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Justin
Taylor of the
University of Florida, has queries about Himmler’s chief rocket engineer and architect (of the Holocaust, among other things), ; and Alan Heath replies
Who, where, is Hans Kammler?
BEFORE I write this, I must state that in the same manner as John Keegan, I disagree with your interpretation of documents pertaining to and concerning the Holocaust.
However, I recognize your abilities at finding documentation and searching inventories of existing documentation concerning the Nazi regime in Germany during and before
World War II.
This brings me to the reason for which I am writing this e-mail. In a book written by Nick Cook, with whom you may or may not be familiar, called The Hunt for Zero
Point, he discusses the disappearance of Dr. Ing.
Hans Kammler.
Kammler was the engineer who helped in the design and construction of various concentration camps, and later in the war, he was assigned by Heinrich Himmler to take over the Nazi secret weapons programs. By the end of the war, it appears that he had consolidated all of the
Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe programs into the SS. However, as
Cook notes in the book, after the war he disappeared off of the map.
His role in the Nazi regime was very important, so it made Cook wonder as to why he was never indicted or ever on the lists to be charged at tried at Nuremberg. Cook looked further into the matter, but found basically nothing.
Even the archives at the Imperial War Museum [in
London] were of little help, much to the concern of the librarian, who believed that he could have been “red lined” (as in, his files had been removed). Cook believes that he may have been brought into the US after the war to work on
American secret programs and cites Christopher
Simpson‘s book, Blowback.
That is just a summary. For much more details, please check out Cook’s book.
This caught my curiosity. What happened to Hans Kammler, and why is there practically nothing on him? So I looked up a few books on my own at our fairly vast library here at the
University of Florida, but the references they have to him are passing references to his work with the concentration camps. I cannot find anything else concerning him.
Perhaps you can be of help? I would greatly appreciate some pointers as to where I might look.
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