Every century perhaps has it’s own Mad King.
Those of us who watched in horror as King Aerys’s hidden cache of wildfire went up in green flames and destroyed the heart of King’s Landing in Game of Thrones Season 6, know what it’s like to have the ghost of a proverbial devil coming back to haunt a civilisation.
The narrative of Hitler and WWII is something like that. It is a deadlock that has no resolution, and mysteries and legends resurface from time to time to help us deal with an unthinkable disaster that was the Holocaust and the Second World War.
To add to this ever-increasing discourse, the Independent has just reported that “a hobby-historian from eastern Germany claims to have found Hitler’s nuclear bombs in an underground bunker.”
Peter Lohr, 70, used a ground penetrating radar in the Jonas Valley in Thuringia where he says he came across large caverns underground, according to the reports.
Mr Lohr, who is a trained mechanical engineer, says the shape of the objects are the same as nuclear weapons. He used 3D image technology to identify five large objects, of which two he claims are atomic bombs.
“The metal’s been lying there for 71 years. At some point it will decay and then we will have a second Chernobly on our hands,” he told local paper Bild.
Mr Lohr has been told by authorities he cannot carry on his research.
Towards the end of the Second World War, prisoners of war were forced to dig 25 tunnels under the mountain in the Jonas Valley, but it was abandoned before the end of the war and the purpose for them remains unknown.
American authorities removed technical equipment before dynamiting surface entrances to the tunnels and classified all 1945 documents relating to Ohrdruf for at least 100 years, said the Independent.
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