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This category contains everything on the topic World War 2 and all articles are related to the Maier files series. The posts are short and relevant concerning subject areas associated to World War II

Battle of Britain

Finding the Foe – the German airmen

Finding the Foe, deals with the postwar discovery and recovery of wartime Luftwaffe aircrew who were downed and lost over the UK, most of them during 1940s. There is a lot of detective work involved here. Sometimes airmen have been identified with the tiniest clue, although each case has a common thread; they were all concluded by the diligent research...

Flying Discs over Neuschwabenland

In their intriguing book, “Flugscheiben über Neuschwabenland” (Flying Discs over Neuschwabenland), authors Heiner Gehring and Karl-Heinz Zunneck delve into the mysterious world of flying discs, exploring the technological advancements and earthly backgrounds behind the UFO phenomenon. Over the years, the authors have engaged in discussions, exchanged information, and conducted interviews with people of diverse perspectives and scientific outliers. The book’s...
German flying saucer - fliegende Untertasse

Flying Saucer invented in Germany

Exact 75 years ago – on 15 july 1941, Rudolf Schriever started the development of a jet driven flying saucer. Article published in magazine “Die Deutsche illustrierte” 1953 There is a man in Germany who can say much more about flying saucers than any other man on this planet. He lives in a small house near Bremerhaven and his place buzz...
Foo fighters above Germany

Foo fighters the first modern UFO’s

For those who didn’t read part one,  Foo fighters is a name given to small, round flying objects which followed Allied bombers over Germany during the latter phases of the air war. There are also some reports of foo fighters in the pacific theater of the war. Sometimes they would appear singularly but more often in groups, sometimes flying in...
Otto Maier Saucer

German Field Propulsion Saucers

We already looked at the conventional disc shaped aircraft, made in Germany. But it seems when digging into Otto Maier’s story and his engine that the properties of his saucer don’t match those of the conventional saucer types. So, what about field propulsion and electromagnetic propulsion (EMP) driven technologies?  EMP is the principle of accelerating an object by the utilization of a flowing...
UFO Liedekerke 1945 Flanders

German saucers and the Roswell crash

This is a relating topic with the history of Otto Maier and the myth about his mysterious engine. In July 1947 a saucer shaped object dropped out of the sky in Roswell, New Mexico. Choosing the explanation that extraterrestrials manned a spacecraft and crashed it in Roswell is the least probable explanation of all. Farrell shows this realistically in his book Roswell and the...

Hanna Reitsch

In the world of aviation history, few figures stand out as prominently as Hanna Reitsch, one of the most renowned female test pilots of the 20th century. Her story, as told in her memoir The Sky My Kingdom, is a compelling account of passion, resilience, and an unyielding pursuit of dreams. For fans of the Maier Files, where a mysterious...
Himmler's book stash Czech Library

Heinrich Himmler’s hidden book collection

The Daily Mail published an article related to one of the Maier files backstories. An unusual collection of books on witches as well as the occult that was collected by SS chief Heinrich Himmler in the war has actually been found in the Czech Republic. The books – part of a 13,000-strong collection – were discovered in a depot of...

Helgoland and the Amber Memory

The North Sea hides more than wrecks. It hides intentions. Its waters turn black under cloud, its cliffs crumble and reform, and every tide washes up the same ancient gift — a piece of amber, a drop of sun turned to stone. Amber was never just a gemstone. For centuries it was called the tears of the gods, a hardened...

Hess and the most controversial event in the History of World War II

Without doubt, the most bizarre and controversial event in the History of World War II was the parachute jump by Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess into Scotland on May 10, 1941. Hess was supposedly on a peace mission to negotiate a peace between England and Germany. Hess was allegedly on his way to see the Duke of Hamilton in Scotland, with...
foo fighter

Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s a foo fighter

Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s a Foo Fighter. In late 1944 Reuters press agency reported that peculiar spheres, similar to the glass balls that decorate Xmas trees have been observed hanging in the air over Germany, occasionally singly, often times in clusters. They are primarily shaded silver and are seemingly translucent. Multiple sightings of these kinds of...

Knights of the Sky and Soil: A Salute to Two Timeless Aces on Their Special Day

Ah, lads, gather ’round the campfire of history, where the tales of yesteryear flicker like stars in a midnight sky! Imagine yourself a wide-eyed boy, perched on the edge of an old wooden crate in Grandpa’s attic, leafing through dog-eared adventure books filled with daring deeds and fearless heroes. Today, on this crisp January 6th, we tip our caps to...

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