Comments on: Did Hitler plan UFO attacks on London? (No. Not really.)

By: John Coulthart

John Coulthart — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

And then there’s the cover for Amon DÃ¼Ã¼l II’s rather fine Live in London album from 1973: UFOs attacking London *and* a Stormtrooper-helmeted giant insect demolishing the Post Office Tower!

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1308023

By: BDiamond

BDiamond — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dang. I came in here to say this. Had that model, really enjoyed it. Hated the TV show, though.

By: Clifton

Clifton — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey, I had that model too! My brother and I also had most of the Aurora Classic Movie Monsters between us, and I had the Aurora torture chamber. (Maybe they can use that as inspiration for their next story.)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I had that exact issue too!

By: Bill Beaty

Bill Beaty — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

They edited out the three mysterious hemispheres!

Without those, the chicken brooder lamp won’t warm any eggs.

Or: high-voltage charged fuselage cannot employ conductive landing gear. Solution: inflated rubberized canvas hemispheres can support enormous weight while standing off megavolts potential with respect to ground.

By: Bill Beaty

Bill Beaty — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

By: Kyle H

Kyle H — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Actually the Nazis really did invent a vertical-lift military aircraft: the Flugelrad.

http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/BMW%20Flugelrad.htm

Which looked vaguely UFO-ish (more like a really big Jetson car, really.)

By: enkiv2

enkiv2 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Though this may be a marketing thing, the Nazi UFO connection is about as old as the Nazi/Vril connection and the Nazi/Hollow Earth connection. I get the impression that it probably came out of the (well known) connection between prominent Nazis and the Thule Society (though it’s unclear whether or not they were True Believers — they had an obvious interest in the use of propaganda, and any cult that can convince a large number of people that they live on the inside surface of the earth with the sun in the center has something to teach you about propaganda) and the use of ex-Nazis in the cold war space-race (via Paperclip). I’m not sure if there are any reliable sources indicating flying-saucer wunderwaffen, but it’s a pretty short leap.

In fact, the idea of Nazi UFOs may predate the end of WWII, given the prevalence of foo fighters (including saucer/cigar types — not just ghost rockets) during the fighting. I remember reading something about… I want to say swedes or finns blaming the foo fighters on the Germans (the US and UK soldiers generally assumed they were Japanese weapons, as implied by the term ‘foo fighter’, though there is evidence that the term predates world war two and simply owes some of its popularity to this assumption).

By: Cynical

Cynical — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I guess if anyone should know what Hitler was up to it would be the Daily Mail:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail#Support_for_fascism_under_Rothermere

By: jjoensuu

jjoensuu — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Funnily during the last year I have been reading of various things that were supposedly being developed by Nazis, the latest (before this UFO thing) was an Iron Man type of suit for the soldiers…

By: ackpht

ackpht — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Per the last fifty years TV and movies, the Nazis were developing everything- hydrogen bombs, bioweapons, genetically-engineered soldiers, time travel, zombies, you name it, they had it.

Flying saucers? Phfft- piece of cake.

By: ultranoia

ultranoia — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I smell guerrilla marketing: http://www.ironsky.net/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The website of the SyFy Channel covered it too:

http://blastr.com/2010/11/new-report-says-there-is.php

By: Church

Church — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Damnit! ultranoia beat me to it.

By: lava

lava — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think they also photoshopped the turret from a Panther tank on the bottom of said schicksalsaucer. Also seems to look bitchin.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I rather like the Horton brothers flying wing bomber and suspect that given more time it could have flown possibly as far as America. Here is a link to a forum where ‘Henk’ gives us everything on the subject. The pictures are worth the look.

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/aircraft-requests/horton-brothers-flying-wings-3618.html

By: ali

ali — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

SchicksalSaucer der Himmel, which, roughly translated, means Doom Saucer of the Skies.

Actually it translates rather nonsensically as “Fate-Saucer the Sky” or “Fate-Saucer of the Skies” (and Saucer in German would be Untertasse).

But it is still pretty amazing that we only found out now, the Nazis tried to attack London in flying saucers. Thanks for uncovering that. Ignorance must be fought!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Don’t be stupid, the Daleks were on the Allied side!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The whole Nazi UFO thing is fun but it was actually made up wholesale, and admittedly so, by Ernst ZÃ¼ndel as a cynical means of sneaking his holocaust denial stuff into UFO/conspiracy circles.

By: coop

coop — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Looks a lot like the UFO model I had in the late 60′s from the TV show, The Invaders.

http://home.earthlink.net/~peredhil/Invaders.html

Looks like someone loves the model even more than I did…

coop

By: Baron Karza

Baron Karza — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Did Hitler plan UFO attacks on London? (No. Not really.)”

Um, actually he did. I read about it in school!
http://tinyurl.com/24gfp5q

By: tamgoddess

tamgoddess — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I thought I read “shicksa saucer,” which would have been a much better name.