Welcome to the Misc. Page, this is where you will find everything that you didn't find any where else. Most of the stuff on this page didn't fit well under the four other sub topics, so it found it's home here.

| Phoenix Project | The Gestapo | Nuremberg Trials | Quiz #1 | Bibliography |

Phoenix Project
The Phoenix Project started right after the Philadelphia Experiment close to the end of World War II in 1943. The Phoenix Project is even more outrageous and unbelievable than the Philadelphia Experiment. This project was started with the intention of trying to receive people thoughts with a computer. It is said that Von Neumann achieved this overtime by esoteric crystal radio receivers, which could receive human thoughts and then transfer the information to a computer in terms of bits. It is also said that techniques were developed that could allow a psychic to think a thought and be transmitted out a computer and potentially affect another human being's mind. The Phoenix project is supposed to have achieved a superior understanding of how the mind functions and potentially had the ability of mind control. Even though this project stared in the 40's during World War II major results were not achieved until decades later.

The Gestapo
During World War II the Germans came out with a group of volunteers who were called the Gestapo. The political force of the Reich was the Gestapo. Membership to this group of people was voluntary and it had about 40,000 to 50,000 people from the years 1943 to 1945. The Gestapo, with the concentration camp backing them had the power to eliminate all enemies of the NAZI regime. The Gestapo contained five subsections during the year 1943. The five subsections duties were as follows: deal with opponents, sabotage, protective services, political churches, sects and Jews, Jewish affairs, matters of evacuation, means of suppressing enemies of the people and state, dispossession of the rights of German Citizenship, deal with card files, protective custody, matters of press and party, deal with regions under greater German influence, deal with security, passport matters, and alien police. The Gestapo was the main persecutor of the Jews. The Deputy Chief of the Gestapo was Himmler. The power of the Gestapo was called "Schutzhaft" which means in English the power to imprison people without judicial proceedings.

Nuremberg Warcrime Trials
After World War II certain people were charged with war crimes. These cases started on November 20, 1945 and lasted until October 1, 1946. The trials were held in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice in room # 600. The Nuremberg war crime trials were held in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice for several reasons which are it had 22,000 square meters of space, about 530 offices and 80 courtrooms, war damage to it was minimal, and a large undestroyed prison was part of the complex. The Soviet Union wanted the trials to take place in Berlin so the Allies reached a compromise on August 8, 1945 that stated that Berlin would be the permanent seat of the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and that the first trial would take place in Nuremberg. The four leading powers after the war (USA, USSR, Great Britain, and France) were allowed to provide one judge and one alternate and the prosecutors too. The first court session was lead by a Soviet judge who name was Iola T. Nikitschenko. The prosecution entered twenty-four indictments against major war crime criminals and against six criminal organizations. The six criminal organizations were as follows: Hitler's Cabinet, the leadership corps of the NAZI party, the SS and the SD, the Gestapo, and the SA and the General Staff and High Command of the army. The twenty-four people placed on trial were

Bormann, Martin Dönitz, Karl Frank, Hans Frick, Wilhelm Fritzsche, Hans Funk, Walter Göring, Hermann Heß, Rudolf Jodl, Alfred Kaltenbrunner, Ernst

Keitel, Wilhelm Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Gustav Ley, Robert Neurath, Konstantin von Papen, Franz von Raeder, Erich Ribbentrop, Joachim von Rosenberg, Alfred Sauckel, Fritz

From November 20, 1945 to August 31, 1946, all of the sessions were held in Nuremberg under the presidency of Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence. After 218 days of testimony 360 witnesses was introduced some of which were verbal and some written. About 236 of the 360 were actually in the court itself some of them were judges. There was about 200,000 affidavits evaluated as evidence and more than 1,000 people (some taking testimony text translators, simultaneous translators, secretaries, etc.,) were involved. The verdicts of the trial were announced on September 30 and on October 1, 1946; three acquittals, 12 sentences to death by hanging, 7 sentences to life imprisonment or to lesser terms. Those people who were sentenced to death died in the early morning of October 16, 1946, in the old gymnasium of the Nuremberg prison. The last of the prisoners (Rudolf Hess) committed suicide in August of 1987.