Neu Schwabenland

[this is a few articles found from archive.org posted together]

Germans in Antarctica

Antarctica (the South Pole) remains the most enigmatic and least known continent on our planet, with its 14 million square kilometers. The discovery of a massive freshwater lake beneath the thick ice sheet of East Antarctica has surprised scientists worldwide.

Antarctica is four times the size of the United States, and the nearest continent, South America (Land of Fire), is 3,000 km away. Its maximum height reaches 5,000 meters (the highest on the planet). It is the oldest continent, consisting mainly of high, ice-covered mountains and large inland lakes. It is therefore relatively easy to conceal a base without it ever being discovered, especially if it is underground and out of the reach of spy satellites. To this day, only a small part of Antarctica has been officially explored.

During World War II, it was not mapped, but it turned out that the experienced seafarers under the command of Admiral Dönitz were aware of the existence of Antarctic caves where a ship could easily seek shelter, make repairs, allow the crew to rest, and stay undisturbed without the risk of being discovered.

However, the Third Reich's plans and the Kriegsmarine's activities in Antarctica went much further:

The Germans claimed sovereignty over a vast Antarctic territory, which they called "New Swabia." In this area, they established several permanent bases, the most important of which was the so-called "New Berlin."

It was no coincidence that Admiral Dönitz, who commanded the Third Reich's U-boat fleet, declared during the war:

"The German U-boat fleet is proud that it has built a Shangri-La for the Führer in another part of the world, an impregnable fortress!"

The history of German Antarctic research dates back to 1873 when Eduard Dallmann, with his ship "Grönland," on behalf of the then German Polar Shipping Society, discovered new regions and passages in Antarctic waters. Among other things, Dallmann discovered Kaiser Wilhelm Island at the western end of the Bismarck Strait along the Biscoue Islands.

The Germans were already innovative in exploring the polar regions, as the "Grönland" was the first steamship to explore Antarctic waters.

In the following 60 years, eight more expeditions took place, as well as two fundamental expeditions: in 1910 under the command of Wilhelm Filchner with the ship "Deutschland," and in 1925 with the polar ship "Meteor" under the command of Dr. Albert Merz.

In the years before the war, the hegemonic ambitions of the German military leadership grew stronger, with the firm intention of establishing a military base on the Antarctic ice.

At that time, there was no international treaty concerning the South Pole, and positioning oneself regarding such territorial aspirations shortly before the outbreak of the impending world war seemed strategically very sensible and could also be used as a show of power, thanks to Reich propaganda. On the other hand, further provocation of the Allies had to be avoided.

Thus, in collaboration with Deutsche Lufthansa, the idea of a political-military operation was developed and implemented, albeit under the guise of a "civilian operation." The experienced polar captain Alfred Ritscher was chosen to lead this undertaking.

The chosen vessel was the "Schwabenland," a Lufthansa seaplane carrier from which the 10-ton Dornier Wal seaplanes could be launched using steam catapults. This revolutionary technology had already been employed by Lufthansa in 1934 for postal services to South America.

The "Schwabenland" was refitted at the Hamburg shipyard in the fall of 1938 for the Antarctic expedition, costing an enormous sum of one million Reichsmarks (RM), which was one-third of the entire expedition budget.

In mid-November 1938, while the "Schwabenland" was being prepared, the German Polar Shipping Society invited the then-legendary American Antarctic explorer Richard Byrd to Hamburg for a special screening of his new Antarctic film. The film was shown at the Urania in Hamburg to an audience of 82, including 54 crew members of the "Schwabenland," as a form of training and preparation for the upcoming expedition. Byrd, who had nearly flown over the South Pole in 1929, was still a civilian at that time, although he was already a national hero for the Americans.

It is an irony of history that this same Richard Byrd, in 1947, as a US Admiral, led the largest military operation in Antarctica, known as Operation Highjump.

All indications suggest that this hitherto secret operation, which most likely aimed at destroying the German Base 211, was a complete failure.

Despite Allied attempts to destroy Antarctic bases, New Swabia was never conquered. Consequently, the entire Antarctic region was declared a "sealed area."

The name Antarctica was meant to be forgotten. An international treaty was even signed, prohibiting nuclear tests in Antarctica until the year 2000.

In 1938, the famous German Antarctic expedition took place, culminating in the conquest of an extraordinary area, which, in reference to the name of the mothership "Schwabenland," was named "New Swabia."

The initiator of the project was Hermann Göring and, therefore, the German Luftwaffe.

Much has been written about this unusual chapter in Antarctic history, as well as about the construction of massive secret German bases in Antarctica, where entire fleets of fully loaded submarines played a key role.

Several authors, based on eyewitness accounts, have claimed that the most advanced construction and tunneling machines of the time, along with scientists, were brought to New Swabia.

Entire mountains were transformed into camouflaged shelters. These must have been colossal engineering structures. The famous crypt in the Valley of the Fallen in Cuelgamuros (Spain), where General Franco is buried, was also created by hollowing out a small hill:

New Swabia was, for some reason, of such great importance to the German Reich that it likely provided more than just the resources needed for the war. The June 1952 issue of the magazine The Plain Truth carried the title: "Hitler Could Be Alive!" The article revealed that the German Reich began in 1940 to transport a huge amount of machinery to the South Pole to build a secret station on an unknown continent, a new Berchtesgaden for the Führer.

The report further explains how technicians hollowed out an entire mountain in Antarctica to create a new, fully camouflaged shelter on a continent larger than Europe, 9,000 km from Africa, 3,000 km from Tierra del Fuego in South America, and 7,000 km from Australia. The magazine Bonjour and the Paris newspaper Le Monde reported on Hitler's flight to the South Pole. Admiral Dönitz declared in 1943:

"The submarine fleet will have secured a place at the Pole, at a paradise-like location."

Although he did not specify where, Bonjour noted that Nazi engineers began constructing buildings in 1940 that could withstand temperatures of 60 degrees below zero. In the gigantic Jonastal S III complex alone, more than thirty thousand workers lived and worked in a twenty-five-kilometer-long underground city.

Later, the Russians occupied these underground cities, which were located directly on the rich uranium deposits in southeastern Germany. In 1946, they founded the Russian company WISMUT, which over the next 40 years produced more than 200,000 kilos of enriched uranium U235 for the Soviet nuclear arsenal.

Subsequently, the mines and underground cities were detonated, and to this day, access to the area is strictly forbidden by the authorities of reunified Germany.

Julius Evola, who was well-acquainted with the esoteric nature of National Socialism, writes:

"The first expedition undertaken by the SS would have sought a connection with a secret center of tradition, while the other would have tended towards contact with the occult Hyperborean Thule."

Evola refers to the expedition to the South Pole, which has piqued the interest of some writers; such an expedition is always associated with the National Socialist esoteric doctrine that the Earth is a hollow planet inhabited from within.

Ice World

The cosmological theories of a blacksmith who became an engineer became one of the foundations of the National Socialist worldview.

Hans Hörbiger believed that among the "cosmic building materials" from which the universe is made, water in its "cosmic form"—ice—also plays a role. According to him, this ice forms large blocks that orbit young stars. Disregarding Kepler's laws, which state that orbiting bodies move in an ellipse, Hörbiger argued that these ice blocks follow a spiral path, eventually colliding with the star and causing a massive explosion. The star then ejects a mass of molten matter, which rotates and forms a new solar system. Hörbiger’s belief that planets follow a spiral path led him to claim that there were originally four moons around the Earth; the current one is the only one remaining. He argued that the last collision of a moon with the Earth, about 13,000 years ago, caused the disappearance of Atlantis, the Antarctic continent that the Nazis believed to be the cradle of the Aryan race.

Heinrich Himmler was highly impressed by Hörbiger's theories and had a treatise on the cosmic ice theory published as part of a series of handbooks for the SA (the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party). Even Hitler himself declared that he would build an observatory in the city of Linz dedicated to the three great cosmologists: Copernicus, Kepler, and Hörbiger.

Antarctica and Its Absence from the UN Flag

Has anyone noticed that on the flag of the United Nations (UN), which shows a world map, Antarctica is completely missing as if it did not exist?

Why does the North Pole appear, but not the South Pole? We see Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australia, Greenland, and even New Zealand, but why was Antarctica censored? Is it not also part of the world?

It is very likely that the round-wing planes were (are) stationed in New Swabia. In fact, after the failed invasion, Byrd spoke of planes taking off from Antarctica that could reach the other side of the Earth in moments and said, "the enemy is between us and Antarctica."

It seems that the location was optimal because it was so close to one of the polar openings to the "inner world."

Indeed, in UFO research, there is a theory known by various names, such as "Antarctica, the hottest UFO zone in the world" or "the secret UFO bases in Antarctica."

Moreover, there are reports and testimonies of numerous sightings, both by scientists and military personnel, at Antarctic bases. For example, on January 8, 1956, several researchers from a Chilean scientific expedition in Antarctica observed cigar-shaped and disc-shaped UFOs moving in the sky over the Weddell Sea area for several hours.

It was reported that after returning from an expedition to Antarctica in 1947, U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd stated that it was necessary for the United States to take defensive measures against enemy aircraft coming from the polar regions, and that America "could be attacked by aircraft flying at incredible speeds from one pole to the other."

Author R. A. Harbinson held the view that during the war years, the Germans were continuously transporting men and material to the South Pole:

Regarding the possibility that the Germans built self-sufficient underground research factories in Antarctica, it is worth noting that the underground research centers of Nazi Germany were massive constructions. These facilities included wind tunnels, machine shops, assembly plants, launch pads, supply depots, and accommodations for everyone working there—yet very few people knew of their existence.

Rumors circulated that during Germany's defeat, a select group of military personnel and scientists fled the Fatherland as Allied troops swept across the European continent, settling in a secret base on the Antarctic continent, where they continued to develop their advanced aircraft technology.

It is also interesting to note that at the end of the war, the Allies discovered that 250,000 Germans were missing—even after accounting for the fallen and dead. Could New Swabia have been a permanently occupied secret German base at that time?

The brackish water of the 30-degree warm lakes practically confirmed that they all had outlets to the sea and could have served as a harbor for submarines. The two ice-free mountain ranges in New Swabia presented the Todt Organization with a tunneling project that was no more challenging than what they encountered and overcame in Norway.

The Germans were global experts in the construction and settlement of underground metropolises. One of the many construction projects of the Third Reich, which was started but never completed, was a series of underground facilities in central Thuringia, southeast of the city of Gotha.

After the war, the United States classified everything related to Ohrdruf as top secret for upwards of 100 years. The fact that extensive underground facilities existed there and that Ohrdruf was the location of the last redoubt was kept completely hidden.

Fortunately for researchers, in 1962, the GDR conducted an investigation into the war-damaged Ohrdruf, providing information on all relevant matters.

Sworn statements were obtained from local residents, and after the reunification of the two German states in 1989, these documents were made accessible to the public in the Arnstadt city archive. The Arnstadt records reveal that the Charite facility was operated in a three-story underground bunker with a footprint of 70 by 20 meters.

When the facility was operational, it emitted some kind of energy field that disabled all electrical devices and non-diesel engines within an eight-mile radius. For this reason, Ohrdruf, despite being swarming with SS personnel, was never photographed or bombed from the air.

Declassified USAF documents from early 1945 acknowledge the existence of an unknown energy field over Frankfurt am Main "and other locations" that, "as fantastic as it may seem," was capable of "disrupting our aircraft engines at 30,000 feet."

The reconstruction of Ohrdruf beneath New Swabia in the last two years of the war would not have been difficult, and since the Charite facility had the highest priority in the Third Reich, it is likely that this indeed happened.

Such a base would have been impregnable, as it is believed that the force field acted in various ways to the advantage of its inhabitants.

The Battle for New Swabia

Most rumors about the alleged German colony in Antarctica agree that Base 211, if it really existed, was located in a prominent ice-free mountain in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains in New Swabia (Queen Maud Land). In 1946-47, Admiral Byrd, America's most famous polar explorer, may have been searching for Base 211.

Byrd's flotilla of about a dozen ships arrived at three different rendezvous points in the Southern Ocean within the Antarctic Circle, spread out over more than a month, with the first ship anchoring on December 30, 1946. The plan was for the main body of men and equipment, the Central Group, to head to Byrd's Antarctic "home," Little America on the Ross Ice Shelf, and set up a base camp there. There were to be two additional groups of ships, each consisting of a seaplane tender, a destroyer, and a tanker. One group would start to the east of the central group, the other to the west.

The central group consisted of the Mount Olympus, a communications ship, two supply ships, the Yancey and the Merrick, two icebreakers, the Burton Island and the Northwind, and a submarine, the Sennet.

The Eastern Group, under the command of Captain George J. Dufek, was to begin its mission on the opposite side of the continent from the base camp at Little America.

The Eastern Group was tasked with exploring Dronning Maud Land, the Norwegian name for the area the Germans called New Swabia. They began in the east of New Swabia and swung west, photographing the entire former German Antarctic territory.

The Eastern Group consisted of the seaplane tender Pine Island, the destroyer Brownson, and the tanker Canisteo.

The Western Group, under Captain Charles A. Bond, consisted of the Currituck, a seaplane tender, the Henderson, a destroyer, and the Cacapon, a tanker. They began in the middle and completed their journey halfway around the Antarctic continent in Dronning Maud Land, closing the circle.

The last in the line was the brand-new aircraft carrier *Philippine Sea* with Admiral Byrd on board.

It was on a shakedown cruise near Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when it received the order to participate in Operation Highjump. After a hurried journey north, the ship returned to the port at the Norfolk Naval Base in Virginia. It took a month to complete preparations for the 10,000-mile journey to Antarctica.

Since the ship was to pass through the Panama Canal, modifications to the hull and flight deck were necessary. The canal, dug at the beginning of the 20th century, can only accommodate small to medium-sized ships. Today's giants of the sea—super tankers, container ships, and floating cities that are modern freight ships—are forced, like the sailing ships of old, to round the Horn.

Soon, crates began piling up on the docks around the *Philippine Sea* as over a hundred tons of various equipment and supplies arrived, waiting to be loaded. Several helicopters landed on the flight deck and were secured for the journey. Then came the largest of the concerns, six RAD transport planes, which were military versions of the famous DC-3.

These planes were far too large to land on a World War II aircraft carrier and could only take off from one with the help of rocket engines attached to their sides. The landing strip was over a mile from the dock, so a path had to be cleared through the naval base from the airfield to the pier. The pilots had to "navigate" the planes through this narrow route, with sailors sitting on the wings to prevent a sudden gust of wind from catching the aircraft and hurling it against buildings, fences, or machinery. Often, the wingtips were just inches away from disaster.

The last to board the *Philippine Sea* was Admiral Byrd, just a few hours before departure. Shortly after noon on Thursday, January 2, 1947, the Philippine Sea, with Admiral Byrd on the bridge, slowly pulled away from the pier as bands played and the local command saluted in farewell.

The Central Group had reached its designated rendezvous point in Antarctica three days before the *Philippine Sea* set sail, arriving at Scott Island on December 30, 1946. That is, all except for the icebreaker *Burton Island*.

The *Burton Island* was also on a shakedown cruise when it was enlisted for the mission. It left its West Coast base late and was the last to reach the Southern Ocean—barely in time to turn around and head home when the hasty retreat was called, as we shall soon see.

The first "casualty" of Byrd's War was the submarine *USS Sennet*. The ships of the Central Group followed the icebreaker *Northwind* through the pack ice into the open waters of the Ross Sea.

Officially, it was stated that the ice was too dangerous for the submarine, so it was towed back to Scott Island.

However, some researchers have speculated that the submarine actually encountered German anti-submarine defenses. From the Ross Sea, it went to New Zealand for repairs and then returned to its home base at the Balboa Naval Station in the Canal Zone. The rest of the group reached the Bay of Whales on January 15.

Over the next two days, landing parties went ashore and selected a site for their base camp. Once a location for Little America IV was chosen, construction began immediately.

Soon, a variety of vehicles were unloaded and put to work building three compacted snow runways and a short airstrip made of steel mats, as well as preparing the ice surface for the tent city (which included a single Quonset hut).

Heavy machinery deployed included tractors, jeeps, "Weasels," bulldozers, and other tracked equipment.

The second "casualty" and the first official fatality occurred on January 21. The victim was a young sailor named Vance Woodall from the supply ship Yancey. According to a report on the incident:

“The D6 tractors proved too heavy to traverse the snow covering the ice surface of the bay. To achieve sufficient traction, the drivers had to plow the steel treads into the snow until they reached the hard ice beneath. As a result, one tread would often bite into the ice before the other, causing the tractor to lurch violently back and forth until both treads engaged evenly.”

The official accident report stated that Woodall unfortunately got both his right arm and his head caught in the cleats of the track when the tractor suddenly lurched forward. Woodall's spine was severed "high in the neck," and the Navy veteran died instantly. Four days later, a very displeased Admiral Byrd arrived.

The *Philippine Sea* rendezvoused with the Central Group near Scott Island on January 25. Four days later, on January 29, the first two RAD planes successfully took off for the perilous flight to Little America—with Admiral Byrd on board the first aircraft. By January 30, all six R4Ds had safely arrived. This marked the completion of the aircraft carrier's mission. The R4Ds, being too large to return to the carrier, were intended to be abandoned at the end of the operation.

The *Philippine Sea* immediately set its course back from Antarctica and headed home as quickly as possible, arriving at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, on February 28. From their base in Little America, the six R4Ds conducted numerous mapping flights deep into the heart of the frozen continent, including several overflights of the South Pole. Meanwhile, their counterparts in the PBM "flying boats," launched from the seaplane tenders of the Eastern and Western Groups, conducted mapping flights along the entire Antarctic coastline. In total, over 73,000 photographs were taken.

However, what should have been a cartographer's dream turned into a cartographic nightmare. Only a few thousand of the photos were of any value at all, due to the lack of suitable ground control points. Without known locations to stitch the images into a coherent mosaic, they were left with meaningless pictures of ice.

The following year, a much smaller expedition named Operation Windmill was launched to gather the necessary coordinates. Some researchers speculate that the real purpose of Windmill was to determine whether Base 211 was still inhabited, and that the need for ground control points was a literal "cover story."

For the crews of Operation Highjump, the photo mapping did not go as planned. All three groups were plagued by bad weather: fog, low ceilings, dense clouds in the upper atmosphere, strong winds, and more. But the Western Group had it the worst, spending entire weeks unable to get a single plane in the air. The most notable event for the Western Group was the discovery of the Bunger Oasis.

As one Antarctic chronicler put it:

“Either on January 30 or February 1 (the records are unclear), PBM pilot Lieutenant Commander David E. Bunger took off from the bay and headed for the mainland several hundred miles away. At that time, the USS Currituck was positioned off the Shackleton Ice Shelf on the Queen Mary Coast of Wilkes Land. When Bunger reached the coastline, he flew west with cameras whirring. Suddenly, the men in the cockpit saw a dark spot appear over the barren white horizon, and as they drew closer, they couldn't believe their eyes.”

Byrd later described it as "a land of blue and green lakes and brown hills in an otherwise limitless expanse of ice." Bunger and his men carefully surveyed the region, then hurried back to the ship to report their discovery. A few days later, Bunger and his crew returned and found one of the lakes large enough to land on. Bunger carefully set the "flying boat" down and brought it to a slow stop.

The water was surprisingly warm for Antarctica, about 30°F, and the men dipped their hands into it up to their elbows. The lake was teeming with red, blue, and green algae, which gave the lakes their distinctive colors.

"The young aviators seemed to have fallen from the twentieth century into a landscape from thousands of years ago, as the land was just beginning to emerge from one of the great ice ages," Byrd later wrote. He described the discovery as "by far the most important, in terms of public interest, in the entire expedition."

Dr. Paul Siple, Admiral Byrd's closest friend who accompanied him on all his polar expeditions, including this one, later commented that discussions among the expedition's scientists about the nature of the Bunger Oasis hadn't even begun "before the eleven press representatives aboard the USS Mount Olympus fired off reports to the outside world, calling the oasis 'Shangri-La' and suggesting that it was warmed by a mysterious heat source and might even support vegetation."

Officially, the Bunger Oasis was dismissed as an inlet of the sea due to the brackish nature of the water sample taken by Bunger.

It was the Eastern Group flying over New Swabia that experienced the next and last officially recorded casualties. Official reports stated that one of their PBM "flying boats," named *George One*, crashed into a mountain peak, resulting in the deaths of three men. One of the survivors, radar operator Jim Robbins, described the events as follows:

"There was nothing on my radar except the peaks of the mountain range, rugged terrain with well-reflective surfaces. They were 15 miles away, according to my radar. This matched our very inaccurate maps, and we were still fogged in, flying at 800 feet (mostly under the weather), and were about to turn back since there was no CAVU (Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited) over the coast, as reported by the crew of the earlier flight of *George One*. Before we could turn back, we hit a bump that caused an explosion. We had ripped a hole in the fuselage and the main fuel tank, spilling 145-octane gasoline. The flames from the engine exhaust ignited it immediately. That was probably the biggest aircraft explosion ever, back in 1946!"

“The entire fuselage completely disintegrated! Most of us were thrown off the flight deck in the same direction. Two of us were thrown into the propellers and died instantly. Bill Kearns was hurled straight through the windshield in front of the co-pilot's seat, and Warr was thrown down the hill behind us. It was snowing like crazy! Williams, who was sitting next to our flight engineer Warr, was watching the instrument panel with him. After the explosion, we found him near the burning fire pit, severely injured internally and bleeding from his mouth and nose. He died a few hours later. The photographer, McCarty, had been sleeping in the tunnel by his Trimetrigon camera and the tunnel hatch. Apparently, he was thrown around in there (the tunnel section remained fairly intact and became our bad-weather shelter). Frenchy was stuck in his seatbelt in the flames caused by the still-burning residual fuel from the fuselage tank. Our honored guest and observer, the captain of the USS Pine Island, a top-of-the-line seaplane tender, was strapped into a special new bow seat that had replaced the old one. It was surrounded by a clear Plexiglas dome, offering the best view ever! He was blown directly through the dome. He seemed in fairly good shape except for his nose, which was obviously badly broken. We later found out that he was limping significantly.”

In the Duluth, Minnesota News-Tribune on January 2, 2005, there was a report:

"Navy Attempts to Find Plane Lost in Antarctica 58 Years Ago"

On page 7A, it mentioned, among other things:

“On November 27, 2004, the Navy undertook the first flight to search for the wreckage of George 1, the plane that crashed in 1946. It was a joint search mission aboard a Chilean Navy Orion P-3 aircraft, involving a Chilean crew and NASA scientists working together.”

"This was not a routine task for us," said Captain Christian Aldunate, the lead Chilean pilot of the recovery flight. "It was a challenge to find clues that might help us locate the aircraft, even though we knew that due to the ice and snow that had accumulated over so many years, it would be almost impossible to reach the plane."

During the 11-hour flight to and from Punta Arenas in the far south of Chile, the search aircraft descended to 150 meters above Thurston Island so that scientists could use radar and laser beams to try to locate the remains of the US Navy PBM (Martin) Mariner seaplane.

Although not widely known around the world, the three men who died in the crash in 1946—Wendell K. Hendersin, Maxwell Lopez, and Frederick Williams—are still celebrated as heroes in Antarctica. At McMurdo Station, a U.S. research base on the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, a plaque commemorates the four men who lost their lives during Operation Highjump—the first Americans to die during one of Byrd’s many expeditions.

Admittedly, the official report of this operation doesn’t sound much like a combat report. Yet persistent rumors speak of fierce battles, heavy casualties, downed aircraft, and more. Wild rumors, perhaps? If so, why did Captain Richard H. Cruzen, the operational commander of the expedition, order an abrupt end to the mission after just eight weeks, even though they had enough supplies to last six to eight months in the polar region?

Did Byrd, and possibly George One, encounter German flying discs?

Some point to the admiral’s comments to a reporter from the Chilean newspaper Brisant aboard the Mount Olympus on the way home as evidence of this:

"It was necessary for the U.S. to take defensive measures against enemy aircraft coming from the polar regions... aircraft that can fly from pole to pole at incredible speeds."

According to paranormal investigator Alan DeWalton:

“One thing Admiral Byrd stated during a press conference after his defeat in Antarctica was that the Antarctic continent should be "surrounded by a wall of defense installations, as it represents the last line of defense for America."

Although the USA and Russia had been allies during the war, suddenly the "Iron Curtain" was erected, and we and the Russians became enemies. Both the Soviets and the United States surrounded the poles with defense and reconnaissance bases, and in between lay the barren no-man's land of the poles, where absolutely no one lived—or did they? Could it be that the Americans pretended to be protecting themselves from the Russians, and the Russians pretended to protect themselves from us, while in reality, both of us were afraid of what lay between us—the last battalion of the Nazis?

Another claim made by some investigators, though the original source is difficult to trace, is that after returning to the USA, Admiral Byrd allegedly went into a rage before the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (in some versions of the story, he testified before Congress) and strongly "suggested" in an almost demanding tone that Antarctica should be made a thermonuclear test site.

Shortly after Byrd’s call to eliminate the threat in Antarctica, UFOs were reported flying over the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Some speculate that these UFOs were German spacecraft from Antarctica, warning the U.S. of their power and the potential for retaliation if Byrd's recommendation were followed.

Of course, there is no official evidence for Byrd's alleged testimony before Congress, but it is known that he was questioned by the President, and the records of that questioning remain sealed. It is also a fact that UFOs were not just seen once but twice over the Capitol, once during the day and then again at night. They were observed by thousands of people and were duly mentioned in the national press. However, they were sighted in 1951, long after Byrd's return and nearly two years after Operation Windmill.

After Highjump and Windmill, Antarctica saw a surge of expeditions. While the Americans stayed away from Antarctica in the following decade, more than a dozen nations launched expeditions in the years that followed.

Neuberlin

Had you stood at the bombed-out train station in Poltava, a city in Ukraine, during the summer of 1942 as a Wehrmacht soldier, you might have witnessed a very strange-looking military unit approaching a waiting passenger train.

The unit consisted primarily of blonde, blue-eyed women of childbearing age. Each woman wore an Italian-style garrison cap, an A-line skirt that ended just below the knee, and a fitted jacket bearing the SS insignia. One might have thought the SS had recruited a train full of top-class call girls, but the truth was far stranger. These women were part of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler's latest idea—the Antarctic Settlement Women (ASF).

The story begins in 1938 when the German aircraft carrier Schwabenland crossed the South Atlantic and headed for Queen Maud Land in Antarctica. The *Schwabenland* sailed under the command of Alfred Ritscher, a veteran of cold-weather operations, into Antarctica.

The scientists of the Ritscher expedition used their large Dornier seaplanes to explore the polar deserts, in a manner similar to Admiral Richard E. Byrd's efforts a decade earlier. The German scientists discovered ice-free lakes (heated by underground volcanic activity) and were able to land on them.

It is widely believed that the NeuSchwabenland expedition aimed to scout for a secret operational base. A German outpost was established in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains, directly inland on the Princess Astrid Coast. The area was renamed Neuschwabenland, and the outpost became known simply as Station 211.

It was the Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA) that selected the women for Himmler's Antarctic Settlement Women unit. About half of the "recruits" were ethnic Germans whose ancestors had settled in Ukraine during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The others were native Ukrainians who were "upgraded" to full Aryans by RuSHA. This process was called Germanization.

The idea of a 'German-Slavic Antarctic Reich' found significant support. It is said that 10,000 of the "racially purest" Ukrainians, from a group of half a million deported by Martin Bormann in 1942, were transported to the German Antarctic bases during World War II, at a ratio of four Ukrainian women to one German man. If true, this would mean that Himmler sent at least 2,500 Waffen-SS soldiers, who had proven themselves in battle on the Russian front, to Station 211—modern-day Neuschwabenland in Antarctica.

This could be the source of the idea of the "last SS battalion."

In Estonia, on a peninsula near Ristna on the island of Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea, an ASF training camp was established. It was a combination of a school and training camp where the women, in addition to courses on survival in polar regions, also received instruction in charm and household management. Himmler kept the existence of the camp a closely guarded secret.

The failure of Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz's submarine offensive in May 1943 freed up dozens of "Milchkuh" submarines. These were large submarines, almost as big as tramp steamers, which Dönitz had used to supply his U-boat "wolf packs" in the remote seas of the world. Himmler now used them to transport supplies and personnel to Antarctica.

Himmler's justification for sending thousands of settlers to Antarctica can only be understood in the context of his mystical beliefs. As a result of his association with occultist Dr. Friedrich Wichtl and his membership in the Artamanen, Himmler became a follower of the Hindu concept of world ages or Yugas.

He believed that the current age, the Kali Yuga, would end in a global cataclysm, giving rise to a new world age, the Satya Yuga.

By sending a Nazi colony to Antarctica, Himmler aimed to ensure that a remnant of the "pure Aryan race" would survive the coming cataclysm with its society and culture intact. They would then claim Antarctica when the cataclysm caused the melting of the South Polar ice cap.

According to believers, the Neuschwabenland colony not only survived the end of World War II but also a battle with 3,500 Marines and aircraft during Operation High Jump.

In 2003, Russian ufologist Konstantin Ivanenko wrote:

"The total Nazi population in Antarctica now exceeds two million, and many of them have undergone plastic surgery to move more easily through South America and conduct all kinds of business."

He called the Antarctic Reich,

"one of the most militarily powerful states in the world because it can destroy the USA multiple times over with its submarine-based nuclear missiles and remains invulnerable to U.S. nuclear strikes due to the two-mile-thick ice shield."

He also claimed that the city of Neu-Berlin, the capital of the colony, sprawls through "narrow subglacial tunnels" under an unnamed mountain range, heated by "volcanic vents." Neu-Berlin also borders the prehistoric ruins of Kadath, which were possibly built by settlers from the lost continent of Atlantis over 100,000 years ago.

Other fringe researchers claim that the actual ruins of Atlantis have been found beneath the Antarctic ice—and possibly even resettled.

Some claim that Atlantis is located near one of the approximately 70 warm water lakes discovered miles beneath the polar ice, such as Lake Vostok near the Russian base at the Pole of Inaccessibility.

Another frequently made claim about Neu-Berlin is that the city has an alien quarter where Pleiadians, Zeta Reticulans, Reptilians, Men in Black, Aldebaranians, and other visitors from the stars reside. As is now widely known, the Germans worked on some very advanced aircraft, some of which may have been capable of leaving Earth's atmosphere.

Some researchers are convinced that the Germans actually made it to the Moon and even to Mars.

In modern UFO lore, there is a claim that an extraterrestrial spacecraft with anti-gravity propulsion crashed in the Black Forest in the summer of 1936 and was recovered by the Germans, who reverse-engineered it, thus explaining their saucer program.

This aligns with stories about a similarly crashed "saucer" recovered near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, whose American reverse-engineering allegedly led to the discovery of the transistor (patented by Bell Laboratories the following year), fiber optics, and other exotic technologies.

Konstantin Ivanenko reports that talk of the Antarctic Reich is becoming increasingly popular in Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and other Eastern European countries.

He writes:

In the May 10, 2003 edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Polish journalist A. Stagjuk criticized Poland’s decision to send troops to Iraq to support the allied occupation. At the end, he said, "The next Polish government will sign a treaty with Antarctica and declare war on the USA."

Ivanenko added that Stagjuk's words were broadcast over Deutsche Welle’s shortwave station that same week.

Some analysts compared this statement to famous coded phrases that triggered wars in the 20th century, such as "The sky over all of Spain is cloudless" in 1936 and "Climb Mount Niitaka" in 1941. ("Climb Mount Niitaka" was the signal Admiral Yamamoto sent to the Kido Butai, the Imperial Japanese Navy fleet, to launch the attack on Pearl Harbor.)

At first, it seems strange to imagine a large population living under the Antarctic ice, completely cut off from the "normal" world. On the other hand, at Lago de Yanayacu, less than 50 kilometers east of Iquitos, Peru, indigenous Jivaro people live who have never heard of Courtney Love. So, is there a city under the ice, inhabited by the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the original SS settlers? Or is this merely an urban legend rooted in the chaotic conditions in Europe during World War II?

One day, we may know for certain.

NASA AND THE US NAVY CONDUCT A SECRET SEARCH IN ANTARCTICA

On December 30, 1946, a nine-man US Navy patrol plane, tasked with mapping the Antarctic coast as part of Operation High Jump, crashed in a snowstorm after its radar failed to detect an uncharted slope. Now, as part of its scientific exploration of western Antarctica, the US Navy has begun searching for the aircraft and recovering the remains of the crew members.

The crew and their aircraft were part of the largest expedition ever conducted in Antarctica to this day, Operation High Jump, led by the famous polar explorer Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. The mission consisted of 13 ships, 23 aircraft, and 4,700 men.

According to a Navy memorandum from 1946, the mission's goal was to "solidify and expand US sovereignty over Antarctic territories, investigate possible base sites, and expand scientific knowledge in general."

As the Cold War grew colder by the month, the operation unnerved the Soviet Union.

The Soviet whaling fleet had just begun operating in Antarctic waters, and a military publication called *Red Fleet* darkly warned that the operation was proof that "American military circles want to bring the polar regions under their control."

Argentina and Chile were also not pleased. Both countries had their own overlapping territorial claims extending from the tip of South America. Their fears of American overreach were heightened when Chile requested permission from Washington to send an observer, which was denied.

In books written during the 1970s, Wilhelm Landig and the "ostracized ufologist" Ernst Zündel claimed that Operation High Jump was literally "the last battle of World War II."

In Secret Nazi Polar Expeditions (1978) and Hitler at the South Pole (1979), Zündel alleged that Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler had founded an SS colony in Antarctica called Neuschwabenland. The base, known as Station 211, eventually became the Antarctic Reich.

Opinions about the final fate of Neuschwabenland vary widely.

Some claim that the Germans abandoned their Antarctic sanctuary in the 1960s and relocated to places in the Andes. Another group believes that the Antarctic Reich still exists and has developed into a "civilization under the ice," where about 3 million people of German and Ukrainian descent now live.

It is said to be located somewhere in the Mühlig-Hoffman Mountains, near the ruins of Kadath, a city supposedly founded by settlers from the lost continent of Atlantis.

The Redemptionists believe that Adolf Hitler escaped from Berlin in April 1945, traveled to southern Argentina in a submarine, and from there flew in a Nazi flying saucer to Neuschwabenland. Hitler allegedly lived in Antarctica until 1952, when he supposedly traveled to the Moon and met with extraterrestrials. These aliens then took him to Aldebaran, 68 light-years away from Earth. The legend claims that one day, Hitler will return with an Aldebaran space fleet.

The story of Hitler in Argentina is an old one. It first appeared in 1947 in a book by Ladislao Szabo titled *Hitler Está Vivo* (Spanish for "Hitler Lives"). A second book by Michael X. Barton was published in 1969 under the title *We Want You: Is Hitler Alive?*. Ernst Zündel picked up the topic in 1974. Most of the "Nazi flying saucer" theories stem from these books. Both theories agree that Hitler escaped from the Führerbunker in Berlin and fled to Argentina by submarine.

However, proponents of the Antarctic Reich theory claim that Hitler left Argentina in the early 1950s and relocated to Neuschwabenland, an SS colony under the ice of Antarctica, near the prehistoric ruins of Kadath. Here, it is said that Adolf spent his days resuming his artistic career, painting a series of Antarctic ice landscapes.

On November 27, 2004, the Navy undertook its first flight to locate the wreckage of the "George 1," which had crashed in 1946. The search flight was a joint operation aboard a Chilean Navy Orion P-3 aircraft, with a Chilean crew working alongside NASA scientists.

"This was not a routine task for us," said Captain Christian Aldunate, the lead Chilean pilot on the recovery flight.

"It was a challenge to find clues that might help locate the plane, even though we knew it would be nearly impossible to reach the aircraft because of the ice and snow that had accumulated over so many years."

During the 11-hour flight to and from Punta Arenas, in the southernmost part of Chile, the search aircraft descended to 150 meters over Thurston Island, allowing scientists to use radar and lasers to try and locate the remains of the US Navy’s PBM (Martin) Mariner seaplane. "Even today, it’s not easy, but we can rely on information from satellite photos, GPS systems, and wind forecasts," Aldunate said, referring to global positioning networks. "But from the moment they launched to when they arrived in the region, they had no idea what to expect."

Although they are little known in the world, the three men who died in the crash (1946)—Wendell K. Hendersin, Maxwell Lopez, and Frederick Williams—are still celebrated as heroes in Antarctica. At the McMurdo Station, a U.S. research station at the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, a plaque commemorates the men, the first Americans to die during one of Byrd’s many expeditions. (See *Duluth, Minn. News-Tribune*, January 2, 2005, "Navy tries to find plane lost in Antarctica 58 years ago").

Magnetic field lines emanate from the magnetic South Pole. The strange thing about the North and South Poles is how these magnetic field lines move. They originate from a "hole" just off the coast of Antarctica.

There are Chilean and Peruvian scientists and bases located near or along the route of UFOs that come from inside the Earth. Many UFOs fly directly from south to north along South America. If one were to draw a line from South America through the Antarctic bases of Chile and others, across the South Pole to the magnetic South Pole, it would form a straight line.

What’s interesting about this potential "UFO route" is that UFOs emerging from inside the Earth would end up flying over the American South Pole base.

The flight path is such that the only places in Antarctica where one might have a chance of seeing these UFOs are in the Weddell Sea area, where South American countries have their bases, and at the Scott Base at the South Pole.

The other parts of the UFO route are somewhat off the commonly traveled paths, so the chance of randomly encountering UFOs elsewhere is low.

This would explain why the U.S. government does not allow visitors at the South Pole base: the hole is not located at or near the South Pole base (as originally thought) but along the route from the real hole in the oceans off the coast.

In his article "UFO Bases Found in Antarctica" (Globe, January 18, 1983), Bob Borino cites certain scientists who believe that an underground UFO base is located beneath the strange “Polynya Sea" in the Weddell Sea region of Antarctica.

On September 25, 1946, the French Agence France Press reported:

“The persistent rumors of German submarine activities in the Tierra del Fuego region, between the southernmost tip of Latin America and the Antarctic continent, are based on true events.”

The newspaper France Soir reported as follows:

“Almost 1-1/2 years AFTER the end of hostilities in Europe, the Icelandic whaling ship Juliana was stopped by a large German submarine. The Juliana was in the Antarctic region near the Malvinas [now the Falkland Islands], when a German submarine surfaced and raised the official German mourning flag, red with a black border. The submarine commander sent out a boarding party, which approached the Juliana in a rubber boat. After boarding the whaling ship, the commander demanded a portion of the ship's fresh food supplies from Captain Hekla. The request was made in the clear tone of a command, one that would have been unwise to refuse. The German officer spoke fluent English and paid for the supplies in U.S. dollars, giving the captain a bonus of $10 for each member of the Juliana crew. While the food was being brought to the submarine, the commander informed Captain Hekla of the exact location of a large school of whales. Later, the Juliana found the school, just as described.”

This story took place around 1947. However, to this day, there has never been an Icelandic whaling ship operating in the South Atlantic, let alone in Antarctica. No Icelandic ship has ever been named *Juliana*, and Hekla is the name of an active volcano in Iceland, not a surname. 99% of Icelandic male surnames end with "-son."

Before World War II, German scientists were obsessed with Antarctica. Far from finding a desolate, ice-covered wasteland, the Germans discovered ice-free areas, warm-water lakes, and cave systems.

After these expeditions, the Germans also became interested in Queen Maud Land [or "Neuschwabenland," as the Germans called it] and planned an expedition to claim it for themselves... In any case, it still lies there as a remote ice shelf with many high mountains rising above the glacier. Truly a beautiful land.

Queen Maud Land is dominated by the massive ice shelf that slowly flows from the King Haakon VII Plateau, down past the South Pole, and into the sea. This region is called "Fenriskjeften," named after the jaws of the giant wolf Fenrir in Norse mythology.

According to this mythology, Fenrir’s teeth were very sharp and would kill all humans on Earth during Ragnarök—the end of the world.

Most of the mountains in Fenriskjeften have names that reference teeth or other aspects of Norse mythology.

The use of wolf symbolism is interesting, as it touches on an important theme in Nazi symbolism. Hitler’s retreat in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, was nicknamed the "Wolf's Lair," and the tactic with which German submarines destroyed convoys during the war was called "wolf packs."

Hitler dreamed of a "Thousand-Year Reich." Is this a barely veiled counterpart to Jesus' Millennial Kingdom?

Allied pilots reported seeing "Foo Fighters" in the final stages of World War II. These flying objects appeared and disappeared with incredible speed and caused electrical and magnetic anomalies when they approached Allied aircraft. These devices resemble the "flying saucers" that were first reported in 1947.

Hitler's body was never found. Recent reports about "opened KGB files" claim that Hitler's remains were kept by the Soviet intelligence services and later destroyed. However, the current incarnation of Russia is often viewed as a wolf in sheep's clothing, and there is little trust in the truthfulness of the KGB [or its successor, the FSB].

UFO abductee Barney Hill [who became one of the first widely known abductees in the 1960s] claimed under hypnosis that one of his abductors "looked like a German Nazi." Other abductees have claimed to have seen Nazi-style decorations or heard German voices or voices with German accents during their abduction experiences.

Under "Operation Paperclip," Nazi scientists and intelligence officers were integrated into the military, NASA, and intelligence agencies. Wernher von Braun is the most famous among them, considered the genius behind the Saturn rockets.

The most notorious was Reinhard Gehlen, a major general in Nazi military intelligence. Gehlen was sponsored by the Dulles brothers.

John Foster Dulles was a founding member of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) and served as Secretary of State under President Eisenhower; Allen was President of the CFR and Director of Central Intelligence—head of the CIA when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Not only was the CIA involved in the assassination of JFK, but Allen Dulles was also a member of the Warren Commission—the investigation panel that many JFK researchers believe was the government's official cover-up of the conspiracy. German wealth was smuggled out of Germany. U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce Stuart Eizenstadt reported the following about the Nazi treasury:

"The evidence presented in this report is undeniable. [...] The Swiss National Bank and private Swiss bankers knew during the war that the Reichsbank’s coffers (the German central bank) were empty and that the Swiss were handling vast amounts of looted gold."

(TRANSCRIPT: EIZENSTAT BRIEFING ON LOOTED NAZI GOLD REPORT, United States Department of Commerce. May 8, 1997).

As World War II ended and Europe was overrun by the Allies, each country took responsibility for its sector of Europe. In our sector, we drove trucks to the former production facilities and hauled away all the documents. Of course, everyone else did the same.

About twelve years later, the Australians discovered a 16-mm film, a technical report on the German V-7 research project.

The V-7 weapons research project involved circular, disc-shaped aircraft. We were aware of the V-1 to V-4 programs, but we had no knowledge of the V-7 program.

The information in this documentary suggests that the Germans built their first operational disc sometime in the early 1940s at the first production facility in Prague. They then continued to expand their construction, development, and research teams until, by the time the Germans were pushed back into Germany, they had nine research facilities where all the projects were being tested.

Eight of these facilities were successfully evacuated from Germany, along with the scientists and key personnel. The ninth facility was blown up. This 16-mm film showed some images of flying vehicles in operation.

The Germans had built eight very large cargo submarines, which were custom-built, all launched and put into operation, and then mysteriously disappeared. To this day, we have no idea where they went. They are neither on the ocean floor nor in any known port. It remains a mystery, but the mystery could be solved by this Australian documentary, which shows large German cargo submarines in Antarctica, surrounded by ice flows, with their crews standing on deck waiting to dock at a quay.

Now, Germany was called "Schwabenland" before it was called Germany. So, we are talking about "New Germany," located in an area at the South Pole that was previously called Queen Maud Land.

Around 1937, an international conference was convened under the League of Nations to decide to limit new land claims in Antarctica. At that time, it seemed like everyone had a claim, except for Germany, which had made no claim but had only conducted some research down there. The whole idea was to prevent Germany from making a land claim as the Nazis came to power. They refused to recognize German claims marked on German maps. A few years ago, National Geographic showed the German claim on a map for the first time.

But in 1939, Göring led an expedition to Antarctica, including a submarine troop, and they brought construction and excavation equipment, beginning the excavation of a tunnel complex, and these activities may have been ongoing since that time. If that’s the case, it could have developed into a significant complex today.

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Sources;

https://archive.org/details/die-deutschen-in-der-antarktis/mode/1up

https://archive.org/details/der-kampf-um-neuschwabenland/mode/1up?q=

https://archive.org/details/Neuberlin