Lorenz Hemicker

OK, Lawrence, you also think that the Nazis were evil, right?

So I always had to defend myself a bit, though I was innocent.

Yeah, so this was the way I dealt with the things.

Because I found out by accident, so to speak, that there was much more.

I found a publisher that convinced me to write a book.

And in my pre-research, I found more than 15,000 additional pages of court files.

The reason is because they had been digitized in the meantime.

And these court files opened new traces for me.

First to a prosecutor that interrogated Ernst.

the second to a large underground factory project of the Nazis in Austria, Project Quartz, and the last, the denazification file of him.

No, absolutely not.

Yeah, of course.

The person who brought me back to Project Quartz was a British historian, Mary Fulbrock.

She told me that in Austria, at the location where Ernst was on service at the end of the war, were horrible tunnels, she told me.

And that was the reason why I double-checked all the things I had already.

And I found a two-liner I had overseen before.

And in this two-liner, I registered that the last location of action where Ernst had been was actually Project Quartz.

And that was the reason why I started to read a book about Project Quartz.

And Project Quartz was really a horrible project.

The Nazis started, they had to start it because the Allied bombers destroyed their industry and they had to find a plan B. And the plan B was burying that industry.