Die Glocke

It is the end of the war in the European theater and Nazi Germany is only days away from falling into infamous history. Acting under the looming threat of collapse, Hitler’s war machine pulled out all the stops, dabbling in sciences that were, in some cases, more arcane than technological. New weapons, born out of the fiery, half-crazed fever of imminent defeat were many times derived from nightmare pseudoscience, theories largely based on legend or even folklore. Die Gloche, The Bell, is one such conspiracy theory, whispered stories drifting out of the fog-shrouded darkness, deep in the misty forests still occupied by the third reich. Under cover of a vast canopy of tangled branches, experiments were carried out, proof of concept forever lost inside a file cabinet labeled Top Secret, somewhere locked in a hermetically sealed vacuum of thin air.