with Schauberger. Kokaly was received at Kertl by its chief and
told by this individual, somewhat bitterly, that one of these
strange contraptions had already flown. As a matter of fact it
had gone right through the roof of the Kertl plant (15). The
year was 1940.
Coats tells us that the purpose of this device was twofold.
First, it was to investigate free energy production. This could
be done by running a shaft to the rapidly rotating wheel-like
component which was auto-rotating at between 10,000 and 20,000
rpm. Using reduction gearing, some of that energy could be
mechanically coupled to an electric generator producing
electricity at no cost. The second purpose of these experiments
was to test Schauberger's theories on levitation and flight (16).
Two prototypes were said to have been built at Kertl. The test
flight was done without Schauberger's presence or even his
permission to do the test. The model flew as described above but
it did considerable destruction to the Kertl Works so there were
mixed feels concerning the success of this flight. The force of
levitation was so strong that it sheared six 1/4 inch diameter
high-tensile steel anchor bolts on its way to the roof. Coats
reports that according to Schauberger's calculations based upon
previous tests, a 20 centimeter diameter device of this sort,
with
a
rotational
velocity
of
20,000
rpm,
would
have
lifted a weight of 228 tons (17).
A few years earlier in 1934 Schauberger had met with Hitler to
discuss alternative energy ideas (18). Nothing come of this
meeting immediately but after Germany annexed Austria in 1938,
Schauberger became involved in research at Professor Kotschau's
laboratory in Nuremberg. Assisted by his son, Walter, who had
just completed engineering studies at a technical college in
Dresden, Viktor Schauberger went to work with a Dr. Winter on a
plan to extract electrical energy directly form a water flow.
Some success was achieved. Alexandersson reports that a
potential of 50,000 volts was achieved but that no practical
results came from this at that time (19).
Probably based upon the fact that Viktor Schauberger was a
veteran of the Great War, he was inducted into the Waffen-SS in
1943. This put him under the direct control of SS chief Heinrich
Himmler. Schauberger was ordered to castle Schoenbrunn near the
Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. There he was to select
gualified prisoners, twenty to thirty craftsmen, technicians and
engineers, and begin work on a new, secret weapon. Schauberger
arranged improved conditions for his team and produced another
flying saucer model (20).
In May, 1945, because of the deteriorating circumstances of the
war, Schauberger was re-located to Leonstein in Upper Austria by
the SS. There, just after a successful test flight of his latest
device, it was seized by an American intelligence unit which
appeared to be well informed about it.
Schauberger was de-
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