Die Glocke

For other uses, see The Bell (disambiguation). For Schiller's poem "Das Lied von der Glocke", see Song of the Bell.

Die Glocke (German for "The Bell") was a purported top secret Nazi scientific technological device, secret weapon, or Wunderwaffe. First described by Polish journalist Igor Witkowski, it was later popularized by military journalist and author Nick Cook as well as by writers such as Joseph P. Farrell. Farrell and others associate it with Nazi occultism and antigravity or free energy research. Mainstream reviewers such as former aerospace scientist David Myhra express skepticism that such a device ever actually existed.^[1][2][3]

Speculation

Claims about the existence of Die Glocke originated in the works of Igor Witkowski. His 2000 Polish language book Prawda O Wunderwaffe (The Truth About The Wonder Weapon, reprinted in German as Die Wahrheit über die Wunderwaffe), refers to it as "The Nazi-Bell". Witkowski wrote that he first discovered the existence of Die Glocke by reading transcripts from an interrogation of former Nazi SS Officer Jakob Sporrenberg. According to Witkowski, he was shown the supposedly classified transcripts in August 1997 by an unnamed Polish intelligence contact who claimed to have access to Polish government documents regarding Nazi secret weapons.^[2] Witkowski maintains that he was only allowed to transcribe the documents and was not allowed to make any copies. Although no evidence of the veracity of Witkowski's claims have been produced, they reached a wider audience when they were retold by British author Nick Cook, who added his own speculations to Witkowski's claims in The Hunt for Zero Point. ^[4]

Allegedly an experiment carried out by Third Reich scientists working for the SS in a German facility known as Der Riese ("The Giant")^[5] near the Wenceslaus mine and close to the Czech border, Die Glocke is described as being a device "made out of a hard, heavy metal" approximately 9 feet wide and 12 to 15 feet high having a shape similar to that of a large bell. According to Cook, this device ostensibly contained two counter-rotating cylinders which would be "filled with a mercury-like substance, violet in color. This metallic liquid was code-named "Xerum 525" and was otherwise cautiously "stored in a tall thin thermos flask a meter high encased in lead".^[6] Additional substances said to be employed in the experiments, referred to as Leichtmetall (light metal), "included thorium and beryllium peroxides".^[6] Cook describes Die Glocke as emitting strong radiation when activated, an effect that supposedly led to the death of several unnamed scientists^[7] and various plant and animal test subjects.^[6] Based upon certain external indications, Witkowski speculates that the ruins of a metal framework in the vicinity of the Wenceslas mine (aesthetically dubbed "The Henge") may have once served as test rig for an experiment in "anti-gravity propulsion" generated with Die Glocke^[8]; others, however, dismiss the derelict structure as simply being a conventional industrial cooling tower.

Witkowski's claims along with Cook's speculations prompted further conjecture about the device from American fringe science authors such as Joseph P. Farrell, Jim Marrs, and Henry Stevens. Farrell claims that the device was considered so important to the Nazis that they killed 60 scientists that worked on the project and buried them in a mass grave.^[9] In his book, Hitler's Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons, Science and Technology (2007), Stevens speculates that Die Glocke contained red mercury^[10] and describes stories alleging that a concave mirror on top of the device provided the ability to see "images from the past" during its operation.^[11] Witkowski speculated that Die Glocke ended up in a "Nazi-friendly South American country". Cook speculated that it was moved to the United States as part of a deal made with SS General Hans Kammler. Farrell speculated that it was recovered as part of the Kecksburg UFO incident.^[12]

According to Patrick Kiger writing in National Geographic, Die Glocke has become a "popular subject of speculation" and a following similar to science fiction fandom exists around it and other alleged Nazi “miracle weapons” of Wunderwaffen. ^[3]

In popular culture

Books

• Black Order by James Rollins, 2005 - direct theme
• Swastika by Michael Slade, 2005 - direct theme
• The Shadow Project by Scott Mariani, 2010 - direct theme

Films

• Hellboy by Guillermo del Toro, 2004 - direct theme
• Outpost by Steve Barker, 2008 - direct theme
• Iron Sky by Timo Vuorensola, 2012

Music

• Die Glocke by Cage, 2009 - on the album Science of Annihilation

Video Games

• Call of Duty: World at War - Included in the Nazi Zombies level "Der Riese" for Map Pack 3 as teleporters. There is also an electric super weapon in Nazi Zombies called the "Wunderwaffe DG-2," capable of killing multiple zombies with one shot (the electricity arcs between several at one time.) The "DG" stands for Die Glocke. A Henge like structure known as the "Fly Trap" is also included.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops - The Hardened and Prestige editions, along with the Rezurrection Map Pack, featured "Der Riese", along with the other World at War zombie maps as an exclusive. The map "Kino der Toten" also features the MDT (Multi-Dimensional Teleporter) on stage in the theater. Based on the comic strip that appears while the map loads as well as many other backstory clues, Die Glocke is capable of teleportation and time travel moving the original characters from World at War from 1945 to 1960.
• Iron Sky: Operation Highjump - The prequel to the movie will feature many references to obscure and occult technologies attributed to the Nazis.

See also

• Nazism and occultism
• Nazi UFOs

Notes

1. ^ Cook 2001, p. 267
2. ^ ^{a b} Farrell 2006
3. ^ ^{a b} Kiger, Patrick J.. "Nazi Secret Weapons". National Geographic. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/hitler-s-stealth-fighter-3942/nazi-secret-weapons-1#ixzz0uXSU8IRo. Retrieved July 23, 2010. 
4. ^ Kleiner, Kurt (Wednesday, Jan 5, 2011). ""The Hunt for Zero Point" by Nick Cook". Salon.com. http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/08/05/zero_gravity/index.html. Retrieved 5 January 2011. 
5. ^ Stevens 2007, p. 249
6. ^ ^{a b c} Cook 2001, p. 192
7. ^ Cook 2001, p. 193
8. ^ Cook 2005, UFO's: The Secret Evidence telecast
9. ^ Farrell 2007
10. ^ Stevens 2007, p. 250
11. ^ Stevens 2007, p. 251-252, 255
12. ^ Farrell 2004, p. 335

References

• Cook, Nick (2001). The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology. Century. ISBN 9780099414988. 
• Cook, Nick (Writer) (2005). UFO's: The Secret Evidence. Oxford Film & Television Production/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 War Allied Legend. Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1931882398. 
• Farrell, Dr. Joseph P. (2006). The SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazi's Incredible Secret Technology. Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1931882614. 
• Farrell, Dr. Joseph P. (April 15, 2007). Interview with Red Ice Creations radio. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CCwkhpslniU. 
• Kleiner, Kurt (August 5, 2002). ""The Hunt for Zero Point" by Nick Cook". Salon. http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/08/05/zero_gravity/index.html. 
• Stevens, Henry (2007). Hitler's Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons, Science and Technology. Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1931882738. 

Further reading

In date order

Literature

• Witkowski, Igor ((2000)^{[citation needed]}) (in Polish). Prawda O Wunderwaffe. 
• Witkowski, Igor; Bruce Wenham (translator) (2003). The Truth about the Wunderwaffe. Books International Militaria. ISBN 8388259164. 
• Stevens, Henry (2003). Hitler's Flying Saucers: A Guide to German Flying Discs of the Second World War. Books International Militaria. 
• Farrell, Dr. Joseph P. (2008). Secrets of the Unified Field: The Philadelphia Experiment, the Nazi Bell, and the Discarded Theory. Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1931882843. 
• Marrs, Jim (2008). The Rise of the Fourth Reich. William Morrow & Company. ISBN 0061245585. 
• Farrell, Dr. Joseph P. (2009). The Philosopher's Stone: Alchemy and the Secret Research for Exotic Matter. Feral House. ISBN 1932595406. 
• Farrell, Dr. Joseph P. (15 March 2009). Nazi International: The Nazis' Postwar Plan to Control Finance, Conflict, Physics and Space. Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1931882932. 

Documentaries

• Cook, Nick (Narrator and Writer) (1999). Billion Dollar Secret. Discovery Channel. 
• "Area 51". Cook, Nick (Researcher). Unsolved History. Discovery Channel. February 2005. No. 47.
• Nazi UFO Conspiracy. Discovery Channel. November 24, 2008. 

External links

• Google Maps location of the Henge/Fly Trap/Wenceslas Mine

Coordinates: 50°37′43″N 16°29′39″E / 50.628704°N 16.494244°E / 50.628704; 16.494244