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Martin Bormann

He plays a small role in the story about the disappearance of Otto Maier and Maier files, Martin Bormann. In May 1941 Martin Bormann was made Party Chancellor of the National Socialist Party, a position he utilized to become the Third Reich’s principal bureaucrat. He was also Hitler’s right-hand man, his personal secretary and his bookkeeper, and stood with the...

What’s buried and heavy guarded at Zillertal?

The Zillertal lead boxes. One of the many mysteries and anomalies in history of World War Two. This strange account took place on May 2 of 1945. On that day an unknown Company dressed in SS uniforms delivered a convoy to Zillertal Mountain Pass. There a select group of officers took possession of a number of heavy lead-lined boxes. In...

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...

The occult dabblers of British intelligence

Part 2 – Dennis Wheatley, Crowley and Ian Fleming Adventitiously Dennis Wheatley was a dear companion of the mysterious essayist Joan Grant who composed top of the line books about reincarnation. Novels such as “The Winged Pharaoh” taking into account her own particular life in Ancient Egypt. Grant practised Rosicrucian-sort sex magic rituals with her psychiatrist spouse. She was additionally...

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...

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...

The Couch Conquest: When America Psychoanalyzed a Nation

What if military victory meant not just defeating armies, but reengineering the psychological makeup of 70 million people? What if publishing a newspaper required passing a Rorschach inkblot test? What if the victors believed your family dinner table was a breeding ground for fascism? These are not hypothetical questions. Between 1945 and 1955, occupied Germany became the testing ground for...

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...

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...

Special U-Boat Missions in Scotland

U-boat missions in Scotland. The Maier files story mentions a special U-boat mission into Scotland (Maier files Unternehmen Kelch). Could there be any trace found about such secret mission, and were there any German submarines spotted around early December or late November 1939 at Carradale Bay, Firth of Clyde or the isle of Arran? The Firth of Clyde forms a large area...

The unlikely death of Heinrich Himmler

There is the strange case of Heinrich Himmler and his unlikely death. In April 1945, as the end of the Third Reich loomed, Hitler’s number one found a sudden and urgent desire to make peace with the ‘Allies’. When he was rebuffed, and his treason made public, Hitler ordered his arrest. Luckily for Himmler, Hitler promptly committed suicide in...

British Intelligence and the Occult

Part 1 – Aleister Crowley, agent 666 and Lord Tregedar One of those practitioners of the magical and occult arts was Aleister Crowley. Crowley is perhaps the best known ‘occult spy’ operating in the Second World War. And in fact he was already a spy long before the war. It is not surprising that through history occultism and espionage always...

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