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Secret Technology of the Third Reich the SS. After all, we know from the About the Author: account of Minister Speer that in 1944 the research and development the Riese complex alone (a small Born in 1963 in Warsaw, Poland, department of the Jagerstab (Fighter fraction of the entire Igor Witkowski is a journalist, Staff) (there was some co-operation Sonderbauvorhaben S-III) "consumed military historian, former editor-in- with the Luftwaffe), and an _ more steel and concrete than could be chief of two military magazines and experimental station to test the control used to build anti-aircraft shelters for the author of numerous books and system of the new flying craft and its the civilian population in the entire articles dedicated mostly to the influence on humans (mentally Reich"—and one has to remember history of the Third Reich and disabled children), directed by that, in this year, anti-aircraft shelters military technology. Professor Hubertus Strughold. There were built, even in small cities, in The crowning achievement of his was the Riese underground complex numbers that are hard to imagine. work is his book Die Wahrheit tiber near Wiistegiersdorf, built under a If we combine the S-III with other die Wunderwaffe ("The Truth about massive mountain, the Eulengebirge, projects in the protectorate, we have the Wunderwaffe [Wonder site of a giant former coal mine, and an undertaking that employed (with Ww. ") (English editi Book other facilities. All of these were the Gross-Rosen prisoners) well over eapon| ) Ng's eaitlon, BOOKS located within a radius of just over 10 60,000 people—something that seems International Militaria, 2003, now kilometres and had the SS code-name to be on an equivalent scale to the out of print, German edition, 2008; "Sonderbauvorhaben S-III" (Special American Manhattan Project. originally published in Polish as Building Project SII). It was beyond From my perspective, however, the Prawda o Wunderwaffe in 2000). any normal classification. project is much more important for His book The Axis of the World was Recently, in the Bundesarchiv quite another reason. Its achievements reviewed in NEXUS 16/01. (German Federal Archive) in Berlin,I may potentially enable us to Igor Witkowski can be reached by managed to find a document signed by understand the technology crucial for email at contact@igorwitkowski. SS-Gruppenfiihrer Kammler which the future: a completely different com. For more information, visit confirms very clearly that the project approach to gravity—the "gateway to the author's website http://www. was the most important undertaking of _ the stars". 2% — igorwitkowski.com. About the Author: Born in 1963 in Warsaw, Poland, Igor Witkowski is a journalist, military historian, former editor-in- chief of two military magazines and the author of numerous books and articles dedicated mostly to the history of the Third Reich and military technology. The crowning achievement of his work is his book Die Wahrheit tiber die Wunderwaffe ("The Truth about the Wunderwaffe [Wonder Weapon]") (English edition, Books International Militaria, 2003, now out of print; German edition, 2008; originally published in Polish as Prawda o Wunderwaffe in 2000). His book The Axis of the World was reviewed in NEXUS 16/01. Igor Witkowski can be reached by email at contact@igorwitkowski. com. For more information, visit the author's website http://www. igorwitkowski.com. 74 ¢ NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2009