In Popular Culture
- Kammler appears in Philip Kerr's novel A Quiet Flame, the fifth in Kerr's series about the German policeman/detective Bernie Gunther. In the novel, Kammler escaped Germany and worked on the American nuclear program. But as a former high-ranking German official, he feared arrest in the US and fled to Argentina where he became a close friend of president Juan Perón.
- Kammler is involved in the backstory of the 2012 Finnish science fiction movie Iron Sky.
- Kammler is the obvious inspiration behind the character of Ernst Streicher in Michael Slade's novel 'Swastika'.
- Kammler's work, specifically "Die Glocke", forms the inspiration for and backdrop of Scott Mariani's 2010 novel, The Shadow Project.
- Kammler and "Die Glocke" also inspire Black Order, by James Rollins.
- Hans Kammler and Operation Paperclip appear in a short story Stars Fell on Alabama, by Andrew McKenna.
- Hans Kammler and Operation Paperclip appear in 'The Athena Project' by Brad Thor.
- In the Hogan's Heroes episode "The Rise and Fall of Sergeant Schultz", a General and friend of Sgt. Schultz, who fought with him in World War 1 visits Stalag 13. The general's name is "Hans Kammler".
- Kammler plays a role in the thriller "The Novak Legacy" by John Douglas-Gray.
- Kammler is one of the characters in Slezský román by the Czech writer Petr Čichoň, a novel about (not only) the Hlučín Region. While his children live after the World War Two in South America, he works in Czechoslovakia for some time, given new identity; later he commits suicide.
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