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Historical Blindness

Wunderwaffe: The Myths of Nazi Supertechnology - Part Two, The Bell Hoax

Historical Blindness

Nathaniel Lloyd

Politics, News, History, Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.0885 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In part 2 of my series on the myth that Nazis developed supertechnology, I look at the growth of this conspiracy theory and later hoaxes, like the Nazi Bell, that have kept it alive. Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠the show merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, perfect for gifts!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pledge support on Patreon to get an ad-free feed with exclusive episodes!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out my novel, Manuscript Found!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Direct all advertising inquiries to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠advertising@airwavemedia.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.airwavemedia.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to find other high-quality podcasts! Some music in this episode was licensed under a Blue Dot Sessions blanket license at the time of publication. Tracks include "Tarte Tatin," "The Gran Dias," "An Unknown Visitor," "Cicle Gerano," "Invernen," "Preston and Carle," and "Cicle Deserrat." Additional music, including the song "Remedy for Melancholy," is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) Other music: "Spacial Harvest" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:04.3

Have you ever thought about what would happen if your airline window popped out?

0:07.8

Or if you could build a jetpack using only machine guns?

0:11.2

Turns out you can, but you really shouldn't.

0:13.8

Hi, I'm Jill Chacha, host of a podcast that's for weird people who like learning about weird stuff.

0:19.0

It's called, well, that's interesting.

0:20.7

And it's a comedy science you show that tells the story behind the facts,

0:23.6

because as it turns out, those stories are funny.

0:26.6

The facts are bizarre, the stories are epic, and the laughter is plentiful.

0:30.6

So, join the flock and listen to Well That's Interesting, wherever you do podcasts.

0:56.8

Recently, a curious news story having to do with UFOs made its way from the strange conspiracist media on the far right into more mainstream news outlets. From Newsmax reporting internet rumors

1:03.8

to tabloids like the Daily Star and the Daily Mail repeating them, to the once respectable

1:09.4

news week, which has become less and less respectable

1:12.6

and more and more right-leaning and unreliable, since its acquisition by a company with financial

1:18.6

ties and apparent money laundering connections to a fringe Christian cult, now spreading this UFO

1:24.7

conspiracy far and wide. It emerged out of murky media waters.

1:30.0

But eventually MSN and News Nation, generally reliable and centrist platforms as news aggregators go,

1:38.1

picked up the story as if it were really news.

1:41.2

Now Fox News has raised it in a White House press conference. Is anybody investigating this to see if

1:47.7

these things are connected? I've seen the report, Peter. I haven't spoken to our relevant agencies

1:53.0

about it. I will certainly do that and we'll get you an answer. If true, of course, that's definitely

1:57.6

something I think this government and administration would deem worth looking into so let me do that for you and Trump is vowing to investigate

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