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Skeptoid #293: Wunderwaffen: Nazi Wonder Weapons

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Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2012

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The true history behind the claimed Nazi "wonder weapons" like anti-gravity flying saucers.

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Turn on the history channel and you're sure to get a massive overdose of fake Nazi history.

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That they were secretly driven by the occult, that they had flying saucers, that they dominated

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the moon and Antarctica.

0:17.9

Today we're going to look at the true Vunderwaffen, the wonder weapons of Nazi Germany.

0:24.0

It turns out the fiction was never needed to make the Vunderwaffen truly impressive.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com Vunderwaffen, Nazi wonder weapons.

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Few subjects provoke as much emotion as Nazi Germany or attract as much attention and speculation.

1:38.0

Since the war, we've even attached an occult mythology to Nazism in an attempt to rationalize

1:43.7

it away as having come from outside of our own society.

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