Les projets Allemands du 3 ème Reich

Étant donné le nombre incalculable de projets allemands, plus ou moins aboutis, pendant la guerre de 39-45... Un topic dessus me semble justifié....

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Hitler 'tested small atom bomb'

By Ray Furlong BBC News, Berlin

Sceptics agree the book sheds new light on Nazi nuclear experiments

A German historian has claimed in a new book presented on Monday
that Nazi scientists successfully tested a tactical nuclear weapon in
the last months of World War II.
Rainer Karlsch said that new research in Soviet and also
Western archives, along with measurements carried out at one of the
test sites, provided evidence for the existence of the weapon.
"The important thing in my book is the finding that the
Germans had an atomic reactor near Berlin which was running for a short
while, perhaps some days or weeks," he told the BBC.
"The second important finding was the atomic tests carried out in Thuringia and on the Baltic Sea."
Mr Karlsch describes what the Germans had as a "hybrid
tactical nuclear weapon" much smaller than those dropped on Hiroshima
or Nagasaki.
'Bright light'
He said the last test, carried out in Thuringia on 3
March 1945, destroyed an area of about 500 sq m, killing several
hundred prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates.
The weapons were never used because they were not yet
ready for mass production. There were also problems with delivery and
detonation systems.

Karlsch has done us a service in showing that German research into uranium went further than we'd thought... but there was not a German atom bomb Michael Schaaf, German physicist

"We haven't heard about this before because only small groups of
scientists were involved, and a lot of the documents were classified
after they were captured by the Allies," said Karlsch.
"I found documents in Russian and Western archives, as well as in private German ones."
One of these is a memo from a Russian spy, brought to
the attention of Stalin just days after the last test. It cites
"reliable sources" as reporting "two huge explosions" on the night of 3
March.
Karlsch also cites German eyewitnesses as reporting
light so bright that for a second it was possible to read a newspaper,
accompanied by a sudden blast of wind.
The eyewitnesses, who were interviewed on the subject by
the East German authorities in the early 1960s, also said they suffered
nose-bleeds, headaches, and nausea for days afterwards.
Karlsch also pointed to measurements carried out recently at the test site that found radioactive isotopes.
Sceptical response
His book has provoked huge interest in Germany, but also scepticism.
It has been common knowledge for decades that the Nazis
carried out atomic experiments, but it has been widely believed they
were far from developing an atomic bomb.

The bomb was much smaller than the weapon dropped on Hiroshima

"The eyewitnesses he puts forward are either unreliable
or they are not reporting first-hand information; allegedly key
documents can be interpreted in various ways," said the influential
news weekly Der Spiegel.
"Karlsch displays a catastrophic lack of understanding
of physics," wrote physicist Michael Schaaf, author of a previous book
about Nazi atomic experiments, in the Berliner Zeitung newspaper.
"Karlsch has done us a service in showing that German
research into uranium went further than we'd thought up till now, but
there was not a German atom bomb," he added.
It has also been pointed out that the United States
employed thousands of scientists and invested billions of dollars in
the Manhattan Project, while Germany's "dirty bomb" was allegedly the
work of a few dozen top scientists who wanted to change the course of
the war.
Karlsch himself acknowledged that he lacked absolute
proof for his claims, and said he hoped his book would provoke further
research.
But in a press statement for the book launch, he is defiant.
"It's clear there was no master plan for developing atom
bombs. But it's also clear the Germans were the first to make atomic
energy useable, and that at the end of this development was a
successful test of a tactical nuclear weapon."

Source :bbc.co.uk




Photo showing the dismantling the German experimental nuclear pile
at Haigerloch 50 km south west of Stuttgart in April 1945.


Plus de details : La Bombe atomique allemande

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Nazi Stealth Jet Could Have Won War for Hitler


Wednesday, July 01, 2009




The Ho 229 replica in a hangar at Northrop Grumman's facility in El Segundo, Calif.

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Meet the "wonder weapon" that could have won the war for Hitler.

Called the Horten 229, the radical "flying wing" fighter-bomber looked and
acted a lot like the U.S. Air Force's current B-2 — right down to the
"stealth" radar-evading characteristics.

Fortunately for the world, the Ho 229 wasn't put into mass production before Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945.

But American researchers boxed up and shipped home the prototypes and
partially-built planes that existed — and now the same company that
builds the B-2 has rebuilt one.

Northrop Grumman Corp. spent its own time and money using the original German
blueprints to replicate the wood-and-steel-tube bomber, right down to
its unique metallic glue and paint, at its facility in El Segundo,
Calif.

Using radar of the same type and
frequency used by British coastal defenses in World War II, the
engineers found that an Ho 229, flying a few dozen feet above the
English Channel, would indeed have been "invisible" to the Royal Air
Force — an advantage that arrived too late for the Nazis to exploit.


"This was the most advanced technology
that the Germans had at the end of the war, and Northrop solved the
question of how stealthy it was and its performance against Allied
radar at the time," documentary filmmaker Mike Jorgenson told the Long
Beach, Calif., Press-Telegram. "It's significantly better than anything
flying operationally probably until the 1960s."


The National Geographic Channel will next air Jorgenson's documentary, "Hitler's Stealth Fighter," on Sunday, July 5.

Source : foxnews.com

Citation :

Origin: Gothaer Waggonfabrik AG. to Horten design
Type: Single seat fighter/bomber
Engines:
Two Junkers Jumo 004B turbojets
Thrust: 1,980lb (900kg)
Dimensions:
Span 16.75m
Length 7.47m
Height 2.80m
Weights:
Empty: 10,140lbs (4600kg)
Max. loaded: 19,840lb (9000kg)
Speed:
607mph (977km/h)
Ceiling:
52,500ft (16,000m)
Range:
1,970 miles (3170km) at 393mph (635km/h) with two drop tanks
Armaments: Planned
Four Mk 103 or Mk 108 cannon
Plus
Two 1,000kg bombs

Source : warbirdsresourcegroup.org



Les Frères Horten devant un de leurs prototypes d'ailes volantes.


Horten 229 V3, le dernier existant à ce jour, désassemblé et stocké chez Northop.



Vue Arrière de l'appareil, le bois (avec lequel l'appareil est construit) n'est plus en bon état ...




Les ailes sont stockés à part en attendant les travaux de restauration qui ne devraient plus tarder.



Maquette refaite à l'Echelle 1:1 pour le test de furtivité de Northop.


XB-35 developpé par les Etats Unis (à partir du Horten) à la fin de la guerre.

Spoiler:

les allemand était bien avancé dans le domaine d'armement ils sont fort hellfire on a besoin aussi de documentation à propos de leurs projets sous-marins

pas seulment les SM, mais il faut savoir que c'est eux qui ont créerla téchnologie des missile utilisé aprés par les américains

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Prototypical Stealth (Radar Absorbent) Materials


But Hitler's boast overheard by Luigi Romersa included more than just a
prototypes for the "smart" weapons that would become such staples of
the American military for decades to come. It also included a claim to
possess invisible aircraft and submarines. Surely this, at least, was
fantasy? Not so. There exists a British Intelligence Objectives
Sub-Committee (BIOS) report entitled "Production and Further
Investigation of Wesch Anti-Radar Material, CIOS Black List Item 1
RADAR, BIOS Target No. 1/549," whose significance is rather obvious
from its title. The objective of this team was to acquire some 500 feet
of this material for secret testing by the British Admiralty.
["Production and farther Investigation of Wesch Anti-Radar Material,"
British Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee 1/549, Report 132] The
report details the production of various RAM materials (Radar Absorbent
Material) by the Germans, via techniques that involved shredding and
heating rubber, and combining zinc oxide, finely ground iron powder
(the powder was ground into micro-spheres), which was all then pressed
into sheets, and then transferred to press moulds, trimmed and heated
under small pressure. This material was actually used on the hulls of
some late Type XXI U-Boats, as well as on U-boat Schnorkel devices, to
scatter Allied radar to return distorted or indeed, no radar signals.


Yet another type of RAM technology was being studied by the Germans for its
effects on electromagnetic wave propagation. The report on this
material is cited in full here:


Zeulenroda:
Measurements were made on materials for absorbing electromagnetic
radiation. One of these materials consisted of spiral steel shavings
imbedded in paraffin, which was named EISENSPÄNE. Another material
tested was manufactured by I.G. Farben and was called MOLTOPREN. No
papers were available on this work but the results were given from
memory as shown in appendix B. The purpose of this work was for the
concealment of submarines.


Submarine stealth was not the only thing the Nazis were after: A large price was
offered by the German Government for the development of
'Schwarzflugzeug' /Black airplane a non-reflecting material for use on
aircraft.


Type XXI XXI U-boats, also known as "Elektroboote", were the first
submarines designed to operate entirely submerged, rather than as
surface ships that could submerge as a temporary means to escape
detection or launch an attack.

German Type XXI U-Boat: World's first actual submarine

The Type XXIs had much better facilities than previous classes, with a
freezer for foodstuffs and minor conveniences for the 57-man crew such
as a shower and wash basin. It was much quieter, and enjoyed a
hydraulic torpedo reload system that allowed all of its six torpedo
tubes, which were in the bow, to be reloaded faster than a Type VIIC
could reload a single tube. The Type XXI could fire 18 torpedoes in
under 20 minutes. The total war load was 23 torpedoes, or 17 torpedoes
and 12 sea mines. Greatly increased battery capacity, roughly three
times that of a Type VIIC, gave these boats enormous underwater range.
They could travel submerged at about five knots (9 km/h) for two or
three days before recharging the batteries, which took less than five
hours on the radar-invisible Schnorkel.



Because of its streamlined hull design, the Type XXI could travel faster
underwater than on the surface, albeit only for a limited amount of
time. This, combined with longer dive times at reduced speeds, made
them much harder to chase and destroy by ASW surface ships. It also
gave the boat a 'sprint ability' when positioning the boat for a
line-of-sight torpedo attack. Older boats had to surface in order to
sprint into position. This often gave the boat away, especially after
aircraft became available for convoy escort.



Between 1943 and 1945, 118 boats of this type were built by Blohm & Voss of
Hamburg, AG Weser of Bremen, and F. Schichau of Danzig. The boats were
built faster than earlier types as the hull was constructed from 8
pre-prepared sections which were assembled after being transported from
the various factories they were made in. However, Allied mythology says
only one, U-2511, had begun a combat patrol by the end of World War II.
This was in part a result of the lengthened training process, as the
crews had to be trained to operate the new, sophisticated technology.

Most boats were scrapped or scuttled after the war, but eight were taken by
the Allies for evaluation and trials. The United States received U-2513
and U-3008, which were commissioned into the United States Navy. U-3017
was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS-N41, and U-2518 became
French submarine Roland Morillot. U-3515, U-2529, U-3035, and U-3041
were commissioned into the Soviet Navy as B-27, B-28, B-29, and B-30
respectively. Those boats influenced new Soviet submarine classes known
by the NATO reporting names Zulu and Whiskey, although the Whiskey
class was smaller and less sophisticated.



A ninth XXI also saw service after the war: U-2540, which had been
scuttled at the end of the war, was raised in 1957 to become the
research vessel Wilhelm Bauer of the Bundesmarine. It is the only XXI
remaining.



This research may have paid unexpected dividends to the German secret
weapons research project. In any case, the existence of actual
"protostealth" Schnorkel devices on late war German U-boats attests to
the success of some of these experiments.



This report also corroborates yet another allegation, often derisorily
dismissed by mainstream researchers, that in May of 1945, a small
flotilla of the new Type XXI U-boats, with their revolutionary hydrogen
peroxide underwater "turbine" propulsion allowing extraordinary
undersea cruising speeds, met, and annihilated, a flotilla of British
destroyers. [Q.v. Henry Stevens, The Last Battalion (German Research Project)].


The allegations included the German use of new types of wire-guided, and magnetic proximity torpedoes.



At least one corroboration of this strange encounter occurs in the BIOS report:



Vierling has heard of electrical homing devices for torpedoes and their firing
by a proximity effect. Torpedoes used magnetic fields varying at about
500 cycles per sec. Torpedoes were built by AEG in Berlin. Some work
was done also at Gdynia. These torpedoes were reported to have sunk 12
Destroyers in one engagement in Arctic waters.

~"Production and further Investigation of Wesch Anti-Radar Material," British
Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee 1/549, Report 132].

Source : greyfalcon.us



U-Boat Type XXI Allemand

le programme le plus enigmatique des savant nazis c'est surtout la bombe atomique

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Selon un historien allemand, Hitler avait la bombe nucléaire




» Grand éclair. Feu, beaucoup de morts tout de suite. Avec grandes brûlures. Beaucoup aveugles… » Oleg agonise. Mais avant de mourir de ses brûlures, ce prisonnier de guerre soviétique du camp de concentration nazi d'Ohrdruf, dans le centre de l'Allemagne, se confie à un compatriote en cherchant ses mots.
Il lui explique ce qui vient de se passer. La gigantesque explosion qui l'a aveuglé, avant de tout carboniser autour de lui. Sans le savoir, Oleg est l'une des premières victimes de l'ère atomique.
Comme plusieurs centaines d'autres cobayes, dont certains se sont littéralement volatilisés, il a été exposé à un test nucléaire organisé dans le plus grand secret par les nazis le 3 ou 4 mars 1945. Deux mois avant la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en Europe.
A l'époque, les Allemands se replient de toutes parts. La défaite totale est proche. Reste un espoir pour les nazis : leurs » armes miracles » , ces avions, ces fusées ou ces sous-marins qui pourraient changer le cours de la guerre. Mais ce que Hitler attend avec le plus d'impatience, c'est un nouveau type d'explosif. Une bombe si puissante qu'elle » détruirait toute vie humaine dans un rayon de trois à quatre kilomètres du point d'impact » , explique le Führer en août 1944 à Ion Antonescu, chef de l'Etat roumain.
Une bombe tactique, d'une puissance moindre qu'à Hiroshima et Nagasaki
Les physiciens allemands y travaillent sans relâche depuis 1942. Depuis que l'état-major de la Wehrmacht et les SS ont libéré de gros budgets pour réaliser la bombe. Sans succès, prétendaient les alliés après la guerre, en ajoutant que les scientifiques nazis étaient très en retard sur leurs collègues américains et britanniques.
Faux, rétorque aujourd'hui Rainer Karlsch. Dans son livre » La bombe de Hitler » , l'historien allemand prouve que les nazis ont testé plusieurs bombes nucléaires tactiques entre octobre 1944 et mars 1945. Soit bien avant les attaques américaines qui détruiront les villes japonaises d'Hiroshima et de Nagasaki en août 1945.
Mais, précise d'emblée le chercheur berlinois, le potentiel de destruction de la bombe nazie était bien inférieur à celui des deux bombes atomiques américaines. La raison en est simple : les Allemands n'avaient pas assez de matériaux fissibles, comme l'uranium enrichi par exemple, pour construire des bombes A.
Mais ce n'était qu'une question de temps. Si les nazis avaient pu prolonger la guerre d'une année, ils auraient très certainement disposé d'armes aussi dévastatrices que celles des Américains.
Un éclair très vif, rougeâtre à l'intérieur, jaunâtre à l'extérieur
Mais revenons à cet essai nucléaire dont Staline saura tout dès le 23 mars, grâce aux rapports de ses espions, qui décrivent avec précision l'onde de choc, les hautes températures, les bâtiments soufflés et les prisonniers de guerre anéantis. Cläre Werner, une habitante de la région d'Ohrdruf, raconte qu'elle a vu vers 21h30 un éclair très vif, rougeâtre à l'intérieur, jaunâtre à l'extérieur.
Il a illuminé le paysage de telle sorte qu'elle aurait pu lire le journal sans problème. Un autre témoin parle des habitants des environs qui, les jours suivants, souffrent de migraine et qui crachent du sang. Il décrit aussi les effets dévastateurs de la bombe, notamment sur les 700 ou 800 prisonniers de guerre sacrifiés à cette occasion.
» Plus aucun cheveu, des cloques de brûlure, les chairs nues et à vif »
» Tous ces gens n'avaient plus aucun cheveu. Certains avaient des cloques de brûlure sur la peau, les chairs nues et à vif… » D'autres témoins prétendent que des sentinelles SS ont été tuées lors de l'essai. Preuve que les nazis avaient été dépassés par la force de leur création, qu'ils appelaient » bombe de la désagrégation » , comme l'a entendu le correspondant de guerre Luigi Romersa en octobre 1944.
Ce journaliste italien avait été envoyé par Mussolini pour constater de visu les avancées technologiques allemandes. Il se trouvait alors sur un autre site d'essai nucléaire, l'île de Rügen dans la mer Baltique. » Nous avons ressenti un véritable tremblement de terre » , témoigne-t-il dans le livre de Rainer Karlsch. » Nous avons vu très clairement un éclair, une lumière incandescente, puis une grande paroi de fumée s'est dressée devant nous. »
Une » arme miracle » … que la Wehrmacht a finalement renoncé à utiliser
Alors pourquoi les Allemands n'ont-ils pas utilisé leur » arme miracle » ? Selon l'historien allemand, la bombe nucléaire nazie n'était pas prête pour une application militaire. Il lui manquait notamment un vecteur, un avion ou une fusée, pour bombarder les villes ennemies. En outre, les pontes nazis, à la différence de Hitler, ont compris, dès la fin du mois de mars 1945, que les quelques armes atomiques qu'ils pourraient fabriquer n'arrêteraient pas l'avancée des Soviétiques, des Américains et des Britanniques.
Et, surtout, leur utilisation sur le front aurait provoqué la vengeance des alliés, qui auraient eu beau jeu de détruire l'Allemagne sous un tapis de bombes… traditionnelles. La guerre était perdue. Il fallait arrêter les frais et éviter, si possible, le peloton d'exécution pour crime de guerre.
Une longue enquête, qui aboutit grâce à des fonds d'archives inexploités
L'historien Rainer Karlsch reçoit en 2001 une lettre qui l'énerve. Dans ce courrier, le journaliste Heiko Petermann, qui enquête sur d'éventuelles expérimentations de bombes atomiques dans le Reich, lui demande s'il sait de combien de tonnes d'uranium disposaient les nazis durant la guerre.
» J'eus l'impression qu'il se moquait de moi » , résume le chercheur allemand qui, comme la majorité des spécialistes de la période, estimait impossible qu'Hitler ait pu développer une arme nucléaire. Et pourtant Petermann présente à Karlsch des témoins certifiant qu'ils ont vu un brillant éclair de lumière et une colonne de fumée en mars 1945.
Dans un premier temps, Karlsch doute de ces informations. Les physiciens allemands n'avaient-ils pas fait tout leur possible pour torpiller le projet de bombe atomique nazie ? Ils l'avaient d'ailleurs juré sur l'honneur aux alliés qui les avaient fait prisonniers après la guerre.
Devant le manque de preuves, l'historien doute, mais se prend tout de même au jeu. Avec succès. Après plusieurs années de recherche dans des fonds d'archives inexploités en Allemagne, mais aussi en Russie et en Angleterre, il découvre des documents inédits démontrant que les scientifiques nazis savaient ce qu'était une bombe au plutonium.
Une activité nucléaire détectée sur les sites concernés
Il se rend aussi compte que de nombreuses preuves ont été détruites par ces mêmes scientifiques. Histoire de conserver leur place dans la communauté scientifique internationale. Mais c'est sur le terrain, là où les bombes auraient explosé, que Karlsch trouve la preuve d'une activité nucléaire. Des scientifiques analysent les sols et confirment la présence, entre autres, de césium 137 et de cobalt 60.
La boucle est bouclée, même s'il manque encore la preuve visuelle des essais, regrette l'historien, en ajoutant qu'un film au moins a été tourné lors d'une des explosions et qu'il est tombé dans les mains de Staline en 1945. Mais voilà, il s'est perdu dans les archives russes. Officiellement du moins.

rue89

Citation :

The Missiles



XXXII-125, running to more than one hundred and fifty pages, details
not only "an experimental model of an additional thrust unit which was
to be fastened to either the A4(V-2) or the A-9 to give an additional
range," ded Missile Research, Combined Intelligence
Objectives Sub-Committee, G-2 Division, SHAEF (Rear), APO 413, XXXII-125
but also various "Amerika Rakete" projects
for a guided missile with a range of 3,500 miles. These latter rockets,
the report notes, with less than complete reassurance, "probably never
progressed beyond the drawing board stage." But additionally, there was
a V-3 weapon, "a larger version of the V1 with an incendiary warhead
instead of the (high explosive) normally used. Very little information
is available concerning V3 control systems." What, indeed, was this
"incendiary warhead"? A thermite bomb? A fuel-air bomb? An actual atom
bomb? The report is unclear.


As if this were not enough, a lengthy section of the report concerns a
whole range of guided missiles being developed under the direction of
Dr. Wagner for the Henschel firm. These included the HS-293-B, a rocket
power glider with a wire guidance system, the HS-294-A rocket powered
glider "with torpedo" that included a "special device for blowing off
fuselage rear section and wings as soon as body touches water surface,
fuselage front section then cruising as torpedo under water," a small
quantity of which were built for experimentation between 1941 and
1943!







A lengthy section of the report, from page 139 to almost the end of the
report, concerned the development of miniaturized television camera
guidance systems for various missiles, including the well-known
anti-aircraft rocket, the "Wasserfall"(Waterfall), Many of these tests
failed, but by the war's end, a successful test of the
television-guided "Tonne" missile was conducted by German scientists
for the Allies in Berlin, with the target being a photograph of a
little girl's face. The test was successful, much to the impressed, and
doubtless shocked, Allied observers. [William Uricchio, "Envisioning
the Audience: Perceptions of Early German Television's Audiences,
1935-1944]


To this astounding inventory, one may add radio-controlled surface to air
missiles - one of which sank the Italian battleship Roma on its way to
surrender to the Allies - infrared heat seeking air-to-air and surface
to air missiles, wire guided missiles and torpedoes, biological and
chemical warheads for the V-l and V-2, and possible fuel-air and atomic
warheads as well. [Q.v. Friedrich Georg, Hitlers Siegeswaffen,
Band 1] In addition, the Heinkel and Messerschmitt companies were
undertaking modifications of their He-177 and Me 264 heavy bombers to
carry atom bombs. Where were these modifications being made? In Prague.

Source : greyfalcon.us

Citation :

Wasserfall

Wasserfall (Waterfall) was a radio-controlled, supersonic guided missile for
anti-aircraft purpose. It was designed to meet the demand for a missile
to intercept hostile aircraft and to fly at 19,812m at 880km/h with
ranges up to 48km. This specification was highly advanced for the 1940s
and was not achieved by any major combat aircraft in the war. The
intention was to position batteries of these missiles to defend
population centers; about 200 batteries would be needed to cover Germany.

Work and research were started at the Peenemünde Research Station
in 1942, and the design borrowed many concepts from the A-4 missile.
The first launching tests took place across the Baltic in February
1944, and an altitude of 7,010m was reached by the rocket. Seven more
prototypes were made and fired by July 1944. Research and development
were terminated in February 1945. Some sources suggest that several of
the trial missiles were actually deployed against Allied aircraft, but
there is no evidence to support this claim.

The missile weighed
3,545 kg at takeoff, and contained a 306kg warhead of high explosive
armed with a proximity fuze. Wasserfall would have been a powerful and
fearsome addition to Germany's air defenses if only more were produced on time.

Source : greyfalcon.us

bon boulot Hellfire
en fait beaucoup des téchnologie d'armement développé aprés WWII sont fait à partir des projets nazis.

Trés bon artcile reese concernant la bombe nucleraire chez les Nazis

Merci et jolie trouvaille Reese

Il y a bien d'autres choses bien plus intrigantes sur les programmes des allemands, la bombe atomique était une très grande énigme mais d'autres découvertes controversés ont étés faites ...

L'Allemagne Nazie était la puissance la plus avancé aux monde a cette époque!!!

Heureusement qu'ils ont perdu cette maudite guerre !!

Vraiment impressionnant, merci!

Citation :

Autriche : un site d'armes atomiques nazies aurait été découvert


Le Point - Publié le  01/01/2015 à 19:36 - Modifié le  01/01/2015 à 20:29

Selon le documentariste autrichien Andreas Sulzer, il s'agirait du "plus grand site de production d'armes secret du Troisième Reich".  

Une découverte de taille. Le Sunday Times révèle dans un article publié dimanche 28 décembre qu'une usine d'armes souterraine, bâtie a priori pour développer et fabriquer des armes nucléaires, a été découverte en Autriche à proximité de la ville de St Georgen par une équipe menée par Andreas Sulzer. Cité par le journal britannique, le documentariste assure qu'il pourrait s'agir du "plus grand site de production d'armes secret du Troisième Reich".

Andreas Sulzer s'est servi des documents d'un physicien autrichien ayant travaillé pour les nazis pour dénicher la fabrique, située dans le nord de l'Autriche. Avec son équipe, le réalisateur s'est alors servi de radars pour trouver l'entrée de l'usine. Les fouilles ont permis de mettre au jour des galeries encore inconnues et s'étendant sur près de 75 hectares. Le complexe sous-terrain est connecté à l'usine B8 Bergkristall, dans laquelle les Allemands ont produit le premier avion de chasse.

Cité par le Sunday Times, l'historien Rainer Karlsh rappelle que "la direction des SS aspirait à créer une combinaison de missiles et d'armes de destruction massive. Ils voulaient équiper les missiles A4, ou des roquettes plus évoluées, avec du gaz toxique, de la matière radioactive ou des têtes nucléaires".

Des rumeurs

Andreas Sulzer cherche maintenant à découvrir ce qui est arrivé à l'homme en charge de l'usine, également à l'origine des plans des chambres à gaz et des fours crématoires du camp de concentration d'Auschwitz. Si le général SS Hans Kammler s'est officiellement "suicidé après la guerre", comme le rappelle le Sunday Times, des rumeurs sur sa capture par les Américains courent toujours.


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