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Chris Ostermann's avatar

Revell literally make a 1:72 model of a Nazi flying saucer (Haunebu II) with an accompanying grey description: “The existence and feasibility of this striking model from the time of the Second World War cannot be proven historically. Allegedly work began on this spherical aircraft in 1934. Its propulsion and the neutralisation of centrifugal forces inside the aircraft was achieved employing Vril energy fields. Airworthy prototypes of the Haunebu II with speeds of up to 6000 km/h first flew in mid-1943 but did not finish the flight test phase due to the effects of war.”

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This article has prompted significant random 5:30am googlings on my part. I love that concrete henge thing. The Sarin thing is pretty interesting. I knew about that and it's fascinating that they were so afraid of a worse response that they didn't use it even when they got desperate. It makes you think about what we read today: that Putin will use nuclear weapons in Ukraine if he gets desperate enough. I mean why didn't the Germans use Sarin towards the end? They had literally nothing to lose...

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