Toward the end of World War II, with most of the German military establishment convinced that the war
was already lost, an increasingly desperate Adolf Hitler ordered his engineers to begin an intense campaign
to develop new types of unconventional weapons— Wunderwaffen , or "miracle weapons," as they came to
be called. The program also included plans, now largely forgotten, for what was called "Projekt 'A'"
a huge plane intended to fly repeat missions over the Atlantic, where it would release a smaller bomber
that would continue on to carry out an attack against a target along the eastern coast of the United States.
Hitler and his close associates referred to the plane as the "Amerikabomber."
 

A technical drawing of the Amerikabomber, prepared in 1944 by Fritz Nallinger, an aeronautics engineer
working for Daimler-Benz, appears above. Drawings of the plane appeared in Die deutschen Flugzeuge
1933-1945 , an obscure single-volume encyclopedia, long out of print, devoted to airplanes of the Nazi period.
Recently brought back to light by Ulrich Albrecht, a professor of political science at the Free University in
Berlin, the drawings show prototypes for a large, multi-engine mother aircraft with a smaller plane attached to
its underbelly. The plans for this smaller plane, which was designed to fly almost at the speed of sound, clearly
lack landing gear and weapons systems. Accompanying technical descriptions note that the plane was not
expected to be "recovered"—strongly suggesting that it was intended to be used as a bomb.

The Nazis' interest in suicide bombing was no secret. In 1943 Heinrich Himmler, the leader of Hitler's SS,
had enthusiastically endorsed a plan to sink Allied ships with suicide air attacks. Hitler opposed the idea at
the time, but in 1944, with the war going badly, he agreed to the formation of special squadrons of suicide
bombers. A hundred and four volunteers were selected as pilots of one squadron; each signed a statement
saying, "I understand that I will die at the end of my mission." Wearing all their military decorations, and
listening to music and women's voices on their headphones, sixteen of these pilots flew suicide missions on
April 16 and 17, 1945, in a desperate effort to defend Berlin from the advancing Red Army.

Hitler's desire to attack the United States was also no secret. "I have never seen him so infuriated as
towards the end of the war," Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and the Nazi minister responsible for
arms production, recalled in his diary in 1947.
It was almost as if he was in a delirium when he described to us how New York would go up in flames.
He imagined how the skyscrapers would turn into huge burning torches. How they would crumble while
the reflection of the flames would light the skyline against the dark sky.

Dieter Wulf is a political scientist and freelance journalist based in Berlin.

FROM
The Atlantic Monthly | May 2004

original artical located @ http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200405/wulf

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Die Türme im Visier
  Bereits die Nazis hatten Pläne mit Kamikaze-Piloten

translated from German:
The towers in the visor
  Already the Nazis had plans with Kamikaze pilots

In the autumn 1943 the popular LV test aviator Hanna Reitsch with a small group of Air Force officers on
behalf of Hitler created a secret unit. A goal was the training of a flying suicide relay. Until came the
death pilots did not one-have, but at the idea of the burning towers the Nazis already worked in the
Second World War.

Airplanes steer on the multistoried buildings Manhattans too. It is not 11 September 2001, but the spring
1944. Thus in the final phase of the Second World War - stood Hitler's Nazi realm before the collapse
the leader planned his last insanity act. Kamikaze bombers, steered of pilots of a self sacrificing
command, should fall themselves into the wolkenkratzer Manhattans.

"the thought develops toward end of the war, as the situation of the German Reich becomes ever
more desperate", says the historian Ulrich Albrecht. "it concerned thus a retaliation strategy.
" It actually gave plans for the development of an America bomber.

Ulrich Albrecht discovered the plans. They occupy: In the spring 1944 the architect Fritz Nallinger on behalf
of Daimler Benz conceived a skurriles carrier aircraft, the America bomber. The enormous four
engined airplane should carry a small, manned bomber as shuttles. Any landing devices were missing to this
bomber.
"it was a very strange construction", says Albrecht. "a hochbeiniges carrier aircraft, which should transport
the actual so-called bomber between its legs. That should be released briefly before New York, after the
airplane had flown over the half Atlantic. And this bomber should implement the actual attack and not
return any longer."

1938 had already demanded Hermann Goering the development of an airplane, with which one could attack
New York. The conception of suicide in corroding in airplanes was systematically planned by the Nazis.
The pilots should fall themselves into machines full explosive on invader fleets or bridges and destroy these.
With terrorist raids on American towns with millions of inhabitants give the Jew a lesson - that was whole
in the sense of the leader. Also some Air Force officers of Hitler pushed in view of the invasion of the allied
ones which can be expected on suicide-in-corrode. After initial hesitating Hitler of the passionierten aviator
and Verehrerin Hanna Reitsch let itself be persuaded 1944 for the mechanism of a suicide relay.

In framework the of petrol Skorzeny, Hitler officer and specialist, create squadron 200 a federation, a from
100 pilot exist group, form. There were many freiwillige in addition, pilots, who were prepared against their
will for the death flight. Beside the America bomber the most peculiar flight constructions were tried out.
Until April 1945 numerous test flights were undertaken, which successfully did not run always. Finally the
V1 rocket, a kind of manned Cruise Missile should, when ramming hunters are used against allied bomb
federations. And the Nazis did not have the original plan to attack New York from a submarine with a
V1 yet given up.

Particularly Manhattan had a strong attraction for the Nazis, as the architect and city planner explain
Dieter Hofmann axe handle: "Manhattan is like a ship in the sea. Pars per toto. One has there the seizable
America. Also for Hitler was America Manhattan." And Manhattan, that were apart from humans and the
kosmopolitischen character of the city above all enormous towers, wolkenkratzer, the symbols of the
financial world like the Empire State Building. These wanted to meet the Nazis - similarly as the death
pilots from 11 September.

"a wolkenkratzer is like the tower of Babel", says Hofmann axe handle. "such a symbol tightens aggressions.
Pars per Toto. Mistake, one could meet the enemy deadly, by destroying the fetisch." Until into its last days,
then well-known, dreamed Hitler is about the deadly long range bomber on Manhattan. There were hardly
Kamikaze attacks in Germany - only some along the front line. To America they did not come. The idea of
the burning towers was put by other Fanatikern into practice.

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