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The SS Brotherhood of the Bell: Nasa's Nazis, JFK, And Majic-12

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Offers a range of exotic technologies the Nazis researched, and challenges to the conventional views of the end of World War Two, the Roswell incident, and the beginning of MAJIC-12, the government's alleged secret team of UFO investigators.

460 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2006

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Joseph P. Farrell

65 books242 followers
Joseph P. Farrell is a recognized scholar whose credentials include a Doctor of Patristics degree from the University of Oxford. His literary contribution is a veritable résumé unto itself covering such fields as Nazi Germany, Sacred Literature, physics, finances, the Giza pyramids, and music theory. His latest book is Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men: The Surviving Elites of the Cosmic War and Their Hidden Agenda. Earlier books include:

The Giza Death Star (2001)
The Giza Death Star Deployed (2003)
Reich of the Black Sun (2004)
The Giza Death Star Destroyed (2005)
The SS Brotherhood of the Bell (2006)
The Cosmic War (2007)
Secrets of the Unified Field (2008)
The Nazi International (2008)
The Philosophers' Stone (2009)
Babylon's Banksters (2010)
Roswell and the Reich (2010)
LBJ and the Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy (2010)
Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men (2011)

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30 reviews6 followers
January 11, 2017
If you had a shot of liquor every time you read a wrong claim in this book by the end of the first chapter you would be dead from alcoholic poisoning.
Mr Farrell only uses secondary sources and almost everyone is another conspiracy book.The information about Nazi secret weapons comes from one source Igor Witkowski who claims he saw an intelligence file on a SS Officer who slipped the beans whilst being interrogated.The only problem is the officer,Jakob Sporrenberg,had nothing to do with scientific projects in fact he was involved in anti partisan units later hanging for these activities.
There are no primary sources on this topic it all comes from Witkowski,a man who has been proven wrong repeatedly.

Mr Farrell manages to also include Roswell,a Nazi nuclear bomb,secret space programmes and the death of JFK and links it all in a big Nazi conspiracy.It is breathtaking in its gullibility.As fantasy its pretty wild,as legitimate historical research it fails miserably.
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Author 21 books53 followers
December 5, 2013
Glorious tripe! I was chuckling all the way through it. :-)
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Author 60 books453 followers
October 6, 2008
a mindblower...
pure lies, beautiful lies, terrible lies.

The best fantastic literature is on pseudoscience this times.
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227 reviews11 followers
November 15, 2010
In one respect, it's hard to figure out what to make of Joseph P Farrell's THE SS BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL: NASA'S NAZIS, JFK, AND MAJIC-12: the author spends a wealth of time exploring the planet's "secret history" where Nazi scientists -- realizing their own impending demise near the end of WWII -- embarked on a clandestine mission to guarantee survival of not only themselves but also their research into areas of unconventional aircraft designed using a kind of secret physics essentially unknown to most of the planet ... but, by the book's end, Farrell has provided plenty of fuel to, in the very least, provoke the reader to challenge the view of history put forth by mainstream academics, grade school textbooks, and a complicit media. His premise floats easily off the page like the anti-gravitic science he believes (and argues convincingly) Nazi scientists holed away deep within the bureaucracies that make up national governments and their assorted agencies. He capably demonstrates how an elite group of intelligent survivors may have masterfully set into motion the greatest ruse -- hiding in plain sight -- of all time.

(Note: I purchased Mr. Farrell's book after hearing him via podcast from his presentation earlier this year on COAST-TO-COAST AM, but, in an odd but fitting twist of fate, I had this book in my stack of stuff to read directly after completing Richard C Hoagland's DARK MISSION ... whoa! Talk about the stars aligning!)

Of course, with a selection of subjects so involving and requiring not only a willing suspension of disbelief regarding history but also a tremendous sense of brain power to grasp these meaty concepts, BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL is not without a few criticisms, and I'll get them out of the way up front. Yes, typos, typos, typos. There're here. Others have cited. (I find them forgivable given the strength of the research and my interest in the topic.) Also, much of the science presented in the center third of the book is, frankly, out of my reach; as a layman, I could've used some examples presented to underscore how some of these concepts worked largely because, by the author's own admission, Farrell explores a kind of science "untaught" to man (hidden aether physics, versus conventionally taught physics) ... that's not necessarily a failure on the part of the author so much as it is a failure to connect with the reader. There were a few passages I had to reread to better comprehend, and, as a reader, I hate having to do that, but Farrell presents ideas I want to understand. I mention this because I know he's working on at least one additional book (NAZI INTERNATIONAL) that I'm looking forward to, and I hope that there's still time for addressing a "dumbing down for the common man" in that book.

But enough on the downside ...

BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL presents an utterly frightening scenario that begins before WWII (pre-war Germany is still Germany as Farrell explains in examing the possible psychology of a people stemming from the Teutonic Knights) and evolves until present day: suppose mankind's greatest enemy somehow found a way to exist not so much peacefully but hidden within? Financed by the world's greatest superpowers? Secretly manipulating history to continue their various campaigns? It appears entirely plausible that what he postulates has happened while the world looked the other way. Events are presented (World War II, The Roswell Incident, the Cold War, the Kennedy Assassination) that, seemingly would have little or no relation to one another, but -- under Farrell's eye and corroborated with evidence from history -- the reader faces the harsh reality that members of a defunct Nazi party are far from individually 'defunct.' Did Nazi scientists negotiate with America, with Britain, with the Soviet Union to survive the end of the war on agreement to continue their work in respective governments? Has mankind been duped to believe a form of unprovable but popular physics? Did German scientists confirm that the UFO crashed in Roswell was, in fact, a downed craft of Nazi design? What did President Eisenhower truly known about a secret military industrial complex? Could a small investment firm have profited billions of dollar through its secret knowledge of Kennedy's assassination? The questions come easily one after the other, and Farrell presesnt arguments to support that not only are there two verions of physics but also there's two versions of accepted history.

Again, BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL is quite possibly not written for skeptics. There's much here to refute (the veracity of the MJ-12 documents, the lack of single 'gotcha' memo to substantiate any single Presidency's involvement, etc.) or at least argue about. For my tastes, the book works best in its final third when the Cold War has geared up, and Farrell dips into what may have been the Nazi's real post-war efforts; and this could be because, accepting the author's premise, there is a whole string of events which appear to have underscored the reality of a conspiracy despite what the Warren Commission found. BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL is best read by the scores and scores of folks who believe that solving puzzles are central to the human experience. There are plenty of pieces here, and Farrell does a tremendous job of putting them together in a such a way as to forever cause the reader to challenge what he's been asked to accept by either a duped or complicit society.
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Author 187 books576 followers
September 8, 2018
Продолжение фетишизации фашистской науки и техники. Конечно, интереснее было бы прочесть про "чудовищную физику" подробнее, про ее принципиальное отличие от "физики еврейской", но автор нам такой возможности не очень дает - он, будучи не просто ебанатом, а паршивой овцой в стаде ебанатов, в основном, полемизирует с другими ебанатами, которых читать уже не стоит. Темы достаточно обскурные и частные, хотя фактура богатая (та же красная ртуть, к примеру), но пишет он плохо и бессвязно, и информации к размышлению дает немного.
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143 reviews5 followers
February 2, 2009
An interesting compilation of conspiracy theories. There is logic in the correlation of events, although a bit far fetched in my opinion. Who knows if the SDI project wasn't to protect us from the Nazi invasion about to happen in 2018 as predicted in "Iron Sky".
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1,217 reviews
August 18, 2019
The publisher's description of the book is exciting. In 1945 Germany was on the brink of collapse. A solitary transport plane - one of the last available to the Third Reich - leaves a bunker in Silesia. On board is a weapon more secretive than the Nazi's atomic bomb research. Along with the commanding officer, key personnel, and all research related to the weapon known as the bell, the plane disappears into history. How little did I know that this book would turn out to be a conspiracy theory book replete with the problems that plague the genre: disorganization, jumping back and forth through time and space with little or no chronological path, poor citation, awkward writing, and a mind-boggling complexity of interweaving conspiracy theories.

The first clue that I was going down the rabbit hole was when I opened the book and read the subtitle: "Nasa's Nazis, JFK, and Majic-12." Like many readers, I am familiar with the American and Soviet victors "claiming" German scientists to help them with their rocket and aircraft research. Just because they worked for Nazi Germany does not mean they were hardened Nazis - determined to militarize secular government and establish a pure genetic human species. However, the JFK angle reveals the book for what it is. Early on Farrell sums it up: 'Just because the Warren Commission did not mention Nazis anywhere in the report, it does not mean they were not there.'

Farrell then begins a very long-winded book on German war research. Much of it is historical reconstruction. It begins with the solid belief that because the scientists were working for Nazi Germany, they must have been solid Nazis themselves. He does not attempt to prove their socio-political beliefs. Therefore, their movements within the American military-industrial complex must have been nefarious. The fact that several of them went on to become leading industrialists and bureaucrats only cements the fact that A) they spread their Nazi ideology throughout America; B) they had help giving them protection and encouragement; and C) they were part of a much larger international or inter-spacial conspiracy.

It is this ultimate evil shadow organization whom Farrell identifies as the Brotherhood of the Bell. What were they working on? They built flying saucers, red mercury, scalar weapons, and much more. At the same time, they operated illegal racketeering activities such as human trafficking, arms trafficking, even lesser crimes like gambling and prostitution to fund the enormous cabal. Farrell casually drops the organized crime aspect here and there throughout the book to help make a vague connection that the Brotherhood was connected to organized crime. They were after all, Nazis, so such activities go right along with them without elaboration. Naturally, they took issue with JFK who threatened the disclosure of their activities.

The focus on scalar weapons is a key point in his book. If the Bell was more secretive than atomic bombs, then it must have more firepower. These death rays could melt cities from space, create crazy weather patterns, or even create earthquakes. Farrell hinted that West Germany used such weapons against the Soviets in 1989 to discourage them from interfering with reunification. Yes, if you made it this far down the rabbit hole in this review, he accused West Germany of using super death rays against the Soviet Union in 1989. This is where his weakness in sources becomes abundantly clear.

Farrell only uses a couple of sources. When discussing scalar weapons, he cites Col. Thomas Bearden. Bearden appears to be the sole propagator of literature on scalar weapons. In this case, he too is another conspiracy theorist. When discussing the Nazis and the Bell, Farrell relies on the research of Polish reporter Igor Witkowski whose writings are based on a former Polish Intelligence official recalling the debriefing of a Nazi officer. Basically, the telephone game without any documentation. Lastly, Farrell cites himself ad nausea. I counted a seven page stretch where he cited himself on every page, usually in multiple instances. Any other source either contributes nothing to the book or relies on Bearden and Witkowski. Farrell does not appear to have found anything new that was not published in his previous books.

The organization and writing style is difficult to follow. His chapters are broken into subsections, and these subsections are broken down further. Consequently, a chapter on the Nazi Survival and JFK can have a subsection on the Skull and Bones of Yale University with subsections on Frederick II, a medieval king, and President George W. Bush. The idea is that the Skull and Bones Society has its origins in the Teutonic Order established during the reign of Frederick II in the 1200s. I am not sure how he connects this to the Brotherhood of the Bell.

There is not much to be said about this book. I am willing to entertain certain conspiracies provided there is evidence. Like Farrell, I am interested in General Patton's sudden drive across Germany and into Czechslovakia. I am not as accepting that Patton was under orders to capture Nazi scientists. Nor am I willing to entertain the idea that Nazis murdered Patton years later to prevent him from telling others what his mission was intended to accomplish. Like Graham Hancock and Gavin Menzies, Farrell throws and huge amount of data at the reader and hopes that some of it will stick. Unlike Hancock and Menzies, however, a lot of the data Farrell uses is scientific in nature. I know very little about rocket guidance systems, so my inclination is to trust the author. However, if the author is citing another author who claims aliens control the dark side of the moon, I am less accepting of their other conclusions. Sure, I am willing to accept Nazi Germany was perfecting rocket guidance. Sure, I am willing to accept they helped the Americans perfect rocket guidance. But that does not mean I am willing to accept that the same technology was used to direct earthquake-causing super death rays.

Overall, I struggled with this book. Several times I wanted to turn it back in to the library. But I soldiered on to see how Farrell envisions Nazis killed JFK. I was not disappointed. The theory is as vague as you might guess with so many tangent conspiracies to muddle an already opaque conspiracy. Most readers will not get anything more from the book than what is in the publisher's description. Anything above and beyond takes the reader into James Bond territory.
10 reviews
January 5, 2015
Farrell is the type of author that is so thorough and interesting that you will end up reading 10 of his sources mentioned in his book. Anti-gravity machines and other "wonder weapons" reviewed and described as well as linkages to the Vril society and other interesting items.
252 reviews1 follower
April 15, 2015
I found a lot of these conclusions to be huge leaps of leaps of faith. There was not nearly enough real documentation for this to convince me of much.
4 reviews1 follower
January 30, 2009
Yep, Farrell knows what is going on. He traces Operation Paperclip, UFO, antigravity... back to the Vril... and forward to today.
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10 reviews
November 11, 2013
Interesting speculative reading. Somewhat based in reality?
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69 reviews3 followers
October 12, 2017
An interesting book on the Nazi scientific research and on World War II.

The book can be a bit repetitive and it did bog down when detailing the Bell, but a very good read.
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24 reviews9 followers
July 31, 2020
Finished completely reading this today. It's a fascinating collage and intensive speculation on the Nazi link between the dubious Glocke operation in Germany and its potential as "Kriegsenscheidend" - decisive for the war. Its most potent pages on the project have the vast majority to thank Igor Witkowsi's research in "The Truth About the Wunderwaffe". The book is not solely about the Bell, so much as the string of connections the Nazis purported to have been linked to that project also had to the assasination of JFK, Roswell and of course the space race through project paperclip. I was saddened to learn through the course of this book that it is essentially a sequel, to the author's previous effort, "Reich of the Black Sun". The references to it highly numerous (annoyingly) in every chapter.
The reasons however I have scored this book so highly is due to its sensibility whilst being so speculative. [SPOILER] The most fascinating bits for myself, (already an informal student on the matters in this book), were the topic of the fact the nazis were developing these things, and successfully developed a micro transistor (!) POSSIBLY due to their own version of a roswell incident prior to WW2. (That, or the Thule Gesellschaft were correct in their stating that the Aryans were of extraterrestrial origin.)
I gleaned a lot of interesting information and plausible speculation from this book. And while one could certainly say the author has his head in the clouds, he still has a fair view of earth with his feet relativitisticly on the ground. Must read for those interested or looking to get interested in so-called "Scalar weapons" that both the National Socialists and Soviets coveted more highly than the atomic bomb.
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1 review
November 30, 2020
Don't pay attention to any one of the reviewer's. This is an interesting book. And it's definitely worth the read. It's well sourced, and foot noted, and is a form of writing that is not normally used in the West. It's called argued speculation.

It is not designed to be the be-all and end-all, the last word, the Bible, it's meant to be a conversation trying to connect the dots in places where lots of suppressions are taking place.

Someone recently got to Silesia. A retired military officer. There is absolutely no question that advanced research was taking place at the facility described in the book.

Ignore the trolls. Indeed ask yourself... why would someone even write some of the reviews you see here?
547 reviews68 followers
January 1, 2019
Garbage, and not in an entertaining way either. The most positive thing I can say about Farrell is that he doesn't say anything positive or exculpatory about the Nazis, or deny what they did. Instead he buys in to other people's ideas about how they could have done worse things. Although I would love Zero Point Energy to be a thing (though I expect there will be a catch, as in Asimov's "The Gods Themselves"), nothing that he is repackaging here from the Free Energy gang is anyway convincing.

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214 reviews14 followers
September 29, 2023
That time machine has to be around here somewhere, at some time or another.
They found it in Pennsylvania? The Nazis were pretty advanced, weren't they?! How did they do so much, whilst fighting a war with two fronts? Where oh where did they get all the money to do everything? While we're at it, presently in 2023, every nation on earth is in debt. So who has all the money then?
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252 reviews1 follower
December 28, 2019
While it was an interesting read, I had a lot of difficulty understanding the complete workings. You can get a general sense, especially if you have a working knowledge of Tesla.
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283 reviews1 follower
October 1, 2022
Some of the things in this book are just too fantastic to believe. This is why I have it 3 stars.
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1 review
July 6, 2023
Honestly, some bits were really entertaining! The chaotic structure and the fact that it pretends to be "non-fiction" kinda ruin it.
225 reviews6 followers
September 23, 2023
The book that got me interested in Farrell's work. I've read the thing 3-4 times, and it's still interesting.
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7 reviews4 followers
September 28, 2015
It's incredible how bogus, crappy and badly written this book can be. It's also incredible how I happened to have actually bought it.
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