What were the Nazi's doing at Wenceslas Mine? What was "die Glocke"? "Die Glocke" was a large, bell shaped metal chamber, 9 feet across and 15 feet high, filled with a violet coloured mercury-like substance that Nazi scientists code-named Xerum 525. The scientists working on die Glocke all suffered from very bad vertigo, and several scientists and plants in the lab even died, supposedly due to high levels of radiation emitted when the bell was activated. It gets even stranger when you consider what it is connected to. On the surface, directly above the bell is a concrete structure, nicknamed the flytrap, a concrete structure which supposedly had power cables the thickness of a man's arm leading down to the bell. So what was the bell? What did it power? Some people claim it was a test ground for Nazi flying saucers, others claims it's all made up, and the flytrap is just the remains of a water cooling tower. Whatever the truth is, we'll likely never know for sure. The Nazis totally destroyed Wenceslas mine before the Allies could liberate the area. #art #painting #dieglocke #nazibell #2016
