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Die Glocke (the Nazi Bell)

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Die Glocke (pronounced [di lk], German for The Bell) wasa purported top secret Nazi scientific technological device, secretweapon, or Wunderwaffe. First described by Polish journalist andauthor Igor Witkowski in Prawda o Wunderwaffe (2000), it waslater popularized by military journalist and author Nick Cook aswell as by writers such as Joseph P. Farrell and others whoassociate it with Nazi occultism and antigravity or free energyresearch.

According to Patrick Kiger writing in National Geographicmagazine, Die Glocke has become a popular subject ofspeculation and a following similar to science fiction fandomexists around it and other alleged Nazi miracle weapons orWunderwaffen.[1] Mainstream reviewers such as formeraerospace scientist David Myhra express skepticism that such adevice ever actually existed.[1][2][3]

Contents

1 History2 Description3 Supposed whereabouts4 In popular culture5 See also6 Notes7 References8 Further reading

8.1 Literature8.2 Documentaries

History

Discussion of Die Glocke originated in the works of Igor Witkowski. His 2000 Polish language bookPrawda o Wunderwaffe (The Truth About The Wonder Weapon, reprinted in German as Die Wahrheitber die Wunderwaffe), refers to it as The Nazi-Bell. Witkowski wrote that he first discovered theexistence of Die Glocke by reading transcripts from an interrogation of former Nazi SS Officer JakobSporrenberg. According to Witkowski, he was shown the allegedly classified transcripts in August 1997by an unnamed Polish intelligence contact who said he had access to Polish government documentsregarding Nazi secret weapons.[3] Witkowski maintains that he was only allowed to transcribe thedocuments and was not allowed to make any copies. Although no evidence of the veracity of

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Witkowskis statements has been produced, they reached a wider audience when they were retold byBritish author Nick Cook, who added his own views to Witkowskis statements in The Hunt for ZeroPoint].[4]

Description

Allegedly an experiment carried out by Third Reich scientists working for the SS in a German facilityknown as Der Riese (The Giant)[5] near the Wenceslaus mine and close to the Czech border, DieGlocke is described as being a device made out of a hard, heavy metal approximately nine feet wideand 12 to 15 feet high, having a shape similar to that of a large bell. According to Cook, this deviceostensibly contained two counter-rotating cylinders which would be filled with a mercury-likesubstance, violet in color. This metallic liquid was code-named Xerum 525 and was otherwisecautiously stored in a tall thin thermos flask a meter high encased in lead.[6] Additional substances saidto be employed in the experiments, referred to as Leichtmetall (light metal), included thorium andberyllium peroxides.[6] Cook describes Die Glocke as emitting strong radiation when activated, aneffect that supposedly led to the death of several unnamed scientists[7] and various plant and animal testsubjects.[6] Based upon certain external indications, Witkowski states that the ruins of a concreteframeworkaesthetically dubbed The Hengein the vicinity of the Wenceslas mine( ) may have once served as a test rig for an experiment in anti-gravity propulsiongenerated with Die Glocke.[8] However, the derelict structure itself has also been interpreted to resemblethe remains of a conventional industrial cooling tower.[9]

Supposed whereabouts

Witkowskis statements along with Cooks views prompted further conjecture about the device fromvarious American authors, including Joseph P. Farrell, Jim Marrs, and Henry Stevens. Farrell says thatthe device was considered so important to the Nazis that they killed 60 scientists that worked on theproject and buried them in a mass grave.[10] In his book, Hitler's Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons,Science and Technology (2007), Stevens states that Die Glocke contained red mercury[11] and describesstories alleging that a concave mirror on top of the device provided the ability to see images from thepast during its operation.[12] Witkowski stated that Die Glocke ended up in a Nazi-friendly SouthAmerican country. Cook, on the other hand, states that it was moved to the United States as part of adeal made with SS General Hans Kammler. Farrell stated that it was recovered as part of the KecksburgUFO incident.[13] This last theory was dramatized in 2009 by The Discovery Channel and again in 2011by The History Channels Ancient Aliens series.

In popular culture

The books Black Order (2005) by James Rollins, Swastika (2005) by Michael Slade, The ShadowProject (2010) by Scott Mariani, Echo of the Reich (2012) by James Becker, Der Trojaner (2013) byEric Verna, The Atlantis Gene (2013) by A.G. Riddle and The Goddess Of The Devil by Mart Sanderhave Die Glocke as their central theme.

In the horror film Outpost, a group of mercenaries are hired to retrieve The Bell from an abandonedbunker.

The song Die Glocke by Cage, in their 2009 album Science of Annihilation also deals with this subject.

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Die Glocke also makes an appearance in several video games, most notably the series Call of Duty.

See also

Nazism and occultismNazi UFOs

Notes

References

Cook, Nick (2001). The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of AntigravityTechnology. Century. ISBN 978-0-09-941498-8.Cook, Nick (Writer) (2005). UFO's: The Secret Evidence. Oxford Film & TelevisionProduction/Channel 4.Cook, Nick (Writer/Narrator) (2006). An Alien History of Planet Earth. History Channel.Farrell, Dr. Joseph P. (2004). Reich of the Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons and the Cold WarAllied Legend. Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1-931882-39-8.Farrell, Dr. Joseph P. (2006). The SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazi's Incredible SecretTechnology. Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1-931882-61-4.Kleiner, Kurt (August 5, 2002). "The Hunt for Zero Point by Nick Cook"(http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/08/05/zero_gravity/index.html). Salon.Stevens, Henry (2007). Hitler's Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons, Science and Technology.Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1-931882-73-8.

1. ^ a b Kiger, Patrick J. "Nazi Secret Weapons" (http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/hitler-s-stealth-fighter-3942/nazi-secret-weapons-1#ixzz0uXSU8IRo). National Geographic. Retrieved July 23, 2010.

2. ^ Cook 2001, p. 267

3. ^ a b Farrell 20064. ^ Kleiner, Kurt (5 January 2011). "The Hunt for Zero Point by Nick Cook"

(http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/08/05/zero_gravity/index.html). Salon.com. Retrieved 5 January2011.

5. ^ Stevens 2007, p. 249

6. ^ a b c Cook 2001, p. 1927. ^ Cook 2001, p. 1938. ^ Cook 2005, UFO: The Secret Evidence telecast9. ^ Gerold Schelm 2005, The Henge at Ludwikowice, Poland test rig for the NAZI-Bell?

10. ^ Farrell 200711. ^ Stevens 2007, p. 25012. ^ Stevens 2007, p. 251-252, 25513. ^ Farrell 2004, p. 335

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Wikimedia Commons hasmedia related to Die Glocke.

Gerold Schelm (November 2005). "The Henge at Ludwikowice, Poland test rig for the NAZI-Bell?" (http://www.bielek-debunked.com/Henge/The-Henge.pdf). Retrieved 6 April 2014.

Further reading

In chronological order:

Literature

Witkowski, Igor ((2000)). Prawda O Wunderwaffe (in Polish). Check date values in: |date= (help)Witkowski, Igor; Bruce Wenham (translator) (2003). The Truth about the Wunderwaffe. BooksInternational Militaria. ISBN 83-88259-16-4.Stevens, Henry (2003). Hitler's Flying Saucers: A Guide to German Flying Discs of the SecondWorld War. Books International Militaria.Farrell, Dr. Joseph P. (2008). Secrets of the Unified Field: The Philadelphia Experiment, the NaziBell, and the Discarded Theory. Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1-931882-84-3.Marrs, Jim (2008). The Rise of the Fourth Reich. William Morrow & Company. ISBN 0-06-124558-5.Farrell, Dr. Joseph P. (April 2009). The Philosopher's Stone: Alchemy and the Secret Research forExotic Matter. Feral House. ISBN 1-932595-40-6.Farrell, Dr. Joseph P. (15 March 2009). Nazi International: The Nazis' Postwar Plan to ControlFinance, Conflict, Physics and Space. Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1-931882-93-2.

Documentaries

Cook, Nick (Narrator and Writer) (1999). Billion Dollar Secret. Discovery Channel.Cook, Nick (Researcher) (February 2005). "Area 51". Unsolved History. Episode 47. DiscoveryChannel.Nazi UFO Conspiracy. Discovery Channel. November 24, 2008.

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