after its capture, stated that the Skoda plant workers and engineers
themselves reported that everything was microfilmed, that the
buildings which housed their blueprints and development projects
had been demolished, and also that the files had been stored outside
Pilsen. 34
Destroyed by whom And stored outside Pilsen by whom
Presumably by the SS itself. It is perhaps pertinent to this idea that
many of the reports of Kammler's death place him in the area, not
to die, but to remove the most sensitive data and to vouchsafe it for
security.
At this point it is necessary to say something about Agoston's
own thesis concerning the disappearance of the Kammler Staff's
files. The whole thesis of Agoston's book is obvious from its title,
i.e., that in the confusion of the transfer of the Skoda Works from
American to Russian military occupation, the Kammler Group's
entire secret inventory was handed over to the Soviet Union. This
32
Agoston, op. cit, p. 65.
33
Ibid., p. 70.
34
Ibid., p. 75.
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