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he said. To pick flaws in this theory is about as easy - and as pleasant - as gathering Japanese beetles from an infested flower bed." But Horbiger found a pow'erful ally, another Austrian named Adolf Hitler. In 1925 Horbiger delivered this ultimatum to the scientific world: The time has come for you to choose - whether to be with us or against us. While Hitler is cleaning up politics, Hans Horbiger will sweep out of the way the bogus sciences. The doctrine of eternal ice will be a sign of the regeneration of the German people. Bewarel Come over to our side before it is too late! recruiting campaigns for his doctrine of eternal ice - Wei fWef-teislehre). His scientific critics were soon subjected to horrifying har-assmeat and cringed in terror as Wei took on all the dimensions and power of a poetical party. Every good Nazi had to declare, / swear that I believe in the doctrine of the eternal ice.' With the disintegration of Nazi Germany Wei also seemed to melt away. But recently Horbiger's concepts were resurrected by Pauwels and Bergier in The Dawn of Magic. There have been four geological epochs," they state flatly, 'because there have been four moons.' The earlier epochs were influenced by gravitational changes and factors which produced giant animals and plants,'... and in a world peopled by monsters there appeared this first man of immense size bearing also no resemblance to us and possessed of a different kind of intelligence.' Cosmic rays became stronger in those days, they tell us, and produced a vulgar mutation. Survivors of this race of giants overlapped into the modern epoch and are mentioned in the folklore of many races, usually being described as evil and violent characters. One of Horbiger's disciples was Hans Bellamy, who sifted myth and legend to find farther proof for the doctrine of eternal ice. It is not unusual that the Wei believers turned to the Atlantis literature and found in it some of the evidence they sought. The Atlantophiles had also scoured folklore and uncovered innumerable references to earlier global disasters. Although scientists sneer at the use of myths as evidence, it is obvious that all the isolated races of mankind managed to preserve the same kind of stories. Of all the bits and pieces assembled from these ancient tales, the most common is the universal account of a great flood which occurred simultaneously over the entire planet (if the assorted legends have been dated correctly). Many Indian tribes in the Americas have myths about arks and Noah-like personalities who survived the flood. If we take these things at their face value, we can assume that the Earth did experience a phenomenal rising of the waters in fairly recent times, that a large part of the land surfaces were inundated, and that some human beings escaped because they had been warned in advance and had fled to high places or had constructed ships which were sufficiently seaworthy to withstand the torrents. Powerful backers materialized, and Horbiger set up offices and