Witkowski claims Die Glocke was organized under a division of the Waffen-SS, and operated mainly at facilities in Lower Silesia. According to reviewer Julian Strube, Kurlander "cites from the reservoir of post-war conspiracy theories" and "heavily relies on sensationalist accounts. Cook recounts claims that "scientists and technicians who worked on the bell and who did not die of its effects were wiped out by the SS at the close of the war, and the device was moved to an unknown location". S. forces captured Nazi scientists—and even Kammler himself—and put them to work on developing Die Glocke’s anti-gravity technology. S. Naval Institute News, The Diplomat, Foreign Policy, Combat Aircraft Monthly, VICE News, and others.

Facing the overwhelming power and equipment of the Allies, Hitler authorized the construction of Wunderwaffe (wonder weapons). With that, Corporal Entmeir began to snap a salute but stopped halfway and stood at attention as the general walked toward the mine entrance. While the Allies sent back home a trove of German superweapons during Project Paperclip, including jets and missiles, there’s no record of any version of Die Glocke ever being captured.Once they have unloaded all the equipment, a team from U-977 will be waiting near the harbor entrance gate. Update May 20, 2019: I just finished reading this book and can say that it covers a very interesting, little known topic. That Something had the form of a large metal Bell (Glocke in German), and it could have won the War, but the Allies closed in. The underground complexes introduce the reader to the Nazi Lords of the SS, Generals Jakob Sporrenberg, Hans Kammler and Doctor Warner Eckert. The effort, known as Project Paperclip, secured V-2 missiles and important figures like Wernher von Braun, the infamous aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun who invented the V-2 and later designed the Saturn V rocket for NASA’s Apollo program.

If we fail, the American or British airplanes will no doubt spot the U-boats before we can get underway, and all will be lost. Kiger wrote that German propaganda of fictional Wunderwaffen combined with the secrecy surrounding actual advanced technology such as the V-2 rocket captured at war's end by the U. Its bell-like shape gave it the nickname “die Glocke,” or “the Bell,” but the purpose of “Project Lantern-Bearer” remains a mystery to this day.More recently, historian Eric Kurlander has discussed the topic in his 2017 book on Nazi esotericism Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich.

Die Glocke ( German: [diː ˈɡlɔkə], "The Bell") was a purported top-secret scientific technological device, wonder weapon, or Wunderwaffe developed in the 1940s in Nazi Germany.Jason Colavito wrote that Witkowski's claims were "recycled" from 1960s rumors of Nazi occult science first published in Morning of the Magicians, and describes Die Glocke as "a device few outside of fringe culture think actually existed. Upon completion of his military service, he enrolled in Portland Community College and Portland State University and received a degree in political science.