A new book about Blicero?

Thomas Eckhardt thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Wed Jun 19 04:14:55 CDT 2019


"Sidekick to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler and supervisor of Nazi rocket 
scientist Wernher von Braun, General Hans Kammler was responsible for the 
construction of Hitler’s slave labor sites and concentration camps. He 
personally altered the design of Auschwitz to increase crowding, ensuring 
that epidemic diseases would  complement the work of the gas chambers.
Why has the world forgotten this monster? Kammler was declared dead after 
the war. But the aide who  testified to Kammler’s supposed “suicide” never 
produced the general’s dog tags or any other proof of death.

Dean Reuter, Colm Lowery, and Keith Chester have spent decades on the trail 
of the elusive Kammler, uncovering documents unseen since the 1940s and 
visiting the purported site of Kammler’s death, now in the Czech Republic.
Their astonishing discovery: US government documents prove that Hans Kammler 
was in American custody for months after the war—well after his officially 
declared suicide.
And what happened to him after that? Kammler was kept out of public view, 
never indicted or tried, but to what end? Did he cooperate with Nuremberg 
prosecutors investigating Nazi war crimes? Was he protected so the United 
States could benefit from his intimate knowledge of the Nazi rocket program 
and Germany’s secret weapons?"
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/19831973-new-book-the-hidden-nazi-the-untold-story-of-america-s-deal-with-the-d
"Kammler was also charged with constructing facilities for various secret 
weapons projects, including manufacturing plants and test stands for the 
Messerschmitt Me 262 and V-2. Following the Allied bombing raids on 
Peenemünde in Operation Hydra, in August 1943, Kammler assumed 
responsibility for the construction of mass-production facilities for the 
V-2.[2] He started moving these production facilities underground, which 
resulted in the Mittelwerk facility and its attendant concentration camp 
complex, Mittelbau-Dora, which housed slave labour for constructing the 
factory and working on the production lines. The project was pushed ahead 
under enormous time pressures despite the consequences for the slave 
laborers employed on it. Kammler's motto at the time was reportedly, 'Don't 
worry about the victims. The work must proceed ahead in the shortest time 
possible'."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kammler



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