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> In the last days of the European war, the Germans apparently
> shipped their remaining stocks of enriched uranium to Japan
> via submarine -- a highly dangerous operation....
Atomic Bombs Dropped On Japan By U.S. Used Components
Bartered From Nazi Germany, Researcher Says
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"The agreement appears to have been made in exchange
for allowing these fugitives to escape from Europe and
receive United States protection while they lived in
semi-seclusion for decades after the war," he stated.
Hydrick displayed several documents from the United
States National Archives and elsewhere to support his
historical revision, as well as drawing from previously
enigmatic events in the traditional history he contends
have long been misunderstood, to show that Nazi Germany
was an important source of nuclear bomb components used
in the attacks on Japan. ...
"If the boat was following the course its captain and
traditional history said it took headed for Japan..."
http://u234.com/hydrick/noname.html
Critical Mass
For Immediate Release
Atomic Bombs Dropped On Japan By U.S. Used Components
Bartered From Nazi Germany, Researcher Says
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Components Were Originally Shipping For
Germany's Ally Japan
Houston, (DATE) -- A researcher has announced findings
that the American atomic bomb program credited with
developing the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Japan to end World War Two, and which resulted in the
United States emerging from the war as the most powerful
nation on earth, used components developed by Nazi
Germany, including enriched uranium, to fabricate the
bombs. The revelation counters important aspects of the
traditional history of the American bomb project, known
as the Manhattan Project. The commonly accepted version
of atomic bomb history states the bombs were created
entirely by the United States, at a cost of $2 billion
and five years of work by a battalion of top scientists,
with assistance from Great Britain. While the new
evidence does not refute American success initially
enriching uranium -- the key component of one of the
bombs -- strong documentary evidence indicates time
pressures, technological delays, and a surprise
opportunity to obtain from Germany the needed components
that were in short supply in America, allowed the
Manhattan Project to complete its bombs in time for the
mid-August 1945 delivery deadline.
"What I suspect will shock people the most is it appears
the possession of the enriched uranium and other
components fell into our hands not by capture, but as
part of what may have been clandestine negotiations
between top Nazis and key United States military and
governmental leaders," said Carter Hydrick, the
researcher who has spent eight years investigating the
events. "The agreement appears to have been made in
exchange for allowing these fugitives to escape from
Europe and receive United States protection while they
lived in semi-seclusion for decades after the war," he
stated. Hydrick displayed several documents from the
United States National Archives and elsewhere to support
his historical revision, as well as drawing from
previously enigmatic events in the traditional history
he contends have long been misunderstood, to show that
Nazi Germany was an important source of nuclear bomb
components used in the attacks on Japan.
Among the documents are captured Navy cargo manifests
from German submarine U-234 that lists 580 kilograms, or
1120 pounds, of uranium oxide, as well as most of the
Nazis' latest, and most secret, war-making technologies;
including, two fully disassembled Messerschmidt 262 jet
fighters, the first jet aircraft used in combat and the
only such planes employed in World WarTwo; the newest
silent electric torpedoes; and plans and material to
build Germany's feared V-2 rockets. The existence of
U-234 and its cargo have long been known, and have been
the subject of discussions over whether the uranium or
any other components found on the vessel were used in
the war against Japan, but, until now, no connection has
ever been proved.
"The first big break was finding a secret dispatch from
the Commander of Naval Operations in Washington
indicating the uranium was stored for the journey in
cylinders lined with gold," explained Mr. Hydrick.
"Further research showed that gold, which is a very
stable substance, was only used to handle uranium that
had already been enriched in order to protect it from
contamination by corrosion." Only enriched uranium is
fissile enough to make a uranium bomb. Hydrick explained
that, at $100,000 per ounce in 1945 dollars, the
enriched uranium was well worth the investment in gold
to protect it. According to Hydrick's sources, gold
would not have been used to ship uranium that had not
yet been enriched, since the value of raw uranium did
not justify such expense. He cites instances in the
United States program when uranium that had not been
enriched was shipped in cloth bags and steel drums with
no protection from corrosion whatsoever.
A second, stronger, validation that the uranium on board
U-234 was enriched uranium came from eye-witness
accounts of a crew member of the submarine, who was
present at both the loading and unloading of the boat.
The crew member reported in two memoirs that the uranium
containers had the label "U235" painted on them just
before they were lowered into the submarine. U235 is the
scientific designation for enriched uranium. The same
crew member reported that United States Navy personnel
later tested the supply tubes of the submarine with
geiger counters after it was turned over to the United
States and the instruments registered a very high level
of radioactivity. Without understanding the import of
the U235 designation, the crew member assumed the
uranium was left over from Germany's failed, but later
highly publicized, plutonium breeding reactor
experiments.
"The evidence seems very strong that the uranium on
board U-234 was bomb-grade, enriched uranium," said
Hydrick.
Even if the uranium was enriched, that does not prove it
was used in the Manhattan Project, concedes Hydrick. To
prove the two events were related, he presented copies
of documents held in the United States National Archives
that show relationships between the Manhattan Project
and the U-boat. One of the documents is a secret cable,
again from the Commander of Naval Operations, directing
that a three-man party had been dispatched to take
possession of the cargo from U-234. According to the
document, accompanying two Naval officers in an
otherwise all-Navy operation was Major John E. Vance of
the Army Corps of Engineers, the department of the Army
under which the Manhattan Project operated. Additional
documents show that a few days following Vance's
arrival, when another accounting of the cargo was made,
the uranium had disappeared from the materials in Navy
possession. Transcripts of telephone conversations that
occurred approximately one week later between two
Manhattan Project intelligence officers identify a
captured shipment of uranium powder as being in control
of, and being tested by, a person identified only as
"Vance." "It would be an improbable coincidence if they
were not talking about the same "Vance" as the officer
who visited U-234, and the same uranium powder captured
from that vessel," suggested Hydrick.
A second connection is also documented between the
Manhattan Project and U-234 -- which carried eight
high-profile military and scientific passengers who were
not crew members, along with its deadly cargo, says Mr.
Hydrick. "Two of the captured passengers on U-234 had
contact with an alleged United States Naval Intelligence
officer identified in separate documents by the
prisoners, as `Mr. Alvarez' and as `Commander Alvarez',"
Hydrick said. The alleged "Commander Alvarez" appears to
have been the personal handler of Dr. Heinz Schlicke,
one of the scientific passengers on board U-234, who had
now become a prisoner of war. Dr. Schlicke was an expert
on high frequency technology such as radar and infra-red
technology.
Upon researching the Navy officers and alumni rosters of
1943 and 1945, Hydrick found no entry in the name of
Alvarez was recorded in either document. "General
Groves, who headed the Manhattan Project, is well
documented as having frequently provided military
identification to scientists within the Manhattan
Project in order for them to operate unimpeded, when
necessary, within the military establishment," said
Hydrick. The researcher then points to one of the heroes
of the Manhattan Project, Luis W. Alvarez, as the
probable identity of "Commander Alvarez," who he
suggests was dressed incognito in Navy uniform to
surreptitiously cull information and technological
expertise from Dr. Schlicke.
"Luis Alvarez was the scientist on the Manhattan Project
who is credited with coming up with, at the last minute,
the successful solution for simultaneously detonating
the 32 fuses that exploded the second, or plutonium
bomb, which was the bomb dropped on Nagasaki," the
researcher said. Before a solution was found for this
problem, according to Hydrick, the Manhattan Project had
struggled for a year and a half with the dilemma.
Hydrick points to documentation from the National
Archives showing that Alvarez was the head of a
three-man committee tasked with solving the fusing
problem.
"Dr. Schlicke had in his personal care while on the
U-boat, a supply of Germany's newly developed infra-red
fuses," Hydrick continued. "In the national archives
there is a secret cable recounting how Schlicke was
flown back to the U-234 site by two United States Navy
personnel expressly to retrieve those infra-red fuses.
These fuses work on the basis of light, and at the speed
of light. The evidence strongly suggests, in my view,
that Luis Alvarez and "Commander Alvarez" were one and
the same person and that Luis Alvarez used Dr.
Schlicke's infra-red fuses to ignite all 32 detonation
points on the American plutonium bomb simultaneously at
the speed of light, solving the plutonium bomb
detonation problem."
As substantiating evidence of the link, Hydrick cites
the fact that prior to his assignment in the Manhattan
Project, Alvarez worked on high-frequency technology,
including radar, the same field in which Schlicke was an
expert. "Based on their backgrounds, of all the people
in the Manhattan Project who would be expected to
interface with Schlicke, if there was an interface, it
would be Luis Alvarez," Hydrick claims. "It is
interesting that Alvarez is the one name that shows up
as the United States' counterpart to Dr. Schlicke."
Following the war, Schlicke joined the United States
military as a contract worker in the top-secret project,
"Operation Paperclip." Luis Alvarez went on to win the
Nobel Prize for Physics relating to his high-frequency
work, and was one of the original proponents for the now
widely accepted theory -- though greatly maligned at the
time of its introduction -- that a large meteorite
struck the earth eons ago, causing the extinction of the
dinosaurs and other profound events in the history of
pre-homo sapien Earth.
While Hydrick's revelations regarding the uses of
U-234's cargo and passengers will probably cause
widespread controversy among historians and World War
Two enthusiasts, his proposition that U-234 was
intentionally surrendered to United States forces
according to a prearranged agreement with top Nazi
leaders is certain to bring a storm of debate. "The
evidence is not of the compelling, `smoking gun' nature
of the documentation proving the link between U-234 and
the Manhattan Project. But there is a significant body
of circumstantial evidence suggesting some of Hitler's
top men made a deal with our leading intelligence and
military people to hand over the U-boat in return for
their freedom and protection. This evidence needs to be
further explored," Hydrick says.
That body of circumstantial evidence, according to
Hydrick, suggests that Martin Bormann, chief of the Nazi
Party, Hitler's personal manager and secretary, and
arguably the most powerful man in the German Reich
outside of Hitler, at the end of the war negotiated the
control of the U-boat and its passengers and cargo over
to the United States prior to the fall of Berlin in late
April 1945. Historians have long argued the claim that
Bormann died trying to escape from Berlin on May 1,
1945. The main evidence given for his death was based on
eye-witness accounts by Hitler's chauffeur and Artur
Axmann, head of the Hitler Youth organization, both of
whom maintained strong Nazi convictions and connections
until their deaths and, therefore, their motives have
been considered suspect. Although neither witness
categorically stated they were certain they saw Bormann
dead, their account has become the traditional version
of Bormann's end. Despite this finding, Bormann was
convicted of war crimes in absentia at the Nuremberg
trials and a warrant was placed for his arrest that
remained in effect for many years, as did a later
warrant issued in West Germany in 1967* based on new
evidence of his continued survival. Many sightings of
Bormann, alive and well, were reported over the three
decades following the war. The supposed grave of
Bormann's escape partner, Gestapo Chief Heinrich
Mueller, was also disinterred in 1963 and found to
contain the skeletal remains of three men, none of them
Mueller.
The traditional history has many holes in it, according
to Hydrick. "The presently accepted account says Bormann
and Gestapo chief Heinrich Mueller attempted their
escape together, travelling partially through the subway
tunnels around the Reichs Chancellery before they met
their deaths in the street fighting. It's fairly certain
they escaped together, but the problem with the rest of
the story is that the subway had been flooded by the SS
-- which, by the way, killed thousands of German women
and children who were forced there for shelter when
their homes were bombed out. The SS flooded the subway
to keep Russian troops from secretly approaching and
attacking Hitler's bunker through the underground,"
explained Hydrick. "The subway escape legend appears to
be a cover story devised beforehand for later
dissemination. It did not take into account the
unforeseen flooding by the SS."
A more logical, objective and credible version of the
Bormann escape, according to Hydrick, was reported by
Joseph Stalin's intelligence agents. Stalin stated to
Harry Hopkins, political consultant and confidant of
Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, and later secretary of
state, that Soviet agents reported Bormann's escape from
Berlin late the night of April 29 in a small plane and
in the company of three men -- one heavily bandaged --
and a woman. From there, Stalin insisted, his agents
traced Bormann to Hamburg, where he boarded a large
U-boat and departed Germany.
Several details of these events ring true to Hydrick.
For example, it is a well-known fact that while Berlin
was being bombed and the Nazi leadership fell into panic
or fled, Martin Bormann maintained secret radio
negotiations with Admiral Karl Doenitz, the commander of
all of Germany'sU-boats, and had made plans to escape to
Doenitz's submarine headquarters. Doenitz at first
resisted this effort but ultimately was ordered by
Hitler (presumably at Bormann's bidding) to accept
Bormann at his headquarters. From this point on, Hydrick
concedes, details become sketchy and many disparate
accounts are given of Bormann's escape or possible end.
But parallels from various, otherwise unconnected,
Fuehrer bunker escape stories seem to indicate a
probable scenario, according to the researcher.
First, Hitler's good friend Hanna Reitsch, the famous
German aviatrix and counterpart to Amelia Earhart, tells
in her autobiography how she flew seriously injured
German Air Force General Ritter von Greim, whom Hitler
had just made Commander of the Luftwaffe, out of Berlin
late one night in the last days of the war. Other
accounts confirm the flight was made April 29, 1945, the
same night Stalin's agents reported Bormann's escape by
small aircraft. Reitsch recounts how they flew to
Doenitz's headquarters "to make our last visit and
farewell to Grand Admiral Doenitz" before flying south
to the Austrian/Swiss border -- an odd and seemingly
careless detour of several hundred dangerous miles with
the badly injured and very important General von Greim.
"There was something more to that trip than fond
good-byes," insists Hydrick.
Second, a separate, independent account purportedly of
Gestapo Chief Heinrich Mueller's escape follows a
somewhat similar path, though in it he was flown out of
Berlin alone. In this account, Mueller was flown out of
the German capital late the same night as in Reitsch's
tale, in a Fieseler Storch airplane, the same aircraft
used in Reitsch's story, under exactly the same
conditions Reitsch describes. Mueller makes no account
of flying to meet Doenitz, but tells a story about
flying to the Austrian/Swiss border that is decidedly
similar to Reitsch's version.
There are obviously discrepencies in these stories, as
there are in virtually all accounts of these events; and
it is hard to know what is true and what is
disinformation, according to Hydrick. But the
similarities of the independent accounts set against the
observations of Stalin's informants that three men, one
injured, and a woman, flying out of Berlin in a small
airplane, seem to paint a compelling scenario. "The
description of that little group of night flyers is
explicit and unique in its observations," argued
Hydrick, "and yet it adheres in its details, even the
unusual ones, with the Stalin account. It identifies
Bormann and Mueller by name; also a heavily bandaged
man, which fits the description of von Greim at the
time; and a woman, which would be Hanna Reitsch,
probably the only woman in the world one could have
expected to see in that circumstance, at that place, at
that time. The three accounts just seem to interlock too
well not to be connected," insists Hydrick.
Hydrick adds other proof to his escape proposition, as
well. The chief radio operator of U-234 describes how,
in mid-April, he received at least one message on a
high-priority frequency (and probably at least one other
coded communique) directly from Hitler's bunker in
Berlin while the U-boat was stationed in Kristiansand,
Norway. The order read: "U-234. Only sail on the orders
of the highest level. Fuehrer HQ." "There are many
implications here, the main ones being there was some
kind of connection and an arrangement made between U-234
and someone at Hitler's headquarters," Hydrick asserted.
An order sent to the U-boat a short time later by
Admiral Doenitz seems to be an effort to keep the U-boat
under his command. It reads: "U-234. Sail only on my
order. Sail at once on your own initiative." U-234, the
largest U-boat in the German navy, set sail within
hours, leaving Kristiansand bearing due south, exactly
toward Hamburg, where Stalin's observer's reported
Bormann boarded the "large" U-boat in the early hours of
May 1.
"There appear to be discrepencies between these
accounts, too," said Hydrick, "like the fact it would
normally take a U-boat only a day to sail from
Kristiansand to Hamburg and according to our accounts
U-234 left Kristiansand in mid-April and would not have
picked up Bormann until May 1." But U-234 was not heard
from again after leaving Kristiansand until May 12,
almost a full month. By then, the U-boat was only 500
miles northeast of Newfoundland. If the boat was
following the course its captain and traditional history
said it took headed for Japan, then it was travelling at
only 1 1/2 miles per hour. "That is slower than a man
walks and far slower than a fleeing U-boat is likely to
have travelled," Hydrick argued.
Hydrick contends that U-234 silently patrolled the North
Sea according to prearranged plans with Bormann at
Hitler's headquarters, until Bormann was able to
negotiate an agreement with Doenitz. As the end of the
war drew near, the boat slid into Hamburg harbor under
cover of night and picked up Martin Bormann and Heinrich
Mueller, then continued its voyage, by way of a
rendevouz off the coast of Spain to off-load Bormann,
and then on to its surrender to United States forces at
sea, again under mysterious conditions.
Hydrick asserts that a successful negotiation between
Bormann and Doenitz would explain not only the radio
transmissions, but it would explain why Doenitz, with
no political experience and virtually no political
following, and quite to the surpise and puzzlement of
leaders worldwide, became Hitler's successor. He also
believes that a series of enigmatic events leading up
to U-234's surrender point to an intentional secret
capitulation of the boat outside of the parameters of
the general surrender orders given on VE Day.
Lastly, he contends a photo taken by a local newpaper
photographer at the time U-234 docked on United States
shores, shows a mysterious, unidentified civilian
prisoner with a remarkable physical resemblance to
Heinrich Mueller disembarking the Navy ship that carried
U-234 passengers from the U-boat to shore. Hydrick
believes the subject of the photo is, in fact, the
former head of the Gestapo stepping onto American soil.
According to Hydrick, Mueller's mission was to oversee
the transferral of the atomic bomb components and other
war materials from Germany to the United States and
that, in return, Mueller, Bormann and many other Nazis
received American protection for decades, and continue
to receive such protection even up to the present day.
To make his research available to interested parties,
Hydrick has opened a website at www.u234.com. He is also
completing a manuscript for a book he hopes to publish
later this year.
Copyright � 1998 by Carter Hydrick
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