Vast Nazi Facility Uncovered In Austria; Purported A-Bomb Development Site

schwit1 (797399) writes "Suspiciously high radiation levels around the Austrian town of St. Georgen an der Gusen had long fueled theories that there was a buried bunker nearby where Nazis had tested nuclear weapons during WWII. Those suspicions came one step closer to being confirmed last week after the opening of a 75-acre underground complex was dug out from below the earth and granite used to seal off the entrance, the Times of Israel reports. The excavation team was led by Austrian filmmaker Andreas Sulzer, who says the site was "likely the biggest secret weapons production facility of the Third Reich" — a facility that probably relied on forced labor from the nearby Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp and may have even been the testing location for a nuclear bomb, the Daily Mirror reports. The weapons facility was believed to have been manned by SS General Hans Kammler and situated near the B8 Bergkristall factory, where the first working jet-powered fighter was created, International Business Times reports; Sulzer first got wind of the site after seeing references to it in an Austrian physicist's diary. The Washington Post cautions that while "the full scope of what occurred inside those reported chambers in the Austrian town of St. Georgen remains unclear and Sulzer’s conclusions are speculative, some analysts are already trumpeting the findings. ... The reported findings, if corroborated by further inquiry, could add fresh fodder to an ongoing debate over the Third Reich’s ultimately failed attempt to secure an atomic weapon."

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Hitler and the NAZIs were so stupid.

[Anonymous Coward]

If they were truly the Master Race, they would have realized that banking is the way to go to control or destroy the World.

Look it now. Merkel pretty much controls Europe - thanks to the Deutsche Bundesbank. And without a single shot fired. I think I'm gonna send my kids to Merkel Youth camp where they can grow up to be bankers, make billions for doing nothing other than rent seeking, fees, bonuses and commissions.

STEM?! Pfft! That's just a fairy tale that's told to you peons to keep you in line.

Re:Hitler and the NAZIs were so stupid.

[Evtim]

So you say that the joke is not true?

Merkel goes to Greece after the financial collapse. At the border:
- Name?
- Angela
- Family name?
- Merkel
- Occupation?
- Not yet!

Seriously though, I agree with you and we should have "witty" mod at /. for when the truth is spelled in a funny, witty manner. However, it seems that if you want to be the world's top financial force you also need the largest military force...just in case ;)

Re:Hitler and the NAZIs were so stupid.

[Anonymous Coward]

Bush, or Hitler?

Eh, what's the difference.

Hitler won an election. *rimshot*

Re: Hitler and the NAZIs were so stupid.

[sumdumass]

What unprovoked war of aggression? Iraq was far from unprovoked and it wouldn't even qualify as a war of aggression seeing how the main charge for entering into the war was the failure to meet the terms of the armistice that ended hostilities when Iraq invade Kuwait in a war of aggression.

Please, lets not ignore reality here.

Re:Tunnels everywhere, A-bombs nowhere

[BarbaraHudson]

Maybe they should be looking in Brazil?

Re:Plot twist: There were still Nazi's inside....

[plopez]

Nazi zombies?

Castle Wolfenstein

[backslashdot]

That's where BJ Blazkowicz busted out of, with my help.
 

Bah! Already seen in the Captain America movies

[mtm10]

It's the original Hydra base.