Hello All,
I'd like to share with you what I've been doing a near daily basis since 2007. Yea, a long time. Some of you know that in May of 2007, my book
Strange Company, Military Encounters with UFOs In WWII was published. It was the culmination of a four year effort, primarily conducted at the National Archives, College Park. Maryland.
Strange Company was the first in-depth accounting of aerial phenomena reported by the Allied military air crews during the second World War. For more about the book, see my previous blog posts. Here are a couple of links:
Interview with Nick Redfern
Anomalist Books
Binnall of America
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After
Strange Company's publication, my time was split among unrelated film projects and continued World War II research at NARA, College Park. I kept going to NARA, not to research for a sequel, but something else. In 2005, still researching
Strange Company, I was greatly inspired by two books,
Blunder! How The U.S. Gave Away Nazi Supersecrets To Russia, by Tom Agoston, and
The Hunt For Zero Point: Inside The Classified World of Antigravity Technology, by Nick Cook. Both books were highly intriguing because they were relative to my research
. Keeping my eyes open for intelligence records discussing new and sophisticated German technology observed by the Allied pilots was important. The source of many of these sightings were not absolutely identified by the air intelligence officers questioning the pilots. I needed to determine if there was as a connection between possible unknown German technology and the sightings. It made sense that some of the observations were misidentified conventional aircraft, rockets, jets, and celestial phenomena. And it also made sense that some of the sightings might be new experimental Nazi aircraft and weaponry.
More importantly, both
Blunder!... and
The Hunt:... had something else in common. Actually, someone. His name: SS General Hans Kammler. By war's end, Kammler was arguably one of the most important men in Germany, just outside of Hitler's immediate circle of confidants, which included Joseph Goebels, Martin Bormann, Herman Goering, and Heinrich Himmler. Kammler held a held a most powerful and wide ranging position. If the unidentified sightings observed during the war were German, then by early 1944 Kammler was a, if not the, key person behind them.
By late 1944, Kammler was in charge of the entire jet aircraft and rocket programs, building of underground installations, and advanced technological research carried out in Germany and Czechoslovakia, including the so-called "death rays", chemical, biological and atomic warfare. In addition to Kammler overseeing all the high tech wizardry, he directly managed the building of death camps, and controlled the use of all slave labor for a variety of projects. Therefore, advanced technological aircraft of the science fiction realm, meaning extremely advanced and defying conventional wisdom of the time, was under Kammler's command. All these things major positions held by Kammler placed him as a high priority target and one of the most sought after personalities of the war by Allied command.
Kammler was highly intelligent and a ruthless overlord. His meteoric rise to power in the SS made him a direct extension of Himmler's power and motives. In essence, this made Kammler a dangerous monster. He was a serious threat to Allied victory and a free Europe. Yet, even today, there is little discussion about him in the history books. One can find information about Kammler, but usually the information is sparse and doesn’t offer much substance. Furthermore, history reveals in official records that Kammler committed suicide in May of 1945. But that date and his death is mired with controversy, as there are numerous conflicting accounts. This was enough to spark my interest. So, as of April 2007, my gears shifted from the hunting down answers to the strange war time sightings to that of an unknown Nazi personality. I was determined. I had to know whether Kammler had indeed died by his own hand or that his alleged suicide was fabricated. My search was a tall order I was tackling another mystery. A big mystery. Burt I felt compelled to take it on, whether I was wrong or not. I was in for the long haul.
It was by Fall of 2007 that my curiosity turned into a full blown obsessive hunt. A pivotal moment had come my way. I had located a document that validated my doubts. Kammler Did Not commit suicide. In fact, he surrendered to U.S. troops. I was stoked. It was exactly what I needed to launch a serious research effort. That one document that would be my foundation. For the next three years I hit the Archives hard. Near weekly. This time, however, a few months in, my quest had become a team effort. In early 2008, I joined forces with Dr. Colm Lowery, who was also independently on Kammler's trail. Colm was on the other side the Atlantic living in Ireland. I learned of him by seeing his posts on a WWII forum. He was asking questions about Kammler and citing information about Kammler that was quite unique. I immediately wanted to know what information Colm had in his possession because it was far beyond the typical fluff I found on the internet. We needed to talk.
Colm is an award-winning lecturer in biomedical science at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland, where he lectures in molecular biology and its application to bio-warfare and terrorism. Colm is a World War II enthusiast who was also hunting Kammler, years before I got on the trail, With nothing to lose, I tracked Colm down and called him early one morning at his office. It was worth the effort. In short, my unannounced brief call our brief was stimulating and our conversation quickly fused into what would become a long time collaboration.
Soon, after Colm and I joined forces, we began working with a lawyer, Dean Reuter, who is General Counsel of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy and a fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School. Dean has also edited a couple books on terrorism. I had known Dean for some time prior to working together so I approached and asked him if he would create a collaboration agreement between myself and Colm. Dean readily agreed. He monitored our progress, since he too had an interest in WWII. It wasn't long, however, before Dean was working with us, eventually becoming the lead writer for the book. Our team began working with renewed passion and vigor. We had much to do. Much to figure out. Many questions to answer. We needed more information. Needed to be sure our case was strong and well supported. There were many obstacles to overcome, but we put blinders on and faced each hurdle one at a time.
Now, eleven years later, I'm happy to announce the culmination of our efforts has paid off and come to fruition. In October of this year, we'll see publication our book.
The Hidden Nazi, The Untold Story of America's Deal with the Devil. Regnery Publishing will bring bring our story to the public. This story is the first in-depth accounting of the Nazi War Criminal Hans Kammler.
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This is not a UFO book. Though some still link Kammler to such technology, at this time I have not found that to be the case. Just conjecture. I did not find anything that indicated to me that the strange sightings during the war had anything to do with Nazi Germany's advanced technological programs. And, therefore nothing to do with Hans Kammler. Throughout my research for
The Hidden Nazi, I continued hunting answers to the unexplained aerial objects, and continue to do so. The jury is still out. Knowing that so much is still Classified and unknown, even to this day, keeps me suspicious and on the hunt. That said, I must point out that my colleagues were not interested in this topic. Our goal was reporting only what we could find in the official records. Again, let me be clear: I am speaking on this issue for myself.
We believe there is much about
The Hidden Nazi that will fascinate you. Written in the First Person,
The Hidden Nazi's chapters will unveil Kammler's rise to power. You'l learn about the technological projects that were under his control. You'll learn about other Nazi personalities who worked directly and indirectly with him. You'll learn about those who hunted him. The list goes on. There is so much information packed in the book's pages that I don't do it justice here.
The three of us also believe we've assembled a major story that will contribute to the already massive body of material assembled over the last seventy-five years regarding the Holocaust. If in custody, Kammler would have definitely been a major prisoner of war at the Nuremberg trials and surely been hung. But that just didn't happen. He escaped justice and has remained in obscurity... Until Now. Our story will become part of newly discovered history that has been removed from the official records.
We are excited about sharing this work with you. We are excited that our effort will instigate further discoveries. Excited about bringing attention to this war criminal and allowing the world to learn about Kammler's criminality and his dark efforts during such dark times. These things are rewarding to us. Our way of contributing to justice not served. We hope those of you who decide to read our book find it's an important work this pertinent, informative, entertaining, and even a little shocking.
Cheers!
