Third Reich: 211 Base on Antarctica (2.): History in Data

27. 12. 2016
6th international conference of exopolitics, history and spirituality

1873
The Germans started an Antarctic research with an expedition organized by the German Polar Research Association.

1910
Wilhem Filchner's expedition to "Deutschland" was dispatched.

1925
A special ship for polar exploration "Meteor" led by Albert Merz.

When the NSDAP, led by A. Hitler, came to power, interest in Antarctica also changed at the political level. They began to see it as a mainland without a specific nationality. They viewed the whole country (or part of it) as the territory of the Third Reich with the possibility of further accession.

The idea of ​​a civilian expedition (with state support and cooperation of Lufthansa) to Antarctica was born. The expedition was to follow a certain part of the mainland, followed by a declaration of its incorporation into Germany.

Ship Schwabenland

Ship Schwabenland

1934
The choice of the ship to be expedited fell to "Schwabenland". It has been used since 1934 to deliver transatlantic mail. Majestic Schwabenland! He had a seaplane on board and a crane on his side. A special feature was the Dornier "Wal" seaplane, which was able to take off thanks to a steam catapult and return to the deck with the help of a crane. The ship was prepared at Hamburg Shipyards.

The ship's crew was carefully selected and trained by the German Polar Research Association. Captain Alfred Ritscher, who has already taken part in several expeditions to the North Pole, took the lead. And the budget was around 3 million Reichsmarks.

1938
The ship Schwabenland left Hamburg on December 17, 1938 and began heading for Antarctica according to the planned route. They reached the coastal ice on 19 January at a point of -4 ° 15 ′ west latitude and 69 ° 10 ′ east longitude.

In the following weeks, the ship's seaplane made 15 launches from the ship's deck and examined approx. 600 ths. square km. This represented almost a fifth of the continent. With the help of a special Zeis RMK 38 camera, 11 thous. pictures and photographs with an area of ​​350 thousand. square km of Antarctica. In addition to recording valuable information, approx. every 25 km they dropped the flags of the expedition. The area was named Neuschwabenland and was declared to belong to Germany. At present, this name is used at the same time as the new one (since 1957) - the Land of Queen Maud.

The most interesting discovery of the expedition was the discovery of smaller areas without ice with small lakes and vegetation. Geologists from the expedition hypothesized that this may be due to underground hot springs.

1939
In mid-February 1939, Schwabenland left Antarctica. During the two months of the return journey, the captain of the expedition, Ritscher, systematized the results of the research - maps and photographs. Upon his return, he wanted to prepare for the second expedition using aircraft with ski landing gear - probably for further research into the "warm" zone of Antarctica. However, due to the start of II. St. war, the expedition did not take place.

The development of further German exploration of Antarctica and the creation of a base is not entirely clear. Apparently it is hidden under the name "Geheim" or "Top secret".

1943
Specially equipped Führer units for swimming and deep dive in polar latitudes - "gray wolves" - the submarine fleet of Grand Admiral Karel Dönitz began to target Antarctica. They continued to explore the "warm" zone of Antarctica and discovered a system of hot air caves. "My divers have found a real earthly paradise," Dönitz said at the time. And in 1943 he declared: "The German submarine fleet is proud to have created an inaccessible for the Führer on the other side of the world."

For 4-5 years, the Germans secretly built a base in Antarctica under the code name "Base-211". It was continuously supplied and equipped with tools, technology and tools, for example, for creating railways or stamping seals.

American sent. Colonel Wendelle C. Stevens said: "Our intelligence, where I worked at the end of the war, knew that the Germans had built eight very large cargo submarines. They were all launched, completed and then disappeared without a trace. To this day, we have no idea where they went. They are not at the bottom of the ocean or in any port we know. It is a mystery, but it can be solved thanks to a German film found by Australian researchers. It shows large German cargo submarines in Antarctica, surrounded by ice, crews standing on decks, waiting for a stop ".

The "fattest" submarines in the German fleet were the XIV "Milchkuh" machines, which were used for supplies of all kinds. They provided combat submarines with fuel, spare parts, ammunition, medical supplies, food. A total of 10 type XIV submarines were produced. All were sunk, and the coordinates of the extinction of each are known. It follows that they could not be the same "big cargo submarines". However, they could be machines to supply the Base-211.

There were no major obstacles to the creation of a similar underground base. Many larger plants (such as the Nordhausen plant, the Junkers plant) were connected underground by tunnels and tunnels. Such races successfully withstood every bombing, and work in them usually stopped only when the enemy's ground forces approached.

Since 1942, thousands of prisoners from concentration camps have been transferred to Base-211 as labor. Furthermore, service staff, scientists and, of course, members of the Hitler Youth - a gene pool of the future "pure" race. They probably created a decent supply of food and ammunition for a long-term independent existence, or for a possible siege.

The secret of the Nazis

The secret of the Nazis

1945
In April 1945, the Germans made their last trips to Base-211. Two submarines (U-530 and U-977) from the "convoy of the Führer" then surrendered in Argentina in July and August 1945. In the book "Steel Tombs of the Reich", the author Kurušin noted:

"In July 1945, Lieutenant Otto Wermuth's 'nine' U-530 appeared off the coast of Argentina. On July 10, the submarine surrendered in Mar del Plata to the Argentine Navy. During numerous interrogations, the crew claimed that they patrolled the shores of the USA all the time and then surrendered. On August 17, Lieutenant Heinz Schaeffer's "seven" U-977 surrendered here. It is not entirely clear how a submarine of this type could have been in the sea for as long as it had no autonomy for more than seven weeks. The divers felt quite well - in anticipation of the Argentine warship, they fed the albatross with sardines in oil. As in other cases, the interrogations of German divers did nothing. At least that is the official conclusion. At the same time, however, there is information that the submarines were to evacuate the valuables and the highest military officers of the Third Reich at the end of the war.

After the surrender, Base-211 could begin a separate existence. The normal functioning of her was made possible due to the fact that no one knew about her and therefore no one was interested in her. The world's attention was focused on the division of the missile-reactive heritage of the empire and, of course, the Cold War.

The crew gradually began to show problems characteristic of humans, which were for a long time in the underground. Belarusian partisans can serve as an example. After a period of living underground, they were forced to come out, even though they knew it was almost certain to die. Their physical and mental health deteriorated. In essence, this is related to the "closed space" syndrome and changes in the natural electromagnetic background. Due to health problems and depletion of supplies, residents either left the place or died.

1961
The 211 base becomes uninhabited.

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