Ever since it achieved unification in 1871, Germany craved colonies as a matter of national pride. But by the late nineteenth century, most of the ‘uncivilised world’ was already carved up by established European powers. In an eleventh-hour effort, the German Empire acquired a few scraps of Africa and Asia – mainly wild or empty lands nobody else wanted. And even this colonial empire, with the bits few and far between, was taken away after Germany’s defeat in the First World War.

The revanchist mood that swept the Nazis into power in the early nineteen thirties also revived Germany’s by now totally outdated colonial ambitions. Those were turned to the last great area of the globe that was not yet colonized: Antarctica – big, cold and empty. At the beginning of 1939, a Nazi expedition explored a hitherto uncharted area of the Antarctic. By foot and plane, the Nazis surveyed an area between latitudes 69°10’ S and 76°30’ S and longitudes 11°30 W and 20°00’ E, totaling 600.000 sq. km. They called it Neuschwabenland, or New Swabia.

At first glance, Neuschwabenland doesn’t warrant much enthusiasm. Most of it is covered in eternal snow and ice, with only a few places ice-free, mainly around a few hot springs. Yet annexation was an express purpose of the expedition, led by captain Alfred Ritscher, ordered by Hermann Göring himself. Before leaving, the expedition members received practical advice from Richard E. Byrd, an American admiral and experienced polar explorer.

The German airline Lufthansa lent one of its ships, the ‘Schwabenland’ for the expedition – hence the name that was given to the territory. The vessel was a so-called ‘catapult ship’, having before proved itself as a transporter and postal carrier in the South Atlantic. The ‘Schwabenland’ had two Dornier aircraft on board, named Boreas and Passat. A steam catapult was used in flinging the planes, each weighing 10 tonnes, off the ship.

The planes were used for reconnaissance flights over the impassable Hinterland of the heretofore unexplored part of Antarctica, and were thus instrumental in the German Antarctic Expedition. Each plane could stay in the air for a maximum of nine hours and no inland airfields were constructed, so this provided the outer limit for the area to be explored.

In total, 350.000 sq. km were overflown and more than 11.000 photographs taken during 15 flights. These pictures were used in drawing up a map of the territory. During the flights and expeditions on foot, hundreds of Nazi German flags were dropped to symbolize Germany’s possession of the territory. Additionally, the expedition established a provisory base camp and reported that around the so-called Schirmacher See there existed some vegetation, due to the hot springs near the lake.

Capt. Schirmer was prevented from mounting a second, improved expedition by the outbreak of World War Two. During the war, no official activities were registered in the whole of Antarctica. After the war, Norway assumed a protectorate over the area, annexing it to Queen Maud Land. Following the 1957 Antarctic Treaty (the one ‘freezing’ all territorial claims), Norway named its new acquisition after princesses Martha, Raghnild and Astrid.

In 1952, the government of the new Federal Republic of Germany exercised its right, based on the Nazi exploration, to name geographical features in the area. The German polar research station ‘Georg von Neumayer’ is located in what was formerly known as Neuschwabenland. Thus endeth the official version.

A plethora of rumours maintains that Neuschwabenland wasn’t abandoned by the Nazis after the first expedition. In fact, a few crew members of the ‘Schwabenland’ stated that they made several trips to the Nazis’ Antarctic colony, transporting military equipment and heavy tools for mining and tunneling. This must be the origin of the legend that several submarines filled with top-level Nazis fled Europe as the war was ending, finding refuge in a secret network of underground bunkers in Neuschwabenland.

Some stories even maintain that this little Nazi hideaway is the real origin of UFOs (or rather Reichsflugscheiben) – as they really are a German invention rather than an extraterrestrial one.

You would think the Nazis’ military regime was so grotesque that there wouldn’t be the need to create any myths — reality was hard enough to comprehend. Not so. Conspiracy theorists for years have connected the Nazis to everything from UFO sightings to anti-gravity technology. One particularly persistent myth — that the Nazis established a secret base in Antarctica — is now the subject of a peer reviewed scientific paper…to debunk the entire idea.

Nature discusses the recently published article, "Hitler’s Antarctic base: the myth and the reality," about the fascinating effort of scientists to disprove a longstanding conspiracy theory:

Using documentary evidence and first-hand experience of Antarctica, Colin Summerhayes of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, UK, and Toronto-based Peter Beeching puncture every last bit of the story.

To give just a few of their points: the Germans’ pre-war visit to Antarctica, concerned mainly with establishing a whaling base, was fleeting, never spending more than a day on the ice shelf. The wartime British force in Antarctica was tiny, and concerned mainly with observation and securing territorial claims to the islands around the Falklands.

The U-boats were in the southern ocean during the Antarctic winter, when the pack ice would have made it impossible for them to reach the coast. The US atomic tests in the 1950s took place around Tristan da Cunha, thousands of kilometres from Antarctica.

It doesn’t help that the various conspiracists haven’t got their story straight. The proposed location for the Nazi base (often a cavern under the ice) has wandered around over most of the Norwegian Antarctic territory of Dronning Maud Land. And it’s not agreed whether the submarines were carrying Hitler himself, or just his ashes.

Why do some conspiracy ideas persist so long? Because people want to believe them, which makes the whole debunking effort appear a bit futile. And why Antarctica? As Nature suggests:

The polar regions are a particularly good spot for a conspiracy theory. Until recently, the people that went there had a habit of not coming back.



As World War II drew to a close and defeat loomed, Hitler and the other leaders of the Third Reich, knowing that they were war criminals, must surely have looked into finding a bolt-hole. Official history states that Hitler shot himself in his bunker just before the Soviet troops arrived and his lieutenants and secretaries burned his body; but in actual fact the evidence for this is very thin and contradictory.

Did Hitler escape; and if so, where to? Escape was perfectly possible. The SS had many captured Allied aircraft in a hanger at their airbase very close to Berlin; they could have therefore flown Hitler in disguise over the Allied lines to a friendly harbour. Then arrange for a submarine to meet them there and get Hitler out.

History says that this would be useless because the Allies had won the Battle of the Atlantic by then and that no U-boat could operate there without being sunk. But again, this is incorrect. It is true that no U-boat could carry out offensive operations in the Atlantic any more because the ships were too well defended, but that doesn’t mean that a submarine trying to get somewhere secretly couldn’t.

In truth it could, easily. Locating and sinking a sub which attacks you is one thing, trying to find a sub that doesn’t want to be found is another matter entirely. It’s pretty much impossible in fact. Germany also had the new Type XXI submarine with a snorkel mast like a modern sub, so it wouldn’t even need to surface to recharge its battery and air supply, and it seems reasonable that this is the vessel Hitler would have chosen to make his escape. But where could the world’s most wanted man hide? All the Reich’s territories were being invaded and liberated. Where in the world did the Nazis have an outpost that was so remote, so isolated, in such an inaccessible place, that nobody would be able to reach it for many years? One place: New Swabia.

Information that has come to light from many sources, reveals that the Nazis had a large military infrastructure in their Antarctic enclave including a harbour, an air base and an underground port for submarines. Some witnesses even claim that the Nazis were constructing their “New Berlin” in Antarctica where they planned to recover their strength and launch a new war in later years. In their hideaway the Nazis would be able to continue their research into esoteric vehicle propulsion and energy sources, as well as black magic and occult powers.

The war ended (officially) in 1945, but then less than a year later, a massive fleet of 13 ships (at least!) and 4700 sailors, soldiers and government scientists set sail for Antarctica; this was many times the number of people who had ever visited Antarctica before and the mission, called "Operation Highjump", cost billions of dollars. The US government produced a documentary about it that was shown in cinemas all over the world called The Secret Land. The four men (and less than totally proficient actors!) in the two opening office scenes are the Secretary of Defence Admiral James Forrestal, Admiral Chester Nimitz, Chief of Naval Operations during WWII, the famous polar explorer Admiral Richard Byrd and Admiral Richard Cruzan who commanded one of the secondary Highjump fleets.

Two of those four men, Forrestal and Byrd, were struck down by mental illness and suspicious premature death after the campaign was over; what are the odds of that? When you watch this film be aware that you are watching an official United States government production, made on commission by a selected cast and crew with an approved script and production design. This was what the government wishes the public to think happened during Operation Highjump. They are portraying the project the way they want it to be perceived.

Did anyone ask some relevant questions?

Why was a massive naval taskforce needed simply to set up a base and go prospecting for mineral deposits? Why couldn’t a small-scale exploration, of the kind that had been perfectly effective before, manage that? What good would minerals be because mining them and transporting them out in such a hostile environment would be totally uneconomic? If there are no dangerous bacteria and viruses in Antarctica then why did the huskies need inoculating? Why go all the way to Antarctica for training, because if they wanted to train their forces in polar warfare then there are much closer and more accessible places to do it, even within the borders of the United States like Alaska? What really happened to Admiral Byrd during that incident when his plane went missing for three hours? (The scene where Byrd and the other crew are trying to save the plane by jettisoning all non-essential equipment was not genuine live film of the incident, but a reconstruction shot afterwards in studio conditions for the movie.)

Byrd was sectioned in a psychiatric hospital soon after Operation Highjump where he spent most of his remaining life. In 1949, Admiral Forrestal was also declared insane and supposedly committed suicide by jumping out of an upstairs window of a psychiatric ward. Even if there is such a thing as coincidence, could this really be one?

Operation Highjump’s true mission was very different from what official history tells us it was. The taskforce was sent in, together with secret missions from Britain and possibly other former Allied nations for another reason altogether and the official story was smokescreen.

Their primary goal was to take out the Nazis in New Swabia and arrest or kill Hitler.

According to the author, James Roberts, Britain’s own contribution to bring down the Nazi regime in Antarctica is overlooked even by clandestine histories. But Britain was militarily active in Antarctica throughout WWII, before the US and Russians. They were motivated not only to destroy the enemy and end the war, but to gain some Nazi high technology that had been so far denied them because the Americans and Soviets had so far captured all the Nazi scientists.

The article relates the testimony of a former SAS special forces operative who was redeployed from the post-war troubles in Palestine to the Falkland Islands to undergo training for a secret mission for which he is not pre-briefed. He was flown with a small unit of other commandoes into New Swabia and found the Nazi base. Nearly everyone there had been killed by “polar men”.

These seem to be Bigfoot-like creatures which the survivors said are products of a Nazi genetic experiment, or an indigenous natural species. The commandoes travel down a long tunnel and find a huge artificial cavern which served as a city and base, as well as a U-boat port. They planned to demolish the installation with explosives, but the attack goes wrong and they have to fight their way out.

Only three of the ten men survive and they are warned never to talk about what happened. This means that they will receive neither recognition for their endeavours nor any memorial for those that never made it home.

The soldier reports that after the war the RAF continued to fly over New Swabia for many years, supposedly to find a place for new British bases, but “one can’t help but wonder”. Does this mean that the Nazi presence in Antarctica remained for many years after the war officially ended?

The article also mentions the odd behavior of the Nazi submarine fleet in the final months of the war and just afterwards. Boats were captured or surrendered in unusual locations carrying unusual cargoes, and sometimes their crews had unusual tales to tell. One boat was caught near Singapore trying to transit the Straits of Malacca. It was loaded up with a cargo of mercury. One wonders what the mercury was for until you read the strange stories that the Nazis had built a mercury-powered aircraft!

Also, how much did Rudolf Hess know about Antarctica? Hess surrendered himself to the British in 1941 after flying solo to the coast of Scotland demanding a parley with his friend the Duke of Hamilton; the two men had been exchanging letters for some time and Hess wanted to meet him face-to-face. His demand was rejected and Hess was imprisoned for the rest of his life. He died in 1987 - a claimed suicide.

During his long incarceration he was debriefed and interrogated thoroughly by British Intelligence and the minutes of that interrogation are all still Top Secret and are likely to remain so indefinitely. What did he tell people about New Swabia? What secrets did the Nazis who committed suicide (or escaped!) take with them to their graves? Other Nazis too were captured and had their brains picked. It’s very unlikely that Britain didn’t learn an awful lot about the Nazi presence in Antarctica, probably in time to use the intelligence in their secret Antarctic campaign.

Admiral Karl Dönitz might be the key figure because he was both commander-in-chief of the submarine fleet and Hitler’s successor to the remainder of the Third Reich, giving him complete authority; the perfect combination to realize the escape plan.

After his trial at Nuremburg, Dönitz got off surprisingly lightly: a mere ten years in jail! The official story is that Nimitz stood up for him because the Americans borrowed his “Wolfpack” submarine tactics to defeat Japan in the Pacific, but this doesn’t make sense; Dönitz didn’t give the US Navy the plans of his own free will! There had to be more. Did Dönitz do a deal with his prosecutors? Information in exchange for leniency?

After the war the intrigue continued right up until 1961 when the Antarctic Treaty was signed; this turned the continent into the word’s largest nature reserve and an enormous no-man’s land. Before then there are stories of further skirmishes between the rival Cold War powers on the continent. Hideous rumours are circulating about nuclear weapons testing there and even deadly biological agents. But did it even still go on in the post-treaty years?


In January-February 1939, a secret German expedition visited Dronning (or Queen) Maud Land, Antarctica, apparently with the intention inter alia of establishing a base there.

Between 1943 and 1945 the British launched a secret wartime Antarctic operation, code-named Tabarin. Men from the Special Air Services Regiment (SAS), Britain’s covert forces for operating behind the lines, appeared to be involved.

In July and August 1945, after the German surrender, two U-boats arrived in Argentina. Had they been to Antarctica to land Nazi treasure or officials?

In the southern summer of 1946–1947, the US Navy appeared to ‘invade’ Antarctica using a large force. The operation, code-named Highjump, was classified confidential.

In 1958, three nuclear weapons were exploded in the region, as part of another classified US operation, code-named Argus.

Given the initial lack of information about these various activities, it is not, perhaps, surprising that some people would connect them to produce a pattern in which governments would be accused of suppressing information about ‘what really happened’, and would use these pieces of information to construct a myth of a large German base existing in Antarctica and of allied efforts to destroy it. Using background knowledge of Antarctica and information concerning these activities that has been published since the early 1940s, it is demonstrated: that the two U-Boats could not have reached Antarctica; that there was no secret wartime German base in Dronning Maud Land; that SAS troops did not attack the alleged German base; that the SAS men in the region at the time had civilian jobs; that Operation Highjump was designed to train the US Navy for a possible war with the Soviet Union in the Arctic, and not to attack an alleged German base in Antarctica; and that Operation Argus took place over the ocean more than 2000 km north of Dronning Maud Land. Activities that were classified have subsequently been declassified and it is no longer difficult to separate fact from fancy, despite the fact that many find it attractive not to do so.





Dr. Benjamin Simon, a respected psychiatrist and neurologist with an extensive background in hypnosis therapy, began a six month series of hypnosis therapy at the Hills own expense, beginning in late 1963. Both Betty and Barney told virtually identical stories while under hypnosis. They were now able to recall that their car stalled and was soon surrounded by a band of little 'men' dressed in tight fitting black uniforms and that they were taken aboard the craft. Barney was terrified, saying he felt like a "rabbit before a predator". He described the ships leader as looking like a "German Nazi" wearing a shiny black jacket, scarf and cap.

[Actual quote: "...another figure has an EVIL face... he looks like a German Nazi... His eyes! His eyes. I've never seen eyes like that before."]


Nazi bases in Antarctica may very well have been the point-of-origin of the 'Nazi-Grey' craft that Barney and Betty Hill encountered during their abduction experience. The historical facts are evident. Beginning in 1938, long before the end of the Second World War, the Nazis commenced to send out numerous exploratory missions to the Queen Maud region of Antarctica. A steady stream of expeditions were reportedly sent out from [at the time] white supremacist South Africa. Over 230,000 square miles of the frozen continent were mapped from the air, and the Germans discovered vast regions that were surprisingly free of ice, as well as warm water lakes and cave inlets. One vast ice cave within the glacier was reportedly found to extend 30 miles to a large hot-water geothermal lake deep below. Various scientific teams were moved in to the area, including hunters, trappers, collectors and zoologists, botanists, agriculturists, plant specialists, mycologists, parasitologists, marine biologists, ornithologists, and many others. Numerous divisions of the German government were involved in the top secret project.

This is where the mainstream historians leave off, as only revisionist historians will dare consider the implications of the rest of the story...

After all the data was gathered, deep underground construction teams came pouring into the renamed "Neuschwabenland". They came on cargo ships, military transport ships, and submarines. The cargo ships coming from South Africa were protected by a host of killer-submarines and military ships. This might explain the intense Nazi war efforts in North and South Africa. Any ship that even came close to the shipping routes from South Africa to Antarctica were destroyed by German U-boats to protect the secret. After all the goods were brought, the VIPs and scientists started to show  up with a compliment highly specialized Nazi SS teams. 

Early newspaper clippings just prior to the outbreak of World War II imply that "the Germans" were "all over" New Mexico exploring caves and mines, buying up property, and engaging in all sorts of mysterious activities. Could Antarctica be the real power behind the New World Order? If the Nazi bases still exist in Antarctica then they would no doubt still have secret contact with the Bavarian cults which sponsored and were an integral part of the Nazi party, like the Bavarian Thule society for instance.

It is interesting that the re-united East and West Germany is paving the way for the 'unification' of Europe. For instance, all economic bar-codes must be processed through Germany, Germany is trying to impose enforced nepotistic career restrictions where one's career is determined by the family one is born into, a British news agency spoke of investigations of the Bavarian secret service who were reportedly smuggling weapons grade plutonium into Germany from a nuclear black market operation they had established in the former Soviet States, the Illuminati has its base in Germany [Bavaria], and Germany has been the most active country in the international drive for Internet censorship and control. In other words, Democracy seems to be dying a painful death in Germany, IF it ever really existed there in the first place. As for Neu Schwabenland, the construction and secret projects in Antarctica continued throughout the entire course of the war.

Just before the end of the WWII, two German provision U-boats, U-530 and U-977, were launched from a port on the Baltic Sea. Reportedly they took with them members of the antigravity-disk research and development teams and the last of the most vital disc components [much of this technology and hardware had been transported to the base during the course of the war]. This included the notes and drawings for the latest saucer or aerial disk designs, and designs for the gigantic underground complexes and living accommodations based on the remarkable underground factories of Nordhausen in the Harz Mountains.

The two U-boats duly reached the new land of Neu-Schwabenland where they unloaded everything. When they arrived in Argentina several months later, their crews were captured. It seems as if they were either counting on the formerly German-friendly Argentineans to allow them access, or it could have been that they intentionally allowed themselves to be discovered for misinformation purposes, i.e. -- "Yes... we are the last two renegade German subs. We've been trying to hold out but...oops, you caught us... the war's finally over!"

The crews of these U-Boats were of course interrogated by U.S. Intelligence agents who had suspected the existence of the Antarctic base. Whatever the Nazi soldiers tried to tell them, apparently the Americans were not convinced... especially considering the subsequent and ill-fated U.S. Navy backed military actions against the Nazis' "Last Battalion" in Antarctica in later years under Admiral Richard E. Byrd, who arrived at Antarctica with an entire military armada and provisions to last 6 month. However the the entire expedition lasted only 8 weeks, with only approximately three weeks of actual full-scale Antarctic operations.

The Antarcticans were desperate following the war, and knew that a confrontation was imminent. Much effort was put into developing secret weapons projects to defend their new underground Empire, which no doubt was constructed with the 'help' of a large number of expendable slave laborers transported from the concentration camps of Europe.

The major base-city of Antarctica became known as the New Berlin, or by the code-named "Base-211".

The actual beginnings of German interest in the polar regions may date back BEFORE the earliest U.S. Navy polar expeditions. For instance one segment of Nova related that the remains of Capt. Charles Hall of the ill-fated Polaris expedition, one of the first American ventures to the North Pole, were discovered in an ice grave by a subsequent polar expedition. It seemed that when the body was examined it was found to contain poison. It was also discovered by searching the records that the cook [who would be in the perfect position to administer poison] and the first mate on the Polaris expedition were German Occultist spies!

The German secret societies of Bavaria, which had helped to precipitate the first and second world wars, date back to ancient times when -- following the occupation of Egypt -- the [un] 'Holy Roman Empire' military forces based in Germany, the seat of government, brought back from Egypt the black Gnostic "serpent cults" which later gave rise to the Bavarian Illuminati, the Bavarian Thule Society and a host of other lesser known satanic racist cults which gravitated around these. Could the occultist spies who sabotaged the Polaris expedition have been attempting to protect a secret hidden deep within the polar regions?

A German Polar researcher, only identified as 'Stefan' reveals that the 'historical' beginnings of German interest and research into the Antarctic or South Polar region itself began in 1873 when Sir Eduard Dallman on behalf of the newly founded German Society of Polar Research discovered new Antarctic routes with his ship 'Grönland'.

Dallman discovered the "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Inseln" at the western entrance of the Biskmarkstrasse along the Biscoue Islands. Exploring the polar regions, the Germans were already at this time quite innovative, for the 'Grönland' was the first steamship to see the Antarctic ice at all.

Within the next 60 years 2 further expeditional thrusts took place, and two complete expeditions were fulfilled, namely 1910 under Wilhelm Filchner with his ship 'Deutschland'; and 1925 with the special designed polar expedition ship, the 'Meteor' under the command of Dr. Albert Merz.

During the recent years before WWII the Germans claimed to hegemony about parts of Antarctica and the wish to possess [their] own base grew stronger. At this time the Antarctic was not safe due to international treaties like today and a pragmatic proof of Germany's claim by a single strike to the south pole on the eve of the war seemed to be the best option. Hitler himself was anxious for a foothold in the Antarctic and such a claim could be used pretty well for the National Socialistic propaganda and a further demonstration of the uprising "Superpower Germany". On the other side a new provocation of the Allies had still to be avoided for some time. Germany was -- at this time -- not completely prepared for the coming war.

As a matter of fact, the idea of a semi-civilian expedition in cooperation with the German national airline company, the 'Lufthasa grew up. A civilian covered expedition with truly military and strategical background, a highly political charged balancing act. The command on this strike was given to the polar-experienced Captain Alfred Ritscher, who had already led some expeditions to the North Pole and proved courage and skill in critical situations. The selected ship was the 'MS Schwabenland', a German aircraft carrier used since 1934 for transatlantic mail delivery by special flight boats, the famous 'Dornier Wale'. These 'Wales' were mounted on steam catapults on the deck of the ship and could be started and refueled this way easily. This circumstance should prove very well during the expedition.

The 'Schwabenland'was prepared for the expedition at the Hamburg's shipyards, which cost the huge amount of 1 Million Reichsmark, nearly a third of the complete expedition budget.

Meanwhile, the crew was prepared and scheduled by the German Society of Polar Research precisely. This society also made the sensational step to invite Richard E. Byrd, the most famous American Antarctic researcher. On the mid of November 1938 he arrived in Hamburg and showed the crew and a clearly selected publicity of 84 persons his new Antarctic documentation movie in the Urania of Hamburg. Byrd, who had flown across the south pole as the first human in 1929, was already at this time a living legend, a national hero to the Americans and most of the polar researchers. In 1938 he still was civilian. This invitation to the Germans could have been a typical irony of history, for nearly ten years later exactly this Richard E. Byrd -- then in the rank as US Navy Aadmiral -- got the instruction to destroy the secret German Antarctic base 211. To do this, he was given the command of the biggest military force on the Antarctic ice ever seen, 13 ships and nearly 4000 men staff. That mysterious operation which is said to have ended in a catastrophically failure.

The 'Schwabenland' left the port of Hamburg on December 17th 1938 heading to the Antarctic on a precisely planned and determined route and reached the ice on January 19th 1939. The following weeks on 15 flights the 'Passat' and the 'Boreas' flew across some 600.000 square kilometers and made with their special designed German "Zeiss Reihenmessbildkameras RMK 38" more than 11.000 pictures of the area.

The old Norwegian maps from 1931 on these areas were renewed, for they proved to be fake. [Could not be different, because the Norwegian expeditions before did never go so deep into the ice from the used Northern landing point]. Nearly one fifth of the whole Antarctic area was scanned this way, thus documented for the first time and simultaneous claimed to be German territory. To stress this claim on the outside too, the two planes dismissed several thousands of drop-flags, special metal poles with expedition's insignia on them, the 'Swastika'. The whole territory now got the still valid name: 'Neuschabenland', referring to a south German region.

Interestingly, the Expedition seemed to have discovered ice-free areas with even lakes and small signs of vegetation in the mid of the Antarctic. The geologists said that this phenomenon was due hot sources in the ground. Concurrent, the landings points where marked with "prick-flags.

Note: Some newer historians reduce the discovered area to an amount of 325,000 square kilometers. Do not trust these numbers, there are copies of the original flight maps, revealing the number 600,000 in ancient letters. What could be the reason to reduce this number?

Most parts of 'Neuschabenland' were renamed according to the Antarctic treaty in 1957. Look out for "Queen Maud Land", "Princess Martha Coast", "Princess Astrid Coast". On the older maps you will still find the original names. Yet, until today still many of the mountains in the northern Antarctic area carry German names like: "Mühlig-Hoffmann Mountains", "Wohltat Mountains", etc. These names were given according to leading Berlin bureaucrats who enabled with their policy the expedition's targets.

In the mid of February, the 'Schwabenland' again left the Antarctic. It took two months back to Hamburg and Ritscher carefully used this time to organize the results, maps and photos. Captain Ritscher surprised by the results of the flights, immediately planned after the arrival a second, fully civilian, expedition using of lighter airplanes with skids. Facing the beginning of WWII, these civilian (!) plans were said to be given up somewhere on October 1939.

Yet, what about the military and strategic option achieved by this strike? Was it wasted resources so far? Today, all historians agree in the fact that WWII was not accidentally started but pretty well planned from the early 30's and even before. At least since 1933 [incidentally the same year when one of the first 'official' treaties between the Greys and Bavarian Intelligence was initiated -- no doubt with more than a little help from the secret societies operating there] the whole German dictatorship tried to gain war fitness within a decade or earlier. In all aspects of life: military, 'civilian', economic, social, private, resourcing, engineering, foreign policy, and so on, in all aspects the Germans were put straight on their way to war more or less obviously. Pointing to this only aim, the Nationalsocialists abused the typical kind of German correctness and missing sense for rebellious scrutinizing. Nothing was left to chance! And this same method was used in the Antarctic issue, which NEVER ended with Ritscher's return in 1938 but went on during the WWII.

Unfortunately, at this point all valid information has vanished. What is left is a scattered puzzle of hints, testimonies and reports which go up to the fifties and which we partially can not verify anymore. So IF the Germans WERE able to build up an Antarctic [underground] base on the results of Ritscher's expedition, this would be one of the really best covered secrets in German history. No question, German engineers had the knowledge to construct something like that as the huge underground establishments of the Nordhausen complex in the Harz as well as Kahla complex at Thüringen and many more prove.

What follows now is the attempt of a chronological collection of the events and their conclusions as far as they are known to us today. They all lead to the establishing of the Antarctic base 211 at the end of war by means of German submarines and flying saucers and to the [failed ?] attempt to destroy it by the US Navy in 1947.

Note: The following are brief descriptions or synopsis' of information and documentation which 'Stefan' has in his possession, which we will not be quoted in their entirety here. -- Evaluation of the anti-gravity propulsion of a nearly 100% functional flying saucer going down in the 'Schwarzwald' in the summer 1936. -- Alternative hypothesis: Self-developing this propulsion by experiments of German scientists basing on Viktor Schauberger's anti-gravity experiments. "

-- First unmanned flights with the new [re-]built propulsion.

A very special section of the "Reichsluftfahrtbehörde" gets the project under its control with the aim to build up anti-gravital fighters and troop-carriers. The project's name is 'Haunebu' [some sources also call it the 'Vril' project].

The prototypes are numbered in ascending order.

The project has many setbacks in the first years due to the massive electro-magnetic disturbances and their interaction with conventional electric components. Although the propulsion can be handled and used principally, it seems to be nearly impossible to "drive or fly" these prototypes in sharper angels than 90 degrees, thus not usable as fighters. Additionally normal navigation systems referring somehow to magnetic fields were completely useless and special magnetic independent navigation instrumentation designed, the celestial guidance system: "Meisterkompass" and "Peiltochterkompass". "

-- Further secret German expeditions to 'Neuschwabenland'.

As landing points, there could have been used two of the three marked landing bays north-west of the "Mühlig-Hoffmann Mountains"  - those were already documented as 'landing bays' by Ritscher. "

-- Starting the assemblage of the Antarctic base 211. Simultaneously a second secret base is build up on a high plateau in the South American Andes. [Argentina ?] "-- Necessary items for the erection of the bases are continuously transported on submarines.

Note: German submarine commanders are highly experienced in the Arctic waters due to the need of delivery of material and people to Germany's northern Arctic bases and civilian research stations. In fact at least 20 well documented operations have taken place along the Arctic until 1945 by means of these submarines. Some of these operations, especially the later ones, had to be carried out under extreme conditions and with the permanent threat of contact with the enemy.

Besides, on their way to the south pole, researchers discovered somewhat like a straight deep submarine trench fitting pretty well for the necessary transportation's.

-- The 'Haunebu' series has left the stadium of prototypes and brought up to 19-25 ships in 2 [or even 3] sizes.

'Haunebu I' is a small vessel, 'Haunebu II' a more sophisticated, larger one. Some reports even hint at 'Haunebu III', which was designed as a mother ship.

If this third type has become reality, there existed only one single ship. So, the overall transport capacities are still very limited, due to a quite small diameter of the disks. Additionally production of ships gets more and more difficult, because the Allies managed to cut of Germany's raw materials more and more. Yet 'HAUNEBUs managed to disturb some allied bomber raids over Germany.

Note: Every allied bomber pilot in the [latter] years of the war knew the mysterious threat of the so called "foo-fighters" appearing and vanishing with incredible speed and causing bright-orange light phenomenon's and paroxysmal instrumentation failures on all electric and magnetic parts of the bombers. In no source a direct attack by these "foo-fighters" is mentioned, they seem to play a completely defensive role on the late air war over Germany.

Note: see the movie, The Battle of the Bulge, which correctly implies that the Germans were on the verge of developing a whole range of incredible new aerial weapons, and needed to prolong the war for a few more months in order to get their new jets, etc., into production, and the Battle of the Bulge was a part of this plan. However just as these new weapons were about to go into mass production the German military failed to fully succeed in their battle plans to buy more time and prolong the war for a few more months, and the Allied invasion of Germany began. That particular victory may have been closer than most of us would dare to believe.

-- The enormous pressure of the Allies force the Germans to give up the big secret underground facilities in Eastern Germany. The Allies themselves seem to be pretty well informed on these facilities and overall eager to capture them. The Germans flee and leave back much material of the 'Haunebu' project. Their attempt to rebuild the construction zones in the middle of Germany fails. The war is nearly over.

Quotations: 

I have seen enough of their designs and production plans to realize that if they [the Germans] had managed to prolong the war some months longer, we would have been confronted with a set of entirely new and deadly developments in air warfare."

~ Sir Roy Feddon, chief of the technical mission to Germany for the Ministry for Aircraft Production in 1945.

When WWII ended, the Germans had several radical types of aircraft and guided missiles under development. The majority were in the most preliminary stages, but they were the only known craft that could even approach the performance of objects reported to UFO observers... 

-- Captain Edward J. Ruppelt Chief of the US Air Force Project 'Bluebook' on 1956.

Notes:

-- A last convoy of submarine vessels leaves German Harbors with direction to Antarctica and Andes. It is the overall successful attempt to escape the Allies' clutches.

Among this last convoy there are the U 530 [Captain Otto Wehrmut] and the U977m [Captain Heinz Schäffer].

-- The last visual contact with U977 was on April 26th at Christiansund. Schäffer's crew did not reveal anything about the submarine's destination or load. The vessel vanishes now for nearly 4 months, before the crew delivers a completely empty vessel to Argentinian Officials.

-- In the same way, leading NS-Officials and technicians are evacuated from Berlin/Potsdam with the Haunebu fleet heading to the meanwhile COMPLETED (?) base 211.

The overall transport capacities are quite limited. -- The submarine convoy achieves in the southern Atlantic Sea a sea victory over an Allied unit trying to stop it. This event is under wraps until today. -- Germany's capitulation [to the Allies] 17 August 1945.

-- Some submarine crews who are not willing to live in the base or who perhaps can't be admitted to the base travel to Argentine and hand over their completely empty submarines.

-- Among those are the documented cases of U530 and U977. High US NAVY officials immediately traveled down to Argentine and started severe interrogations on the crew. Schaeffer repeatedly denied to have brought anyone or anything to anywhere. Although most of the crew are unwilling to tell what really happened, it is possible that these interrogations deliver important information about the location of the base.

Note: One source has claimed that the information the interrogators received involved the escape of Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann, Eva Braun and a major segment of the Nazi leadership -- not including those who were 'sacrificed' to the Nuremberg trials after the war -- to the South Polar base. This source claimed that these interrogations ultimately led to the military action against the entrenched Nazi forces in Antarctica under the command of Navy Admiral Richard E. Byrd.

Yet for us, it remains very mysterious what the crew really did after the official capitulation on May 1945, for they confessed to have heard it soon on their own radio. When Schaffer came free, he immediately traveled back to Argentina to stay there with some fellows for the rest of his life.

Note: Others claim that a large number of 'Antarcticans' have infiltrated South America via Argentina, and in turn North America -- where the Nazi "UFO" forces have reportedly established several underground bases. They are reportedly working with "Paperclip" Nazis, members of various Bavarian fraternal cults, and Anglo-American corporate fascists above, in a plan to bring down America by creating a fascist revolution in the United States, like the one that brought the Nazi's to power in Germany. The concentration camps, thousands of train cars equipped with shackles, and executive orders for the implementation of martial law are already in place.

-- Until today more than 100 submarines of the German fleet are missing. Among those are many of the highly technological XXI class equipped with the so-called 'Walterschnorkel', a special designed and coated Schnorkel enabling submarines in combination with their new developed engines to dive for many thousand miles. A 'trip' to the base without recognition becomes pretty possible with this technology.

-- More than one year after the surrendering of U977 the US Navy launches the biggest military operation in the Antarctic ice under the command of Admiral Richard E. Byrd. This is the operation 'HIGHJUMP', including 13 ships, 1 aircraft carrier, 2 seaplane tenders, 6 two-engined R4D transports and 4000 men. The only official statement on the purpose of such a task force is the need for testing "new material under the extreme Antarctic conditions.

The force starts up at the established US bases in the "ROSS SEA", then it moves up the western Antarctic coast heading toward the Northern Antarctic coast, 'NEUSCHWABENLAND' and building up a bridgehead on January 27th 1947 somewhere west of it. Officially the expedition is a big success because it delivers many new facts of the use of military equipment under extreme conditions.

-- What is the need of such a big task force in this area? IF the expedition was such a success, why did Byrd already return to the US in February 1947? The operation was planned and equipped for a full 6-8 month duration. Did this expedition carry atomic warheads as some sources say?

Note: although the entire expedition lasted some 8 weeks, some sources claim that the actual battle -- once Byrd's forces had been divided into three main battle groups on the continent of Antarctica -- lasted only 3 weeks.

-- Byrd flew in 1947 at least one time in a right-twisted circle across the whole territory 'Neuschwabenland' heading from southwest over the 'Ritscher Hochland' and the eastern areas to the Pole. On his return to the US, Byrd reveals in an [often quoted but nowhere validated] interview with a reporter that it was "necessary for the USA to take defensive actions against enemy air fighters which come from the polar regions" and that in case of a new war, the USA would be attacked by fighters that are able to fly from one pole to the next with incredible speed.

Byrd has to face a secret cross-examination by US authorities. The US withdraws from the Antarctic for almost a decade.

Note: Another claim which has been made by certain investigators, although the original source is difficult to track down, was that upon returning to the States Admiral Byrd went into a rage before the President and Joint Chiefs of Staff and in an almost demanding tone, strongly 'suggested' that Antarctica be turned into a thermonuclear test range.

-- World wide mass sightings of UFOs. In the late 70's it becomes more and more obvious that many of these sightings are identical in some technical details with the 'Haunebu' series. This can be stated especially for the so called 'Adamski' UFOs in the early fifties which somehow look very terrestrial, nearly in "fashion style" of this decade and somehow very different from the rest of flat-bottomed crafts.

-- The International Antarctic year with large civilian research projects starts. The result is the Antarctic treaty in which all participants agree to avoid any military operations this region in future times. This treaty ends somewhere in the year 2000.



THE UNITED STATES NAVY ANTARCTIC DEVELOPMENTS PROJECT 1946-1947

RADM Richard E. Byrd (USN Ret.) - Officer in Charge TASK FORCE 68
RADM Richard H. Cruzen, USN, Commander TASK FORCE 68

As sadness permeated the American naval bases, at the decommissioning of ships, Admiral D. C. Ramsey, chief of naval operations, was in Washington signing his name to an astounding set of orders addressed to commanders in chief of the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets. These orders would establish the Antarctic Developments Project which would be carried out during the forthcoming Antarctic summer (December 1946 - March 1947). Chief of naval operations, Chester W. Nimitz, code named the project Operation Highjump.

Instructions were for twelve ships and several thousand men to make their way to the Antarctic rim to (1) train personnel and test material in the frigid zones; (2) consolidate and extend American sovereignty over the largest practical area of the Antarctic continent; (3) determine the feasibility of establishing and maintaining bases in the Antarctic and to investigate possible base sites; (4) develop techniques for establishing and maintaining air bases on the ice, with particular attention to the later applicability of such techniques to operations in interior Greenland, where, it was claimed, physical and climatic conditions resembled those in Antarctica, and (5) amplify existing knowledge of hydrographic, geographic, geological, meteorological and electromagnetic conditions in the area.

1} Although not specifically stated in the August 26, 1946 orders, a central objective of the project was the aerial mapping of as much of Antarctica as possible, particularly the coastline...

2} Also in January 1947, famous aviator Eddie Rickenbacker was pushing for American exploration in Antarctica, including the use of atomic bombs for mineral research.

3} November headlines in the New York Times declared a six nation race to Antarctica "set off by reports of uranium deposits". The article went on to charge that the British was leading the race by sending a "secret expedition" to occupy Byrd's 1939-41 "East Base" at Marguerite Bay on the Antarctic peninsula. Actually, the British had been active in Antarctica for a number of years.

4} The formal American position on the polar regions had always been that they should be open to exploration and research by all concerned but in the wake of Admiral Byrd's formal announcement of OPERATION HIGHJUMP on November 12, 1946, Latin American governments became nervous and suspicious of the notorious American Yankee.

OPERATION HIGHJUMP was seen as a huge threat to future Latin American claims. After all, thirteen ships with 4,700 men seemed to confirm the notion that the United States had a plan of their own to seize huge chunks of the continent. The official press release by Byrd seemed to confirm their anxiety as OPERATION HIGHJUMP was justified as an "extension" of the United States Navy's "policy of developing the ability of naval forces to operate under any and all climatic conditions". A publicly stated objective was to "consolidate and develop the results of the US ANTARCTIC SERVICE EXPEDITION 1939-41". As it turns out, the Latin suspicions were correct. Initial approval of OPERATION HIGHJUMP was apparently reached at a meeting of the "Committee of Three" (Secretary of State, Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy) on August 7, 1946.

5} Admiral Marc Mitscher, commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, was even more daring in his "Instructions for OPERATION HIGHJUMP " issued on October 15. "Objectives" included "Consolidating and extending United States sovereignty over the largest practicable area of the Antarctic continent". Perhaps the Departments of State and Navy had wished for major territorial claims, but the fact of the matter is that no formal claims were made by the men of OPERATION HIGHJUMP. It was not launched in a scramble for Antarctica's natural resources nor was it launched for the chief purpose of territorial expansion. According to news releases of Admiral Byrd's November 12 press conference announcing OPERATION HIGHJUMP, "The Navy strongly discounted reports that the voyage will be primarily a lap in the race for uranium. 'When this expedition was first talked about, uranium wasn't even mentioned. The statement that this is a uranium race for atomic energy is not correct', Admiral Byrd was quoted as saying. However, the basic objectives were not diplomatic, scientific or economic -- they were military. OPERATION HIGHJUMP was, and to this day still is, the largest Antarctic expedition ever organized.

6} Admiral Ramsey's preliminary orders of August 26, 1946, stated that "The Chief of Naval Operations only will deal with other governmental agencies" pertaining to OPERATION HIGHJUMP. "No diplomatic negotiations are required. No foreign observers will be accepted". Thus, it seemed there would be little room for civilian scientists and observers.

In the film The Secrets of the Third Reich in an interview, Virgil Armstrong, a retired CIA Agent talks about the Byrd expedition and states:

The later reports indicated that Admiral Byrd was given 8 months and unlimited funding to go in and pull this thing successfully off! But we also know that within 8 weeks he was totally defeated. Now the supposition at that point was that there was an advanced civilization and technology most probably alien that were with the Third Reich and the SS who was in Antarctica and that those greatly developed technologies were used to defeat Admiral Byrd.

In May 2006 the Russians released a 45 minute video about the NAZI UFO enigma. It contains much of the same saucer images as the film mentioned above, but it has more photos and briefly shows the drive unit glowing in operation. The film is in Russian.....

What is important in this film is that the Admiral Byrd expedition to Antarctic is shown on live footage from the time. The story is told by Russian Naval officers. There are several great segments showing the U-Boats in Antarctic waters. the size of the fleet of Admiral Byrd and the planes on the deck of the aircraft carrier.Then they show film footage of the battle!!! The planes being shot down... and the UFO's... One disk flies swiftly between the camera and the smoke stack of the ship... then they capture one slowly crossing the entire scene...

This is amazing footage ...




Near the end of the film they briefly cover the underground fresh water lake that sits below what is now Vostok Station in Antarctica They are planning to take samples...

Then there are images of HAARP and some views of a seismograph taking readings. They show this in conjunction with describing a wormhole that exists at both poles!!! Perhaps this is the hole people have talked about at the poles?

 

 

 

Hitler didn't escape, Russian forensic centre says

 

Moscow - The Russian Centre for Forensic Medicine issued an unusual denial Saturday, saying German dictator Adolf Hitler didn't escape to a secret base at the South Pole at the end of World War II but died in Berlin. Viktor Zvyagin, the head of the identification department, told the RIA Novosti news agency that "for the specialists in Russia and abroad there is no doubt that Hitler died on April 30, 1945."


Russian media reports had recently speculated that Hitler managed to flee Berlin before it fell to Russian troops.


The charred corpses of Hitler and his wife Eva Braun were found in a bomb crater in Berlin and this was proven by forensic tests, Zvyagin stressed.