Lion, Tiger, Bear | 297 ScheissA Oh well, its no matter.Ha-a-a-haa! Stares. Whats wrong with all of you? Its a German physics joke, it doesnt have to be that funny. Schafer, Klemperer, and Baumann laughed. Porsche let out a: Hmmff. Utterly fascinated, Bernie kept staring at the above nodes, their inner workings visible via inspection glass. Im not sure I understand the physics involved with these things, but… An engineer moved him out of the way to access a ladder. He put in a new part and closed the domes hatch. Gerlach huffed: Huh. That was the simple part. Come, Ferdinand, lets inspect the engine room. Weve work to do. Through pressure-locking round doors, the group walked the starboard-side companionway and passed the navy-issue U-Boat all-electric galley, three staterooms with cramped bunks, a radio room with a celestial navigation dome, a closed, guarded compartment marked: Information Center, and the compact medical compartment to enter the large cargo bay. Hordes of engineers, contractors, electricians, and crew scampered to-and-fro busily making repairs and modifications. Everythingall doors, compartments, storage bins, panels, windows, and minute itemswere precisely designed, compact, and highly functional, the hexagonal patterns everywhere. Strength and simplicity. Sacred geometry throughout, someone used their slide rules effectively, thought Bernie, more impressed than ever. Inside the ten by twenty-five-meter cargo bay were aluminum and wood cargo crates lashed down, an emergency landing Kubelwagen and tents, a weapons locker, water and fuel jerrycans, spare parts, cases of combat rations, and an observation Focke- Wulf Autogyro that was in the process of being offloaded in sections with a crane, its rotor blades folded. Pallets of pine lumber from the Alps followed. Are my crates of finds and treasures loaded on yet? asked Schafer of the flight sergeant. The Berlin Museum will be overjoyed, the Fuhrer more so. The sergeant checked a manifest and pointed to a stack of overbuilt crates being lashed down by two crewmen. Jawohl, Herr Standartenfuhrer. Extra sawdust. Ahnenerbe symbols as ordered. 400 kilos.