Moonbase Projects
When Kammler devised the Bifrost Protocol, he had more in mind than simply the survival of Nazi ideology and advanced technology. He knew that removing vital projects and personnel to the Moon would buy a window of time in which the Walhalla base would be undetected, and a longer window within which the Allies would be unable to reach it — and he intended to make full use of that time.
Kammler applied stringent criteria in selecting the projects that would be taken to Walhalla. Some were necessary for the survival and development of the base itself. Others had to offer a way to strike back during the base’s period of impunity, or a means of returning to Earth in force when the time was right. All had to be feasible in the harsh and airless lunar environment.
The operations of the Walhalla base were organized into four divisions, or Abteilungen, covering life population, weapons, space flight, and support. Every project was assigned to the appropriate division.
Life Support Systems, including construction and maintenance (Abteilung für Lebenserhaltungssysteme): The most important of the divisions when Walhalla was founded, this division has settled into a maintenance role.
Weaponry (Abteilung für Geschütze): This division oversees all long-range weaponry, and is in charge of Projekt Mjölnir.
Spaceship Development, Production, and Operation (Abteilung für Weltraumfahrzeuge): This division is in charge of Walhalla’s saucer fleet, and plays a major role in long-range defense missions to Earth, and the preparations for Projekt Gungnir.
Population and Personnel (Abteilung für Bevölkerungswesen): In addition to running the base’s Lebensborn program, this division oversees technical and troop training as well as the development of metahuman personnel and, a little strangely, the android program, Projekt Eisenmann.
The Division for Population and Personnel was tasked with ensuring that the base’s population could sustain itself over as many generations as necessary until the Bifrost Protocol was completed. As well as maintaining a sufficient population to provide for the base’s personnel needs, this division took charge of political indoctrination, education, and training.
The Lebensborn program was begun by the SS in 1935 with the goal of finding children who possessed the physical characteristics of the Aryan ideal to increase the breeding stock of the Aryan race. Initially the project focused on SS members and their families, but as the war progressed it became common to seize children from occupied countries and bring them to Germany for “re-education.”
Although the Lebensborn program did not come directly under Kammler’s command, by 1945 his prestige within the SS enabled him to requisition more than 200 Lebensborn aged 13–18 for “technical apprenticeships.” Apprentices were selected for their devotion to Nazi ideals as well as for technical aptitude. This younger population was the seed of a self-sustaining community that would keep the base staffed over a period of generations, as plans and preparations were made for a return to Earth and the creation of a new Nazi Reich.
The small gene pool within the Walhalla base significantly increased the odds of mutations arising within the Lebensborn population. A few very heavily-built figures have been seen on surveillance images of the base, and after-action reports from the 1972 American assault mentioned a few so-called “Trolls,” of massive build but lower than average intelligence, formed into four-man Sturmtruppe sections and used as an expendable, berserker-style shock force for base defense.
There have been persistent rumors that Hitler’s brain was smuggled out of Germany before the surrender, and that it may exist somewhere in a cloned body or even an armored robot. The Walhalla base is one possibility, but most intelligence analysts and experienced Nazi-hunters consider it a remote one.
There are two main theories regarding the whereabouts of Hitler’s brain. At least some of his body was smuggled to Brazil where Josef Mengele planned to create cloned copies of the Führer. This plan was Mengele’s own, and was thwarted in 1978 by a Viennese Nazi-hunter. Rumors that Hitler’s brain was taken to a separate location in South America have never been proven.
The second theory arose after an American secret agent reported encountering a power-armored Hitler in a remote German castle where various other experiments were taking place. The report was initially dismissed because Hitler was known to be in Berlin at the time, but a similar encounter was reported in Romania in 1952. Some writers now believe that a clone of Hitler — or of his head — was encased in a robotic body and removed either to the Moon or to the center of the Earth.
At the time of writing the truth of the matter is unclear, although it cannot be denied that a resurrected Hitler would have a powerful symbolic value for a planned Nazi return to Earth.
Especially during its initial construction, the Walhalla base had a great need for workers able to operate in the airless lunar environment. Space suits were available for a few key workers, but much of the heavy work was relegated to heavy androids known as Eisenmänner (Iron Men). Over time, the Eisenmänner were developed into two separate classes, one for heavy construction tasks and another for battle.
The battle robots mount two 20mm KSK weapons in place of arms and are reported to be capable of moving at 50mph in a series of kangaroo-like hops. In 1972, more US casualties were attributed to these robots than to enemy ground troops or fixed defensive weaponry. Recent surveillance images have shown similar figures estimated to be 12–15 feet in height, although it is not certain whether these are a new, larger generation of robots or manned, powered battlesuits developed from the same basic design.
Between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, rising tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union led to a real possibility of nuclear war. It has long been rumored that, in addition to the functionally-designed Eisenmänner, German scientists were working on a class of Mensch-Maschinen (Man- or Human Machines): perfect androids that could pass for normal humans — and even for specific individuals.
There are some who believe that Mensch-Maschinen were actually deployed on Earth during this period. The CIA and the KGB both investigated claims that certain prominent individuals — among them US Senator Joseph McCarthy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev — were diverted from important meetings and replaced by Mensch-Maschinen whose mission was to raise Cold War tensions to the point where the two superpowers wiped each other out. If this could be accomplished, it is argued, the final phase of the Bifrost Protocol could be put into effect. The Black Sun fleet could return to Earth and found its Fourth Reich on the ruins of Europe and North America.