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Glossary
Aggregat: The codename for the series of ballistic missiles that included the V-2 (designated A4 in the series). The A9 and A10 rockets were intended to be capable of reaching the continental United States.
Amerikabomber: A project to develop an intercontinental bomber capable of delivering a nuclear weapon to the East Coast of the United States.
Bifrost Protocol: The plan to create the Walhalla moonbase. Named for the Rainbow Bridge from Norse myth that connected Midgard, the mortal world, to Asgard, the divine realm where Odin’s hall of Valhalla was located.
Black Sun: A secret organization within the Nazi Party, dedicated to occultism and advanced technology.
Braun, Wernher von: A leading German rocket scientist who surrendered to US forces and went on to become a driving force in America’s space program.
Feuerball (Fireball): An electrostatic weapon fitted to early German saucer aircraft.
Flügelrad (Flying Wheel): An early German disk aircraft, later abandoned for the Haunebu and Vril series.
Glocke (Bell): A device for generating and manipulating vril energy. It could be used in various ways, including the excavation of large underground spaces and the opening of wormholes in space and time.
GSK: Nickname for a large KSK-type weapon recently thought to be under construction at the Walhalla base.
Haunebu: An abbreviation of Hauneburg-Gerät (Hauneburg Device) applied to a series of saucer craft. Hauneburg was a fictitious town created by the SS to confuse Allied intelligence agents searching for the saucer facility.
High Jump , Operation: A US Navy task force sent to probe the Neuschwabenland base in late 1946 and early 1947.
Jenseitsflugmaschine (Other-world Flight Machine): The first documented German flying disk, tested between 1932 and 1934.
Kammler, Hans: Head of Wunderwaffen production for the SS and the power behind the Walhalla project.
KSK (Kraftstrahlkanone): A focused energy-beam weapon fitted to most Haunebu craft. Usually supplemented with 30mm MK 108 aircraft cannon because of the enormous power drain caused by firing them.
Lyre , Operation: An unsuccessful US attack on the Walhalla base that took place in 1972.
Neuschwabenland (New Suebia): A codename for the Antarctic saucer base. Named for the region of Suebia in southwestern Germany.
Paperclip , Operation: A US operation overseen by the Office of Strategic Services in which over 1,500 German scientists and engineers were recovered and moved to the USA. These individuals proved crucial to the American space program.
Rundflugzeug (Disk Aircraft): The second German flying disk project, which developed into the Vril series.
Silbervogel (Silver Bird): A rocket-powered bomber concept developed for the Amerikabomber project. The wedge-shaped craft was designed to cross the upper atmosphere in a number of “skips” and land in friendly Japanese territory after delivering its payload.
SS E-IV (SS-Entwicklungstelle IV): The SS agency headed by Hans Kammler and involved in the development of advanced weaponry.
Surgeon , Operation: A British counterpart to the American Operation Paperclip (q.v.).
Tachyonator: An electro-gravitic propulsion system developed by the Thule Society for use in Haunebu and other saucer craft.
Thule Society (Thule Gesellschaft): An esoteric group that played a large role in early Nazi occultism and may have been one of the ancestors of the Black Sun movement.
Vergeltungswaffen: Literally “Repayment (Payback) Weapons,” often translated as “Vengeance Weapons.” A series of advanced weapon projects designed to destroy cities in Britain (and ultimately the United States as well) from Europe. The V-1 cruise missile and the V-2 ballistic missile were the only V-weapons to enter service, but many more were planned.
Victalen: An advanced alloy developed for the skins of Haunebu and other saucer craft. Rumored to be an early form of aerogel layered with metal.
Vril (aircraft): Third-generation flying disk aircraft developed by the Vril Society. Despite early successes, the Vril series was superseded by the Haunebu project.
Vril (energy): First mentioned in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1871 novel The Coming Race, vril was the name the Nazis gave to the universal energy that combines heat, gravity, and electromagnetism.
Vril Society (Vril Gesellschaft): An esoteric group researching vril and claiming psychic contact with an extraterrestrial Aryan civilization.
Waffen-SS: Literally “armed SS,” the military branch of the SS organization and the Third Reich’s elite troops.
Walhalla (Valhalla): The codename for the Nazi moonbase.
Wunderwaffen: Literally “wonder weapons,” this term was applied to a wide range of advanced Nazi technology, including jet aircraft, the V-weapons, and other projects. Hitler hoped that the Wunderwaffen could turn the tide of the war back in Germany’s favor.
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