The real question may be if the flow of this knowledge went from
Brown to the Germans or from the Germans to Brown as was the case
with so much high technology in the post-war years. T. T.
Brown's early collaborator and mentor was a Dr. Paul Biefield a
Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dennison University. Dr.
Biefield was a German speaker who was a fellow student of Albert
Einstein in Switzerland. Physicists share information across
international boundaries. There is no reason for German
scientists not to have followed developments in this BiefieldBrown Effect, as it is sometimes called, for the twenty years
leading up to World War Two.
Before leaving the KM-2 discussion, perhaps we should return to
the reporter who originally broke this story of the German
"Electromagnetic Rocket" in 1947, Lionel Shapiro for a closer
look at who he really was. It seems this reporter does have a
history of breaking or leaking stories through the North American
Newspaper Alliance. These stories which, prior to his
involvement, could only be classified as "secret". The point in
question is a 1946 report, brought to our attention though the
extensive research of Dr. Milos Jesensky and Mr. Robert
Lesniakiewicz and translated into English for me by Milos Vnenk.
This account is of post-wartime intrigue can only be outlined
here.
On October 13, 1945, over five months after the hostilities in
Europe had ended, the French embassy in Prag notified the
Czechoslovakian Foreign Ministry that an SS officer in a French
detention camp had given them information that a cache of secret
documents existed near Prag. This cache took the form of a
tunnel in which 32 boxes of secret documents were hidden and were
wired with explosives before being sealed at its opening. The
French offered their services and the information given to them
by the SS officer in question, Guenther Achenbach. But even
after three months of waiting, no response was received by the
French from the Czechoslovakian Foreign Ministry (16).
Somehow the Americans got wind of this information. Incredibly,
the Americans on February 13, 1946 mounted an armed incursion
into Czechoslovakia which was in the Soviet sphere of occupation,
retrieved this hoard of information and escaped back into
occupied Germany. Naturally the Czechoslovakians were furious
and demanded and got an apology from the Americans. They also
demanded the return of the German documents stolen from their
sovereign territory. The Americans did return documents but
probably not those sensitive documents for which the expedition
was mounted (17).
Dr. Jesensky and Mr. Lesniakiewicz have made an extensive study
of the German technical facilities surrounding Prag and the
purposes for these facilities. It is their conclusion that the
sensitive technical information recovered and which prompted this
dangerous action was nothing other than plans of the German disc
airplane, the "V-7" (18).
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