The blood of thousands on his hands, SS General Hans Kammler killed himself in 1945 in the dying days of Hitler's Germany.
That, at least, was his official fate. The man steeped in the horrors of the death camps had met his just deserts.
However, it is now claimed that Kammler survived the war, spirited away to America and given a new identity by the US authorities.
For the general wasn't just an expert in the technicalities of industrial scale slavery and slaughter, he was also deeply involved in the Nazis' secret weapons programme. The Americans, according to a TV documentary, were determined to have his know-how and not let him fall into the hands of the Russians.
Both the US and the Soviet Union tried to recruit Hitler's scientists after the war to help with their own space and military programmes. But it is claimed that Kammler's record was so monstrous that his death had to be faked and he had to have a new identity.
The history books say that, one day after the Third Reich surrendered on May 9, 1945, he either shot himself or took poison in the former German city of Stettin, now Szcecin in Poland. His body was never found.
'This whole story of suicide was staged by two of his closest aides who were committed to him,' Karlsch tells ZDF TV in Germany.
At the war's end America, while taking part in the punishment of many top Nazis at the Nuremberg trials, also launched the covert Operation Paperclip – the secret exit of top Nazi scientists.
ZDF says in the documentary: 'Sources say that Kammler was captured by the Americans and interrogated by the US Counterintelligence CIC. The secret service man responsible was Donald Richardson, a personal confidant of allied supreme commander General Dwight D Eisenhower.'
The sons of the secret service man told programme makers that their father was in charge of the German weapons expert after 1945.
One of them, John Richardson, said: 'This engineer brought a special treasure from the Third Reich into the United States. He offered modern weapons for us.
'It was put to my father that he should bring this "useful" German into the United States to prevent him from falling into the hands of the Russian intelligence service.'
It is not revealed under what name Kammler lived or when he died, though some archival material speaks of a 'special guest' living under Richardson's wing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2653919/Did-Americans-fake-Nazis-WWII-suicide-spirit-away-US-hands-Hitlers-secret-weapons-programme.html
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Donald Richardson....another dot...
I wonder if he spent any time in the desert...in Nevada??? Die Glocke reportedly used a mecury vortex. The nazi Bell does remind me of the flux liner.
I also wonder...who vetted Kammler? 8)
Cosmo
I just wanted to bump this. I am still looking for the book. If he survived...man, I'll bet he had some stories! I wonder if he had a family here or any children or any other friend or associate that could shed some light on this mystery after all these years. I mean...they could post anonymously on some forum or something... ;)
C