The armaments complex at Pilsen in Bohemia, one of the largest industrial concerns in Europe, absorbed into the German war economy after 1938 and run from 1942 by Wilhelm Voss as director general.
The claim attached to it
That Hans Kammler operated a sealed research organisation from a think tank associated with Skoda, in Prague, beyond the knowledge of Speer and Goering, and that this was where the Reich’s most exotic weapons work was directed in the last year of the war. Everything the modern literature says about the Kammlerstab traces to Wilhelm Voss’s account of that organisation, given to the journalist Tom Agoston in 1949 and published by him in 1985.
What is documented and what is not
Skoda’s scale, its output, Voss’s directorship and the SS’s growing control of German armaments production in 1944 and 1945 are ordinary, well-evidenced history. The sealed research organisation is not: no German archive holds its files, no second witness has described it, and American counter-intelligence is reported to have told Voss never to speak of it again, which is either corroboration or the absence of any. The Hunt for Zero Point is explicit that the chain runs through one journalist and one man’s recollection.
Connections
Wilhelm Voss · Hans Kammler · Kammlerstab · Tom Agoston · The Hunt for Zero Point · Nick Cook · Die Glocke · Nazi Flying Disc Legend · Operation Paperclip · Mittelbau-Dora