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Nomura, Ted, and Mirando, Justa, Luftwaffe 1946 Tech Manual (Antarctic Press, San Antonio, TX, 2006). A companion to the Luftwaffe 1946 comic series (see below), this book contains information on saucer craft as well as other advanced aircraft.

Scott, Chris, Hitler’s Bomb (Stein & Day, New York, 1986). A history of German nuclear weapon research, compared to Allied progress on the same front.

Stevens, Henry, Hitler’s Flying Saucers (Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, IL, 2002). A complete source on Nazi disk craft.

Von Braunfels, Ilsa, Iron Sky: Nazis on the Moon (MFM Entertainment, Nashville, TN, 2012). A digital short story tie-in to the first Iron Sky movie (see below).

Comics

Mignola, Mike, Hellboy (Dark Horse Comics, 1993–present). Nazi superscience and occultism form the background of this long-running comic series.

Nomura, Ted, Luftwaffe 1946 series (Antarctic Press, San Antonio, TX, 1996–2006). An adventure comic featuring many of Germany’s advanced aircraft designs.

Games

DUST (Fantasy Flight Games). This miniatures game features Nazi mecha and other dieselpunk-inspired troops.

Gear Krieg (Dream Pod 9). A line of tabletop games including roleplaying and miniatures-based titles.

GURPS Weird War II (Steve Jackson Games, 2003). A roleplaying game sourcebook featuring Nazi UFOs and other superscience.

Hellboy: The Science of Evil (Konami, 2008). The comic-book hero battles Nazi robots in Romania.

Iron Sky: Invasion (TopWare Interactive, 2012) is based on the movie of the same name (see below) and allows players to fly various Nazi spacecraft. Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware, 1988). Features the player collecting rocket parts in order to fly to the Moon and shut down Nazi extraction of a mineral called lunarium.

Tannhäuser (Fantasy Flight Games). A Weird War II miniatures game featuring a wide range of Nazi weird science.

Wolfenstein: The New Order (Bethesda Softworks, 2014) features a moonbase level where the player must stop Nazi nuclear research. Other titles in this long-running series feature Nazi zombies and cyborgs, as well as a power-armored Hitler.

Movies and TV

Danger 5 (2012 and 2015). This Australian action-comedy series parodies Nazi superscience and 1960s action shows as it faces its heroes with various Nazi foes, including a giant mech piloted by Hitler himself.

Hellboy (2004). Based on the comic book series, the movie includes Nazi cyborgs and other fantastic foes.

Iron Sky (2012). This cult movie tells of a Nazi invasion of Earth in 2018, launched from a secret moonbase that has remained hidden since 1945.

Iron Sky: The Coming Race (scheduled 2016). Teasers for this sequel feature a Nazi-ruled Hollow Earth and an undead-looking Hitler riding a Tyrannosaurus rex.

Nazis at the Center of the Earth (2012). Another film about a secret Nazi base within the Hollow Earth, this features Nazi zombies and a battle robot controlled by Hitler’s head.

Glossary

Aggregat: The codename for the series of ballistic missiles that included the V-2 (designated A4 in the series). The A9 and A10 rockets were intended to be capable of reaching the continental United States.

Amerikabomber: A project to develop an intercontinental bomber capable of delivering a nuclear weapon to the East Coast of the United States.

Bifrost Protococlass="underline" The plan to create the Walhalla moonbase. Named for the Rainbow Bridge from Norse myth that connected Midgard, the mortal world, to Asgard, the divine realm where Odin’s hall of Valhalla was located.

Black Sun: A secret organization within the Nazi Party, dedicated to occultism and advanced technology.

Braun, Wernher von: A leading German rocket scientist who surrendered to US forces and went on to become a driving force in America’s space program.

Feuerball (Fireball): An electrostatic weapon fitted to early German saucer aircraft.

Flügelrad (Flying Wheel): An early German disk aircraft, later abandoned for the Haunebu and Vril series.

Glocke (Bell): A device for generating and manipulating vril energy. It could be used in various ways, including the excavation of large underground spaces and the opening of wormholes in space and time.

GSK: Nickname for a large KSK-type weapon recently thought to be under construction at the Walhalla base.

Haunebu: An abbreviation of Hauneburg-Gerät (Hauneburg Device) applied to a series of saucer craft. Hauneburg was a fictitious town created by the SS to confuse Allied intelligence agents searching for the saucer facility.

High Jump, Operation: A US Navy task force sent to probe the Neuschwabenland base in late 1946 and early 1947.

Jenseitsflugmaschine (Other-world Flight Machine): The first documented German flying disk, tested between 1932 and 1934.

Kammler, Hans: Head of Wunderwaffen production for the SS and the power behind the Walhalla project.

KSK (Kraftstrahlkanone): A focused energy-beam weapon fitted to most Haunebu craft. Usually supplemented with 30mm MK 108 aircraft cannon because of the enormous power drain caused by firing them.

Lyre, Operation: An unsuccessful US attack on the Walhalla base that took place in 1972.

Neuschwabenland (New Suebia): A codename for the Antarctic saucer base. Named for the region of Suebia in southwestern Germany.

Paperclip, Operation: A US operation overseen by the Office of Strategic Services in which over 1,500 German scientists and engineers were recovered and moved to the USA. These individuals proved crucial to the American space program.

Rundflugzeug (Disk Aircraft): The second German flying disk project, which developed into the Vril series.

Silbervogel (Silver Bird): A rocket-powered bomber concept developed for the Amerikabomber project. The wedge-shaped craft was designed to cross the upper atmosphere in a number of “skips” and land in friendly Japanese territory after delivering its payload.

SS E-IV (SS-Entwicklungstelle IV): The SS agency headed by Hans Kammler and involved in the development of advanced weaponry.

Surgeon, Operation: A British counterpart to the American Operation Paperclip (q.v.).

Tachyonator: An electro-gravitic propulsion system developed by the Thule Society for use in Haunebu and other saucer craft.

Thule Society (Thule Gesellschaft): An esoteric group that played a large role in early Nazi occultism and may have been one of the ancestors of the Black Sun movement.