Son of Hitler's/Nazi Art Dealer Dead Shortly After Coming to Public Attention

[Peter Lemkin]

The Austrian Govt. [through the Police] have forced a halt to all excavation and won't issue a permit to unearth the entrance and open it....the reason they gave Andreas was 'state secrets'...a very interesting 'reason'....as THAT state is no more.....or is it?!......::drwho::

::hush::::willynilly:: How bizarre. I could understand they wanted to check out the radioactive levels for safety or even remove contaminated soil etc. but surely they would want the historians in there to document it all? Apparently not...

Some aspects of the Austrian 'state' has known about this underground facility since the end of the War [but kept it SECRET]. The radiation levels on the surface are not very high - only high enough to indicate something related to radioactive materials had once gone on there. In fact, it is situated near a built-up area of homes and all the people living there and especially their children or persons walking the dogs or going for a walk in the woods are exposed to the radiation - and have been for over 65 years - but the 'state' has done nothing about it - not even told anyone.....[the radioactivity, however, is high enough that it should have long ago been fenced off and cleaned up!]

What is amazing to me [a student of Nazi underground facilities] is that there was such a large one that was unknown up to this time!....but perhaps it is a sub-section of the two known underground facilities in the area - that was sealed off just before or at the end of the War...but if so...why?!...and by who?! What secrets lie inside?!...and who wants it not known about..... All other larger former Nazi underground facilities were first investigated by the Allied troops and often by locals and/or spelunkers. Some are now tourist attractions or available on a permit basis. Some others were sealed up after the War for various reasons, but we have maps of them and some descriptions of what went on inside them...often very specific. I have maps and photos of the insides of all of them...except this one. I wonder if the Nazis or the Americans sealed this up and wanted some secret kept. Some facilities in [then] East Germany were sealed by the Russians and East Germans for 'security' reasons [to not allow anyone to know what had been inside and taken out]. In the Czech Republic there was a huge underground Nazi factory code-named 'Richard'. While much of it was taken up with rather 'mundane' wartime production, one area was reported by many slave laborers to have been very secret and only Germans were allowed entry. This area they also claimed to have been radioactive at the time. Oddly, now this area is used by the Czech state as their nuclear waste repository, so no one can now tell if there was radiation there during the War....