Im gonna copy-paste some more stuff through translator about germans and antarctica.
In search of ancient secrets, the "Ahnenerbe" association, subordinate to the SS, organized expeditions to the most remote and isolated places on earth: Tibet, South America, Antarctica... The last of them received special attention... This area is still shrouded in mystery . According to all assumptions, humanity will discover many new things hidden by this mysterious continent. What our distant ancestors knew about this continent is also a big secret. Officially discovered by Antarctic explorers F.F. Bellingshausen and M.P. by Lazarev in 1820. But it is also widely known that old maps have been found in the archives, based on which Antarctica was known long before this historical event. One of the maps made by the Turkish admiral Piri Reis and there were others . On these maps, the coast of Antarctica is marked with great accuracy, but... without the ice cover. Not only that, the gulf that separates the continent into two parts which is perfectly visible. But this fact has only been known for a couple of thirty years, when it was possible to probe the surface under the ice with a new technique. An international expedition that checked Piri Reis's map for accuracy made it clear that his map is more accurate than the corresponding maps of the 20th century. In turn, seismic surveys proved that several of the Queen Maud Mountains, which until now were considered a single massif, are actually islands. Just like on the Piri map. So where did the data come from, on the basis of which this map was once put on paper? It is known that Piri based his map on some ancient sources. Some ancient high culture has been speculated as the original author. The location of a hypothetical Atlantis in Antarctica has also been proposed. However, it is known that Ahnenerbe researchers had access to a number of authentic ancient materials, documents, maps. Today, data has been found that proves that German scientists had information based on which Ahnenerbe scientists could assume the ancient Sumerian culture once existed in Antarctica. It was also suggested that the poles of the globe are somehow connected to the hypothetical Shambala and Agharta.
The interest shown by German leaders on the eve of the outbreak of world war in this remote and desolate continent could not be explained at the time. This interest was strange and unwarranted. In 1938-1939, Germany organized two large-scale expeditions to Antarctica . The ship "Schwabenland" was equipped for the expedition. One of the most important features of this ship were the seaplanes, Dornier "Wal". They were able to launch the planes with the help of a catapult device on the ship .
After landing, they were lifted back on board with a special crane. The ship was prepared at the Hamburg Shipyard. The ship's crew was selected and trained by the German Polar Research Institute. The leadership of the expedition was entrusted to the German polar explorer, Captain Alfred Ritscher. The cost of the entire undertaking is estimated at 3 million reichsmarks.
Schwabenland left the port of Hamburg on December 17, 1938 and moved to Antarctica along the planned course . The ship reached the continental pack ice on January 19 at point 4 degrees 15 minutes north latitude and 69 degrees 10 minutes east longitude. Over the following weeks, the ship's hydroplane made 15 flights, surveying approximately 600,000 square kilometers, roughly one-fifth of the entire continent . With a special camera Zeiss RMK 38, 11,000 shots were taken.
The territory was declared the property of the III Reich. To this day, this land is known as Queen Maud's Land. (From 1957). There are reports that the biggest and most interesting discovery of the expedition was the discovery of ice-free areas with small lakes and vegetation. Geologists hypothesized that these areas are geothermal in nature. The participating German Luftwaffe pilots weren't just doing research. They marked a huge area of land for the III Reich with special swastika pennants - Its area was equal to the area of Germany in Europe. (Soon this area was called NeuSchwabenland). (By the way, in 1961, one of the world's richest uranium deposits was discovered on this land.)
In mid-February 1939,ship "Schwabenland" set off for home. During the two months spent on the trip, the team systematized and analyzed the collected information. Having returned to Hamburg, the leader of the expedition, Alfred Ritcher, reported on April 12, 1939: -" I fulfilled the mission assigned to me by Marshal Göring. The German Air Force flew over the Antarctic continent. Every 25 kilometers we placed pennants on the ice. In this way, we covered approximately 600,000 square kilometers. We photographed 350,000 km2 of it. Göring's air aces fulfilled their mission" .
Further German research in Antarctica was sealed with strict secrecy. US Colonel Wendelle C. Stivens reported the following: "Our intelligence, whose ranks at the end of the war I had the honor to belong to, had information that Germany was building eight giant submarine cargo ships"... (it is hypothesized that they used either hydrogen as fuel or the so-called Coler converter aggregates based on it.) it is also known that they were all launched into the water when they were ready. To this day, there are no reports of the ships. They were not captured by the Allies, and are not in any known ports. However, the fact of their existence was confirmed in 1948 in Australia. SS archive materials had fallen into the hands of the Australian allied forces during WWII. During their investigation, a documentary film was discovered, the content of which, among other things, was footage of large German submarines in Antarctica, ice banks full of penguins surrounding them, and the crew on deck, waiting to disembark.
What is clear is that intensive German activity in Antarctica continued. Russian researcher M. Demidenko reports that he found other interesting relevant SS documents among the materials of the former special archive of the NKVD in Moscow: ...A Kriegsmarine submarine squadron allegedly discovered in 1940 on Neuschwabenland, or Queen Maud Land, a huge system of interconnected caves with an underwater entrance, filled with warm air... As admiral Dönitz dropped a mysterious phrase documented at one of the top management meetings: - "The German submarine fleet is proud that on the other side of the world, it was able to create an impenetrable fortress for the Führer" , the "Shangri-La" of our days !
For five years, Germany carried out a carefully concealed project to build a secret base in Antarctica called "Base 211". There are witnesses that already at the beginning of 1939 regular voyages of the research ship "Schwabia" between Germany and Antarctica (once every three months) began. (Initially under the German flag, ships sailing under the flag of neutral countries were used at the start and duration of the war). Researcher Bergman claims that over several years, mountain boring and rock drilling machines, mining equipment, huge rock cutters, railway construction equipment, electric locomotives, railway parts and materials were continuously sent to Antarctica.
There is unconfirmed information that in 1942, the entire SS Sonderbüro special construction unit "Baugruppe B" operating in the government sector was transported by sea from Germany to Sweden, which, by the way, built the huge Jonastal underground factory.
Jonastal was started but never finished. It was a series of underground complexes in central Thüringen, southeast of the city of Gotha (near the concentration camp at Ohrdruf, the first such camp...
www.nevingtonwarmuseum.com
Where Baugruppe headed next is anyone's guess.
Seafaring and transport data in South American countries during WWII have been studied. Especially the corresponding archives of Argentina. From 1939 to 1946, several state and private companies constantly received orders for the transportation of foodstuffs, grain, building materials, from strange non-existent foreign companies. Who were behind these companies? Where was the destination of the goods? We will come back to this question later and see how the Third Reich paid for the support it received for Argentina.
Let's give another word to retired US intelligence colonel W. Stevens: "At the end of the war, the Germans had nine research-production companies where the "Flugscheibe"(Flying disks) projects were tested. Eight of these companies, along with scientists and key personnel, were successfully evacuated from Germany. The ninth company was destroyed, blown up... We have information that at least some of these companies have been transferred to a place called "New Swabia".
Several researchers (R. Vesco, V. Terzisky, D. Childres) who have dealt with this topic confirm that since 1942, using submarines, the German Navy transported thousands of prisoners held in concentration camps to the newly created Base 211. But also German scientists, specialists, soldiers, pilots with families and members of the Hitler Youth - from the future Führer's gene pool.
In Germany, everything related to statistics and accounting (there was a number and passport on every tree in the state forest) was at a very high level. However, there are facts that since 1939, German citizens loyal to the Reich began to disappear strangely. Since the data is duplicated several times, church registers (births, deaths), labor office, population office, other various offices, military archives, police and Gestapo archives, as well as concentration and labor camp archives etc, it is possible (based on archival data) to reconstruct the life path and fate of each German soldier quite accurately. The same goes for the civilian population. There are no data from 1939 - 1943 for practically 140,000 people. I'm not talking about the time 1944 and beyond (the bombing of Dresden, the atrocities of the Red Army, etc.) Most of the disappeared loyal citizens have a note in the archive materials - sent to work for the state. This applies to housewives, members of the Hitler Youth, as well as workers and servants. What was the fate of the people and where was this "state work" located?
Apart from giant transport submarines, Germany also used dozens of "U" class submarines that were in regular series production for the same purpose. Germas constructed a special group of submarines, which consisted of 35 submarines, the so-called "Führer's Convoy". At the end of the war, the Kiel submarine building factory produced the U series ships, the so-called using the conveyor method, using automated spot welding and other innovative technological construction methods. Back in January 1945, one submarine was completed at the factory in every three days. For the purpose of the "Führer's Convoy", all the armament was removed from the ships in Kiel, but instead the containers were loaded with some precious cargo. The ships also took on board passengers and a large amount of provisions. Out of the entire convoy, the allied forces have definite information about the fate of only two submarines . One of them, namely U-530, under the command of twenty-five-year-old Captain Otto Wermauth, left Kiel on April 13, 1945 and transported the relics of the Third Reich and the personal property of Führer Adolf Hitler to Antarctica. (This activity was based on the "Valkyrie" secret plan of the German high command). There were also passengers on board whose faces were covered with surgical bandages. Another vessel, U-977, under the command of Heinz Schiffer, repeated the same route. It is not known what was the cargo of this ship.
Already in 1954, the US press published a hypothesis that Adolf Hitler did not die in a bunker in May 1945, but managed to leave Germany on a submarine to Antarctica. The body found by Soviet soldiers in a bomb hole in the yard of the State Chancellery, however, belongs to one of Hitler's body doubles- Klaus Buschter, a Jew from Antwerp. However, the fact is that the burnt remains found were identified only by the lower jaw, based on the testimony of Hitler's dentist. The given testimony was based only on the dentist's memory - the file of dental records had been destroyed in the bombing of Berlin. According to the Russian special services, Hitler's earthly remains are in their archives. It is not known why modern level DNA studies have not been organized for identification (descendants of Hitler's half-brother Alois jun. are still alive today). It is believed that the undesirable result of such an analysis is already feared.
Both submarines entered the Argentine port of Mar del Plata in the summer of 1945 (July 10 and August 17, respectively) and surrendered to civilian authorities. It is completely incomprehensible how a U-class submarine managed to be at sea for such a period of time, while the calculated autonomy was only seven weeks. According to witnesses, the German submarines looked very good. While waiting for the arrival of the authorized Argentine officials, they passed the time by feeding the seagulls canned "Sardines in oil". Subsequent interrogations of the sailors yielded no information. They were silent. At least that's what the Argentine authorities confirm.
Let's come back for a moment to this "inaccessible fortress" that Dönitz reported to the Führer. What did he mean by that? What had the Germans built? If not built, what had they discovered? It is known that the military base "211" was established in Neue Schwabenland. Also three inhabited bases, the largest of them named "Neue Berlin" (German expedition in the future location of New Berlin . Since 1939, a minimum of 4,000 national Germans are said to have been there, plus an unknown number of prisoners from concentration camps. With the brought mining and rock-piercing equipment, some large-scale construction-piercing works were carried out.
**** I copy-paste more later.There is plenty more.Fixxing errors made by translator is a bit annoying.Dozens of errors probably are still there,sorry about that.Sad part is that the text was accompanied with dozens of links to pictures etc but all those links are dead now (this was posted in 2005) .****