An alleged UFO photographed flying over New Jersey in 1952. Could it be a secret Nazi reconnaissance flight….this author says definitely no. Wikimedia Commons.
1. From Moon Bases to UFOs, Anti-Gravity Technology to Time Travel, the Nazis have become the focal point of several technological conspiracy theories
In addition to the verifiable and detailed inventions of Nazi Germany listed above, far more fanciful creations have been widely ascribed to the Third Reich by a litany of conspiracy theorists. Among the most common, and indeed absurd in this author’s opinion, are the Nazi space conspiracies. Contending, without evidence, that Germany recovered a crashed alien spaceship in Antarctica in the final days of the war, these spacecrafts were used to transport leading members of the Reich to a secret Moon base to prepare for the future resumption of war under the identity of the Fourth Reich. The evidence provided for this alleged base on the dark side of the Moon is sketchy, with claims that distorted pixels on NASA images are deliberately censored images showing the hidden Nazi structures; just as to why NASA is supposedly protecting the impending Nazi space invaders is less clear.
Whilst categorically untrue, and ranging from the belief fluoride was stolen Nazi technology capable of mind control and pacifying docile civilian populations to Hitler escaping into the past via time travel, they are well worth a read for sheer absurdity and hilarity.
Where do we find this stuff? Here are our sources:
“German Tanks of World War Two In Action”, George Forty, Blandford Press (1988)
“Germany’s Secret Weapons in World War II”, Ian V. Hogg, Zenith Imprint (2000)
“Target: America – Hitler’s Plan to Attack the United States”, James Duffy, Praeger (2004)
“The History of Methadone and Methadone Prescribing”, A. Preston and G. Bennett (2003)
“The Little Can That Could”, Richard Daniel, Inventions and Technology Magazine (1987)
“Science: Sun Gun”, Time Magazine (July 9, 1945)
“Nazi ‘Sun Gun’ Aimed To Burn Cities Using Huge Space Mirrors”, Huff Post (Dec 06, 2017)
“The German Jets in Combat”, Jeffery Ethell and Alfred Price, Jane’s Publishing Company (1979)
“Nazi Germany (Year of construction unknown) Prototype” Kugelpanzer, The Online Tank Museum.
“V-2: A Combat History of the First Ballistic Missile”, Tracy Dungan, Westholme Publishing (2005)
“The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945”, Richard Evans, Penguin (2009)
“Inside the Third Reich”, Albert Speer, Macmillan (1997)
“The Reich Stuff?”, Wired Culture (January 21, 2000)
“Aviation Archeology of the Horten 229 v3 Aircraft”, Thomas Dobrenz, Aldo Spadoni, and Michael Jorgensen; AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference (10th Anniversary)
“The Computer – My Life”, Konrad Zue, Springer-Verlag, (1993)