Die Glocke

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The Nazi party grew progressively desperate to stem the tide; increasingly they turned to the mysterious ‘Wunderwaffes’ – super weapons that they believed would swing the balance of the war in their favor.

The United States, along with their British allies, fearing the potential of the war changing ‘Wunderwaffe’, had destroyed the Vengeance rocket V2 testing facility at Peenemunde, nearly killing the brilliant scientist Wernher von Braun in the process. This had set back the weapons program critically but the allies knew it had not stopped the threat. Allied commanders became obsessed with intercepting the Nazi’s coded messages and finding any other secret weapons programs.

The Nazi’s, fearing the complete destruction of all of their technological and material assists began work on ‘Project Riese’ – ‘The giant’, which consisted of multiple underground structures and bases. Hundreds of thousands of tons of earth and rock were dug from beneath the Owl Mountains, Bielawa, Poland. Hans Kammler -German engineer and SS commander, personally oversaw the construction with brutal efficiency. Thousands of Jews and prisoners of war lost their lives in appalling conditions as the facility was constructed. Many died from malnutrition and pure exhaustion.

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