As if I require more grounds that I have a really awesome job , I occasionally get emails from my editor , Jason , that say things like , " A reader just left a input about Nazi looking to form a super - sophisticated refinement in Antarctica . Can we add that to the listing of matter to investigate ? "
While there are more than a few cabal possibility that deal with the Nazis and advanced ancient and/or alien civilisation , the think Nazi / alien / Antarctica connection , as told by a number of paranormal / conspiracy writer , can be summed up like this : the Nazis claim an arena of Antarctica as German territory and send an expedition there + the Nazis experiment with innovational applied science likestealth aircraftandliquid - propellent rockets= the Nazis in Antarctica must have find oneself foreign applied science or met existent alien .
ramify out from that hypothesis , there are account about Hitler being whisk away ( like a funny book topnotch baddie ) to a hole-and-corner south-polar lair built under a mountain , British and U.S. forces battling Nazis and unidentified flying object in the blow and , at long last , the polar Nazi forces being wiped out by a nuclear bomb .
It would make an first-class summer action movie , but are these stories based on anything ? Like many cabal possibility , there are some elements of the true to it all . But whether the facts can be weave together into one cohesive narration without having to make great leaps of logic is another thing .
For Colin Summerhayes , a geologist and oceanographer with the Scott Polar Research Institute , and Peter Beeching , a journalist and historiographer specialize in international affairs , the story does n’t pass Carl Sagan ’s “ " tosh detection outfit . ”In 2006 , the pair published " Hitler ’s Antarctic Base : The Myth and the Reality . ” It ’s an heroic , peer - reviewedstudyof a mountain of documentary evidence pertain Antarctica ’s geography and weather ( including Summerhayes ’ own research and first - hand experience ) , arctic exploration , and the relevant countries ’ declassify military histories . The 21 - page myth - busting Jagganath , printed in the scholarly journalPolar Record , start with an first-class engagement cry of skepticism :
The narration of the frosty Nazis fails Summerhayes and Beeching ’s gauntlet , and the newspaper picks the tarradiddle apart piece by piece :
The German Antarctic Expeditions and Base
The narrative : In 1938 , the Nazis sent a big team of explorer - including scientists , military social unit and building crews on war ship and submarines - to theQueen Maud Landregion of Antarctica . While mapping the region , they learn a huge connection of underground warm - water rivers and caves . One of these cave extended down as far as 20 - 30 stat mi and control a large geothermal lake . The cave was search and construction teams were institutionalize in to build a city - sized radical , nickname Base 211 or New Berlin , that hosted the SS , the Thule Society , “ serpent cults , ” various Nazi occultists , the Illuminati , and other faint chemical group .
At some point , the Germans either break desert exotic technology or made contact with extraterrestrial Internet Explorer ( variously described asGreysorReptilians ) . They learned or were teach how to retroflex the alien technology , and used it to start out develop a number of super weapon including an modern aircraft called an “ antigravity - phonograph record , ” or flying saucer .
While many of these weapons were not ready for use in World War II , the base and the ability to manufacture these weapons might still exist and the Germans / outlander / some cult or secret society ( bet on which confederacy idealogue you inquire ) will eventually found a New World Order from it .
resume Says : From December 1938 to April 1939 , the Germans really did carry out an exploratory jaunt to the western part of Queen Maud Land . Instead of a large - scale scientific and military operation , though , it consist of one ship , the Schwabenland , and its goal was to scout new district for the expanding German whaling manufacture . Further expeditions were plan , and while there ’s no reference in German written document of any purpose to found a base , the succeeding trips where one could have been built were chop-chop cancel with the irruption of World War II . After this first expedition , there was no of?cial German natural action in Antarctica until 1959 , when several Germans joined a Russian expedition .
Even if they had want to , it ’s not potential that the Schwabenland crew could have built even a little theme , countenance alone one the size of a modest metropolis . The expedition , fit in to the ship ’s logs , was only near the seacoast for a month . Summerhayes and Beeching shape it would have guide the Germans ten days to walk from the boat to the suppose website of the radix and another ten to get back , leaving them less than ten days to build up an full Qaeda . Other arctic expeditions of the earned run average are lie with to have study double that long to ramp up even belittled huts .
Operation Tabarin: SAS vs Nazis
The Story : While Great Britain was exact the South Shetland , South Orkney and other island between Antarctica and South America , they determine they needed a permanent presence in the area to supervise Nazi action in Antarctica , Argentina and Chile . A secret military exercise , Operation Tabarin was establish by the Royal Navy , and established base throughout the island and on the Antarctic peninsula . Eventually , the Germans see the British base on the peninsula and attacked it in the summer of 1945 . The base was under military blockade for month , until the SAS arrived around Christmas and deliver it .
view Says : For one affair , by the summertime of ’ 45 , Hitler was dead and the Germans had deliver to the Allies . For another , the SAS was disbanded in October , and was n’t reestablished until a few years by and by . British documents also suggest that Operation Tabarin was neither as large nor conflict - ready as the floor say . Deterrence and spotting were not stated goals , and most of the activeness were scientific . The home crew consisted mainly of wireless radio set operators and government scientist , with very few combat - quick foot soldier . The largest crew , atHope Bay , consisted of only 13 masses , hardly a power that could repel the Germans for almost six months .
Hitler’s Great Escape
The Story : Two months after the German giving up , a German atomic number 92 - boat , U-530 , entered the Argentine naval base at Mar del Plata after get away from Germany with Hitler , Eva Braun and high - ranking Nazi and SS officials on plug-in and shake off them off at the German Antarctic base . An alternative theory says that the uracil - boat U-977 had been ferrying Hitler ’s ashes , which were post with other Nazi treasures pack in bronze , jumper lead - seamed boxes in the Antarctic metropolis - basis .
view say : By 1945 , Argentina had declared war on Japan and Germany after years of neutrality and favorable enough relations with the Germans . When the U - boat arrived , the captain thought his crew would be well - received , but they were take as prisoners of war and question by the Argentines , the Americans and the British . The interrogator from all three land conclude that the appearing of the torpedo in the field was coincident — Hitler was not on board .
Summerhayes and Beeching also consider the dates of U-530 ’s departure from Germany and arrival in Argentina , a uracil - boat ’s travelling speed , and the weather stipulation during the summer of 1945 , all of which suggest that neither U - sauceboat could have gotten Hitler or his remains to Antarctica . U-530 would not have had time to stop there on its journeying , and either U-530 or U-977 would ’ve had to dive deeper and longer under sea ice than they were capable of to reach Antarctic coastal land .
The Battle of Antarctica: Operation Highjump, UFOs and Secret Nukes
The tale : When the British failed to expel the Germans from Antarctica , the U.S. launch Operation Highjump in 1946 to destroy the German base . The ground and air forces were fought back by Germany ’s flying saucer , and the base was finally obliterated by three nuclear dud strikes . The flying saucers that have been sighted in the U.S. since then are Nazi spy craft , which are making preparations for the launching of the Fourth Reich under the ascendance of what neo - nazi call the “ Last Battalion , ” a Nazi government holdout work in Antarctica or another removed part of the world .
view say : Operation Highjump did encounter , and it was the largest excursion ever sent to Antarctica . It had nothing to do with the Germans , though , as they had already surrender , and everything to do with America ’s Soviet allies . America saw the Soviet world power as a likely threat and , on the eve of the Cold War , decided that the armed services ought to be train for war in extremely frigid conditions in case fight erupted in Russia . Highjump was launched to train personnel and test equipment in very low temperature and deep snow , to practice the building of bases , camp and air field in blow and on chicken feed , and to establish U.S. reign in the region before the Soviets could . It was just one of several exercises to prepare for potential warfare with the USSR , and other , similar operations took place inDavis Strait , Northern Canada and Greenland . Antarctica was picked as the internet site not because of potential German holdout , but because Highjump was the bombastic of these operations and the U.S. wanted to avoid the diplomatical side effect that might follow a full scale naval exercise closer to Soviet borders .
If a German base in Antarctica was the literal target of Operation Highjump , its planners were lacking some very basic single-valued function - reading skills . By all accounts , the hypothecate Nazi cave base was under Queen Maud Land somewhere , but Highjump was ground on the Ross Ice Shelf on the diametric side of the continent . Military - made maps and Navy composition show where every carpenter’s plane and ship live for the duration of the physical exercise , and not one soldier even come nigh to where the Germans were known to have explored . None of Highjump ’s aim or activity were as secret as confederacy idealogue make them out to be , and there were 11 journalists embed on the military ships who relay a amount of over 478,000 words back home to their editors , readers and spectator . With all these reporters saw and heard , the Germans were never mentioned .
As for the fly saucer attacks , the case for these unidentified flying object is made solely on a quote from a navy full admiral that appeared in a Spanish - terminology newsprint . The admiral had been discussing the danger posed by a Soviet presence in the polar region , and how they could potentially plunge plane and attack the U.S. and westerly Europe from the poles . Somehow this got mistranslated ( either accidentally or willfully ) to suggest that the admiral was talk about mysterious “ fast object . ” Highjump did not lose any planes to pilot saucer attacks , either . U.S. forces suffered the red of only one foxiness during the operation , due to a white out in a snowstorm .
After Highjump was sodding , there were three then - secret nuclear explosion in the atm in the southerly hemisphere . They did n’t take place near Queen Maud Land , though , nor even over Antarctica , and they had no military target . rather , they were detonated at in high spirits EL over the sea to study the burden of nuclear explosions gamey up and outside the ambience . American researchers were particularly singular about how a atomic explosion might interfere with microwave radar trailing , communications , and the electronics of satellites and other ballistic projectile in the event of a large - scale nuclear strike during the Cold War . After the exam became public noesis , their intent and location were confirmed by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation in Vienna and the British Antarctic Survey , which had been measure radioactivity on the continent at the metre of the tests and escort no spike heel in radiation therapy levels during or after blowup .
