subsequently destroyed by Allied bombing. When in 1943 Heinrich
Himmler directed Viktor to develop a new secret weapon system with
a team of engineer prisoners-of-war, he had no choice but to comply.
The critical tests came just before the end of the European war. A
flying disc was launched in Prague on February 19,1945, which rose
to an altitude of 15,000 metres in three minutes and attained a for-
ward speed of 2,200kph.^2 An improved version was to be launched on
May 6, the day the American forces arrived at the Leonstein factory
in Upper Austria. Facing the collapse of the German armies, Field
Marshal Keitel ordered all the prototypes to be destroyed.
Schauberger had moved from his apartment in Vienna to the
comparative safety of Leonstein. Meanwhile the Russians pushed in
from the East and captured Vienna; a special Soviet investigation
team ransacked his apartment, taking away vital papers and mod-
els, and then blew it up.
The Allies seemed to be well aware of Schauberger's part in
developing this secret weapon. At the end of hostilities, an Ameri-
can Special Forces team seized all the equipment from his Leonstein
home and put him under 'protective U.S. custody 'for nine months'
debriefing. It seems likely that they could not fathom his strange
science, for they let him go, although this group, detailed to enlist as
many of the front-line German scientists as possible, took back
scores of other 'enemy' scientists to give a vital boost to American
industrial and military research. They forbade him from pursuing
'atomic energy' research, which would have left him free to follow
his dream of fuel-less power.
For the following nine years Viktor could not continue his implo-
sion research because the high quality materials needed for his very
advanced equipment were beyond his means, and he had no spon-
sors. In addition, he may have been haunted by remorse for having
been forced by the German SS to design machines of war.
Schauberger was essentially a man of peace who, above all, wanted to
help humanity become free; so he turned his attention to making the
Earth more fertile, developing experimental copper ploughshares.
Levitation and resistantless movement
This strange life path had started on his return to civilian life after
the First World War, when Viktor Schauberger went to work in the
mountains. His experiences of unspoilt Nature were life-changing.
HIDDEN NATURE