The Saucer and the Swastika

If only the war had lasted another six months, then Hitler would have won… because his scientists stood upon the very brink of inventing flying saucers. That, at least, is the myth as it is currently being peddled today; and, if it were true, squadrons of Luftwaffe spacecraft would certainly have made mincemeat out of British Spitfires and American B-52s. But, of course, it is a complete fiction.

And yet the sinister myth of Nazi UFOs is surprisingly well developed. If you listen to i…