Swede, Now on Trial, Reported Holding Key to Nazi V-WeaponsEnligt vad svenska tidningar skrev 1960 var Raket-Lasse även känd som Atom-Lasse.
By the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 12.—The newspaper Aftonbladet quoted an unidentified British lieutenant today as saying the Swedish engineer, Nils Werner Larsson, on trial for delivering military secrets to both Germany and the Allies, held the key to construction of the whole series of Nazi vengeance weapons from V-l to V-10.
The V-10 was the weapon which the Germans expected to hurl across the Atlantic in 35 minutes to bombard the United States. It was in blueprint stage when Germany surrendered.
The newspaper said plans for the V-10 reached the United States seven weeks ago and formed the basis for Gen. Henry H. Arnold’s reference to "space ships” in his report yesterday to the Secretary of War.
In the report, Gen. Arnold envisaged space ships traveling 3.000 miles an hour "operating outside the earth's atmosphere.” He added: "The design of such a ship is all but practicable today; research will unquestionably bring it into being within the foreseeable future.”
Larson is charged specifically with offering German military secrets to Allied military representatives in Sweden and of delivering an improved Swedish machine pistol to the Germans, presumably to create confidence in him.
The newspaper quoted the lieutenant who recently visited Sweden from Hamburg as saying Larsson had great technical knowledge and had worked in the German experimental laboratories in Peenemuende in 1943, were V weapons were developed.
Larsson left Sweden in 1943 for Germany and assisted German discoverers and builders of the V weapons, the newspaper said. After the German collapse, Larsson was said to have had freedom of movement in Germany. The British officer was reported to have met Larsson in an officers’ barracks in Hamburg a few weeks ago.
The Briton was quoted as saying the entire German staff which was used in Peenemuende to develop V weapons—about 90 men in all—was transferred to the United States seven weeks ago.
Larsson was arrested by the Swedes at the border, apparently while en route home from Germany.
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