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were already two years old! The rocket was, in other words, on the track to actual testing and production.
    All this leads us to General Kammler’s January 31, 1945 order to evacuate Peenemünde. According to the standard line, the explanation for this curious order is that the Red Army was expected to arrive at any moment. But the Red Army would not arrive at Peenemünde until May 4 th ! 14 This poses a significant question: Was Peenemünde, as Friedrich Georg puts it, merely a “ghost town” for the three months from the evacuation order to the Russian arrival? 15 The order is even more curious given the fact that, since the massive British Royal Air Force raid in 1943 that all but destroyed the facility, the process had already begun of moving as much of the V-2 production to underground sites as possible. True, the process was slow and still continuing when Kammler’s 1945 order came down, but nonetheless, it was already well under way. By early 1945 most of the V-2 production was at the massive underground factory of the notorious Mittelwerk at Nordhausen. Thus the problem: Why give an order for something already taking place?
    One late war incident suggests, and suggests quite strongly, that this was not the case, for on March 9, 1945, a British twin-engine photo-reconnaissance Mosquito fighter-bomber was chased from Peenemünde by no less than three German Messerschmitt 262 jet fighters. 16 Of course, one possible explanation for the British presence at the site was that they were simply trying to confirm what their intelligence had probably already told them, namely, that Peenemünde had been evacuated.
    But while that may explain the presence of the RAF Mosquito, it is not a good explanation for the – by that late date – relatively heavy presence of the Luftwaffe in the form of no less than three of its rare and valuable Messerschmitt 262 jet fighters. Three jets just to chase an unarmed British photo-reconnaissance plane from a “ghost town”? Clearly this makes no sense, and implies that something was still taking place at Peenemünde, something very secret and very important, something requiring all the protection the crumbling Luftwaffe could muster.
    Seen in this way Kammler’s “evacuation” order of January 31, 1945 thus appears to be a clever ploy by the security-obsessed SS general, designed to throw Allied and Soviet intelligence off the trail of whatever was still going on there. Since most of the V-1 and V-2 teams were long gone from Peenemünde to their new underground facilities, something else must have been going on that merited such heavy protection.
    But what was it?
    Fortunately, there do exist reports that during the period from March to April (and perhaps as late as May) 1945 that there were at least four tests of a large rocket named “Thor’s Hammer” or the Amerikaraket . These reports moreover name both Peenemünde and Ohrdruf – site of the second alleged German a-bomb test on March 4, 1945 17 -as the possible sites of these tests. It is unlikely that Ohrdruf functioned as a test site for such a large rocket, since there was present there none of the necessary facilities to assemble and launch such a vehicle. So one is left with Peenemünde, the most likely place. In any case, three of these tests were allegedly shots of the Amerikaraket into the Atlantic, and a fourth test was allegedly to see if orbit could be achieved! 18
    But there is even further corroboration of mysterious goings-on at Peenemünde at the war’s end.
    2. The “Urals Incident”

    Oddly, while Peenemünde was visited only lightly by the British RAF after its massive 1943 air raid, it was visited often, and heavily, by the Soviet Red Air Force right up to the war’s end, suggesting that, if the British had fallen for Kammler’s ruse, the Soviets had not. It is an indication that they knew something that the Allies did not.
    Late-war German long-range rocket activity is corroborated, in fact, by the
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