basless theory

[jill]

Hi,

Not baseless. Not all baseless. I read 
 Peenemunde to Canaveral / Dieter K. Huzel ; with an introduction by
Wernher von Braun.                    

Huzel doesn't say it was the government who wanted this. He paints a
picture of a broken government of boobs, who at this point were far more
inferior at strategic planning to the scientists. He says that as a
Peenemunde scientist, he was involved in the escape of Peenemunde and
the motoring away with loads of important documents. In that period at
the end of the war, they were hopeful that if there were ambush by an
enemy, that it would be the the US who would take the scientists back.
The Soviets, who they viewed as rapists and looters. And Huzel also
states that there was some wish to keep the very very important
documents together as a corpus, very very secure, and I think he said
they were put in a mine shaft... But he doesn't say anything about
leaving trails for the US on purpose. 

-jill


> cj hurtt wrote:
> 
> recently someone put forth the idea of a free day. well here is my
> baseless theory.
> 
> i was reading "war as background in gravity's rainbow" by kachig
> toloyan the other day and came across this passage:
> 
> "Traveling to the front lines in April, 1945, he [major robert staver,
> commander of the u.s. army rocket scavenger branch] captured a
> document known as the Osenberg list. Like the documents from Blizna,
> these were thrown by retreating German troops into the toilet of a
> building whose toilets had malfunctioned because they were overworked
> in flushing away shredded documents."
> 
> the essay goes on to explain that the osenberg list listed 15,000
> people involved with the v-2 project. and not only their names but
> also their weaknesses and sexual predilictions. staver then uses this
> list to create one of his own. a list of people he wants to recruit
> for the u.s. he has names, places, and how to entice/blackmail them.
> so naturally i thought of pokler. and what i was wondering was, could
> a case be made for the idea ( as far as gr goes) that pokler was
> being led by the nose as part of a u.s. german collaboration? what i
> mean is, perhaps some in the german govt   saw it as beneficial to let
> the allies have some of their scientists. if the allies were going to
> "win" the war then it would behoove all involved (ig farben, brit
> steel, standard oil) that the brains would be getting the dough they
> needed to finish their work.
> just a wollgathering and not anything more.