CHAPTER FIVE
Lore And Loose Ends: A Discussion Of German Saucers
S o m e of the historical context for German flying discs has been
discussed in the preliminary section of this presentation, "The
Situation Within Nazi Germany". German saucers were not designed
to generate the flying saucer mystery in the second half of the
Twentieth Century. They were designed as a weapons system to
do
a specific job. The fast-moving wartime mind-set was a time when
new aircraft designs and new propulsion technologies were coming
on line with increasing frequency. The insertion of these
saucer-craft into the wartime fabric did not seem as culture
altering as the disclosure