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Inspired by the workings of Nature, this Austrian-born genius developed simple concepts and technologies which could save humanity from the brink of environmental disaster. Part 2 n 1939 Viktor Schauberger's personal research virtually came to an end, all the mate- rials he needed being appropriated for war production. In 1941, however, he was summoned by Air Marshal Ernst Udet to discuss the growing crisis of energy produc- tion and the means of solving it. Premises were subsequently set up near Augsburg for research and development, all of which came to nothing partly due to the death of Udet and partly because the premises were bombed by the Allies in 1942. In 1943, despite his incapacitating war wounds and fifty-eight years of age, Viktor was declared fit for active duty and was inducted into the Waffen-SS, very much under duress. He came under the control of Heinrich Himmler who forced him into research to develop a new secret weapon. Provided with suitable accommodation at Schloss Schénbrunn, the nearby Mauthausen concentration camp to supply the workforce of prisoner engineers, Viktor was threatened with his life if he did not comply with orders and carry out this research, In spite of these threats, however, Viktor put his foot down and demanded from the SS Command the absolute right to select the various engineers he needed. He further demanded that any technicians he chose were to be removed entirely from the camp, fed properly, dressed in normal civilian clothes and billeted in civilian accommodation, other- wise they would be unproductive. As he explained, people who live in fear of their lives and under great emotional stress could work neither consistently nor creatively. Surprisingly the SS agreed, and so Viktor selected somewhere between twenty and thirty engineers, craftsmen and tradesmen from Mauthausen, to be accommodated in various houses near the plant. When they were all assembled, Viktor exhorted them to work as hard as they could, but under no circumstances were they to attempt to escape, otherwise his own life would be forfeited. They set to work with a will, and while not understanding what Viktor was try- ing to achieve they nevertheless carried out his instructions faithfully. Two machines were eventually built, one called a “Repulsator" and the other a "Repulsine", reflecting the forces of recoil active in them. Both machines operated with the densifying forces of implosion, which are far more powerful than those of explosion. Accurate information about them is difficult to obtain because, after the end of the War, all top-secret informa- tion was confiscated and sequestered by the Allies—the Russians, French, British and Americans—and is therefore no longer available to the general public. Nor is there any trace of Viktor's wartime patents for which, according to his usual custom, he is certain to have applied. From a certain point of view, Viktor Schauberger could have been considered lucky at the end of the war because, together with his team of engineers, he had been moved by the SS to Leonstein in Upper Austria due to the bombing of Vienna and therefore, in May 1945, came under the jurisdiction of the American forces of occupation. In Leonstein, Viktor was placed in protective custody by the Americans for nine months and quartered inside a doubly fenced and guarded perimeter. This was done partly to glean information about his involuntary, though, to him, useful wartime research into ‘higher’ atomic ener- gies at Mauthausen and Leonstein, and partly to prevent his abduction by the Russians. Confirmation of this can be found in a letter Viktor wrote to the German Minister of Defence, Franz Josef Strauss, on 28th February 1956. Here he relates how the last device upon which he had been working had been seized, only a few days after its successful flight, by American intelligence investigators who appeared to be very well-informed about it. Its most important component, on the other hand, which was forgotten in the haste to move to Leonstein, had been removed by the Russians from his Vienna apartment © 1996 by Callum Coats c/- Gateway Books The Hollies Wellow, Bath BA2 8QJ, UK Ph +44 (0)1225 83 5127 Fax +44 (0)1225 84 0012 JUNE-JULY 1996 NEXUS ¢ 33