Die Glocke (German for "The Bell") is the name of a purported top secret and highly sensitive Nazi scientific technological device. The only source of this theory are the books of Polish aerospace defence journalist[1] and military historian[2] Igor Witkowski, which claim it to be a secret weapon, or Wunderwaffe. The topic has been popularized by Nick Cook, Joseph P. Farrell and conspiracy theory websites, associating it with Nazi occultism and antigravity or free energy research.
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Background
2.1 Function
2.2 Controversy
3 The Henge (Fly Trap)
4 In popular culture
4.1 Books
4.2 Films
5 See also
6 Notes
7 References
8 Further reading
8.1 Literature
8.2 Articles
8.3 Documentaries
8.4 Audio
9 External links
[edit] History
The device was first claimed to exist by Igor Witkowski, in his Polish language book Prawda O Wunderwaffe (2000, reprinted in German as Die Wahrheit über die Wunderwaffe), in which he refers to it as "The Nazi-Bell". Little was known or reported on regarding the device until it was popularized in the English-speaking Western world by Jane's Information Group's British aviation editor, journalist and author Nick Cook, in his book The Hunt for Zero Point. Interest grew, and Witkowski's book was translated into English in 2003 by Bruce Wenham as The Truth about the Wunderwaffe. Information about the device has been further spread and speculated on in works of American authors Joseph P. Farrell, Jim Marrs and Henry Stevens.
On the origins of the Bell story, Farrell states:
Igor is just a first class military journalist and researcher. His book, The Truth about the Wunderwaffe, is just, I think, probably the best book on German secret weapons. It's thoroughly researched. The conclusions he comes to in it on every aspect of Nazi secret weapons steers very close to the evidence and it's that book really that makes the story of the Bell available to the English world. The other book thats essential for anyone researching the Bell of course would be Nick Cooks book, The Hunt For Zero Point, but his book is based largely on Witkowski's research so Witkowski is really kind of the origin of the story because he is the one that unearthed the original documentation and the sites inside of Silesia which of course are now in Poland that the Bell was tested at. He's the absolute crucial person to consider when anyone does research on the Bell[3]
"The Bell" has become something of a legend among believers in zero-point energy, perpetual motion machines, anti-gravity devices, reality shifting, reanimation, and time-space manipulation.
[edit] Background
The Bell is said to be an experiment carried out by Third Reich scientists working for the SS in a German facility known as Der Riese ("The Giant")[4] near the Wenceslas mine. The mine is located 50 kilometers away from Wroc³aw a little north of the village of Ludwikowice K³odzkie (formerly known as Ludwigsdorf) close to the Czech border. Cook and Witkowski visited the site for the UK Channel 4 documentary UFOs: the Hidden Evidence (aka An Alien History of Planet Earth).
The device is described as metallic, approximately 9 feet wide and 12 to 15 feet high with a shape similar to a bell. It contained two counter-rotating cylinders filled with a highly radioactive, purple substance only known as Xerum 525[5], which has been speculated to be Red mercury.[6] When active, The Bell would emit strong radiation, which led to the death of several scientists[7] and various plant and animal test subjects.[5]
Farrell states:
The Bell was considered so important to the Nazis that they killed 60 scientists that worked on the project and buried them in a mass grave and the only reason we know about the Bell is that the SS General that was tasked with the murders, Jakob Sporrenberg, was tried after the war by a Polish War Crimes court for murdering his own people on what subsequently became Polish soil. So it's his Affidavit that gives us the story of the Bell.[3]
What might have happened to The Bell, had it existed, were it to have been evacuated out of Germany is unknown, however there has been some speculation: Witkowski speculated that it ended up in a Nazi-friendly South American country, Cook speculated that it ended up in the United States as part of a deal made with SS General Hans Kammler and Farrell speculated that it did not reach the United States until it was recovered in the Kecksburg UFO incident.[8]
[edit] Function
While the purpose of The Bell is unknown, there is a wide range of speculation from anti-gravity[citation needed] to time travel.
Jan Van Helsing claims in his book Secret Societies that, in a meeting that was attended by the members of various secret orders (Vril Gesellschaft, Thule Society, SS elite of Black Sun) and two mediums, technical data for the construction of a flying machine was gathered along with the messages that were said to have come from the solar system Aldebaran[9]
One of Cook's scientist contacts in The Hunt for Zero Point, was a "Dr. Dan Marckus". (Cook states in his book that he has "blurred" Marckus' name[10] and that he is "an eminent scientist attached to the physics department of one of Britain's best-known universities".[11]) Dr. Marckus claimed that The Bell was a torsion field generator and that the SS scientists were attempting to build some sort of time machine with it.[12]
[edit] Controversy
The original claims about the existence of the experiment were spread by Igor Witkowski, who claimed to have discovered the existence of the project after seeing secret transcripts of an interrogation by the KGB of SS General Jakob Sporrenberg.
According to Witkowski, he was shown some classified files in August 1997 by a Polish intelligence officer (whose identity Witkowski keeps confidential), who had access to Polish government documents regarding Nazi secret weapons. This officer unveiled to him for the first time the details of the testimony of SS Officer Jakob Sporrenberg,[2] who provided details of this secret sub-program during a questioning by Polish military officials in 1950/51, when he was imprisoned in Poland. Witkowski provides lavish details of this in his book The Truth about the Wunderwaffe. Although no evidence of the veracity of Witkowski's claims have ever been produced, these claims reached a wider audience when they were used by British author Nick Cook in his popular non-fiction book The Hunt for Zero Point.[13]
The origin, and only evidence of the story, lies solely on Witkowski's testimony of seeing secret transcripts of Sporrenberg's interrogation and his comments on it. These documents have never been made public and Witkowski claims that he was only allowed to transcribe them and was not allowed to make any copies. No other evidence has come to light.
[edit] The Henge (Fly Trap)
Among Witkowski's other speculations was that a structure dubbed "The Henge"[14] may have been a test rig for the anti-gravity propulsion generated by the Bell. Witkowski said that an industrial complex at the nearby Wenceslas mine was the testing site for the Bell.
Cook describes the structure as 30 m (98 ft) wide, and 10 m (33 ft) high "with its 12 metre thick columns and horizontal beams, it was part-reminiscent of some ritual pagan edifice."[15]
According to Cook in the History Channel production An Alien History of Planet Earth, during World War II the Allies thought the structure important and noteworthy enough to dub it the "Fly Trap" on reconnaissance photos.[16] Some consider that a mere cooling tower would not have attracted so much attention, especially since the facility's power plant is also clearly visible, some distance away from it.
In August 2005 German investigator, and GAF Staff Officer, Gerold Schelm (aka "Golf Sierra")[17] visited "The Henge" and released his findings in November of that year. He claims to have debunked the "Henge" part of the story, demonstrating that a similar structure he discovered in the Polish city of Siechnice is merely the frame for a cooling tower, and shows both Witkowski's image and his of the completed cooling tower together for purposes of comparison.[18]
Schelm states that on some Polish websites it is referred to as "Muchotapka".[18] However, this is an incorrect spelling. The correct spelling is "Mucho³apka" (Czech and Polish for "flyswatter" or "fly trap", literally "flycatcher".[19])
Schelm goes on to state that:
The similarities between the concrete structure known as "The Henge" and the base structure of this cooling tower in Siechnice are obvious. Despite the number of columns does not match (12 at Siecnice and 11 at Ludwikowice), I am sure, that even their dimensions are almost the same. The construction features are exactly the same, leading to the assumption that the cooling tower and "The Henge" once were built using the same plans, maybe even the same construction company. I had no luck in finding out when the cooling tower in Siechnice was erected, but is in very good condition and I think it was built after WW II, maybe in the 60's or 70's.[18]
Witkowski had pointed out to Cook some metal bolts, which were visible on the top of the structure, right above every column. Witkowski concluded that those bolts had once absorbed the physical force of a heavy apparatus that must have been placed in the middle of the structure, possibly the Bell.
Schelm states that:
comparing the details of both "The Henge" with the Siechnice cooling tower, the purpose of the bolts mentioned by Witkowski becomes clear: The upper metal construction of the cooling tower is resting on exactly those 12 bolts, being visible just on top of every column like they can be seen at "The Henge". Sorry, Mr. Witkowski, but at this point your theory goes down the drain. The concrete structure that you referred to as a possible "test-rig" for carrying the "Nazi-Bell" inside is no more than the remnant of a cooling tower. And, taking this fact into consideration it appears very plausible that the power plant at the northern end of the valley, next to the "Fabrica", would have had a cooling tower, and a good place to erect that cooling tower would have been the bank right next to the "Fabrica". The "Fabrica", whatever it may have produced, of course would have needed huge amounts of electricity, and this in a very remote location. It would have been feasible to build a power plant next to the factory, producing the required electricity from the coal coming from the in-place Wenceslas Mine. As Cook wrote himself, there was a power plant at the end of the valley, and Witkowski showed it to him.[18]
When Cook asked Witkowski what it was, Witkowski said "I am not sure. But whatever it is - whatever it was - I believe the Germans managed to complete it. In this light it is difficult to see, but some of the original green paint remains. You do not camouflage something that is half finished. It makes no sense." Later, he stated that he believes it to be a test-rig.[20] Cook later stated that "I didn't buy Witkowsk's test-rig thesis, but then again I wasn't dismissing it either."[21]
Witkowski went on to show Cook that[22][16]"the ground within the structure has been excavated to a depth of a metre and lined with the same ceramic tiles that Sporrenberg describes in the chamber that contained the Bell."[22] Schelm stated that "I had brought a small foldable spade with me and started digging at three or four places within the circumference of "The Henge". I didn't find anything, only bare earth, full of worms and bugs and weed roots."[18]
Witkowski is not believed to have commented on the similar structure in Siechnice.
Schelm does comment on the paint on the structure in Ludwikowice, stating "when I looked between the columns, I noticed on the south-eastern edge the remnants of what might have been a concrete rim, reaching around "The Henge" at a slightly larger diameter and about 3 meters outside the circle of columns. A portion of the rim of about 4 meters was left, the rest of the rim was either not accessible due to bushes or had been demolished long time ago. The concrete rim had been painted with the same turquoise paint that had been used for the whole structure."
In 2006 Joseph P. Farrell commented in his book, SS Brotherhood of the Bell, "a very odd object that looks like a large concrete henge, self-evidently a test rig of some sort." Farrell goes on to state:
Witkowski also provided this author with more information that was not available when his book was published. Rainer Karlsch, a German historian who recently published a book in Germany on Hitler's nuclear program, also 'Mentioned in his book that a team of physisists from a German university (in Giessen has carried out a lot of research in Ludwikowice, namely in (the Henge). The result is such that there are isotopes in the construction (in the reinforcement), which can only be the result of irradiation by a strong beam of neutrons, thus that there must have been some kind of device accelerating ions, rather heavy ones. It could be calculated what was the intensity of the radiation in 1945 and generally it was very high.' "In other words, whatever had been tested at the Henge - and there is every indication that it was the Bell - it not only required a sturdy structure to keep it down but also it gave off strong, heavy, radiation."[23]
Farrell has not commented on the similarly identical structure in Siechnice exposed by Schelm, and Schelm has not commented on the alleged radiation findings that are contrary to his own findings.
[edit] In popular culture
[edit] Books
Black Order by James Rollins, 2005 - direct theme
Swastika by Michael Slade, 2005 - direct theme
Black Sun by James Twining, 2006
[edit] Films
Outpost by Steve Barker, 2008 - direct theme
Iron Sky by Timo Vuorensola, 2009
[edit] See also
Black Sun (occult symbol)
Hans Kammler
Kecksburg UFO incident
Guido von List
Nazi mysticism
Nazi UFOs
Jakob Sporrenberg
Vienna Circle (esoteric)
Wewelsburg
Karl Maria Wiligut
[edit] Notes
^ Cook 2001, p. 267
^ a b Farrell 2006
^ a b Farrell 2007
^ Stevens 2007, p. 249
^ a b Cook 2001, p. 192
^ Stevens 2007, p. 250
^ Cook 2001, p. 193
^ Farrell 2004, p. 335
^ Farrell 2006, p. 111
^ Cook 2001, p. vii
^ Cook 2001, p. 81
^ Cook 2001, p. 228
^ Kleiner 2002
^ Image of The Henge
^ Cook 2001, p. 285
^ a b Cook 2006
^ pxarchive personal 'Philedelphia Experiment' website with biography
^ a b c d e Schelm 2005
^ "Slovnik.cz - Multilingual Dictionary".
www.slovnik.cz/bin/mld.fpl?vcb=much&dictdir=encz.cz_d&lines=20&hptxt=1&js=0&sv=1. Retrieved on 01 January 2009. (The "³" is an actual Polish letter and it sounds like the English "w".)
^ Cook 2001, pp. 285-6
^ Cook 2001, p. 293
^ a b Cook 2001, p. 286
^ Farrell 2006, pp. 164-6, referencing Igor Witkowski, personal correspondence to the author, July 23, 2005. Witkowski wrote this quote in The Truth About The Wonderwaffe, p. 235.
[edit] References
Cook, Nick (2001). The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology. Century. ISBN 9780099414988.
Cook, Nick (Narrator and Writer). (2006). An Alien History of Planet Earth. History Channel.
Farrell, Dr. Joseph P. (2004). Reich of the Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons and the Cold War Allied Legend. Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1931882398.
Farrell, Dr. Joseph P. (2006). The SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazi's Incredible Secret Technology. Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1931882614.
Farrell, Dr. Joseph P.. Interview with Red Ice Creations radio. April 15, 2007. (Interview).
Kleiner, Kurt (August 5, 2002). ""The Hunt for Zero Point" by Nick Cook". Salon.
dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/08/05/zero_gravity/index.html.
Schelm, Gerold (November 2005). ""The Henge" at Ludwikowice, Poland - test rig for the NAZI-Bell?" (PDF). Archived from the original on September 27, 2007.
web.archive.org/web/20070927210249/http://www.americanantigravity.com/documents/The-Henge.pdf.
Stevens, Henry (2007). Hitler's Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons, Science and Technology. Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1931882738.
[edit] Further reading
In date order
[edit] Literature
Witkowski, Igor ((2000)[citation needed]) (in Polish). Prawda O Wunderwaffe.
Witkowski, Igor; Bruce Wenham (translator) (2003). The Truth about the Wunderwaffe. Books International Militaria. ISBN 8388259164.
Stevens, Henry (2003). Hitler's Flying Saucers: A Guide to German Flying Discs of the Second World War. Books International Militaria.
Farrell, Dr. Joseph P. (2008). Secrets of the Unified Field: The Philadelphia Experiment, the Nazi Bell, and the Discarded Theory. Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1931882843.
Marrs, Jim (2008). The Rise of the Fourth Reich. William Morrow & Company. ISBN 0061245585.
Farrell, Dr. Joseph P. (April 2009). The Philosopher's Stone: Alchemy and the Secret Research for Exotic Matter. Feral House. ISBN 1932595406.
Farrell, Dr. Joseph P. (15 March 2009). Nazi International: The Nazis' Postwar Plan to Control Finance, Conflict, Physics and Space. Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1931882932.
[edit] Articles
Ventura, Tim (November 14, 2005). "The New Nazi-Bell" (PDF). Archived from the original on February 25, 2007.
web.archive.org/web/20070225192811/http://www.americanantigravity.com/documents/The-New-Nazi-Bell.pdf.
Ventura, Tim; Farrell, Joseph (March 20, 2007). "Secrets of the Nazi-Bell" (PDF). Archived from the original on September 27, 2007.
web.archive.org/web/20070927210451/http://www.americanantigravity.com/documents/Joseph-Farrell-Interview.pdf.
[edit] Documentaries
Cook, Nick (Narrator and Writer). (1999). Billion Dollar Secret. Discovery Channel.
"Area 51". Cook, Nick (Researcher). Unsolved History. Discovery Channel. February 2005. No. 47.
(November 24, 2008). Nazi UFO Conspiracy. Discovery Channel.
[edit] Audio
Levenda, Peter & Dr. Joseph P. Farrell. Interview with Whitley Streiber. (Interview).
Witkowski, Igor. Interview with Tim Ventura. February 1, 2005. (Interview).
Farrell, Dr. Joseph P.. Interview with Whitley Streiber and Jim Marrs. September 9, 2006. (Interview).
Farrell, Dr. Joseph P.. Interview with George Knapp. Coast to Coast. September 16, 2007. (Interview).
Farrell, Dr. Joseph P.. Interview with George Knapp. Coast to Coast. April 3, 2008. (Interview).
Farrell, Dr. Joseph P.. Interview with Richard C. Hoagland. August 21, 2008. (Interview).
Above from this link:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Glocke#History