Peter Moon
Sky Books
£14.70 (including postage in UK) from Counter Productions, PO Box 556, London SE5 ORL
I couldn’t resist the title or the blurb: ‘…..covers the German flying saucer programme, the SS mission to Tibet and Hitler’s quest for the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail…..’ But oooooooooh what a let-down. Peter Moon (if that is indeed his real name) is the author of series of fringe publications, so far only available in the USA, and The Black Sun actually claims to be the fourth in the series.
Montauk is a small town at the eastern end of Long Island, New York. Before 1941 it hosted the H.Q. of the German-American Bund. After 1941 Long Island was a landing point for several German spies ferried across the Atlantic by U-boat. Later the crew of a U-boat are supposed to have buried some treasures in the area. These few sentences sum up the factual basis of the book. They are sufficient for Moon to establish a connection with Tibet and to rush off on a wildly disjointed ransacking of other authors in the genre – Pauwels and Bergier, Madame Blavatsky, Alexander Crowley, H. P. Lovecraft and (ahem) David Icke. The closest we come to an acknowledged scholarly source is Jocelyn Godwin, author of Arktos – The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism and Nazi Survival.
The opening chapter is a classic of its kind as we skid from secret government bases to TWA flight 800, to sightings of Big Foot, to Admiral Byrd’s expedition to the Antarctic. Any verification? Primary sources? Well, try this: Moon dredges up somebody called ‘Max’ who built his own flying saucer (from pie tins) in which he flew at supersonic speeds around the US in the 1940s and 50s with a crew of eight women. Later on we bump into speculation on the pro-Nazi sympathies of the Kennedy family (mildly interesting), L. Ron Hubbard, Otto Skorzeny, and David Icke’s view of Bill Clinton, George Bush and the Skull and Bones Society.
The illustration are particularly good. I liked the photograph of the flying saucers used by the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain. Sadly, Moon has to admit that although these were first flown in 1934 they proved useless in combat.
As a zany read this is fine. But whilst you trip through the solemn narrative, laughter might be a diversion from the book’s considerable ultra-right undertow. In chapter 6 Moon bemoans the belittling since 1945 of the shared heritage of the Aryan and Celtic people. In chapter 10 he introduces one Jan Van Helsing who has ‘……special connections to secret societies in Germany some of which actually helped Hitler into power.’ It turns out that Helsing has been banned from publication in Germany for saying that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is worthy of being taken seriously and is used by the Illuminati to control world politics. Later we learn that Himmler was greatly misunderstood and didn’t really want the Holocaust; that ‘war reparations’ are still being paid to Israel; that Jews really worship Satan; that the current Pope was once a salesman for Zyklon B gas; and that Himmler’s views on the medical profession and lawyers (‘the very same ones we suffer from today in modern America’) are entirely understandable.
The book has no footnotes. The bibliography includes something called the German Research Project – available from a P.O. Box in California – and allegedly a schedule of ‘secret and suppressed’ technology.
This book is nonsense, and dangerous nonsense at that; and I question the judgement of Counter Productions in making it available.
Avoid.