had been present at the interview, when asked his opinion of
Schauberger's theories, retorted: 'Science has nothing to do with
Nature.'
Professor Ernst Heinkel, who developed the innovative aircraft
that bore his name, also heard about Schauberger's revolutionary
power source, and stealing his confidential patent application,
attempted in 1938 to incorporate it into his new jet aircraft, the
under-performing HE 280. Heinkel persuaded the patents office to
restrict Schauberger's technology to water purification projects, so
that he would be free to develop Schauberger's innovations in his
aircraft research. However, it dawned on him that the conventional
aircraft frame was totally inappropriate for Schauberger's suction
engine. The development in 1940 of Schreiver's 'Flying Top' in
Heinkel's Rostock factory suggests that he had more success when
the power generator was transferred to the new model of prototype
flying saucer.
In 1943, the Schreiver saucer and its subsequent developments
were moved to a secret location in Czechoslovakia to which
Schauberger was from time to time seconded. Word of this new 'air-
craft' reached Himmler's ears; he was drawn more to unconven-
tional science as a source of new weapons development. Viktor's
activities were at that time highly secret, moving from one project
to another, but he was apparently not at that time given responsibil-
ity for research and development. However, in 1943 Himmler
entrusted to the SS the role for developing German secret weapons.
The SS established production facilities for these new secret
weapons in giant cave complexes in Poland and Czechoslovakia,
safe from Allied bombs, using prisoners of war as labour. Had these
underground facilities been set up earlier in the war, its outcome
might have been different. The level of secrecy was extremely high;
so much, indeed, that at one crucial location at the end of the war,
the SS lined up 62 of the scientists and laboratory technicians, and
shot them, to save the secrets of that complex 'free energy' atomic
installation falling into the hands of the approaching Soviet troops.^1
The SS decided in 1944 that Schauberger's machines were ready
for production. They drafted him and ordered him, under pain of
death, to employ prisoner engineers from the Mauthausen concen-
tration camp near Linz to develop five projects. In addition to the
high priority flying saucer programme, there was a water purifier,
a high voltage generator, an air conditioner and a machine to
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