The Rise of the Fourth Reich - ThereAreNoSunglasses

88 THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICHU.S. government, relates how one of Patton’s offcers, Colonel Charles H.Reed, organized the escape of the Lippizan horses from the Spanish RidingSchool at the end of the war, an event memorialized in the 1963 Disneyfilm Miracle of the White Stallions. Bowen noted that Reed saved thehorses “while on his mission of persuading the head of German intelligenceto turn over to the U.S. the many truckloads of documents buriedon the Czech-Austrian border—documents which are still secret today.”Could these documents have been Kammler’s technology files?The Allies’ rejection of SS chief Himmler’s last-minute offer to surrendermay not have been due to the “frantic attempts of a desperate massmurderer to avoid his inevitable fate,” as described by mainstream historians,but instead because Himmler had lost real control over the exotictechnology. After all, Himmler was too high-profile a person to be allowedto live on after the war. He reportedly committed suicide by taking a poisoncapsule on May 23, 1945, after being caught trying to sneak throughBritish lines disguised as a German Army private.Hans Kammler, on the other hand, was largely unknown to the public,though he undoubtedly was high on the list of wanted Nazi war criminals,considering his involvement in the construction of concentrationcamps and their gas chambers as well as his participation in the leveling ofthe Warsaw ghetto. “Unlike Himmler,” noted Cook, “Kammler had somethingof value to deal—something tangible. By early April [1945], Hitlerand Himmler had placed under his direct control every secret weaponsystem of any consequence within the Third Reich—weapons that had nocounterpart in the inventories of the three powers that were now bearingdown on central Germany from the east and the west.”“The deal had already probably been cut between Kammler’s representativesand OSS [the U.S. Offce of Strategic Services] station chief inZurich, Allen Dulles, or via General Patton himself,” Farrell surmised.If such a deal was made with Patton, he did not live to see the results.On December 9, 1945, while riding in his 1939 Cadillac staff car, Pattonsuffered a head injury when his car was struck by a 2 1 ⁄2-ton military truckthat turned in front of them. Patton’s driver and a passenger, his chief ofstaff Major General Hobart “Hap” Gay, were uninjured. Paralyzed from