Sid: I’m interviewing Mary Nahas; I’m talking to her at her home in Reedsville, North Carolina. She’s the author of a book about her father. The title of the book is “The Journey of Private Galleon,” and subtitled “How America became a Super Power.” And if it wasn’t for her father we’d be speaking Russian in the streets of America today. It’s the most fascinated story, it shows the intrigue of the military trying to cover up what was going on in the concentration camps, but the hero of this book is God. You can see step by step of how God led her father; for instance her father was in the army, and it’s during World War II, and he’s in Germany and he starts smelling something, tell me about that Mary.
Mary: They had pulled over to rest and he all of a sudden smelled an odor that gave him a gut feeling to follow the train. When he asked permission to go the sergeant said “No, because it was towards the end of the war and they didn’t want to take risks.” But by the end of the night my father said, “That the feeling was so strong to follow the train because he would find prisoners that he left anyway in the dark at around 9:00 – 9:30. During his walk of following the trains he his wounds was hurting and he was going to turn around and go back and abort the mission when he had a supernatural experience. He said that “A strong force pushed him right at the point that he was going to turn around and abort the mission.” He turned around to see who pushed him and nobody was there, then the force grabbed him at the elbows and turned him around as to say, “No don’t turn around, stay following the train.” My father knew that something bigger than himself was leading him to the end of the tracks, and at the end of the tracks after five days of following the train.
Sid: How could he be walking those five days, he had been injured?
Mary: He said, “That when the force pushed him it also simultaneously gave him a resurgence of strength and energy, and his legs that were wobbly and weak before were now strong, and the wound wasn’t hurting anymore.
Sid: Wasn’t he concerned about leaving the troops, he was almost, was he AWOL?
Mary: He never intended on going AWOL, but following the force I guess you could say yes, he was AWOL.
Sid: Okay, so he’s following the tracks because he knows tracks maybe there’s people, maybe there’s holocaust survivors, so at the end of the five days what happened?
Mary: Well, in his mind he was thinking following the tracks would help him to catch the Nazi’s as they’re transporting prisoners. In his mind he was envisioning himself jumping on the train and putting a guy to their heads and say take me to the camp. But what happed was at the end of the tracks he found a train car filled with dead people, prisoners and he found the mouth, the train tracks led directly inside of the mouth of secret tunnel to the factory where prisoners were forced to manufacturer the world’s first ballistic missile for Wernher Von Brown.
Sid: And tell me about that German guard that came running towards him shooting.
Mary: Yes, my father had another miracle there, because the bodies were naked he wanted to identify whether they were Russian, German or American soldiers so that he could figure out what was going on inside this secret tunnel. But when he was trying to move their arms and legs around with his gun his legs became tired from the five day walk and they gave out. And the ammo clip fell off and made a noise, a German guard came running over shooting at him. My father jumped on top of the tunnel because there was nowhere to take cover. And he was shooting at him at close range from the ground to the top of the tunnel. My father said, “Looking back on that he didn’t realize until the end of his life there must have been an angelic shield around him because the bullets were going and whistling past his ears, but none of them hit him.” And he believed it was because God was not going to let him die there until those prisoners were found and rescued, and my dad needed to get out of their to report what he had found.
Sid: Now, but he actually tried to get into the camp by breaking the lock, what happened?
Mary: After the shootout he found the main gate and he found prisoners face to face at the gate, they had heard the shoot out and they got very excited when they saw that it was an American soldier. So they ran to the gate so that he would see that they were prisoners in need of rescue. He said he was shoving his gun up inside the lock to try and twist it but he couldn’t break it; so he was too exhausted at that point, but he realized that he needed to start walking and looking for help. He couldn’t go any further, he had to rest, he slept for a couple hours and he slept for a couple of hours and then – see he was a timber wolf, they only did their scouting at night. So he said it was perfect to take a couple hours rest and then sundown came. Then he went and you know searched for help. Another miracle was that he found soldiers broke down on the side of the road and they took my father back to their commanders, and my dad reported everything to them of what he had found; that he had found something major with a secret tunnel and dead prisoners. And the commanders went back with my father and they all broke into the camp together and drove in.
Sid: How about when your dad radioed the Third Armored Division and they got lost; explain that.
Mary: Yes, the soldiers who took my dad back to the camp and broke in with them also drove him back to the sergeant. My dad explained to the sergeant that his hunch panned out and that he had found the camp and the sergeant told him because you left without permission you can never tell anyone that you saved the people. But I want you to radio the Third Armored Division and give them directions to the camp. This miracle happened that when he radioed the Third Armor my father got confused as to the directions because the Third Armored had past that camp. So my Dad had to give them directions coming backwards and it got all messed up and the Third Armored ended up finding a second camp by accident on the way where prisoners of Dora too weak to make the missiles had been dumped to die. And so it shows that God was trying to rescue the weakest first.
Sid: What would have happened if your dad hadn’t found that camp when he did and perhaps the Russians had found the camp first? What could have been the future of America?
Mary: Well, history channel actually answered that question, they did a show recently and they said if Dora had not been found when it was, the footprint on the moon would have been Russian; we would have been speaking Russian today. And they also said, in another history channel documentary about spy technology that America probably would have been hit with a nuclear war.
Sid: And you know some of the descriptions you have in the book and the book has pictures of course of Holocaust Survivors, but literally this was compared to Dante’s Inferno. Tell me what they found was going on in that camp with the Jewish people.
Mary: Too horrible to recite, some of it was just unbelievable, but I’ll tell you some of the things I can say is that. The people were methodically starved, beaten and forced to work at top speed with no food or water in their stomach. They were diseased over time, they were threatened with – fear was put on them, they would hang people just to teach them lessons and to intimidate them so they wouldn’t try to escape. They would hang people with wood in their mouth, and they would have to work under the dangling body making the missiles with dead people hanging over them, their friends it was horrifying. Babies were burned in the Nordhausen camps; women were found with their breasts cut off it was just horrible.
Sid: But why didn’t they just sabotage the missiles knowing they’d be used against people that would be their liberators.
Mary: Brave prisoners did sabotage them the missiles. They did all that they could, they arranged poor connections, they urinated on wiring, they did all they could, but you know they were hung for it.
Sid: You described that in the book that they were made examples. And when your father found the camp he really, he didn’t even understand what he had accomplished did he?
Mary: No, another miracle was about to happen after all those miracles of finding the place and the people. The pentagon when they learned that the world’s first ballistic missile was being made in concentrations camps they ordered the confiscation of the Rocket Scientists and the missiles. Now Russia also came in, the American troops forgot to take the machines and the production team. We got the top German scientists who created the missile and we got all the missiles, but Russia got the machines and production team. This caused the sharing of power which was a miracle of God and His wisdom. The sharing of power between Russia and the United States caused a unique situation that the Department of Defense called “Mutual Assured Destruction.” That is where when both sides made missiles and weaponry and satellite one side can’t move without the other side seeing through satellite technology; and one nation can’t strike without it resulting in the other nation, you know, mutual destruction. So in God’s wisdom causing the sharing of power between Russia and America caused world peace through the threat of mutual destruction, this alone is the greatest miracle that came out of this. Because if the Russians would have made an exclusive capture of the missiles behind Americas back not only would we be speaking Russian, but today Russia is helping the terrorists. And so you have to wonder would Israel had become a nation?
Sid: Boy, you can see the hand of God as you read this story. What kind of feedback do you get from unsaved Jewish people that read this book?
Mary: They are touched, they are amazed, their telling it at their Passover tables as part of the Haggadah.
Sid: It’s in the same category as Moses walking through the Red Sea as if it was dry land.
Mary: It’s amazing.
Sid: What about Christians what do they say when they read this book?
Mary: Christians come up to me and when I’m at a craft show they don’t realize who I am until they look down on the table and they see my book. When it hits them that that’s the book they read, they come up to me and cry and they say, “This book has changed everything I ever thought about God wanting Jews in the camps, I don’t think that way anymore.”
