The Saucer and the SwastikaS. D. TuckerLabel: Amberley PublishingDescription: 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 in books pamphlets and online; 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 its champions escaped Nazis and their indoctrinated offspring are simply hiding in secret Antarctic bases inside the Hollow Earth somewhere upon another planet or even within another dimension just waiting for the right time to strike again – and this time armed with saucers and in close alliance with Aryans from other star systems they stand poised to finish what they started. Some even claim that Hitler and his chief henchmen did not really die in 1945 but were borne away in spirit on flying saucers. Such theories seem insane – but do they have a hidden purpose?White supremacists around the globe have adopted Nazi ufology to draw the gullible into the wider orbit of Far-Right ideology; after all if the standard version of history is so wrong as to fail to acknowledge that Hitler helped invent UFOs then what else might historians have got wrong about the Third Reich? Might the Nazis actually have been right all along? Could the Holocaust have been a total hoax? Once they have swallowed the first lie a person might easily swallow several others.The stories in this book are bizarre: Nazi saucer-pilots fighting alongside Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War; alien boot-prints whose soles bear swastikas being found in the wake of UFO-landings; the leader of America’s Nazi Silvershirts claiming to be in psychic contact with men from other galaxies; and Allied pilots being buzzed by fiery glowing ‘foo fighters’ during the Second World War. They may seem harmless at first but they are not. Is it really the white race’s destiny to conquer the icy reaches of space under the banner of the ‘Aryan world spirit’? Perhaps not but the conquest of their victims’ inner space not outer space in the name of Hitlerism is what these latter-day Goebbels truly desire.
