Where was the 3rd Reich in Antarctica place. New Swabia: the secret base of the Third Reich in Antarctica

What interested the top officials of Germany so much? Why did they need to build submarines on the eve of the war? These questions are still on the minds of the public...

Journey south... City of the gods.

When British intelligence officers discovered incomprehensible activity from Germany, directed towards the South Pole, they seriously thought: why would the Germans need permafrost?

It all started in 1938, when Germany equipped two large-scale expeditions to the south with the goal of ... which the intelligence officers of the former USSR learned about a year later. Throughout the year, German aircraft surveyed an area of more than 8,000 square meters. kilometers, marked it with a swastika and safely reported to the commander. Research by Germany had a single goal - the search for the "city of the gods", which, according to some sources, was under the ice of Antarctica and was a warm oasis where people could calmly exist.

According to German scientists, researchers, the planet Earth has in its depths the so-called huge hollow spaces. It was precisely such voids in the lands of Antarctica that the Germans were looking for. According to scientists, these voids were huge areas with continents, seas, mountains and ... the sun. Whether the Germans found it or not is still unknown. But the fact that since 1940 Hitler ordered the construction of underground bases is a fact. But the purpose of the construction of the Arctic bases was quite prosaic at that time - the study and design of supernova weapons.

Target - New Swabia

According to verified data, starting in 1942, an active transfer of the elite and outstanding geniuses of Germany to the ice dungeons of Antarctica began. Why was there such a rush? And what did Hitler really know? There are two versions of this.

First- The Third Reich foresaw a possible failure in the war and provided for itself a safe place where the entire top of the priceless Aryans could sit out for many years without the risk of being found.

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Second version includes the first, but on a larger scale. German scientists, armed with new knowledge, in the relative calm of the ice planned to search for alternative energy sources, new developments in the field of mechanical engineering. As the found records of scientists who worked for Nazi Germany show, the Germans were quite successful in creating incredible machines.

So the electrodynamic apparatus, during rotation, created a gravitational field around itself, bending time. If German scientists managed to create this in the second half of the 40s of the last century, what could they create in absolute peace over the past decades?

Also, some sources claim that Hitler did not actually die in the bunker, as many people think. And he safely got on a submarine to the "paradise" near Antarctica and took a direct part in the life of several bases. Is this true or fiction?

Fake maneuver succeeded

No less surprising is the following observation. A decade after the Second World War, in 1950, the weather stations of Antarctica spotted an amazing object. According to eyewitnesses, he had a cigar-shaped shape, moved absolutely silently and zigzag, several times just hovering in the air ...

Six years later, two more such devices were recorded, while their radiation background exceeded the permissible norm by more than 40 times. According to witnesses, helicopter pilots, two large metal objects quickly approached them, then one abruptly changed direction towards the ground, while its surface changed color. Five years later, Brazilian researchers noticed such devices.

UFO or German developments? Where did the Nazis go in Antarctica.

So what is it? UFO or German developments? According to some researchers, after the capture of Germany, the allied forces missed 250 thousand people. But where could they have gone? Another fact! More than 150 German submarines simply evaporated in the waters of the world's oceans. At the same time, the maximum number that could be blown up by underwater mines does not exceed 30 objects. Then where is everyone else?

Preparations for the New Swabia expedition continued until 1938. The German ship "Schwabia" was re-equipped for Antarctic research, a hydroplane, a crane and other equipment were fixed on it. The team of specially trained polar explorers was led by Captain Alfred Reacher, an experienced explorer who had repeatedly visited the North Pole. It is alleged that this expedition cost the budget of Nazi Germany in the amount of about 3 million Reichsmarks.

In December 1938, the "Schwabia" set sail from the port of Hamburg in the direction of Antarctica, the journey to the mainland took a little over a month. The research (and they were large-scale) took less time than the actual journey from Hamburg to Antarctica - in mid-February of the same year, the expedition set off on the return journey.

During this expedition, photographs were taken from two aircraft of the Antarctic territory with a length of over 300 thousand square kilometers (and in general, German researchers flew about 600 thousand km²), the Schirmacher oasis was discovered, on which there was no ice. The Germans scattered around the perimeter of the explored territory a large number of pennants with the Nazi swastika, thus marking the boundaries of their future possessions.

Upon returning home, Reacher urged Hitler to organize another expedition as soon as possible, with more equipment. But the outbreak of World War II prevented the implementation of these plans.

Nazi Antarctic military base 211 "New Berlin" is nothing more than a myth

For three weeks in Antarctica, the Reacher expedition could not build even a semblance of a military base there. Yes, she did not set such a goal - it was physically impossible. Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists and esotericists attribute the equipment of the Antarctic secret military base 211 "New Berlin" to Alfred Reacher. Allegedly, the occult values of the Third Reich were subsequently delivered to Antarctica on submarines and hidden there, and the Germans contacted aliens at a secret base.

All these stories are based on information about the activity of Nazi submarines off the coast of Antarctica during World War II. German submariners really often cruised in these places, especially since 1943, the period of the turning point in the Great Patriotic War, when it became clear to the Nazis that their defeat in this war was apparently inevitable.

The Germans transported valuables and people on submarines to Argentina, where, not without the help of Nazi Germany, a coup was carried out in 1943 and the pro-Nazi Juan Peron came to power. It is no coincidence that subsequently many Nazi criminals took refuge in this South American country. After unloading in some Argentine port, German submarines deliberately set off for the shores of Antarctica and actively indicated their presence there in order to mislead American and British intelligence. And then they returned to their bases.

It is no coincidence that, apart from the parking lots of Nazi submarines, modern Antarctic researchers have not found anything on this continent. A whole base with underground utilities is not a needle in a haystack.

It had claims until it ceased to exist as a state, still excite the minds of researchers of the unknown. Someone considers New Swabia just a certain territorial Antarctic sector, interesting for scientific study. According to conspiracy theorists, Neu-Schwabenland is the secret base of the Third Reich.

In any case, the Germans continue to explore the territory of the former New Swabia today - the German Antarctic station Normeier III operates there.

Territory of Queen Maud Territorial claims to the Arctic New Swabia existed for 6 years - from 1939 to 1945 - a period when Nazi Germany still did not lose hope of world domination. The name of the German Antarctic sector comes from Schwaben (Swabia) - this is the former duchy of the German Empire, whose lands were ceded to France at the beginning of the 19th century.

It should be noted that the German government did not formally renounce the lands of New Swabia. However, today this territory is called Queen Maud Land and the rights to it are claimed by Norway.

From the first expeditions to the Nazi project "Neu-Schwabenland"

Following the example of other countries, Germany began exploring Antarctica at the end of the 19th century. The purpose of these expeditions was scientific research. Before the Nazis came to power, Germany carried out two independent Antarctic expeditions - from 1901 to 1903 and from 1911 to 1912. The Germans were the first to test atmospheric probes filled with hot air there, they also discovered, described and gave the name of the new surveyed territory, which they called Kaiser Wilhelm II Land. In the second expedition, German scientists were going to go through the whole of Antarctica in order to find out what it is like - a continuous continent or an island group. The large-scale project failed, but the researchers discovered two more geographical objects, named by the Germans the Luitpold Coast and the Filchner Ice Shelf.

In 1933, headed by A. Hitler, the German National Socialist

The political workers' party (NSDAP) became the ruling party in Germany. The "collector of territories" Adolf Hitler immediately announced territorial claims to the "no man's" Antarctica, which the Fuhrer considered as a potential new territory of the Third Reich.

The Germans began preparations for a new, third, expedition to Antarctica with the aim of exploring a certain part of the mainland and subsequently securing this territory for Nazi Germany. Antarctic land was supposed to become that very New Swabia, Neu-Schwabenland

What was Alfred Reacher's expedition doing there?

Upon returning home, Reacher urged Hitler to organize another expedition as soon as possible, with more equipment. But the outbreak of World War II prevented the implementation of these plans.

Nazi Antarctic military base 211 "New Berlin" - nothing more than a myth In the three weeks of their stay in Antarctica, the Reacher expedition could not build even a semblance of a military base there. Yes, she did not set such a goal - it was physically impossible. Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists and esotericists attribute the equipment of the Antarctic secret military base 211 "New Berlin" to Alfred Reacher. Allegedly, the occult values of the Third Reich were subsequently delivered to Antarctica on submarines and hidden there, and the Germans contacted aliens at a secret base.

Anomalies on Neumeier III

Today, on the territory of the former New Swabia, the German Antarctic station "Neumeier III" operates, whose employees are engaged in the usual scientific research for these places.

body work.

A few years ago, scientists began to notice strange phenomena near the station - incomprehensible flying objects. What it is, no one can explain yet. But certainly not greetings from a non-existent Nazi base.

Nazis in Antarctica
... In 1954, a sensational article appeared in the American newspaper National Policy that Adolf Hitler did not die at all in his Berlin bunker in May 1945, but slipped away to Antarctica in a submarine and lives there in a "country residence" under called New Bertesgaden.

The corpse found by Soviet soldiers in the courtyard of the Reich Chancellery was allegedly the corpse of one of Hitler's doubles - Klaus Buschter, a Jew from Antwerp (* 49).

The official news of the death of the most important world villain, which has flown around the entire globe, put an end to all doubts and fabrications about the failed retribution, which allowed the Fuhrer to begin creating a new, Fourth Reich in harsh polar conditions.

“... In Antarctica,” writes National Policy, “it would be practically impossible to find“ this demoniac ”of any, even the most numerous expedition. How could one comb through all these plains, alleys and mountains covered with eternal ice and snow?

At best, thousands and tens of thousands of searchers with ships, planes, helicopters and special equipment would be required. Meanwhile, in Germany, plans to create a permanent base in Antarctica began to be seriously developed back in 1938, and over the next seven years, regular flights between Germany and Antarctica began on the research ship "Schwabia", later, with the outbreak of war, replaced by a division of submarines , which received the new name "Fuhrer's Convoy" and included 35 submarines.

Before the war, mining equipment, railroads, electric locomotives, trolleys, tractors, milling cutters for cutting tunnels in the rock mass were delivered to the construction area of the Antarctic base on "Schwabia" ...

Submarines transported everything else. "Base 211", founded in the Schirmacher Bay and turned into a cargo transshipment port, attracted scientists, engineers, and highly skilled workers in large numbers.

And here are the memoirs of retired American Colonel Windell Stevens, who in the late 80s told everyone who wanted to listen to him about a German documentary report he had once seen, allegedly found by Australians in 1957 and transferred to US military intelligence:

“Our intelligence, where I worked at the end of the war,” recalls Stevens, “knew that the Germans were building twenty-four very large cargo submarines with a displacement of 5,000 tons each - an unprecedented value for this type of vessel, and all these submarines were launched on the water, equipped with experienced crews, and then disappeared without a trace.

To this day, we have absolutely no idea where they went. They did not surrender after the war in any port of the world, and their remains have not been found anywhere either. It's a mystery, but it certainly can be solved thanks to this Australian documentary, which shows large German cargo submarines in Antarctica, ice around them, crews on decks waiting to be moored..."

So, a new version has appeared about the last refuge of the German Fuhrer. A very good version, because it keeps the minds of millions of overly impressionable media consumers on their toes. In the fascinating book of the famous explorer of the "otherworldly" Karel Velazquez "Under the same sky" some moments of the "German Antarctic epic" are highlighted.

On the basis of some secret documents that came to him from nowhere and no one knows at what time (as well as no one knows where then disappeared), Velazquez claims that in addition to the latest cargo submarines, the Fuhrer's Convoy also included about a hundred (!) Conventional combat submarines, and in July-August 1945 (after the end of the war in Europe), two of these boats surrendered to the Argentine authorities in the port of Mar del Plata. The captains of these ships were Otto Wehrmouth (U-530) and Heinz Schaeffer (U-977).

During interrogations conducted by specialists from the British and American intelligence services, these "sea wolves" allegedly admitted that they repeatedly made voyages from Germany to Antarctica, to the shores of New Swabia, and on the night of April 13, 1945, both submarines began their last transoceanic transition.

Loaded in Kiel with large sealed boxes that contained the most valuable relics of the Third Reich and Hitler's personal belongings, Schaeffer took his boat out into the ocean. On board U-530, in addition to the cargo, about 30 more people unknown to Captain Vermouth were taken, and the faces of some were hidden by surgical bandages.

The allies could not find out more from the surrendered submariners, and although Vermouth was nevertheless accused of having taken Adolf Hitler himself to South America, he stubbornly denied this, and since no evidence was found, all these accusations hung in the air. But Velasquez eventually managed to learn much more.

"Flying Saucers" of the Nazis

As already mentioned, the interest that the leaders of Nazi Germany showed on the eve of the Second World War in this distant and lifeless region of the globe could not be rationally explained, despite the widespread version of the preparations for the evacuation of the leaders and values of the Reich in case of its defeat in the coming war.

But Velazquez quickly found that "reasonable explanation", and even backed it up with some documents.

The gist of the matter was as follows. Long before the start of the Second World War, and even before Hitler came to power in Germany, there were such mystical societies as "TULE" and "VRIL", and the first was nothing more than a "German branch" ... of the Teutonic Order itself, and the second, more closed - a kind of Masonic lodge with a pronounced occult beginning.

Both societies worked in close contact with the ANNENERBE organization, and among other things, with the help of the financial resources of the patron society, they searched all over the world for documentation related to the occult orders. Non-traditional methods of obtaining knowledge were also practiced. For the sessions with the "gods" the most experienced mediums and contactees were involved - under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, in a state of trance, they contacted the so-called "Outer Minds".

One fine day, supposedly occult "keys" worked, and through one of the contactees information of a man-made nature was received, which made it possible to obtain drawings and descriptions of "flying disks", which in their characteristics significantly exceeded all aviation equipment of that time.

“In the archives of the III Reich,” Velasquez informs his readers, “drawings were found that in general terms explain the principles of “twisting” the so-called thin physical fields, which make it possible to create some kind of techno-magic apparatus. One of the developers of "terrestrial versions" of techno-magic devices is the famous Dr. Walter Schumacher (*50).

According to the documentation I received, the electrodynamic machines designed by this scientist, using the rapid rotation of piezotron elements, not only changed the structure of time around them, but also hovered in the air contrary to all previously known laws of gravity. There is evidence that an apparatus with such capabilities was sent in 1939 near Munich, to Augsburg, where its research was continued at a secret Air Force training ground. As a result, the technical division of the SS-1 created a whole series of "flying discs" of the "Vril" type.

Similar information was received by the TULE Group through its own channels. The "saucer", built according to the drawings received by the "contactees" of this society, received the code name "Schütz" and was additionally equipped with jet boosters, which led to its disaster, which occurred in Norway in the winter of 1940. Judging by the secrecy with which all the work was carried out, there is every reason to believe that Hitler was not made aware of these experiments at all ...

The next generation of "flying saucers" was the "Haunebu" series. As it appears from the secret US Air Force intelligence documentary "UFO in the Third Reich", which came to me under mysterious circumstances, some ideas and technologies of the ancient Indians are used in these devices. Engines for "Haunebu" were designed by the most prominent Austrian scientist in the field of fluid motion, Walter Shtauberg.

All work was supervised personally by Himmler, who did not spare any funds to finance such grandiose projects. With the help of additional appropriations, an SS development center with enhanced capabilities - Bouvet-IV was created, in which a top-secret "flying saucer" project - "Hauneburu-X-Boot" with a diameter of 26 meters was soon developed.

The so-called "perpetual motion machine" - a tachyonator-70 with a diameter of 23 meters - was used as a mover on the "Hauneburu-X-Boot". The control was carried out by means of a pulsed magnetic field generator under the index "4A-sic". The device could develop a practical speed of about 6000 km / h, but by increasing the engine thrust it was planned to reach a speed four times greater ...

However, the most important achievement of German designers was the adaptation of the saucer to the most extreme conditions, which turned it into the most real spacecraft, and its normal carrying capacity was no less than 100 tons.

Serial production of this model was scheduled for 1944, but by that time the next, more advanced version, the Hauneburus-I, was tested, intended for air combat with enemy naval squadrons. The diameter of the "plate" was 76 meters, and four gun turrets from the battleship "Lutzow" were mounted on it, each of which had three guns of 203 mm caliber.

In March 1945, this "saucer" made one revolution around the Earth at an altitude of more than 40 kilometers and landed in Japan, at the naval base of the Japanese fleet in Kure, where the onboard guns were replaced at the local shipyard with nine Japanese 460 mm caliber guns from the battleship "Yamato" (*51). The "Hauneburus-I" was driven by a free-energy engine that used the almost inexhaustible energy of gravity (*52).

By the end of the war, the Nazis had nine research facilities, which tested a variety of "flying disc" projects. All these enterprises with scientists and key figures from the leadership of the Third Reich were successfully evacuated from Germany. I have reliable information that they were moved to a place called "New Swabia".

Today it may already be a decent-sized complex. Maybe these large 5000-ton cargo submarines are also located there ... Many competent sources claim that since 1942, thousands and thousands of prisoners of concentration camps, as well as many scientists, engineers, pilots, were transferred to the South Pole with the help of submarines and politicians with families and members of the Hitler Youth - the gene pool of the future "pure race".

Contactee Randy Winters provided me with information that in the bowels of Antarctica there is a whole underground city called New Berlin with a population of more than ... five million people - and this is in addition to the numerous villages and outposts scattered throughout New Swabia! The main occupation of the inhabitants of New Berlin is genetic engineering and space flights.

To generate all the energy necessary for the needs of such a huge conglomerate, the so-called "Kohler converters" are used - devices that operate on the same principle as the "flying disc" engines, that is, using the energy of the earth's gravity.

Indirect confirmation of the existence of the base are repeated observations of UFOs in the area of the South Pole. They quite often see "plates" and "cigars" hovering in the air, and in 1976 Japanese researchers from the Antarctic scientific station "Showa", located in the Lützow-Holm Bay on the western edge of Queen Maud Land, using the latest equipment, simultaneously spotted 1 round objects that "dived" to Antarctica from space and disappeared from the screens.

The same Randy Winters reports that in the post-war years, the German Antarctic colony came into contact with a civilization from the constellation Pleiades, and in the area of \u200b\u200bNew Berlin there is a real alien spaceport. After the war, the aliens took on the service of some of the Germans. Since then, at least two generations of Germans have grown up in Antarctica, going to school with alien children and interacting with them from an early age.

Today they fly, work and live aboard unearthly spaceships. And they no longer have those desires to rule over the planet that their fathers and grandfathers had, because, having known the depths of the Cosmos, they realized that there are things in the world that are much more significant ... "

ANTARCTIC URANUS

In 1961, a significant event took place in the official history of Antarctica - uranium deposits were officially discovered in its bowels. And not just deposits, but entire DEPOSITS, comparable in their importance to the scale of the entire continent, and even the entire civilized world, and the richest ores are located just in New Swabia - Queen Maud Land.

Many years have passed since then, and the development of minerals in Antarctica is prohibited by the provisions of the famous Treaty of 1959. According to some reports, the percentage of uranium in Antarctic ore is at least 30% - this is a whole third more than in the world's richest deposits in the Congo, from which the United States has drawn "explosives" for its atomic and nuclear arsenals for many years. In 1938, the problem with enriched uranium was not yet as acute as in the post-war years, but some exploration of uranium deposits was still carried out.

Even the "father of the atomic bomb" Robert Oppenheimer in 1937 made a statement that a country intending to produce weapons, the principle of which is based on the fission of the atomic nucleus, should seriously take care of reliable and sufficient sources of the necessary raw materials. There were practically no such sources in Europe and America.

But such sources were in Africa - Congo, Angola, Namibia. While it was only about development, the Americans had enough of their own, rather poor deposits in Canada, the Germans had enough of their own in Böblingen, and no one then seriously thought about the development of "overseas mines".

But the Germans, despite Hitler's frank disregard for the new type of weapon, became clear before everyone else that European uranium sources were of little use for the mass production of an atomic bomb, since the uranium content in the available ore was too negligible, and even an emergency construction could not solve the problem. enrichment plants. On the eve of a major European war, it would be unreasonable to rely on African deposits, and that's when it was decided to probe the "no man's continent" - Antarctica.

Digging through the collection of rock samples brought from Antarctica by the German polar explorer Wilhelm Filchner (*53) in 1912, the head of the Nazi "atomic project" Dr. Werner Heisenberg quite reasonably suggested that the richest reserves of high-quality uranium could be in the bowels of Queen Maud Earth. Intoxicated by his political victories in Europe (the annexation of Austria and the division of Czechoslovakia), Hitler easily allowed himself to be persuaded by Himmler, Goering and Raeder to agree to send an equipped expedition to distant Antarctica in search of mythical "roots".

At the celebration on the occasion of the completion of the building of the new Reich Chancellery, Hitler smugly said: “Well, okay! If in this divided, redistributed Europe, a couple of states can be annexed to the Reich in a few days, then no problems are foreseen with Antarctica, and even more so ...” (In Steiss "I heard Hitler" 1989)

Meanwhile, in Antarctica, the events already described above were taking place. Two German expeditions, one after the other, combed the whole of New Swabia up and down and founded a well-equipped "base 211" on the shores of the Russian Gulf (quickly renamed Bismarck Bay). Regular communication was established between the Reich and the "conquered country", which made it possible to transfer a significant number of workers and engineers to New Swabia in a short time to develop uranium deposits.

The selection of guards for the rapidly expanding work was assigned to none other than Hauptstarführer Otto Skorzeny, who had just completed his "business" in Austria and Germany (key participation in the "Anschluss" in March, and in "Crystal Night" ( * 54 ) on August 38th). The extraction of extremely uranium-rich ore was deployed by the beginning of 1940, until the British fleet cut off oxygen to these promising undertakings ...

Concerned about the successes of the Nazis, the Americans, having correctly understood their intentions, but completely wrongly oriented in the goals pursued by the Germans, urgently mobilized their "Papanin" - R. Byrd, and sent him at the head of another expedition to establish American sovereignty over the Antarctic coal found earlier by the same Byrd .

The American admiral, not endowed with much imagination, did not come up with anything better than to establish two small stations on Stennington Island in the Bellingshausen Sea and at the foot of Mount Erebus on the border of the Ross Ice Shelf ("Little America" and "McMurdo"), but start producing at least and massive, but ineffective aerial photography of the entire western coast, lying between these two points.

He was strictly forbidden to enter into a conflict with the Germans - President Roosevelt still did not really know why he needed these icy plains, and the time had not come to enter a new world war. And only after a while the British opened Roosevelt's eyes to the ugly truth, but it was too late - the Argentines, who felt the profit, poured into Antarctica in a noisy horde.

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This is an excerpt from a book Alexander Vladimirovich Biryuk

This myth is so rooted in the minds of many people that the people have long ceased to distinguish truth from fiction, which gives a vast field of activity for clever hoaxers who have been given out to the public for years " on the mountain» tons of literature, films and other information garbage. It is enough to google for the phrase " Nazis in Antarctica”, as a shaft of all sorts of rubbish on this topic will fall on you. The main idea of this article:

There were no Nazi bases in Antarctica and there could not be any!

The whole mythology built around this possible Nazi sanctuary is nothing but the product of a wild fantasy, the starting point of which was the activity of German submarines off the coast of this continent during the Second World War.

People are so arranged, unfortunately, that they always prefer to find some mystical interpretation of facts and events, instead of bringing together obvious facts and drawing the right conclusions!

The solution, all these years, lay on the surface, but no one bothered to turn their attention to it.

To begin with, I will designate two fiducial points that will help readers understand what's what.

Reference point first.

Already in 1943, two years before the end of World War II, after the defeat at Stalingrad and on the Kursk Bulge, among the top leadership of Nazi Germany, the understanding of the unpleasant fact that the war was generally lost, and that one should look for the so-called. " alternate airfields».

Few of them wanted to die for the glory of the millennial Reich, and therefore these people began to work out ways to escape.

If the issue with the stolen valuables was solved simply (the same Switzerland accepted gold, jewelry and currency from the Nazis for storage without any questions), then the main question is “ Where to hide?!"was very sharply on the agenda.

The Nazi bosses understood that there were not enough places on the planet where they could escape, so that with their bloody track record they could continue to live in peace without the risk of being extradited to international justice.

One of these refuges turned out to be a distant Latin American country. Argentina.

So here you go second reference point.

Argentina in the pre-war period was a typical third world country.

To bring Argentina to the forefront, at least within South America, investments and technologies were required first of all, but the main contenders for this role (the United States, Great Britain and some European countries) themselves were going through hard times.

Then the eyes of the Argentine leadership turned towards Germany, where Adolf Hitler came to power and, under the leadership of the Nazis, the Germans began to demonstrate downright miracles in economic recovery.

The important circumstance also played a role here, that in Argentina since the 19th century there was a fairly large German community, which never lost contact with the Fatherland.

In the period 1941-1943. in Argentina, the so-called. " United Officers Group”(one of the leaders, if not the head, was none other than Juan Peron).

This organization put forward the slogan " For great Argentina!”, arguing that Argentina should assume a dominant role in the South American continent, while openly supporting the Nazis. In June 1943, the highest military officials, with the participation of Peron, carried out a coup d'état.

Did you pay attention to the coincidence of the dates of the coup d'état in Argentina and the period of the beginning of the decline of fascist Germany? That's what I paid my attention to!

So, I'm moving on to the most important.

Having seized power in Argentina, the putschists began to forge closer ties with the top of Nazi Germany, quite logically assuming that since the days of fascism were numbered, the main actors would look for a way to more securely hide their hard-earned goods (and themselves, of course) somewhere in more calm place.

Nazi bosses appreciated the proposal of Argentina and began to work out ways to deliver valuables (as well as the right people) across the Atlantic. The safest and, moreover, the only acceptable way, of course, was transportation by submarines.

In service with the Kriegsmarine, the main "workhorses" were submarines of the VII and IX series. The range of their autonomous navigation was quite enough to get to Argentina and return back, and on the way they were supplied with fuel and supplies not only by special mother boats, but also by secret supply ships (remember the famous film "Submarine" with Jürgen Prochnov in the title role ?).

Establishing regular submarine flights from Germany to Argentina was not such a difficult task, but it turned out to be not so easy to provide secrecy this event! You see, in those years, submarines were all diesel(or rather, diesel-electric), and besides, although they were called submarines, they physically could not stay underwater for a long time!

Submarines of that time were diving- that is, they had to overcome most of the way on the surface, and plunged under water before an attack or if it was necessary to escape from the chase. The speed on the surface was at least twice as high as in the underwater position, and the cruising range could not be compared!

Therefore, German submariners involuntarily had to take a lot of risks, overcoming most of the way to Argentina and back on the surface. And in those years, any sailor on the planet could unmistakably determine that a discovered submarine belonged to the German Navy by the specific shape of the felling fence.

It is clear that the captains of the German submarines gave the command for an urgent dive in case of any nix, but the risk of detection could not be completely ruled out. There was a very high chance of being discovered by the crew of some merchant ship of a neutral power, and then in London or Washington they would definitely be interested in what German submarines were doing in the South Atlantic at a decent distance from the theaters of war.

The Nazis understood that it was impossible in any case " substitute"of their Argentinean friends, because the Americans could well have" press on the nail» the leadership of this country and then all plans would go down the drain! Therefore, the leaders of Nazi Germany, realizing that in any case it was impossible to avoid detection of their submarines on the way to Argentina, they came up with an elegant combination designed to confuse the enemy.

As smart people say in such cases:

"If you want to securely hide a thing, put it in a conspicuous place!"

I'll tell you now what the Nazis came up with.

But first I want to show you a contour map of the world, which shows (in blue and brown, respectively) Argentina and Germany. As you can see, the path is not short, about 6 thousand nautical miles.

And here is another map for you - and it shows that the distance from the southern tip of Argentina to the coast of Antarctica is relatively small, about 800 kilometers (even less in nautical miles).

The essence of " feint with ears”, arranged by the Nazis, consisted in the fact that the Kriegsmarine submarines, having reached Argentina, unloaded their cargo in some quiet bay away from prying eyes, and then, instead of immediately going back, made a march towards Antarctica!

There they portrayed violent activity, almost openly going on the air and breaking their bivouacs.

This was done with the sole purpose of confusing American and British intelligence.

The Nazis were well aware that neither the British nor the Americans in those days had the opportunity to send their warships to that area in order to find out for what purpose German submarines dart off the coast of Antarctica.

Rather, the Nazis had a chic informational cover.

The fact is that back in 1938, the German expedition claimed Germany's rights to part of the Queen Maud Land. The entire surveyed area was called "New Swabia" and began to be considered part of the territory of the Reich.

The question is, for what purpose did Berlin decide " stake out» a piece of Antarctica? Did the Nazis really dream of building their top-secret base in this cold land in the late 1930s?!

But no! Everything is much more prosaic here. It was the so-called. " demonstration of the flag"- that is, in this way, Germany showed the whole world that she had returned to the ranks of the leading powers of the planet.

The Nazis were not going to do anything significant in Antarctica at all, for this they had neither the strength, nor the means, nor the desire - for them the very fact of a nominal presence in this region was important. Show off and show off again, you know!

Thus, when German submarines began to roam off the coast of Antarctica, this did not cause much concern in Washington and London, because in that region the anti-Hitler coalition had neither military bases nor military-political interests.

So the Americans and the British just took " on a pencil» these strange maneuvers of German submariners. Like, we’ll figure it out later, but for now we’re already up to our necks, especially since the German submarines did not pose a particular danger to navigation in that region.

Meanwhile, the German submariners, revealingly and without hiding frolicking off the coast of Antarctica, lay down on the return course. This is how the Germans managed to deceive their opponents and lull their vigilance.

Subsequently, when these strange raids of German submarines to the shores of Antarctica became public, a conspiracy version of secret Nazi bases instantly arose.

The logic of the layman is always extremely straightforward - since the Nazis would not just send their combat submarines to such a distance and burn expensive diesel fuel, then this was done for a reason! Therefore, they were hiding something in this Antarctica. And they hid! Sensation!!!

This is how the myth of Nazi super-secret bases in Antarctica arose.

After all, give the people various secrets, you don’t need to deceive them, they themselves are glad to be deceived. The fancier the fiction, the more likely it is to be believed. As is customary, assorted hoaxers immediately joined the case, who spawned a bunch of all sorts of nonsense in the form of articles, books and films.

First, a myth arose about a super-secret Nazi base in Antarctica, but this seemed not enough, therefore, having decided to go further in their violent fantasies, the hoaxers inflated the myth of the flying saucers of the Third Reich, and subsequently the indomitable flight of their imagination created the myth of Nazi bases on the moon. Why be trifles here, let's go on fantasizing - the Nazis have long controlled our Galaxy and even the Universe! Joke…

Therefore, when it has already become clear where the legs of the myth grow from, let's see if the Nazis could really build a top-secret base in Antarctica.

I answer this question with full responsibility - no, they could not! And they didn't want to!

Let's go in order.

Firstly, the construction of such an object requires a huge amount of construction equipment, building materials, fuel, provisions, personnel, etc. etc. - and all this, mind you, was aggravated by no means resort conditions for work.

Secondly, with what money was Nazi Germany going to build such a base?

Not so long ago, I published an article here on Kont “There lives such a guy - named Jens ...”, in which he talked about the Olavsvern submarine base in Norway, which was built during the Cold War back in 1967 near the border of the USSR.

Like must always be compared with like!

So, the cost of building a base in Olavsvern was US$494 million at 1960s prices! Taking into account inflation these days, this amount looks even more impressive - you can safely multiply it by ten.

The money at that time was very impressive, so the NATO leadership had to, as they say, put a hat around in order to scrape together the required amount for the construction of this hole in the rock.

Consequently, the construction of a base in Antarctica would have cost the Nazis a comparable amount (if not more, given the remoteness of the construction site). Did Nazi Germany have money for such a miracle project? I highly doubt it!

But even if the Nazis had found such money, the question is, how could they deliver everything necessary for the construction of the base to Antarctica?

How was the delivery of hundreds of thousands of tons of building materials, dozens of units of construction equipment, raw materials, specialists and other supplies carried out?!

Submarines?! Don't make fun of my slippers! Have you seen submarines of that time? There is nowhere to put an extra box of cartridges, it was so crowded and cramped inside.

On transport ships? And where did the Nazis get them in such numbers? Borrowed from the same Argentina with the risk of being immediately discovered ?! It doesn’t roll at all, you must agree ...

Okay, let's assume that the Nazis, by some miracle, managed to secretly build this Antarctic base.

Moreover, the hoaxers claim that the Nazis did not just sit out on this base in anticipation of better times. Allegedly, military-industrial enterprises were located there, which produced military products of the super-duper class.

In this regard, again, the question of the vital activity of this Antarctic base the size of an average city arises sharply - after all, the numerous personnel of the base must be fed, watered, provided with heat and electricity. Plus to bring raw materials for production.

And where do you want to get all this? Indeed, in Antarctica, by definition, there are no farmlands of their own, so food and other things necessary for life had to be delivered from somewhere, moreover, by transport ships and aircraft. But the transport workers constantly scurrying back and forth would certainly attract attention. How the developed port infrastructure would attract attention (the Nazis were not going to unload transports with their bare hands!).

With the power supply of the base is also a continuous problem! A nuclear reactor could have been a way out, but, you see, the Nazis in those years did not have the technologies for building nuclear power plants (we don’t take into account the conspiracy theories about the atomic successes of Nazi Germany, obviously sucked from the finger).

Consequently, the power supply of the base would depend entirely on diesel generators, which, of course, need a huge amount of diesel fuel. And with fuel, especially diesel, Nazi Germany always had problems (it was not enough even for the needs of the Navy).

Also, one cannot disregard the fact that such a base, like any man-made object, strongly “phonites”, especially in the infrared range. It is almost impossible to reliably hide such an object away from prying eyes. In any case, he would have been discovered - if not by us, then by the Americans!

But so far, all that researchers in Antarctica have been able to find are traces of temporary German submarine camps. No tunnels in the rocks (as in Olavsvern), no piers, no anything resembling a human dwelling - zero at all! Somewhat sparsely, very sparsely. But they searched, still searched ...

Consequently, there are no and never were any Nazi top-secret bases in Antarctica.

It was just a distraction by the Nazis in order to hide the true routes of German submarines from enemy intelligence!

This is confirmed, by the way, by many facts. I'll name a couple of them.

Fact one.

May 2, 1945, having learned about the fall of Berlin and Hitler's suicide, the commander of the German submarine U-977 (type VII-C) Heinz Schaeffer decided to leave Kristiansund (Norway) and head to the shores of Argentina.

On July 23, 1945, the submarine crossed the equator, and on August 17, U-977 arrived at the port of Buenos Aires and surrendered to the local authorities.

Two months earlier, on July 10, 1945, another German submarine, U-530 (IX series) also arrived in Argentina and surrendered to the Argentine authorities.

The Americans, suspecting Heinz Schaeffer of being the one who secretly brought Adolf Hitler out of Germany, interrogated him for a long time and with prejudice, but achieved nothing and eventually released him on all four sides.

Subsequently, Heinz Schaeffer even wrote a book about these events. You can read it.

What do these facts indicate? First of all, they say that the German submariners knew the routes from Germany to Argentina very well!

They knew because swam there many times before. Everything is simple!

Agree, what was the reason for the same Schaeffer to take risks and go to the other end of the world? He was obviously not a stupid person and would not have gone at random to distant Argentina. Is it because he and his crew, without much thought, sailed there because they knew not only the route for sure, but were also one hundred percent sure that it was in Argentina that they would be granted political asylum ?!

I come to the conclusion that during the years of World War II, the submarine U-977, along with dozens of other German submarines, made secret flights to Argentina more than once, taking valuables and necessary people there from Germany.

Heinz Schaeffer simply hid from everyone the fact of a clever hoax with Antarctica, and thereby filled the fog even more.

Fact two.

After the fall of Nazi Germany, a large number of Nazi criminals calmly moved ... Where would you think? That's right - to the blessed Argentina!

Agree that if the Nazis had that very top-secret base in Antarctica, why did they need to seek refuge in this distant Latin American country after the end of World War II?

But the fact remains - many Nazis were transported to Argentina by obtaining passports at the Rome office of the Red Cross, then an Argentine tourist visa was put into these passports (moreover, the previously valid requirement for a health certificate and a return ticket was somehow canceled in those days due to decree of the Argentine authorities).

And then these Nazi criminals disappeared forever from sight - because in Argentina they were given new documents and even had plastic surgery. As a result, very soon, instead of the SS Sturmbannfuehrer wanted by everyone, an Argentine citizen of German origin calmly traveled around the world!

But this is how the especially notorious Nazis, who were afraid for their lives, were encrypted.

For example, Kurt Tank, the creator of the famous Focke-Wulf 190 fighter, did not hide from anyone at all, he calmly moved to Argentina, where he worked very fruitfully for the Argentine defense industry from 1945 to 1954 (like Reimar Horten, the creator of aircraft according to the scheme " flying wing).

Thus, we have to admit that Argentina simply rushed in time and " took off the cream from the agonizing Nazi regime in Germany.

This country acquired not only a huge amount of valuables from the Nazis, but also a large number of highly qualified specialists and advanced military technologies of the Third Reich, which allowed it to make a qualitative leap in the development of its military-industrial complex.

Money doesn't smell!

Thus, summarizing all of the above, I want to summarize what I have said above.

Conclusion one. There were no Nazi bases in Antarctica!

Second conclusion. The myth about these bases arose because the German submariners carried out the so-called. " cover operation in order to hide from prying eyes the true destination, which was Argentina.

After unloading in quiet inconspicuous bays on the Argentine coast, the Kriegsmarine submarines were specially sent to the coast of Antarctica, where they portrayed violent activity in order to confuse American and British intelligence. Having frolicked enough off the coast of Antarctica, the German submarines lay down on the reverse course and returned to their bases.

If anyone wanted to find those very secret Nazi bases, they should have looked for them not in cold and inhospitable Antarctica, but very close by - in warm and friendly Argentina! It turns out that they were not looking there. Or they did not want to search for quite objective reasons, preferring to let in more fog in the form of myths.