THE AHNENERBE [3c]
In 1933, Adolf Hitler rose to power and began consolidating Germany’s military, political and economic institutions under the control of his Nazi Party apparatus. For years, Wernher von Braun avoided becoming a member of the Nazi Party, but on November 12, 1937, he was commanded to join and did so.
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“To hear him tell it, he was, had no choice. That he it was either do that or face the same fate as everyone else who disobeyed the Nazis certain death. Von Braun didn’t think the Nazi movement was the way to go, but it was a means to an end to develop his rockets.” – Robert Pearlman (Space Historian) |
In 1944, with the help of additional funding from the German government, von Braun launched the 45-foot, 27,000-pound A-4, later rechristened the V-2, or “Vengeance Weapon.” While von Braun’s first rocket only reached 1.4 miles, the V-2 climbed to an altitude of 108.5 miles, and became the first man-made object to ever reach space.
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“The V-2 rocket was a one-stage, liquid-fueled rocket that was not comparable to any other rocket at the time, because there weren’t other rockets at the time. You had rockets in development. What von Braun was able to do with the V-2 was combine the theory with the practical application and develop the first rocket ever to be able to reach space.” – Robert Pearlman (Space Historian) |
How was von Braun able to advance Germany’s rocket program so far in just a few short years? Was it due to a desperate nation supplying him with massive amounts of money and material? Or could there be another reason? On July 1, 1935, Hitler’s SS commander, Heinrich Himmler, established Ahnenerbe an elite Nazi institute that purported to research the cultural and archaeological history of the Germans. However, its true purpose proved far more bizarre.
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“Ahnenerbe was based on the idea that the Aryan race was the most directly descended from ancient, perhaps alien, gods.” – Michael Bara (Author, The Choice), |
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“Part of their job was to literally go all over the world looking for special occult artifacts. Things like the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
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“Von Braun became closely associated with them through his association with the SS and with Heinrich Himmler. And one of the main reasons for that was that they felt like rocketry was almost an arcane secret, a sort of black magic that would enable them to dominate the world.” – Michael Bara (Author, The Choice), |
As World War II broke out across Europe Ahnenerbe expanded its research into secret weapons programs, and Himmler tapped von Braun as its technical director at Germany’s large-scale experimental research facility at Peenemunde in Northwest Germany. It was during these next several years that von Braun advanced the science of propulsion, aerodynamics and rocket guidance systems beyond what anyone had thought possible.
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“You have to ask yourself, where would they have gotten that kind of knowledge so quickly? One of the possible reasons is that the Ahnenerbe, with their researches, had actually discovered technology through some of their expeditions to find ancient relics, and their search, really, for ancient technology.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
Is it possible that the Ahnenerbe discovered artifacts that helped them advance their weapons research? Some Ancient Astronaut Theorists suggest that the Nazis did, in fact, recover something not from the ancient world but from an extraterrestrial one.
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“A multicolored orb of light was seen in the sky in 1937 in Southwestern Poland. And by all accounts, this was a UFO sighting. But it’s a lot more than that. This orb actually crashed into the ground.” – David Wilcock (Author/Filmmaker), |
According to the account, when investigators reached the suspected crash site, they found a strange disc-shaped object. Nazi officials are said to have taken the damaged craft to a nearby secure facility where it was examined by Germany’s top aeronautical experts, including Wernher von Braun. While no remains of any alleged UFOs survived the war, German engineers did develop a series of revolutionary aircraft, including the first rocket-powered jet fighter, the first stealth bomber, and even antigravity-powered, saucer-shaped vehicles.
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“From what we’re able to glean today, Nazi technology at the end of World War II was so advanced that they had things that are still science fiction today antigravity beam weapons, flying saucers, flying triangles. Things that are still kept secret today.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
In June 1945, U.S. Army officials holding German scientists reported that the Nazis were 25 years ahead of the United States in rocketry.
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“You have to wonder where this knowledge came from and also whether von Braun who was really the spearhead of all the Nazi rocket technology – if he had also gotten information from other sources, perhaps extraterrestrials, that helped him advance so quickly in rocket technology.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
Could the incredible advances made by von Braun’s design team have been the result of alien technologies that were reverse-engineered? Ancient Astronaut Theorists say yes and claim the most compelling evidence isn’t the amazing technology achieved by the Nazis, but the incredible advancements that came after the war in America.
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