Bits and pieces of info from reading around about Kammler ... infrared devices ... pumpkin sized nuclear device

Well it looks like we received “night vision” technology from the Germans (not from Roswell, sorry Col. Corso) and by the end of WWII the Germans already had small, portable nuclear devices. Wonder what else we have 80 years on as a result of captured Nazi technology …

… “one of which was an infrared night driving aid, a first-generation device “by which an auto-driver can see the road on a converter screen from infrared reflections, thus enabling him to drive at high speed along pitch dark roads,” … from an Interrogation Report, Oberst G. F. Geist, ALSOS Mission, July 28, 1945, p. 11.

“It (a V-1 of some type / “V-1” was used often to mean any kind of rocket device) was to be piloted by German fliers in a suicide squadron, equipped with either a chemical or a biological weapon, or even a dirty nuclear bomb. The ubiquitous Otto Skorzeny was involved in this plan, using famed test pilot Hanna Reistch in what became code named Project Reichenberg.8 This fits with information that Hitler’s own adjutant reported Germany had a pumpkin-sized nuclear weapon prototype, a perfect size for a V-1 and a potential game-changer in the war". - “Adolf Hitler, Hitlers Tischgesprche Im Fuhrerhauptquartier, 1941–1944, 1st ed. (Athenum Verlag, 1951), p. 493

“Hitler’s adjutant Julius Schaub reported that a German uranium bomb the size of a small pumpkin had reached a prototype stage under von Ardenne’s supervision, ready for mass production at an underground SS factory in Harz, near Nordhausen. Curiously, when the source for this information, Hitler’s Table Talk, a German language book, was translated into English by British intelligence officer Hugh Trevor-Roper, all references to Germany’s nuclear research were deleted.”

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Could be, may be, may not have been.
People doped up on daily prescribed shots of ‘speedballs’ tend to talk a lot, sometimes not truthfully, round the table while cutting into their swastika icing strudels.
Interesting nonetheless.

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… Howard P. Robertson also shows up in the Kammler story. He is connected to the project to round up “exotic” German technology. This is the Robertson of The Robertson Panel (UFO Activity) … interesting …

“On May 18, the big gun, Dr. Howard P. Robertson—Eisenhower’s scientific adviser—arrived in Nordhausen. Robertson, a Princeton mathematical physicist, was attached to the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) London Mission. He was also Chief of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force’s Scientific Intelligence Advisory Section (SIAS) and Chief of the Field Information Agency, Technical (FIAT), the U.S. agency that investigated and captured German technology. After the war, Robertson would take a professorship at CalTech, but he would also be employed by the CIA. ” - info found in “Lieutenant Colonel K. Pepple, Memorandum to Colonel H. D. Sheldon, Competent Scientific Interrogators, April 23, 1945.”

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“Schumann, the head of Germany’s Institute for Physics of Explosives,15 was an important administrative official in German nuclear research. Diebner was a specialist in hollow charge explosives, or shaped charges, which concentrate the explosive energy of a conventional explosive into a single point.”

… Given the description of the strike one may wonder if we have just seen a result of this research with the recent sinking of the Iranian Frigate.

small tactical nukes at the end of WWII? - “Their (Diebner and Schumann) experiments may have been responsible for the small tactical nuclear explosions rumored to have happened in central Germany near the end of the war. ”

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