Meticulously duplicating the aging and specific gravity of older German construction after
exhaustively researching factors such as roof area coverage critical to an incendiary parameter of
target neighborhoods in Berlin, the fire experts and architects even simulated the effect Berlin rain
might have on combustibility. RKO duplicated the typical interiors and furniture of Berlin's working
class households right down to their linen, bedding, toys, drapes and bedside Bibles. Wood similar to
that used in Germany was specially imported from Russia. Experimenting with the best methods of
destroying real German cities, napalm (the same M-69 napalm which the USA dutifully supplied to
the RAF for their terror bombing of German towns), gas, anthrax and incendiary bombs were all
used against the fake German Village, and it had to be rebuilt several times. The success of their
diabolical planning later proved lethal, and German women and children paid the price.
Only a single block of the original village is left today to bear witness to the combined forces of
Hollywood, the oil industry and dedicated workers, who with great financial resources at their
disposal, abetted the mass murder of thousands of German civilians. Dugway itself, historically
shrouded in official secrecy, is toxic after years of weapons testing. Erich Mendelsohn went on his
way to become the darling of "modernist" architecture.
exhaustively researching factors such as roof area coverage critical to an incendiary parameter of
target neighborhoods in Berlin, the fire experts and architects even simulated the effect Berlin rain
might have on combustibility. RKO duplicated the typical interiors and furniture of Berlin's working
class households right down to their linen, bedding, toys, drapes and bedside Bibles. Wood similar to
that used in Germany was specially imported from Russia. Experimenting with the best methods of
destroying real German cities, napalm (the same M-69 napalm which the USA dutifully supplied to
the RAF for their terror bombing of German towns), gas, anthrax and incendiary bombs were all
used against the fake German Village, and it had to be rebuilt several times. The success of their
diabolical planning later proved lethal, and German women and children paid the price.
Only a single block of the original village is left today to bear witness to the combined forces of
Hollywood, the oil industry and dedicated workers, who with great financial resources at their
disposal, abetted the mass murder of thousands of German civilians. Dugway itself, historically
shrouded in official secrecy, is toxic after years of weapons testing. Erich Mendelsohn went on his
way to become the darling of "modernist" architecture.
| "German Village" Utah and other Genocidal Plans |
| "The bombing must be directed essentially against working class houses. Middle class houses have too much space around them, and so are bound to waste bombs." Frederick Lindemann, Lord Cherwell |
| Bad Dreams that became Reality: Diabolical Plans |
The American counterpart to Churchill's cold blooded adviser Frederick Lindemann (Lord Cherwell),
was Franklin Roosevelt's close friend and adviser, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. His plan to "demilitarize"
Germany involved disarming all Germans, destruction of all "war material" including old monuments,
severe punishment for war crimes, a total ban on any uniforms, including scouting, a prohibition of
parades plus the disabling of all military bands and destruction of any military music, past or present.
All aircraft, including gliders, military or commercial, were to be confiscated and no German was to
be permitted to operate or help operate any aircraft anywhere. He wanted the policing of Germany
and the civil administration in Germany to be assumed with severity by Germany's former foes.
Instead of reparations, he wanted global confiscation of all German assets with Germany partitioned
into harmless "pastoral" units while Germans were sent as slaves to rebuild the countries of her
former enemies. He did not want Germany rebuilt, but to remain impotent and dependent on
handouts to live "as a dog is dependent on its master" so as to break the will of the people. His new
boundaries for Germany divided East Prussia and Silesia between the U.S.S.R. and Poland, the Saar
going to France along with adjacent territories bounded by the Rhine and the Moselle Rivers, and the
Keil Canal and the Ruhr and its surrounding industrial areas to be internationalized with all industry
dismantled and sent to Allied Nations.
He urged that all equipment be removed from mines and mines closed, all German schools and
universities closed until an Allied re-education program was in place to brainwash the Germans, and
all German radio stations and newspapers, magazines, weeklies, etc. discontinued until his these
policies were established. He wanted all large estates broken up and divided among "the peasants".
(Indeed, large groups of male German POWs weresent into years of slavery abroad, German adults
and children underwent re-education, There was a redistribution of wealth, destruction of German
monuments, starving German children and German lands in the east were given to the communists).
Roosevelt publicly shelved the Morgenthau plan, but only after its exposure in the media caused
concern. However, it permeated the American administration and influenced every single aspect of
subsequent Allied planning, most notably: the intentional starvation of the people, the destruction of
their culture, a revenge seeking War Crimes trials at Nürnberg, "re-education" programs with full
censorship, the destruction of German books, art and cultural monuments, the use of forced German
labor outside of Germany for as long as possible and the redistribution of German lands, especially in
the East. In November, 1945, General Eisenhower, as Military Governor of the U.S. Occupation
Zone, approved the distribution to American military officials in Germany of 1,000 free copies of
Morgenthau's book "Germany is Our Problem" in which his plan was laid out. Further, in the New
York Post for Nov. 24, 1947, Morgenthau himself stated: "The Morgenthau Plan for Germany
became part of the Potsdam Agreement, a solemn declaration of policy and undertaking for action
signed by the United States of America, Great Britain and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics."
The Morgenthau Plan lurked in the shadows in the Joint Chiefs of Staff Directive 1067 (April 1945–
July 1947) which explicitly prohibited U.S. Occupation authorities from providing any economic or
reconstruction assistance of any kind to the Germans, not even to maintain the current economic
levels. The first "level of industry" plan signed in 1946 stated that German heavy industry was to be
lowered to 50% of its 1938 level. The occupation forces of all nations were obliged to ensure that
German standards of living were lowered to the level of its European neighbors with which it had
been at war with, in particular that of France. To destroy future German economy, a cap of about
25% of the prewar production level was put on German steel production, and therefore steel plants
were dismantled. All armaments plants, including some that could have been converted to civilian use
or desperately needed housing, were dismantled or destroyed, likewise, a large proportion of
operational civilian plants were dismantled and sent to the victors, mainly France and Russia.
The U.S. government, stating that its noble purpose was the "ultimate destruction of the war potential
of German forests", went so far as to embark upon a massive clear cutting of the German forests and
then shipped the timber to the U.S.A., despite the desperate shortage of heat and housing in bombed
out Germany and the millions of ethnic Germans refugees needing shelter. They intended to deforest
the land to such a degree that trees could be replaced only by "century long forestry development".
Early U.S. plans for "industrial disarmament" included detaching the Saarland and the Ruhr from
Germany and even as late as March 1947, there were still plans to allow France annex the Ruhr.
Poland, after its German citizens were expelled, had already been given almost a quarter of pre-war
German territory, including the important industrial centers and the richest coal fields in Europe. The
Allies harvested all German technological and scientific achievements they found and farmed out
thousands of the brightest German researchers as slaves to the Soviet Union, Britain and the USA.
The victors confiscated intellectual property of immense value, including all German patents both in
Germany and abroad, which they turned around and licensed to Allied companies. The "intellectual
reparations" taken by the U.S., Britain and the Soviets amounted to billions and billions of dollars.
Germany was reduced to less than the standard of life it had known at the height of the Great
depression in 1932 and reduced to a smaller size than she was in the year 1125. This led to millions
more unnecessary civilian deaths from starvation and disease in the first couple of years after the
war. Despite widespread starvation, American military personnel and their wives were given strict
orders to destroy or otherwise render inedible their own leftover surplus so as to ensure it could not
be eaten by German civilians, a policy in US zones throughout all of Germany.
A Report by former U.S. President Herbert Hoover in March of 1947, argued for a change of policy.
Speaking of the expected consequences of the actions above, he said: "There are several illusions in
all this 'war potential' attitude. There is the illusion that the New Germany left after the annexations
can be reduced to a 'pastoral state'. It cannot be done unless we exterminate or move 25,000,000
people out of it."
Living conditions in Germany reached their lowest point in 1947, even worse than in 1945 or 1946.
At an average ration of 1040 calories a day, malnutrition was at its worst stage in post-war Germany.
In that year, the U.S. Congress warned that the continuation of the present policies "can only mean
one of two things, (a) That a considerable part of the German population must be 'liquidated' through
diseases, malnutrition, and slow starvation for a period of years to come, with the resultant dangers
to the rest of Europe from pestilence and the spread of plagues that know no boundaries; or (b) the
continuation both of large occupying forces to hold down "unrest" and the affording of relief mainly
drawn from the United States to prevent actual starvation." Only when Germany's punishments held
back the general European recovery, when the continued scarcity of food and goods in Germany led
to considerable expenses for the occupying powers and when poverty and famine in Europe were not
abating did a change of policy begin to take place.
Murder was an option. Roosevelt was once quoted as saying that "We have got to be tough with the
Germany and I mean the German people not just the Nazis. We either have to castrate the German
people or you have got to treat them in such a manner so they can't just go on reproducing people
who want to continue the way they have in the past." Stalin had proposed at the Tehran Conference
in late 1943 that at least 50,000 and perhaps 100,000 German officers should be executed. This idea
found a warm reception from the Roosevelt team. This is exactly what took place after the war, only
in the USSR it did not simply pertain to officers but to most POWs.
Like Roosevelt, publicly, Churchill disagreed with Morgenthau's Plan, but Roosevelt suggested that
Morgenthau's Stalinist friends such as Harry Dexter White (later exposed as a Soviet agent) continue
to discuss it with Lord Cherwell who persuaded Churchill to change his mind, and Churchill later
stated: "At first I was violently opposed to the idea. But the President and Mr. Morgenthau, from
whom we had much to ask, were so insistent that in the end we agreed to consider it" (Churchill,
"The Tide of Victory" 1954 pp. 138–139). Britain was then quickly rewarded with US money.
Morgenthau's Plan, if fully implemented, was calculated to exterminate approximately 20 million
Germans. Even the furtive partial implementation of his Plan caused at least 15 million unnecessary
German deaths, and more later as a secondary result. Other than the Dictates of Versailles and St.
Germain, which also inflicted collective guilt and collective punishment of all Germans, various other
equally genocidal plans hatched in the USA in the 20th century realized partially success.
The 'Kaufman Plan' was set forth in a nasty, neurotic little book called "Germany must Perish"
which suggested the castration of all fertile German men over 16 years of age and importing
foreigners to Germany to alter the ethnic base. While this idea might be considered the work of a
crank, other "plans" for Germans were developed by more respectable, conventional sources.
The 'Hooton Plan' was conjured up by a clan of Harvard intellectuals led by Anthropology Professor
Ernest Albert Hooten. In a newspaper article titled, "Breed war strain out of Germans" published in
New York's Peabody Magazine of January 4, 1943, Hooten suggested various genetic manipulations
which would "destroy German nationalism and aggressive ideology", including sentencing German
males to a lifetime of slavery abroad while foreign men occupy Germany long enough to impregnate
German women and pollute the German gene pool: "For a period of 20 years or more utilize the bulk
of the present German army as rehabilitation labor units in devastated areas of the Allied Nations and
elsewhere". Millions of German men were indeed sent into slavery abroad while German women
remained at home as fair game.
Britain had plenty of "plans" for a people they deemed inferior and genetically menacing as well.
Author E. O. Lorimer, in his book 'What the German Needs', said of the Germans: "It is now widely
accepted amongst those who have given thought to the problem of Germany, that the world has not
a normal, rational people to deal with, but a nation suffering from an acute attack of homicidal mania,
rendered more dangerous by a background of specious philosophy and more horrible by a lust for
inhuman, calculated cruelty; a nation moreover subject to the recurrence of similar attacks, of which
this last is only the most severe ..." From his cozy armchair, the author's suggested solution to the
"German problem" included a drastic reduction in the size of Prussia, the removal of every German
from Danzig and East Prussia and the use of enslaved German POWs under Allied control "to build
and clear, to dig and drain", again, also exactly what ended up happening.
The fear caused by these insidious plans and ghastly ideas which were well circulated among the
German civilians, combined with the reality of an inhumane bombing campaign and strict demands
for unconditional surrender, prolonged any hopes of a quick peace.
Genocidal plans for Germans were nothing new; they had their roots in World War One. Who
can forget Rudyard Kipling's words before the Great War even broke out: "the Germans do evil
deliberately. It is their nature. It is the mark of their nationality. They are like microbes wherever
they abound; the evil develops and infects everything roundabout. Civilized nations must resort to
the sterilizing process; they must put into force measures of international hygiene."
There were many other carry-overs from the anti-German hatred created in World War One.
Edward Bernays was one of the chief goons who worked as a propagandist for the Committee for
Public Information under George Creel in World War One as part of the effort to fan the flames of
war in favor of Britain by creating rabid Germanophobia. Arrogant, racist and devious, Bernays
excelled at mind control, subliminal messaging and other tactics of brainwashing the public. The
name Bernays later regurgitates itself in the form of Col. Murray Bernays, who played a major role
in the planning of "German re-education" after World War Two and planned the legal framework and
procedures for the Nuremberg War Crime Trials. The original surname of Col. Murray Bernays was
"Cohen". He legally changed his name to that of his wife shortly after his marriage to Anna Freud
Bernays, none other than sister to Edward Bernays (both were niece and nephew of Sigmund Freud).
was Franklin Roosevelt's close friend and adviser, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. His plan to "demilitarize"
Germany involved disarming all Germans, destruction of all "war material" including old monuments,
severe punishment for war crimes, a total ban on any uniforms, including scouting, a prohibition of
parades plus the disabling of all military bands and destruction of any military music, past or present.
All aircraft, including gliders, military or commercial, were to be confiscated and no German was to
be permitted to operate or help operate any aircraft anywhere. He wanted the policing of Germany
and the civil administration in Germany to be assumed with severity by Germany's former foes.
Instead of reparations, he wanted global confiscation of all German assets with Germany partitioned
into harmless "pastoral" units while Germans were sent as slaves to rebuild the countries of her
former enemies. He did not want Germany rebuilt, but to remain impotent and dependent on
handouts to live "as a dog is dependent on its master" so as to break the will of the people. His new
boundaries for Germany divided East Prussia and Silesia between the U.S.S.R. and Poland, the Saar
going to France along with adjacent territories bounded by the Rhine and the Moselle Rivers, and the
Keil Canal and the Ruhr and its surrounding industrial areas to be internationalized with all industry
dismantled and sent to Allied Nations.
He urged that all equipment be removed from mines and mines closed, all German schools and
universities closed until an Allied re-education program was in place to brainwash the Germans, and
all German radio stations and newspapers, magazines, weeklies, etc. discontinued until his these
policies were established. He wanted all large estates broken up and divided among "the peasants".
(Indeed, large groups of male German POWs weresent into years of slavery abroad, German adults
and children underwent re-education, There was a redistribution of wealth, destruction of German
monuments, starving German children and German lands in the east were given to the communists).
Roosevelt publicly shelved the Morgenthau plan, but only after its exposure in the media caused
concern. However, it permeated the American administration and influenced every single aspect of
subsequent Allied planning, most notably: the intentional starvation of the people, the destruction of
their culture, a revenge seeking War Crimes trials at Nürnberg, "re-education" programs with full
censorship, the destruction of German books, art and cultural monuments, the use of forced German
labor outside of Germany for as long as possible and the redistribution of German lands, especially in
the East. In November, 1945, General Eisenhower, as Military Governor of the U.S. Occupation
Zone, approved the distribution to American military officials in Germany of 1,000 free copies of
Morgenthau's book "Germany is Our Problem" in which his plan was laid out. Further, in the New
York Post for Nov. 24, 1947, Morgenthau himself stated: "The Morgenthau Plan for Germany
became part of the Potsdam Agreement, a solemn declaration of policy and undertaking for action
signed by the United States of America, Great Britain and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics."
The Morgenthau Plan lurked in the shadows in the Joint Chiefs of Staff Directive 1067 (April 1945–
July 1947) which explicitly prohibited U.S. Occupation authorities from providing any economic or
reconstruction assistance of any kind to the Germans, not even to maintain the current economic
levels. The first "level of industry" plan signed in 1946 stated that German heavy industry was to be
lowered to 50% of its 1938 level. The occupation forces of all nations were obliged to ensure that
German standards of living were lowered to the level of its European neighbors with which it had
been at war with, in particular that of France. To destroy future German economy, a cap of about
25% of the prewar production level was put on German steel production, and therefore steel plants
were dismantled. All armaments plants, including some that could have been converted to civilian use
or desperately needed housing, were dismantled or destroyed, likewise, a large proportion of
operational civilian plants were dismantled and sent to the victors, mainly France and Russia.
The U.S. government, stating that its noble purpose was the "ultimate destruction of the war potential
of German forests", went so far as to embark upon a massive clear cutting of the German forests and
then shipped the timber to the U.S.A., despite the desperate shortage of heat and housing in bombed
out Germany and the millions of ethnic Germans refugees needing shelter. They intended to deforest
the land to such a degree that trees could be replaced only by "century long forestry development".
Early U.S. plans for "industrial disarmament" included detaching the Saarland and the Ruhr from
Germany and even as late as March 1947, there were still plans to allow France annex the Ruhr.
Poland, after its German citizens were expelled, had already been given almost a quarter of pre-war
German territory, including the important industrial centers and the richest coal fields in Europe. The
Allies harvested all German technological and scientific achievements they found and farmed out
thousands of the brightest German researchers as slaves to the Soviet Union, Britain and the USA.
The victors confiscated intellectual property of immense value, including all German patents both in
Germany and abroad, which they turned around and licensed to Allied companies. The "intellectual
reparations" taken by the U.S., Britain and the Soviets amounted to billions and billions of dollars.
Germany was reduced to less than the standard of life it had known at the height of the Great
depression in 1932 and reduced to a smaller size than she was in the year 1125. This led to millions
more unnecessary civilian deaths from starvation and disease in the first couple of years after the
war. Despite widespread starvation, American military personnel and their wives were given strict
orders to destroy or otherwise render inedible their own leftover surplus so as to ensure it could not
be eaten by German civilians, a policy in US zones throughout all of Germany.
A Report by former U.S. President Herbert Hoover in March of 1947, argued for a change of policy.
Speaking of the expected consequences of the actions above, he said: "There are several illusions in
all this 'war potential' attitude. There is the illusion that the New Germany left after the annexations
can be reduced to a 'pastoral state'. It cannot be done unless we exterminate or move 25,000,000
people out of it."
Living conditions in Germany reached their lowest point in 1947, even worse than in 1945 or 1946.
At an average ration of 1040 calories a day, malnutrition was at its worst stage in post-war Germany.
In that year, the U.S. Congress warned that the continuation of the present policies "can only mean
one of two things, (a) That a considerable part of the German population must be 'liquidated' through
diseases, malnutrition, and slow starvation for a period of years to come, with the resultant dangers
to the rest of Europe from pestilence and the spread of plagues that know no boundaries; or (b) the
continuation both of large occupying forces to hold down "unrest" and the affording of relief mainly
drawn from the United States to prevent actual starvation." Only when Germany's punishments held
back the general European recovery, when the continued scarcity of food and goods in Germany led
to considerable expenses for the occupying powers and when poverty and famine in Europe were not
abating did a change of policy begin to take place.
Murder was an option. Roosevelt was once quoted as saying that "We have got to be tough with the
Germany and I mean the German people not just the Nazis. We either have to castrate the German
people or you have got to treat them in such a manner so they can't just go on reproducing people
who want to continue the way they have in the past." Stalin had proposed at the Tehran Conference
in late 1943 that at least 50,000 and perhaps 100,000 German officers should be executed. This idea
found a warm reception from the Roosevelt team. This is exactly what took place after the war, only
in the USSR it did not simply pertain to officers but to most POWs.
Like Roosevelt, publicly, Churchill disagreed with Morgenthau's Plan, but Roosevelt suggested that
Morgenthau's Stalinist friends such as Harry Dexter White (later exposed as a Soviet agent) continue
to discuss it with Lord Cherwell who persuaded Churchill to change his mind, and Churchill later
stated: "At first I was violently opposed to the idea. But the President and Mr. Morgenthau, from
whom we had much to ask, were so insistent that in the end we agreed to consider it" (Churchill,
"The Tide of Victory" 1954 pp. 138–139). Britain was then quickly rewarded with US money.
Morgenthau's Plan, if fully implemented, was calculated to exterminate approximately 20 million
Germans. Even the furtive partial implementation of his Plan caused at least 15 million unnecessary
German deaths, and more later as a secondary result. Other than the Dictates of Versailles and St.
Germain, which also inflicted collective guilt and collective punishment of all Germans, various other
equally genocidal plans hatched in the USA in the 20th century realized partially success.
The 'Kaufman Plan' was set forth in a nasty, neurotic little book called "Germany must Perish"
which suggested the castration of all fertile German men over 16 years of age and importing
foreigners to Germany to alter the ethnic base. While this idea might be considered the work of a
crank, other "plans" for Germans were developed by more respectable, conventional sources.
The 'Hooton Plan' was conjured up by a clan of Harvard intellectuals led by Anthropology Professor
Ernest Albert Hooten. In a newspaper article titled, "Breed war strain out of Germans" published in
New York's Peabody Magazine of January 4, 1943, Hooten suggested various genetic manipulations
which would "destroy German nationalism and aggressive ideology", including sentencing German
males to a lifetime of slavery abroad while foreign men occupy Germany long enough to impregnate
German women and pollute the German gene pool: "For a period of 20 years or more utilize the bulk
of the present German army as rehabilitation labor units in devastated areas of the Allied Nations and
elsewhere". Millions of German men were indeed sent into slavery abroad while German women
remained at home as fair game.
Britain had plenty of "plans" for a people they deemed inferior and genetically menacing as well.
Author E. O. Lorimer, in his book 'What the German Needs', said of the Germans: "It is now widely
accepted amongst those who have given thought to the problem of Germany, that the world has not
a normal, rational people to deal with, but a nation suffering from an acute attack of homicidal mania,
rendered more dangerous by a background of specious philosophy and more horrible by a lust for
inhuman, calculated cruelty; a nation moreover subject to the recurrence of similar attacks, of which
this last is only the most severe ..." From his cozy armchair, the author's suggested solution to the
"German problem" included a drastic reduction in the size of Prussia, the removal of every German
from Danzig and East Prussia and the use of enslaved German POWs under Allied control "to build
and clear, to dig and drain", again, also exactly what ended up happening.
The fear caused by these insidious plans and ghastly ideas which were well circulated among the
German civilians, combined with the reality of an inhumane bombing campaign and strict demands
for unconditional surrender, prolonged any hopes of a quick peace.
Genocidal plans for Germans were nothing new; they had their roots in World War One. Who
can forget Rudyard Kipling's words before the Great War even broke out: "the Germans do evil
deliberately. It is their nature. It is the mark of their nationality. They are like microbes wherever
they abound; the evil develops and infects everything roundabout. Civilized nations must resort to
the sterilizing process; they must put into force measures of international hygiene."
There were many other carry-overs from the anti-German hatred created in World War One.
Edward Bernays was one of the chief goons who worked as a propagandist for the Committee for
Public Information under George Creel in World War One as part of the effort to fan the flames of
war in favor of Britain by creating rabid Germanophobia. Arrogant, racist and devious, Bernays
excelled at mind control, subliminal messaging and other tactics of brainwashing the public. The
name Bernays later regurgitates itself in the form of Col. Murray Bernays, who played a major role
in the planning of "German re-education" after World War Two and planned the legal framework and
procedures for the Nuremberg War Crime Trials. The original surname of Col. Murray Bernays was
"Cohen". He legally changed his name to that of his wife shortly after his marriage to Anna Freud
Bernays, none other than sister to Edward Bernays (both were niece and nephew of Sigmund Freud).
It is not your happy pseudo-Bavarian tourist village in the USA. No good beer, buxom barmaids or
oom-pah bands here. This "German Village" in the Utah desert is all that remains of a full-scale, six
block replica of typical pre-war working class housing in Berlin. It is on a test site created by the
Allied military to develop weapons of mass destruction for use against German civilians.
It was part of a larger five square mile German/Japanese "doomtown" built in 1943. Despite their
"successes" with their 1,000 bomber fire raids against Cologne and Hamburg, the British were
frustrated by their inability to ignite the same type of firestorm in Berlin, so Allied scientific advisors
urged the creation of a program of incendiary experimentation on exact replicas of German workers'
housing. According to the Air Force, Dugway's German village "corresponded to the type of housing
in which 80 percent of the German industrial population lived."
Using forced labor from Utah state prison inmates, it was completed in 44 days and was similar to
the civilian housing built for test destruction in dummy towns in England for use by the RAF.
Commissioned by the chemical warfare corps of the US army (Standard Oil), it was created by a
German-born architect Erich Mendelsohn, Konrad Wachsmann and other disgruntled former
German residents who had recently been assisted in moving to the US with the help of Albert
Einstein and others.
They would join emigre Walter Gropius to work on the development of prefabrication such systems.
Before emigrating, Gropius (supported by composer Arnold Schoenberg, writer Franz Werfel and
Einstein) operated a successful school of architecture in Germany in the mid-twenties called the
“Bauhaus” Several unnamed architects affiliated with the “Gropius Group” at Harvard helped in the
planning of "German Village" and participated in the research studies on how to effectively incinerate
or explode typical German residential city structures and buildings. They eagerly joined the Dugway
Proving Ground project, where napalm and poison gases were developed and tested for use against
civilians in Germany.
Churchill's Minister of Defence, scientist Frederick Lindemann, a life-long friend of Einstein who
was educated in Germany, used his contacts to arrange an early exodus for selected German
scientists, many of whom became prominent in the research in the US and UK regarding the
bombing of Germany. Once Lindemann became Churchill's key scientific advisor, few if any insiders
had greater influence. Lindemann wrote and circulated the paper that first advocated heavily
bombing civilian residential neighborhoods in German cities, convinced that making large numbers of
German civilians homeless (or dead) would "undermine the enemy's morale". Lindemann's homicidal
plans were quickly adopted by Churchill. Lindemann was made Lord Cherwell in 1941, and created
"Viscount of Cherwell" in 1956. It was said that he had an "almost pathological hatred of Germans
and a medieval desire for revenge" tantamount to that of Roosevelt's trusted advisor, Henry
Morgenthau Jr.
Working in conjunction with Hollywood RKO studio's "Division of Authenticity", they designed the
model town with the sole intention of destroying Berlin's working-class districts and non-combatant
civilian inhabitants in conformance with Allied plans beginning in 1943. The "Japanese Village" (since
vanished) was designed by the Czech-educated architect Antonin Raymond who represented
Czechoslovakia in Japan as an honorary consul and designed and built many buildings in Japan,
where he was familiar with their architecture. Below: Mendelsohn, Wachsmann, Gropius, Einstein,
Lindemann, Morgenthau.
oom-pah bands here. This "German Village" in the Utah desert is all that remains of a full-scale, six
block replica of typical pre-war working class housing in Berlin. It is on a test site created by the
Allied military to develop weapons of mass destruction for use against German civilians.
It was part of a larger five square mile German/Japanese "doomtown" built in 1943. Despite their
"successes" with their 1,000 bomber fire raids against Cologne and Hamburg, the British were
frustrated by their inability to ignite the same type of firestorm in Berlin, so Allied scientific advisors
urged the creation of a program of incendiary experimentation on exact replicas of German workers'
housing. According to the Air Force, Dugway's German village "corresponded to the type of housing
in which 80 percent of the German industrial population lived."
Using forced labor from Utah state prison inmates, it was completed in 44 days and was similar to
the civilian housing built for test destruction in dummy towns in England for use by the RAF.
Commissioned by the chemical warfare corps of the US army (Standard Oil), it was created by a
German-born architect Erich Mendelsohn, Konrad Wachsmann and other disgruntled former
German residents who had recently been assisted in moving to the US with the help of Albert
Einstein and others.
They would join emigre Walter Gropius to work on the development of prefabrication such systems.
Before emigrating, Gropius (supported by composer Arnold Schoenberg, writer Franz Werfel and
Einstein) operated a successful school of architecture in Germany in the mid-twenties called the
“Bauhaus” Several unnamed architects affiliated with the “Gropius Group” at Harvard helped in the
planning of "German Village" and participated in the research studies on how to effectively incinerate
or explode typical German residential city structures and buildings. They eagerly joined the Dugway
Proving Ground project, where napalm and poison gases were developed and tested for use against
civilians in Germany.
Churchill's Minister of Defence, scientist Frederick Lindemann, a life-long friend of Einstein who
was educated in Germany, used his contacts to arrange an early exodus for selected German
scientists, many of whom became prominent in the research in the US and UK regarding the
bombing of Germany. Once Lindemann became Churchill's key scientific advisor, few if any insiders
had greater influence. Lindemann wrote and circulated the paper that first advocated heavily
bombing civilian residential neighborhoods in German cities, convinced that making large numbers of
German civilians homeless (or dead) would "undermine the enemy's morale". Lindemann's homicidal
plans were quickly adopted by Churchill. Lindemann was made Lord Cherwell in 1941, and created
"Viscount of Cherwell" in 1956. It was said that he had an "almost pathological hatred of Germans
and a medieval desire for revenge" tantamount to that of Roosevelt's trusted advisor, Henry
Morgenthau Jr.
Working in conjunction with Hollywood RKO studio's "Division of Authenticity", they designed the
model town with the sole intention of destroying Berlin's working-class districts and non-combatant
civilian inhabitants in conformance with Allied plans beginning in 1943. The "Japanese Village" (since
vanished) was designed by the Czech-educated architect Antonin Raymond who represented
Czechoslovakia in Japan as an honorary consul and designed and built many buildings in Japan,
where he was familiar with their architecture. Below: Mendelsohn, Wachsmann, Gropius, Einstein,
Lindemann, Morgenthau.
