10 Top Secret Weapons You've Never Heard Of
4. Ring The Bell
One of the more esoteric Wunderwaffe apparently being worked on by the Third Reichd cadre of geniuses was an experimental relativistic device called Die Glocke, or The Bell. We should point out at this stage that whispers about Die Glocke have been floating around for years with no further evidence that it ever properly existed, or worked if it did.
The idea behind it appears to have been to utilise Einsteinium theories to pursue the creation of either anti-gravity or free energy, possibly one with the other as a welcome side effect. According to Igor Witkowski, author of the book The Truth About The Wonder Weapon, transcripts of an interrogation of a former SS officer detailed Die Glocke's existence, the device being a nine foot wide, twelve foot high metal container roughly the shape of a bell, containing two cylinders rotating in opposite directions. Each cylinder was filled with a violet substance called xerum-525: the facility that housed The Bell and stored the xerum-525 was a place known by the code name Der Riese, or The Giant, near the Czech border.
The transcripts allegedly describe The Bell's area of effect as being around 200 metres, extended from the skin of the device. Within that area of effect, plant matter would collapse and disintegrate and flesh would crystallise, leading to the accidental deaths of most of the scientists working on the project. Given the peculiarly science fiction nature of Die Glocke, it's perhaps dubious as to whether the device existed in the form that Witkowski claims it did, but what if the transcripts are genuine?
The idea was recently floated as part of the survival horror flick Outpost, where modern day mercenaries are brutally murdered in the face by psychotic, experimental extra-dimensional Nazi ghost soldiers, created by Die Glocke. But thats definitely not what happened in real life. Definitely.