Animal Farm Hall: Hitler's magical rites and occult Nazi rituals

Not until a quarter of a century after the Second World War did official documents make it known to the general public that Nazism abounded in magical rites and occult rituals. Years after the release of such information, most writers of history still try to paint a simple picture of Hitler's Reich leaders performing supernatural ceremonies on one hand, and conducting a calculating war on the other. No connection is made between the two contrary activities.

"Their [the Freemasons] hierarchical organization and the initiation through symbolic rites, that is to say without bothering the brains but by working on the imagination through magic and the symbols of a cult - all this is the dangerous element and the element I have taken over. Don't you see that our party must be of this character?...An Order, that is what it has to be - an Order, the hierarchical Order of a secular priesthood." - Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf

We can state with certainty that Germany's discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 literally fulfilled one of alchemy's greatest goals: the transmutation of elements. New forms of matter (plutonium) could suddenly be created out of others (uranium). This marked a grand turning point for the magical fraternities which for ages sought to transform base metal into gold. The writings of modern occultists like Aleister Crowley took on a new tolerable meaning and could be used by Reich leaders to form the renewed code of Illuminati brotherhoods based on magical transmutations.

"The professor had the great German gift of Being Always Right.
My task was simplified; I had merely to keep on telling him how very right he was."
- The Confessions of Aleister Crowley

There was still another advantage of using an occult system of words and phrases to control the Nazi nuclear effort: it offered a great degree of security. For as far as the Allies were concerned, only a person of unstable mental condition could take occult elements of speech seriously. Hence, the German nuclear scheme was never really penetrated by the Allies. It remained mostly a secret until the end of the 20th century. But in the 1990s a few noteworthy events shed light on this intriguing situation.

The first breakthrough was the declassification of the Farm Hall transcripts. At the end of the war, the Anglo-American Allies rounded up Hitler's top nuclear scientists and secretly transferred them to a country house in Cambridge known as Farm Hall. In what was called Operation Epsilon, the German scientists remained under house arrest for six months where their conversations were recorded, transcribed, and translated. From those recordings we learned that Hitler was not particularly interested in developing an atomic bomb. Instead, the Nazis were secretly working on a uranium engine or "super weapon" reactor for military purposes. But because Werner Heisenberg who headed the German nuclear research group was not a supporter of Hitler, a security screen or buffer had to be set up by the Nazis. Heisenberg's team was required to produce mathematical formulae and small working models of the proposed uranium engine. Then all construction work was transferred to loyal Nazi, Abraham Esau, head of the German Bureau of Standards, who supervised the building of large-scale atomic projects under Albert Speer and was in charge of Reich uranium and heavy water (deuterium).

The large-scale military nuclear designs of Esau were not explained in detail by the Allies. Various independent branches of secret Nazi atomic experimentation were concealed in part by the research bureau of the Reich Post Office. It should also be mentioned that perhaps only ten percent of the Farm Hall conversations were released in manuscript form. "Some of the German transcriptions are not available in the British or American files and are apparently lost." But according to the recordings, the German scientists seemed to be more interested in high-energy "rays" than in atomic explosions. At one point they openly discussed the possibility of Farm Hall being bugged with microphones.

A persistently critical question raised by the Farm Hall operation which some war historians continue to ask is: "Where, if at all, are the large-scale Nazi nuclear projects of Abraham Esau and Albert Speer?" A favorite answer always advanced by many polemical enthusiasts is the myth of the German National Redoubt:

"When the Reich was crumbling under the final onslaughts from West and East, Nazi propaganda labored to create a vision of the Southern Redoubt, an inner fortress from which in a few months Germany would strike back with terrible weapons which would snatch victory at one minute past twelve."

"Here, defended by nature and by the most efficient secret weapons yet invented, the powers that have hitherto guided Germany will survive to reorganize her resurrection; here armaments will be manufactured in bombproof factories, food and equipment will be stored in vast underground caverns and a specially selected corpus of young men will be trained in guerrilla warfare, so that a whole underground army can be fitted and directed to liberate Germany from occupying forces."

Frustrated by their failure to discover Hitler's enormous nuclear reactor, the Allies were also unable to locate a remote hidden fortress rumored to be the German National Redoubt. But critics with extreme views loudly argued that the Nazi reactor was obviously well-concealed inside Hitler's secret fortress. And since the ALSOS search-party was not able to find its location, the Allies were instead merely trying to explain it all away. A Nazi reactor and mountain fortress never really existed, according to the Allied Command. But rumors and eye-witness reports persisted. Even some of the death camp survivors clearly described being transported on trains without windows into what appeared to be vast underground caverns. There, they were forced to do construction labor and work near V2 rocket platforms before being moved to other Nazi camps.

The confusing story that finally emerged portrayed the German Redoubt as an underground stronghold connected by rail to Fortress Europe. It was either located near Southern Germany (at Hitler's mountain-top "Eagle's Nest"), in the Austrian Alps, or perhaps as far away as the Balkans. Even General Eisenhower took it all very seriously. "The Redoubt idea produced in the mindset of the Allied Command the sense that if - and when - Hitler was found it would be in the south." On the eve of the Normandy invasion an Allied Command wartime report concluded that:

"It seems reasonably certain that some of the most important ministries and personalities of the Nazi regime are already established in the Redoubt area. Goring, Himmler, Hitler are said to be in the process of withdrawing to their respective personal mountain strongholds."

But as Germany began to crumble, Nazi propaganda experts, led by Dr. Goebbels, who had blatantly spread the rumor of a National Redoubt were now the first to categorically deny its existence. Hitler was never in a Redoubt mountain fortress, but always in Berlin, they insisted. It was all a hoax, they said, and should be disregarded. An Allied officer later wrote: "The Redoubt existed largely in the imagination of a few fanatical Nazis. It grew into so exaggerated a scheme that I am astonished we could have believed it as innocently as we did."

Yet for a few German observers, the Nazi nuclear reactor (perhaps the largest ever made) still awaits the quiet push of reawakening, somewhere in a mountain base. In mint condition, it was forced to shutdown in 1945. "Why hand it over to the destroyers of Hiroshima," quarreled one Bavarian. "If they can't find it themselves?"

In the 1990s, a 3D computer game called "Wolfenstein" appeared on the cyber-scene and quickly became a trend-setter which led to the popular sequels of "Doom" and "Quake." Wolfenstein (rock of the wolf) was an imaginary assault into a Nazi mountain fortress characteristic of the German National Redoubt myth. An object of the computer game was to pass through steel doors and move within cavernous tunnels in order to locate lost occult artifacts and hidden treasures.

But in the real world of the 1990s, another "rock of the wolf" was reported in some newspapers from the Balkan Peninsula, an area of South-East Europe consisting of present-day Greece. The occasion was Athens' official recognition of the Embassy of Israel. To set in motion the opening of new diplomatic relations, Greece allowed the public to view an historical site: a Nazi underground prison which had been built by German architects near the foot of Athens' Lycabettus hill just before the Second World War.

Originally planned as a large underground bomb shelter, the double basement bunker was quickly transformed into a harsh place of captivity, torture and death when Germany invaded and occupied Greece.

A unique feature of this two-storeyed underground prison was that it remained a very well-kept secret (although Nazi intelligence officers like Kurt Waldheim knew of atrocities committed by German army units in Greece). The prison was concealed under a downtown movie theatre guilelessly located opposite the prestigious Athens Academy. Apparently, targeted Gestapo suspects were lured into the cinema, seized under the cover of indoor darkness and dragged to the hidden bunker basement of the theater, never to be seen again. The method of punishment used there was also unique. According to cell graffiti, prisoners were not starved to death as in numerous death camps. Instead, they were forced to die of thirst. In the absence of drinking water, death usually occurs after ten days.

"Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried: and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life."
- Revelation 2:10

Not by chance, just a short walk away, below the hill of Lycabettus (rock of the wolf), on a street called "Merlin" was the Balkan administrative center of the Gestapo. In fact, most of the stylish Lycabettus Kolonaki district was under strict Nazi control during the war period.

When drilling for the new Athens Metro Subway began in that area in 1997, workers were surprised to discover underground water sources that were not marked on any municipal charts or maps. The mysterious water stores may have been part of the hidden infrastructure installed in Athens by Nazi architects before the war began. As Berlin prepared for the 1936 Olympic Games, the city of Athens was being modernized with underground public water and electricity mostly by Bavarian firms using the Stavridis Committee blueprints of German architect Leo von Klenze (see: Charter of Athens, 1933 - Albert Speer). Pro-Nazi planners in those decades were not unwilling to use forced labor and, it seems, may have had a hidden agenda of their own.

On the sides of Lycabettus hill, tourists and visitors are sometimes astonished to encounter large steel military doors in the rock, reminiscent of scenes from classic war movies. Accessed above and across a Kolonaki street named "Navarino," it is more than evident that parts of Lycabettus hill are hollow within and even contain cannons and mounted guns that command the key sea channel of Piraeus. The huge caverns, corridors and rooms inside the raised mass of earth were obviously used for the Nazi war machine. When asked "What's in there today?" Greek military officials have a standard answer: "The Germans emptied out the caves before they retreated. Any German war machinery or technical equipment is no longer there. Some of the cavern access-points were permanently damaged with explosives so the exact entrances cannot be located. Most of them are sealed shut. Today the military features of Lycabettus hill belong to NATO, which uses it simply as a storehouse."

A funicular track of steel rails, drawing small railway carriages by cable through the base of the mountain and up to its top, offers a convincing demonstration that Lycabettus is indeed hollow within.

Had Hitler hidden his Southern Redoubt in the Alpine mountain area, it would have surely been subjected to relentless air-raids and assaults, if ever traced by the Allies. But the bombing of an underground fortress in Athens - secretly built by ten million Nazi slaves, containing priceless ancient monuments and relics of Western civilization - would have quickly produced the world's utmost condemnation. Lycabettus, a hollow slope covered with ancient myths may have been a natural choice for pompous German leaders wanting to hide the Southern Redoubt and conduct secret atomic research in "the land of Democritus." In June of 1941, the Fuehrer made an official visit to Lycabettus.

How was the mount of Lycabettus actually used by the Germans during the Second World War? What kind of tunnel system connected its many secret doors and caverns to the streets below and to nearby buildings, like the Nazi prison cells discovered beneath a movie theatre?

To answer these questions, we will follow a process similar to one known in computer science as "reverse-engineering." Starting from what we already know, and using the facts we have at hand, we will travel backwards in our method of inquiry and work our way from a final effect to its original causes. Like the investigation of an automobile crash, we will measure collision marks and proceed backwards to determine how the unfortunate events came about. We will also act on the assumption that the Reich leaders used "occult elements of speech" to intensify their notions of belief and to increase the security of their nuclear projects. >>