Sid: My guest is Mary Nahas I’m interviewing her on the book she wrote about her father. The title is “The Journey of Private Galleon,” subtitled “How America Became a Superpower.” Because you see her father was so sovereignly led by God in World War II, that had he not been by God the whole destiny of America would have been changed. But I’m getting a little ahead of my story. You see he found a concentration camp, and this concentrations camp was underground. It was where the German’s were developing their ballistic missiles, and their technology. Tell me a bit Mary, in the 1930’s about Wernher Von Braun.
Mary: Yes, when he was a little boy he was enthralled with space, and he hooked six rockets to a toy wagon and shot it down the street. Afterwards he shot so many of these things that his rockets were becoming banned; this little boy figured out a way to turn his toy rocket into the world’s first ballistic missile, but his objective was really for space travel not for weaponry. But when the German army heard about him and had saw what he had done they got him to work for the German army. He was like an opportunist that anybody who would fund him he would do it. And so he went with the German army, but he expressed that he really didn’t want to do weapons, but once you are in the grips of the Nazi’s you have to totally sell out. He became a Nazi, he was I think a major in the SS. He had to totally throw himself into that to keep himself safe, and thousands of people died mAchimg his rockets in a secret tunnel at a concentration camp called Mittelbau Dora concentration camp.
Sid: Now tell me how people got into that concentration camp to be workers.
Mary: Heinrich Himmler had a secret meeting with Albert Spear after the British bombed a place called Peenemunde. Peenemunde was another secret rocket facility where they were going to do research and development, perfect the rocket, and then manufacture it. But by accident Warren Braun shot one of his missiles into Switzerland and Britain found out and actually came and got the broken parts and when they saw the enormity of this thing they said “We have to find this place and stop it in its tracks,” and they bombed Peenemunde. And Albert Spear and Heinrich Himmler had a meeting and said, “Let’s resurrect the rocket program underground in the old munitions dump in the Harz Mountains.” And they got people from Buchenwald and other camps and they started pouring into the camp. At first it was not Jews and later the Jews were sent in and by record numbers even children were killed in this place, they were forced to work with no food, no water and do adult work. And Jews were given specific punishments, and their work was made even harder for them so that they would suffer more in this camp. So even though there were many supposed non-Jews, many of the Jews were hiding under being non-Jews because it didn’t benefit them to be Jewish in this camp. Many of them changed their names to Catholic names, and I know some of them today. And so this camp was operating at full speed so that Hitler could bring Britain to their knees, he wanted to shoot 5,000 missiles into Britain all at once, but the people were dying in record numbers and they said a prayer that is pretty significant. I’d like to read that if I can.
Sid: Please.
Mary: The prayer is “They begged God to inject into the American soldiers the madness that would make them plunge forward enough to free us; don’t lose any time guys we’re here and crying out for help and you should hear us well, you Harry even if you have an ache in your side charge in spite of it and you Joe even if your tank runs out of gas push it with every once of strength. If you’re tired keep on as if nothing had happened without stopping so long as you arrive here you will have all the time you want to sleep afterward.” I received a phone call from East Bound, his a survivor of Dora and he said to me, “Your father was the soldier we prayed for” and he told me the prayer how everything he described in that prayer is everything my father did to find them, I was astounded.
Sid: You know speAchimg of your Dad, there were many times that he should have died, but miracle after miracle happened to save his life.
Mary: Yes.
Sid: You know as it which comes first the chicken or the egg? His love for the Jewish people is why his life was spared, and what he did was why his life was spared, it’s almost as though God knew what he was going to do and blessed him ahead of time. Tell me some of the miracles that happened.
Mary: During the war one of the first miracles that happened was the miracle at the Mark River, my father and his entire troop which I think may have been something like forty some men in his company 415B. Sid Roth its supernatural
Sid: Hmm hmm.
Mary: They had started to cross the Mark River and they got into their boats, but the boats were being shelled and they had to jump out and swim under fire. The entire company was killed except for my father, and his sergeant, and a third man. When they reached the other side of the river they realized that there was a Devine reason; they had this overwhelming feeling that there was a divine reason they were spared. And then in Achim was the second miracle, and that’s when my father and his troop came up into Achim, Germany and met a whole line of German tanks blocking their advance. You have to realize the spiritual significance of this, the blocking the advance is keeping the solders from getting to the camp sooner and more and more Jewish people and non-Jews are dying. Sid Roth supernatural healing
Sid: You know what it’s almost like? It’s almost like the devil is pulling out all stops to see that every Jew is going to die.
Mary: Yep.
Sid: And God is pulling out all stops to see that Jews live.
Mary: Right.
Sid: It’s like a war going on in the spirit realm as I read your book.
Mary: Yes exactly. When he reached Achim he stood up in his jeep and in the dark, in the black of night aimed for the lead tank and with a single round blew up the main tank and caused the entire line of tanks to retreat. He was given the Bronze Star, and his Sergeant was given a Silver Star. Then he reached the Roer River another miracle happened. East Bound called me to talk to me about this because I didn’t realize the significance of what he did at the Roer River; he is the Dora survivor who said that payer. And he said to me, “What your father did at the Roer River alone enabled the troops to get to the camps before we were all dead. At the Roer River the troops were stuck there for two and a half months. There was an enemy nest across the river trying to kill the soldiers and killing solders as they were trying to come across a flooded river.” Somehow my father swam across that river and crawled to within feet of the enemy nest. Under fire when they saw him under fire he threw grenades and wounded a Nazi Officer, and took them single handedly prisoner, the other two or three. And he received a bronze star with an Oak Leaf cluster for causing that advance to receive their next objective. So all along my father was not only the one that would find the camps, but he was the one to break the blockade.
Sid: Tell me the beginning of how he started his trip that ultimately ended up in changing the destiny to America. How did he start this walk? What was going on inside of him?
Mary: After the Roer River he was wounded at the Rhein, and then he was still able to do 175 miles of continuous battle. But the soldiers were so exhausted after that they had to find a good reason to pull over and rest; so they called it maintenance. They pulled over in a place that was southwest of Paderborn, and I believe my Dad said that it was called Lippstadt. When they pulled over at Lippstadt my father smelled an odor, and he had a gut feeling that the odor had something to do with the rumor of concentration camps in the area. So him and another buddy tried to figure out if you were a Nazi how would you get the people the prisoners through the towns and sneak them through and get them into these camps? And they came to the conclusion it must be the train. Well once those words were said, my father became plagued with the gut feeling to follow the train. He asked for permission to go, but the sergeant said, “No, it’s too dangerous, there is not enough men to send in and we don’t even know what direction to send you in you know. But my father said that he tried to put it off and forget it, but as the day went on something kept nagging him to follow the train. So when all his buddies were getting into their sleeping bags that night my father left to follow the train. He had not intended on going AWOL, he had intended on just forfeiting his sleep scouting and being back by the time roll call happened, but something supernatural happened to him about three hours into his walk. He said that his wound was killing him, and he wanted to turn around and come back. Just when he was about to turn around a strong force pushed him, he got happy because he thought it was his buddy who wouldn’t come with him. He thought his buddy had changed his mind and decided to support him. So he turned around to see who it was and nobody was there, he said. He got up out of his chair to show me this thing that happened to him. He said, “It grabbed him at the elbows and turned him around as though to say “No, keep going, don’t turn around your on the right track.” And then he described that not only did this thing lead him in the right direction, but it gave him the resurgence of strength that he needed and the wound wasn’t hurting anymore. And then what he described next is almost as if angels were I don’t know somehow…
Sid: I’ll tell you what, hold that thought.
