Der Spiegel 13/1950 — 'Sie fliegen aber doch' (29 March 1950)

[Report #195] **In plain terms:** the magazine article where the 'the Nazis built flying saucers' story first reaches a mass readership. Almost everything written since traces back through it. Retrieved this pass from Der Spiegel's own archive, which carries the article's machine-readable timestamp '1950-03-29 13:00:00' and the issue line 'aus DER SPIEGEL 13/1950', article 34 of 62. The section header is 'UNTERTASSEN / LUFTFAHRT'. WHAT THE ARTICLE ACTUALLY IS. It is a round-up of the March 1950 saucer wave, opening on the US Defense Department's routine denial, and it treats the claimants as 'die ersten »Erfinder«' — the first 'inventors' surfacing at the peak of a nearly three-year fever. It carries, in one piece: Giuseppe Belluzzo, Rudolf Schriever, a 27-year-old hobbyist named Hans-Joachim Brux who says he saw plate-shaped test aircraft at the Junkers dispersal works at Brandis near Leipzig called 'Fliegende Bierdeckel' or 'Blattlaus', a French government employee in Philippeville, Algeria announcing a 70-metre 'Super-Untertasse', two Brazilian traders arrested for taking $10 deposits on saucer orders, and Kenneth Arnold's 24 June 1947 Mount Rainier sighting. BELLUZZO, verbatim: 'So der italienische Wissenschaftler Prof. Giuseppe Belluzzo, Turbinen-Ingenieur, Fachmann für Raketen- und Geschützbau und Wirtschaftsminister unter Mussolini.' His claim, verbatim: '»Ich selbst habe die Pläne entworfen«... »Der Durchmesser der rotierenden Leichtmetallscheibe betrug zehn Meter.«' He says Hitler and Mussolini had tests run in 1942, that the plans were lost during Mussolini's flight north, and that they are now probably being flown 'von irgendeiner Großmacht zu Studienzwecken' — by some great power for study purposes. SCHRIEVER, verbatim: '»Die Idee stammt aus dem Jahre 1942. Damals war ich Chefpilot in Eger«.' Chief pilot at Eger. After a year he gave Czech engineers in Prague the static calculations and detail drawings; '»Die Leute wußten damals nicht, worum es sich handelte.«' THE LOAD-BEARING DETAIL, which is in the article's own closing passage. Schriever worked on the plans until 15 April 1945 and intended to submit them to Göring's RLM; the Russians arrived first. He set up an inventor's workshop in his parents-in-law's garden house at Bremerhaven-Lehe. On 4 August 1948 it was burgled and his drawings and his single hand model were gone. The article quotes the closing line of the Bremerhaven criminal police file, verbatim: '»Verfahren eingestellt Täter unbekannt entkommen.«' At the time of writing he is a driver at the US Army Motor Pool in Bremerhaven, watched by the local CIC. No prototype. No surviving drawing. The only physical object is recorded as stolen in a closed, unsolved 1948 burglary. WHAT IS ABSENT FROM THE ARTICLE, checked by direct string search of the retrieved text: 'Habermohl' — zero occurrences. 'Miethe' — zero occurrences. 'BMW' — zero occurrences. Georg Klein — zero occurrences. The later literature routinely presents the Schriever/Habermohl/Miethe team as a single documented programme sourced to this article. Those two names are not in it.