12 I John W. Warner IV Though not a character in this book, President Donald Trumps uncle, physicist John G. Trump, is mentioned several times in my narrative because he was privy to Nikola Teslas classified work and the presidential UFO File. I believe his research included much of Gerlachs, and thats why most of Professors Trump and Vannevar Bushs research is still classified today. You can bet your boots JGT will be in my next book as an official character, oh yes. If anyone knew all about the secret German technology during and after the war, it was Professors Vannevar Bush and John Trump. John Trump Vannevar Bush As for General Rommel and his vaunted Afrika Korps, most historians agree that the war in North Africawith very few if any SS death squadswas indeed a more civilized conflict, one that harkened back to more honorable times. But war is pure hell, and no conflict has ever been a good choice, the horror far too great for any kind of romantic ideals. (Those people and institutions and corporations that aggrandize and take profit from war may have differing opinions, however.) Rommel remains a romantic figure to this day, mostly because he was an honorable and brilliant general, but also because he was part of the plot to assassinate Hitler. During the North African campaign in 1942, Siwa Oasis was occupied by