Mysteries of the Third Reich - Part Two | For Whom the Bell Tolls

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the German war machines F turn the tide of conflict in their favor have given rise to numerous tales involving advanced and dangerous weaponry but amidst the rumors of alien technology and paranormal experimentation one story in particular stands out that of a mysterious machine the ultimate purpose of which remains an enduring enigma what was dig Locker [Music] [Music] the testing facility was situated a short distance away from the Czechoslovakian border and was known to its inhabitants as their ISA or the giant the soldier stationed there had little knowledge about what the scientists in their charge were working on other than that it was rumored to possess the potential to turn the tide of war the soldiers were both well-equipped and provisioned to a far higher standard than the rest of the vert marked but few of them had seen active service most had spent the entirety of their short military careers protecting secret projects such as this the sound of the artillery fire that was gradually creeping ever closer caused them no small amount of anxiety safe behind the perimeter of overlapping barbed wire fences and reinforced concrete machine-gun nests the scientists went about their business in a deliberate and methodical fashion their concern over the approaching Russians was only secondary the risk of making a mistake using the highly volatile materials they were working with bore a far greater threat than any advancing army the doors to the main hangar were opened and a new group of test subjects were ushered inside they were referred to by those in charged as volunteers but in reality the only reason they were here was because the alternative would have been a long drop from the end of a short rope few things in life motivated an individual more than the prospect of a death sentence once the last of the group was inside the guards retreated locking the doors behind them as they withdrew high up above in the viewing platform the assembled scientists and military officers watched on dispassionately as the small throng of men slowly made their way through the room sprawling interior towards the odd-looking object in the center momentarily a technician threw the switch which activated a nearby power source and after a few moments a faint thrumming noise could be heard coming from inside the strange object the men standing close to it glanced nervously at one another as the sound began to grow in both volume and intensity from their elevated position the observers noticed the air immediately around the object starting to shimmer and blur suddenly one of the volunteers dropped to the floor his legs buckling beneath him he had made no sound as he had fallen but his collapse caused the others to cry out in a mixture of fear and surprise some started to back away from the object whilst others bolted back towards the doors the incessant vibrations continued to increase and more of the panic men began to stumble and fall after a few minutes it was all over with the last of the test subjects now lying motionless on the ground the signal to cut the power was given and the deafening hum began to subside as the soldiers re-entered the hangar and set about recovering the liquefied bodies that now lay scattered around several technicians in white lab coats made their way directly towards the object a glass cylinder of dark red fluid was removed from inside and whisked away for further analysis the results of the experiment were mixed whilst they had successfully obtained the results they were after it was clear that the efforts to enhance the objects external shielding had been far from sufficient but this was of little consequence more volunteers would be found more material would be produced and the Reich would be victorious testimony pertaining to the mysterious device known as dick Locker or the Bell first surfaced in the Polish media in 2000 after a journalist named Igor Witkowski published a book detailing his investigation into the secretive experiment the author stated that he had managed to gain access to confidential records belonging to his nations military intelligence services some of which detailed the post-war interrogation of an SS gruppenfuhrer by the name of jakob sporrenberg vitkov skis book the truth about the Wonder weapon enjoyed some brief success but did not achieve widespread circulation it was however read by a number of people outside its country of origin one of whom was the British writer and ufologists Nick cook but cough skis material was scarce and lacking in corroboration but it intrigued cooked the extent that he too began to investigate the reports determined to bring the story to an international audience buried within the depositions allegedly written by sporrenberg before his appearance at poland's war crime tribunals was a lengthy description of a scientific apparatus the existence of which the German government had apparently gone to great lengths to keep hidden from their opponents this device was believed to have been used to produce an unknown fuel source but was so hazardous to operate that it caused the deaths of many scientists who had worked on it the machine was nicknamed the bowel because of its physical appearance sporrenberg described it as being approximately four metres high and two and a half metres wide made entirely of metal with a hemispherical domed top huge amounts of power were needed in order to operate it which in turn created a blue and violet haze around its hole during the initial stages of its creation the SS leftenant general explained that an invisible field was somehow generated around the apparatus which extended out to roughly 200 metres when plants and foliage samples were placed within this zone during the machines operation they would slowly decompose into a greasy organic fluid but it was the effect it had on human and animals in its immediate vicinity that was most horrific the unknown force is being emitted from inside the device somehow forms solid crystals in the tissue of any living creature exposed to it the blood streams of these unfortunate victims would clot and solidify into a thick gel like compound causing a near instantaneous and agonizing death once the machine was switched off the blood would then naturally return to its liquid state pouring out of the bodies and pooling on the floor around them this process would allegedly kill five out of seven of the original scientists assigns the project until an effective means was found which could shield them from its effects it remains unknown exactly what this force was but sporrenberg states that it was powerful enough to lift the device above the ground for short periods of time allowing it to hover a few feet in the air inside its metal housing with two cylinders which were designed to rotate around one another in an anti-clockwise direction at great speed when the power was switched on unknown substances were added to these cylinders which in turn went on to achieve the experiments ultimate goal the creation of an unknown crimson colored fluid many have speculated that the compound which de clocker produced was red mercury a theoretical material believed to boost the fission power of nuclear weapons other commentators keen to point out that there has never been a verified example of red mercury being created or analyzed have instead theorized that the machine was some form of rudimentary particle accelerator it is possible that the Germans managed to obtain samples of thorium which the process was able to convert into a further material known as protactinium this substance would naturally start to deteriorate immediately at the point of creation meaning that after approximately a month it would degrade into what was effectively weapons-grade uranium the Reich's efforts to secure the material needed in order to manufacture atomic weaponry are well documented and so this theory about the bells true purpose is realistic an alternative hypothesis is that the Germans were looking to solve another pressing issue that was impairing their ability to continue the war the need to find a form of sustainable and renewable energy even from the outset of World War two Germany was woefully short of the basic resources needed to power its military might as the conflict continued her scientists were locked in a perpetual struggle to combine their existing fuel sources into innovative new compounds and applications but non proof practical for widespread usage other theories about the mechanics behind the glocca proved far more fantastic and terrifying some suggest that the harmful field it generated may indeed have been fully intentional and that the Germans hoped to mass-produce these devices and then activate them on the frontlines the subsequent mass casualties caused by this action would not only have been catastrophic to the armies of their opponents but would also have given the Reich a huge psychological edge the fact that the device was witnessed hovering above the ground has led many to theorize that it may have been some form of anti-gravity technology intended to power a generation of new fighter aircraft such as the horn abou but by far the most terrifying potential application of the device comes from the testimony of a scientist named Otto Channy Channy was one of a number of German academics who were taken back to the United States after the war under project paperclip where they were utilized in the American rocket program it is alleged that changi stated that the Bell had the ability to show the operators images from the past and future via a concave mirror that had been mounted upon it this raises the horrifying prospect that the Germans had somehow stumbled across the ability to move through time and that D glocca was a prototype for a working time machine as ridiculous as this sounds who knows what the world would be like today if the Reich had succeeded in altering the past there is no photographic or scientific evidence to prove that dick Locker ever existed skeptics believe the stories were merely the efforts of a disgraced war criminal attempting to curry favor with his captors but when certain elements of the device's story is subjected to closer analysis it is startling how they corroborate with what we do know about the closing days of World War two the remains of the testing facility referred to in sporrenberg stem oniy can still be visited situated not far from the town of Ludvik of its era in Poland deep tunnels were dynamited into the bowels of the nearby vents s wash mine to hide the activities of the German scientists from Allied aerial reconnaissance but it is the presence of two decaying concrete structures at the site which is most intriguing both consist of a series of concentric concrete posts laid out in similar fashion to the stone circles found at Stonehenge in Great Britain this is earned them the nickname of the henges it is not known exactly what their true purpose was but some believe they may have been testing rigs which D glocca was tethered to and in use jakob sporrenberg spent the majority of the war in charge of SS policing units in the Lublin district of Poland but in 1944 he and the majority of his staff were transferred to Norway the reason it is difficult to write his testimony off as pure fabrication is that it is subsequently corroborated by another German officer hatch Tom Fuhrer Rudolf Schuster Schuster was similarly stationed in Lublin during the war but was later captured by American forces during his post-war interrogation in Berlin completely independently of sporrenberg he also described o´clock er to his captors shoes to explain that as Russian forces had neared the testing facility he had supervised the evacuation of both the device and the technicians working on it to an unknown location of particular interest in the story of dig Locker is the senior officer allegedly attached to the project an SS general by the name of Hans Kammler Kamla was ambitious and despicably loyal to the Nazi regime and in the closing stages of the war he had managed to gain control of Hitler's wonder weapon programs in March 1945 Kamla had ordered his men to open fire on a convoy of refugees who were blocking his passage for the Arne's burg forest 200 men women and children died and Kamla would become one of the most sought after fugitives for war crimes investigators he apparently committed suicide as his pursuers closed in on him and was declared legally dead three years after the war ended cameras body was never found and reports that he had successfully found his way to South America or had been extracted by US agents to assist with Project Paperclip continued to surface like most other military forces at the time his command had been broken up and redistributed into other units as the German armies had retreated and so it is impossible to know the true fate of him and the soldiers under his command post-war records have indicated that as late as April 1945 general Kamla and approximately 600 of his staff had made their way from Poland into Austria accompanied by lorries filled with equipment by the time American infantry units had entered the region all trace of him and whatever he was escorting had vanished reports linking hands Kamla to Austria are of particular interest due to the stories and legends associated with the untersberg region of the country for centuries there have been tales of groups of people disappearing or experiencing time slips in the untersberg mountains and in 2011 a book by an author named Stan wolf made a startling claim valve stated witness testimony from shepherds in the region who was said to have seen a force of Nazi soldiers walked directly into a wall of solid rock never to be seen again another witness allegedly encountered young German soldiers living in the mountains cave network aging at an inexplicably slow rate seemingly unaware that the war they were fighting had been lost is it possible that Kamla and his scientists had sufficiently mastered dig Locker to allow them to escape the Allied forces traveling either forwards or backwards in time to evade them this certainly sounds an outlandish claim we're it not for the events that would occur in the Pennsylvanian village of Kecksburg 20 years after the war ended on the afternoon of December the 9th 1965 radar operators tracked an object falling from the skies above Kecksburg the local authorities were quick to secure the crash site of this object and recover it before members of the press could access the location from the limited testimony of those who witnessed the objects recovery it bears a staggering resemblance to jakob sporrenberg description of dig Locker a metal craft shaped like a bowel and covered in strange runes and hieroglyphs it is speculated that dig Locker somehow traveled forwards in time from 1945 materialized in orbit above the earth and accidentally crashed landed in North America another idea is that Allied forces successfully recovered both hands kamla and his technology from Nazi Germany and that the Kecksburg crash was the result of American experimentation with the bowel it is highly unlikely that we will ever have a definitive answer on whether dick Locker ever existed or is merely a tall tale which has since taken on a life of its own all we can do is continue to follow a frustrating and disjointed trail of evidence which stubbornly suggests that there may indeed be some degree of truth behind the tale looking broadly at German weapons experiments of the era and discounting those stories alleged to involve extraterrestrial technology or satanic rituals it is not beyond all possibility that German scientists managed to create a weapon system far ahead of its time but until any concrete evidence comes to light all we can do is wonder [Music] [Music] you