There are still many rumors and legends surrounding this operation, and sometimes it seems simply impossible to separate truth and fiction. It is an undeniable fact that the secret expedition sent by Hitler to the shores of Antarctica had a very specific goal. And the tasks assigned to the participants in the operation were very far from mystical. Rather, the goal was set to be very practical and quite achievable, as it seemed to the Fuhrer.
Long-term plan
Even during World War I, when Adolf Hitler was in action, he saw how the British naval blockade affected Germany, effectively cutting off the country's supply lines. Having taken the post of head of state, the Fuhrer planned to learn from the experience of his predecessors.
In 1936, the idea of creating a four-year plan emerged, as a result of which Nazi Germany would become independent of food supplies from other countries. Hermann Goering was tasked with developing an operation to achieve Germany's complete economic and military self-sufficiency. In preparation for a protracted total war, serious reserves had to be made. The main task was to expand the sources of raw materials and food.
At that time, margarine occupied a significant place in German cuisine, and its annual consumption reached almost 8 kg per person. The production of margarine from whale oil seemed very promising in this regard. Moreover, with the advent of kerosene, an excess of fairly cheap whale oil was formed, which manufacturers began to include in margarine.
In addition, whale oil could also be used for the military industry: in a liquefied form it could become a machine lubricant, and was also widely used in the production of nitroglycerin, necessary for explosives. German and British companies bought 83% of the whaling industry in 1938.
In 1938, the decision was made to send an ambitious expedition to Antarctica to Dronning Maud Land to destroy Norway's claim to the territory and gain access to the resource-rich waters.
To the shores of Antarctica
In December 1938, a motley crew of scientists, soldiers and whalers, led by Captain Alfred Ritcher, set out on a modified vessel that could eject two ten-ton seaplanes, borrowed from Lufthansa Airlines.
The team members were selected based on their experience in polar expeditions, but there was a German official on board who ensured compliance with party standards and personally obliged all participants in the campaign to listen to Adolf Hitler’s Christmas speech. The ship was named "Schwabenland" after the region in Bavaria, and the land that was the object of German claims was to become Neu-Schwabenland.
On January 14, 1939, when the secret German expedition was already approaching the Antarctic Circle, Norway officially declared its rights to Queen Maud Land. However, German seaplanes, by dropping darts with swastikas, marked the borders of the future New Swabia, covering a distance of 600 thousand square kilometers. The expedition explored the coast and increased the known size of Antarctica by 16 percent.
The exploration of a vast territory, the fixation of magnetic pennants, more than 11 thousand photographs, the discovery of the Schirmacher oasis and new mountain ranges, in fact, did not bring any benefit to Germany itself. Old German maps still show New Swabia, which was located around Dronning Maud Land, but no country recognized Nazi Germany's claims.
The only result of the expedition was research into the operation of aircraft at low temperatures, which were later used during the invasion of the Soviet Union. As history has shown, this had no effect on the outcome of the war.
Already in mid-February, "Schwabenland" left Antarctica and two months later moored in Hamburg. Preparations for a new expedition began almost immediately, in which it was planned to involve a large number of aircraft, but after the outbreak of World War II the expedition was canceled.
However, there are still myths about a certain Base 211 on the territory of the Schirmacher oasis and another oasis allegedly discovered by a German expedition. Rumors spread about the entrance to a cave with a fairly comfortable temperature inside, where a mysterious Nazi base was located. It was assumed that communication with her was maintained using submarines from the Fuhrer's convoy.
As evidence, the words of the commander of the German submarine fleet, Karl Dönitz, were cited, who claimed that German submariners had built an impregnable fortress in Antarctica for their Fuhrer. But no documentary or factual confirmation of Dönitz’s words was found either in documents or on the lands of Antarctica.
The history of World War II consists of many individual episodes, each of which can become a monument to human heroism, generosity, cowardice or stupidity. since, if not for the happy ending, humanity in April 1945 could have lost a significant part of its cultural treasures.
For more than half a century, the world press has been excited by articles about the so-called “Base-211” in Antarctica, where most of the German bosses supposedly fled after the end of World War II and the entire flower of German science, special equipment and many specialized enterprises were transported.
Information has repeatedly appeared in the press that, having settled in the depths of Antarctica, the Germans came into contact with an unknown civilization of underground inhabitants, created flying disks, flew into space and even tested nuclear weapons. Is there any confirmation of these rumors? German researcher Peter Pohl believes he has found significant evidence.
- Peter, were you really able to find real evidence of the existence of a German base?
- Yes! The inaccessibility, harsh climate and eternal ice of Antarctica reliably hide its main secrets from us. And therefore, even at the beginning of the 21st century, it remains the most mysterious continent, despite the fact that it hosts permanent scientific stations of several countries. However, thanks to technological progress, today through the thickness of ice and water we can clearly see from space the topography of the continent and the bottom of the oceans washing it. If you look closely, you can see quite unexpected things. These are excavations in some areas of the Antarctic shelf, which strongly resemble giant quarries.
- And in what place in Antarctica did you find strange quarries?
- They are located between 75 degrees west longitude and 163 degrees east longitude in the waters of the Bellingshausen, Amundsen and Ross seas. The quarries stretch along the continent's coastal edge for 3,700-4,000 km, partly under a thick layer of fast ice, the so-called ice shelf. There are also indentations in the Weddell Sea on a shelf section with a length of 1,400 km (marked with arrows in photo 1).
- Maybe it's just a game of nature?
- Alas! It is impossible to explain the appearance of quarries as a result of the chaotic movement of glaciers - their geometry is too stable and logical. This can be compared to the work and marks of a huge tool. Each of them is oriented strictly from south to north, which does not always coincide with the direction of the continent’s slopes. Many shelf quarry formations are located in that part of the continent on which glaciers cannot form at all, capable of “plowing” the shelf several kilometers deep and tens and even hundreds of kilometers long, forming perfectly regular straight trenches (see photo 2 ). For example, in photo 3, a huge working is connected to a smaller (57 by 23 km) relatively narrow passage 3.8 km wide and about 10 km long. In order for the glacier to do this, it would simply need to “jump” this distance.
- But who could create these workings?
- Hard to tell. The scale of the work is amazing. At the same time, it is unlikely that all this could have been created by modern man. At the same time, I believe that the age of the excavations varies. Some of them are older than others, and they are covered with a layer of sediment. Most of the quarries have clear outlines, which may indicate their later appearance. It is interesting that part of the giant shelf area on which the excavations are located has been leveled by someone, has a radial border with a center at the South Pole and is a flat strip, up to 250 km wide, limited on the side opposite from the mainland by a shaft with a total length of 1,300 km. What is this? Who cut off hundreds of billions of cubic meters of soil to prepare this site?.. Moreover, there are several features that connect all the quarry formations into one system, and this suggests that the work was carried out by one “builder”, according to one plan and using a single technology. Each quarry is opened to a depth of about 1 km, while on the mainland side they have straight and gentle slopes 4-5 km long. And at the bottom of the quarries along their entire length there are parallel depressions, similar to straight trenches up to 2.5 km deep and up to 1 km wide, with equal intervals between them of about 1 km. In the longest
- In the quarry, the trenches reach a length of 200 km (see photo 2).
- Do you have any idea what technology was used to make the mysterious quarries?
- It seems that the work was carried out by a huge rotary installation with a working width of at least a kilometer. Perhaps it was equipment, devices and principles of operation that we cannot even imagine, for example, flying or floating installations were used. I don’t even rule out that it could be a huge spaceship or an armada of alien scoop ships designed to extract soil and transport it to the planet from which they came.
- But for what purpose?
- Perhaps the goal is mining. The quarries are different in configuration; they seem to repeat the dimensions of the areas of unknown mineral deposits on the Antarctic shelf. And what speaks in favor of the alien developers of Antarctic quarries is the fact that huge volumes of extracted rock simply... disappeared!
- What about “Base-211”? International scientific stations constantly operate in Antarctica; over the years of their work they have not discovered anything similar to an underground city...
- And they couldn’t find him! After all, according to the information at my disposal, the secret city of New Swabia, or “Base-211”, is not located on the Antarctic continent under a layer of ice. and... inside the Earth. As a scientist, I am a proponent of the hollow earth theory. These same views, by the way, were held by Edmund Halley, mathematician Leonhard Euler and the famous German scientist of the Third Reich, Wernher von Braun. According to this theory, inside the Earth there is its own atmosphere, its own luminary. In this underground world there is no night, no winter, natural disasters, environmental problems, it is not afraid of comets, asteroids, or solar flares. There are two entrances there - through the North and South Poles. On maps of the inner Earth found in Nazi archives, not only New Swabia and the city of New Berlin are marked, but also the continent of Asgard with the city of the gods Asgard, and the city of the gods Shambhala. There are even sea directions for passing underwater tunnels and huge air grottoes.
- So they are still Germans?
- Most likely, since according to data collected by American intelligence, a huge amount of materials and equipment was transported there by German transport, including special cutters for driving mine workings and tunnels. In addition, starting in 1947, the Americans sent several military expeditions to the southern continent and even in one of them lost a destroyer, half of the carrier-based aircraft and several hundred personnel. All this speaks in favor of the fact that the fascists managed to create a new isolated, self-sufficient civilization with enormous knowledge and technical capabilities.
- But you yourself said that technically a modern person, especially almost seventy years ago, could not create these quarries?!
- From the point of view of modern science and technology - yes. But I'll tell you what. Back in Soviet times, a German engineer was invited to Star City to celebrate the first man in space. At one time he worked on the creation of disk flying vehicles and in his speech stated that in 1944 they had already visited Mars. And in the 1980s, the Americans discovered a German spacecraft with two astronauts that had fallen from orbit in the Pacific Ocean...
If the Nazis really had such developments and technical achievements, they could well have created these gigantic workings, and after them - a high-tech civilization. This version is supported by the fact that the quarry formations look very fresh and have not yet been covered with bottom sediments. However, so far all these versions look extremely fantastic. The mystery still remains unsolved...
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It is still said that Nazi Germany was not completely destroyed in 1945. Some of Hitler’s followers managed to escape to the ends of the world, to Antarctica, where a secret base 211 called “New Swabia” was created in a system of underground karst tunnels and caves of the sixth continent. The only way to get into the new German state was by submarine. From the land side, reconnaissance aircraft and surface ships saw and still see only a thick ice shell and black coastal rocks...
The son of Nizhny Novgorod scientist Arkady Nikolaev, the first in the world to reach Antarctica's Pole of Inaccessibility in 1958, told us that there might be a secret Nazi facility at the southernmost point of the Earth.
“Do you think my father was sent to the Pole to erect a bust of Lenin there?” — Andrey Nikolaev voiced his version. - “It’s hard to believe. 13 years after the war, when the country was still half in ruins, for some reason colossal funds were suddenly invested in my father’s expedition. He led his team into the center of Antarctica in all-terrain vehicles at a speed of 5 km/h, risking falling into ice cracks several kilometers deep. Behind them they dragged a sleigh with diesel fuel weighing thirty tons. Two people died from lung burns because they jumped out of the cockpits of all-terrain vehicles without special monkey fur masks. Two planes were washed into the ocean off the coast. What are these sacrifices for? “I do not rule out that the expedition to the Pole was a cover, but in fact the USSR, like our other allies in World War II, was looking for traces of a Nazi base there.”
It is worth noting that the first to speak about a secret Nazi base was the German Hans-Ulrich von Kranz. He managed to find a former SS officer, scientist Olaf Weizsäcker, who, as it turned out, saw the base with his own eyes. In 1938, Weizsäcker arrived there as a research scientist, and in 1945 as a refugee, fleeing with other members of the SS order.
Von Kranz found Weizsäcker in Argentina. The result of this meeting, as well as many years of independent research, was Kranz’s sensational book entitled “Swastika in the Ice.”
The Germans began exploring Antarctica in 1938, when German reconnaissance planes flew over the continent. Photographing the area from the air, German scientists, among whom was Olaf Weizsäcker, discovered oases with warm lakes, free of snow and covered with vegetation, among the eternal snow. There they found the ruins of two ancient cities, the inscriptions on the walls of which resembled runic ones. These stunning discoveries, which were immediately classified by the intelligence services of the Third Reich, changed the world's view of Antarctica as a dead country of eternal ice and terrible cold.
But the most interesting thing was not outside, but inside. According to Weizsäcker, the water in the Amudsen Sea turned out to be several degrees warmer than in other surrounding waters - and warm springs flowed from the shore. To study this phenomenon, on Hitler’s personal order, five new submarines were sent. Arriving in Antarctica, one of them dived under a rock and found herself in a system of caves connected to each other by deep freshwater lakes, so warm that you could even swim in them. Above the underground lakes, another tier of caves was discovered, but completely dry and suitable for habitation. Many of them contained traces of ancient human activity - reliefs on the walls, obelisks and steps carved into the rocks. It was a vast, habitable underground world.
It must be said that Adolf Hitler believed in the ancient theory of the hollow earth, which is that inside the globe, like a nesting doll in a matryoshka doll, there are several lands and civilizations that may be significantly superior to us in development. This idea was completely contrary to orthodox science that the earth consists of a continuous layer of crust, mantle and core.
Hitler took the report on the underground kingdom of Antarctica as confirmation of his theory and decided to build a system of secret cities there, later called New Swabia.
And so huge transport submarines crawled across the entire Atlantic Ocean, transporting supplies of food, clothing, medicine, weapons and ammunition, mining equipment, rails, sleepers, trolleys, and cutters for tunneling to New Swabia. The boats went back to Germany loaded with minerals.
“In 1940, rich deposits of rare earth metals were discovered on the territory of Ellsworth Land. From that moment on, New Swabia ceased to be an extremely costly project for Germany and began to bring tangible benefits,” writes von Kranz. “The situation with rare earth metals in Germany still surprises many historians. The Reich did not have its own deposits; the reserves accumulated by 1939 should have lasted for a maximum of two years. By all accounts, German tank production should have completely stopped in the summer of 1941. However, this did not happen. Where did the Germans get the most important raw materials? The answer is obvious: from the Ice Continent!”
According to von Kranz, by 1941 the population of the underground city reached 10 thousand people. He was already fully self-sufficient in food - 100 km from the coast, a huge oasis with a fertile soil layer covering an area of 5 thousand kilometers was discovered, which was called the “Garden of Eden”. By the end of 1943, construction of a shipyard for repairing submarines was completed in the karst caves. The scale of the enterprise was such that mass production of submarines could easily be established there. Several metallurgical and mechanical engineering enterprises already operated in New Swabia. And in 1945, the base became the last refuge for the Nazis.
After the surrender of Germany, it turned out that many submarines had disappeared in an unknown direction. The winning side did not find them anywhere - neither on the ocean floor, nor in the ports. Most likely, they sailed far to the south...
“In total, about 150 submarines were prepared for the great exodus,” writes von Kranz. “A third of them were transport vehicles with a fairly large capacity. In total, more than 10 thousand people could be accommodated on board the submarine fleet. In addition, relics and valuable technologies were sent overseas.”
According to him, the submarines of the dying empire took with them its “brains” - biologists, specialists in rocketry, nuclear physics and aircraft construction. The winners did not get the most advanced achievements in the field of high technology. Meanwhile, on the eve of the defeat in Germany, atomic bombs, jet aircraft, and ballistic missiles V-1, V-2 and V-3 were developed. The latter was capable of reaching a height considered to be outer space.
It is now reliably known that “by the end of the war, there were nine research enterprises in Germany that were developing projects for flying disks,” that is, flying saucers or airplanes with a circular wing. Where these developments went is unknown.
While working in the archives, von Kranz discovered the names of several factories that produced high-tech products and which disappeared into obscurity after the war. “They were all evacuated by personal order of Martin Bormann in January-April 1945 to northern Germany,” he writes. “Obviously, their further path lay across the entire Atlantic Ocean to the land of eternal ice.” Valuable trophies never went to the winning side.
Humanity tried three times to find base 211. And all three times these attempts tragically ended in death and disappearance of people. Von Kranz describes them in detail in the book “Swastika in the Ice”.
In 1947, an impressive American squadron of 14 ships set off to the shores of Antarctica in search of a Nazi base. In addition to the flagship aircraft carrier, it consisted of thirteen destroyers, more than twenty airplanes and helicopters and five thousand personnel. The operation was called "High Jump", which in reality turned out to be not high at all.
While flying over the coast, one of his American pilots spotted a mining quarry. A detachment of 500 people went to this place on heavy all-terrain vehicles with air support from several aircraft. Suddenly, fighters with crosses on their wings appeared in the sky, and the landing party was destroyed in a few minutes: burning planes and all-terrain vehicles were all that remained of it. Then one of the US ships was blown up - a column of water rose in its place. And quite unexpectedly, objects resembling flying saucers appeared in the sky!
“They silently rushed between the ships, like some kind of satanic blue-black swallows with blood-red beaks, and continuously spat murderous fire,” recalled expedition member John Syerson many years later. “The whole nightmare lasted about twenty minutes. When the flying saucers dived under the water again, we began to count our losses. They were terrifying."
The torn squadron returned to America and the matter was classified as “Top Secret” for a long time.
The next victims were members of the expedition of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. On the ship "Calypso" in 1973, its crew went to Queen Maud Land with an unofficial mission from the French intelligence services - to find traces of base 211. Cousteau's scuba divers discovered an underwater entrance to the underground caves and made their way there. But all five people died in one of the tunnels. The expedition had to be urgently curtailed.
The USSR was the third to pay for its curiosity. We have already mentioned the 1958 expedition - it discovered nothing. Nova went on a search in the late 70s, when aerial photographs appeared that showed large oases in Antarctica, free of snow and inhabited by people. A group of researchers was sent to one of them. Ours set up camp in the oasis, and then tried to get into the mine leading into the earth. At that moment there was a powerful explosion and three people were killed. A few days later, the rest of the expedition members disappeared without a trace...
Since then, world powers have stopped bothering the mysterious inhabitants of the Ice Continent. A natural question arises: does the base of the Third Reich exist now?
“There is no definite answer even today, but there are more than enough indirect answers,” says our historian Vadim Telitsyn in his book “Hitler in Antarctica,” “Radar stations of the US Air Force, Argentina and Chile very often record “flying discs,” “ cylinders" and other "geometric figures" plying from one tip of Antarctica to the other."
The second argument for such statements is the skull of Hitler who allegedly shot himself, which after much research turned out to be female. This suggests that someone needed to fake the death of the Fuhrer in order to completely confuse the tracks. What would Hitler look like in old age? On the left is the original, on the right is the computer model.
Therefore, it is possible that the Third Reich is still thriving under the ice of Antarctica, far ahead of us in scientific and technological progress. This would at least explain the nature of unidentified flying objects that we consider alien.
When the United States learned of the high probability of the existence of Antarctic uranium, Rear Admiral Byrd was ordered to urgently “stake out” the part of Antarctica not yet occupied by the Nazis. He decided to start from the Graham Land peninsula. But as soon as American planes appeared over the future Antarctic Peninsula, it turned out that they were far from the first here, and the peninsula was not as deserted and ownerless as previously thought...
It turned out that the Argentines closely monitored the activities of German polar explorers in Antarctica, including in the areas declared by the Germans, and when the war began, they immediately began landing expeditions to different points of the icy continent. Here, Argentine polar explorers collected samples of geological rocks and made test drillings to various depths, and scientists in Argentine research centers studied these rocks for the presence of uranium, gold, manganese and molybdenum. As a result of their work, they were able to establish that, in addition to Queen Maud Land, three more Antarctic regions are equally promising: one on the shores of the Weddell Sea (near the Coats Land mountain range), another in the northeast of Graham Land, and the third on Enderby Land .
At the same time, the percentage of uranium content in Antarctic ore was almost 30 percent, that is, three times more than in the world's richest deposits of the Belgian Congo. But when Baird decided to personally visit the local Argentine base stations “General San Martin” and “General Belgrano”, he was informed that the peninsula and the adjacent territory from Ellsworth Land to Coats Land had become the territory of the Republic of Argentina with all the ensuing “consequences” and obligations.
As before, the Americans tried not to look towards New Swabia.
We, unlike Admiral Byrd’s subordinates, will visit the Antarctic possessions of the Nazis, at least in absentia.
The British first spoke openly about them immediately after the end of World War II. In Europe, the fighting had just died down, and the British Admiralty sent relevant specialists to Germany, who very quickly found here indications that the Germans had discovered in the area of Dronning Maud Land a certain warm area measuring 105 thousand square kilometers, that is, larger than the island of Tasmania. Further more! Fantastic information gradually began to leak into American and English newspapers and magazines.
Imagine a flat slab of snow and ice with an area of many thousands of square kilometers, only 150–200 meters thick. This giant plate is submerged in water, rising only 10–20 meters above the ocean surface. With one edge it is leaning against the shore and, as it were, hooked onto underwater ledges, with the other it breaks off into the open sea. At first glance, the surface of the glacier is perfectly flat and safe. But as a result of stresses arising in the ice, large cracks form here (often covered with snow on the surface), where dangerous traps lie in wait for researchers. At times, individual parts of the ice plate break up and float out to sea, forming giant table icebergs. Initially, it was on such a glacier that the polar explorers of “Bazy-211” lived, who later became the founders of “New Swabia”. They felt uncomfortable on ice shelves. Midland spring and summer in Antarctica is a time of almost daily snowstorms with severe frosts. From above, the houses were quickly covered by blizzards, and below, under the floor, several tens of meters away, the bottomless ocean depths were hidden. And there were no guarantees that one day the glacier would not split and the station, like an uncontrollable ship, would not sail into the Ross Sea or the Indian Ocean. But this is the lot of pioneers. Many Antarctic winterers went through life on similar ice platforms, but almost all the stations were abandoned over time and covered with snow, including “Base-211”: the future founders of “New Swabia” left the dangerous glacier and settled in Queen Maud Land . It was a very right decision.
After the end of World War II, the British released the so-called map of Antarctica, on which two ice shelves were plotted at once... New Schwabeland: on the prime meridian - New Schwabeland-I, and twelve degrees to the east - New Schwabeland-II. Both were part of the so-called Bellingshausen Ice Shelf. What is the correctness of the decision of the residents of “Base-211”?
In the first post-war years, the Soviet whaling flotilla "Slava" came to the Antarctic continent. On March 20, 1948, its captain-director A.N. Solyanik led his flagship to the area of 69 degrees 10 minutes south latitude and 0 degrees 52 minutes west longitude, that is, slightly north of the point that Bellingshausen’s ships reached in 1820. But even from here our whalers saw... not “hard ice of extreme magnitude,” but most of the Antarctic coast and mountain peaks in the interior of the continent. It turns out that global warming and the melting of Antarctic ice became clearly visible by the middle of the 20th century. Perhaps it was the noticeable melting of ice within the so-called Bellingshausen shelf barrier that forced the residents of Base-211 to leave their settled camp and move to the mainland. Almost nothing is known about the inhabitants of the Antarctic Nazi bases.
But while working on the book, we managed to find some very interesting information, although it still requires serious verification. Judge for yourself!
In the summer of 1940, in southwestern Poland, near the city of Kowary, a secret training center was created, where soldiers from the SS units and the Wehrmacht mountain corps were selected for training. The fact of the creation of such a center is indirectly confirmed by the fact that in the same year the formation of new mountain rifle and mountain divisions of the Wehrmacht was stopped. And six mountain divisions, already created and staffed by natives of Alpine mountain villages, began to be replenished with the best soldiers of the Wehrmacht infantry divisions. But after all, conscripts who grew up in mountain villages entered to replenish some units. Knowing about the famous German pedantry and pragmatism, we can safely say: certainly not in the Wehrmacht infantry or tank regiments and not in the Kriegsmarine submarines.
After completing training in combat operations in the harsh conditions of the Arctic, graduates of the Kovar Center were taken on various German blockade-breaking ships into the “unknown.” And most likely to Antarctica. How did such an assumption come about?
After the war, it became known that the entire set of Kovar cadets in 1941, before graduation, underwent an internship in the mountain brigade of the SS troops, which fought in the Murmansk direction. Then the former cadets disappeared all as one. Allegedly they were sent to perform some special tasks. But where? It is still not clear. If they, every single one, did not die in the fascist blockade-breakers and did not “evaporate,” then maybe they really went to Antarctica? At least, it is known that they no longer appeared in the Murmansk direction or in the Caucasus. Moreover, starting from 1942, the 20th Mountain Army, whose divisions fought in the Soviet Arctic and the Caucasus, began to include conventional infantry units and even Wehrmacht airfield divisions, which were staffed by Luftwaffe technical personnel. For mountain riflemen - veterans of Narvik and Crete - this was a serious wound to pride: sometimes it led to outright clashes between mountain soldiers and ordinary infantry.
At the end of World War II, the British received some information about the existence and supposed area of "Base 211", and most likely - "New Swabia". The British Admiralty sent relevant specialists to Germany, who very quickly found here indications of the discovery by the Germans in the area of Dronning Maud Land of a warm area measuring 105 thousand square kilometers, that is, larger than the island of Tasmania. In October 1945, a group of British commandos specially trained for combat operations in the Antarctic were sent to the Falkland Islands to take part in the secret Operation Tabernal.
By November 1945, the group was ready to carry out the tasks of the operation. The starting point of the expedition was chosen to be a certain British Antarctic base*, either “Hally Bay” (Z), or one that remained nameless, transferred to Germany in the 1960s and named “Georg von Neumayer”. Only they could be 300 kilometers from New Swabia, by Antarctic standards - very close. The preparations for the secret operation were carried out very carefully. And the British knew that it was associated with mortal risk.
Earlier, in May 1945, English winterers who arrived in Antarctica for an as yet unknown purpose stumbled upon a strange tunnel in the Mühlig-Hoffmann Mountains. The reconnaissance group, which headed through the tunnel towards the Land of New Swabia, was unexpectedly attacked by the Germans and almost completely destroyed. Of the 13 people, only one scout survived. Quite by accident, he came across an abandoned warehouse, founded at the beginning of the century by Wilhelm Filchner's winterers. He was also lucky in that this warehouse was not stored in ice, but in a prefabricated house, which, however, saved only from the piercing wind, but not from the wild frost. The English scout wanted to survive so much that he overcame stormy winds, severe cold, and prolonged loneliness. Moreover, I looked forward to meeting with the scouts of the Tabernal group! It was he who told the British commandos about the huge subglacial cave where his reconnaissance group was discovered and died.
His story was short. During the day, the English scouts walked through the tunnel for more than 20 kilometers and came to a huge light cave. This natural structure was heated by geothermal waters, but judging by the taste of the water, it was connected to the sea. On the shore of the cave there were six piers, apparently for Nazi submarines, two of which were equipped with Demag cranes. Nearby, three slipways descended to the water for launching pot-bellied aircraft with black crosses bordered in white on the fuselage. Suddenly, an alarm went off in the cave: the guards noticed strangers. The fight was short. Almost all the British who were not killed by the first machine-gun and machine gun fire were finished off by soldiers in yellow-brown camouflage, from under which black buttonholes with double runic “lightning bolts” peeked out, that is, in the uniform of SS special forces. Only the leader of the English reconnaissance group survived.
After listening to the scout's confused story, the next morning the Tabernal group moved towards the tunnel on snowmobiles. Here, right at the entrance to the tunnel, the vehicles were left under the protection of two commandos, who received detailed instructions on all cases of development of the search operation.
Nine English soldiers with full backpacks entered the cave darkness. They walked for almost three days to their cherished goal, found a cave, but during mining they were discovered and entered into a mortal battle. Of the entire group, only three survived. They returned to the Falkland Islands through an unnamed Antarctic base. Maybe it was here that, following the British commandos, the squadron of the same Rear Admiral Richard Byrd came in the winter of 1946 and suffered significant losses here?
It is still unclear when this base was abandoned by the Nazis. It is only known that the Norwegian-British-Swedish expedition, which worked here in 1949–1952, did not find any warm territory. Meanwhile, in 1974, to celebrate the New Year, Belgian polar explorers invited their Soviet colleagues from the Novolazarevskaya station to an almost abandoned Antarctic station. This invitation was doubly pleasant, since for almost a week all the winter workers sat at their stations due to the blizzard that had not subsided all these days. And here are new meetings and new people.
This is how our polar explorer V. Bardin later described in his book the internal view of the structure he saw:
The snow cat all-terrain vehicle suddenly stops. Mechanic Pierre gestures for us to follow him. The snow is soft, your foot sinks down to your ankle... Pierre points to a black rectangular hole in the snow.
I look there. A steep metal staircase goes into the darkness.
“This is a hatch,” Misha says confidently.
Deep? - I ask Pierre.
Five meters,” he points with his fingers.
Above the hatch there is a device very similar to a gallows, with the help of which a heavy load is lowered and raised on blocks.
When everything is lowered down, I climb into the hatch. There is already a bright square hole high above your head. There is twilight at the bottom of the snow well. There is an icy corridor going in one direction; the ceilings have bent greatly and are about to collapse. On the other side is a massive door edged with metal. I open it and find myself in a square room, illuminated by a fluorescent lamp. The walls, apparently made of some kind of plastic, are covered with a crust of ice. Chocolate bars, sugar and other supplies are stacked in narrow stacks on shelves along the walls. The square room is a passage room; further, deeper, another door leads. Behind it is a corridor, on both sides of which there are tiny, compartment-like compartments; inside each there are two beds, one above the other, and a small table. A special stove-blower operating on liquid fuel is installed in the central compartment. Now it is turned on, and warm air begins to warm up the cold rooms.
However, it turned out that this book from the Soviet era does not tell everything about that New Year's meeting. It later became known that the Belgians had known about this abandoned base since the mid-1960s. Belgian polar explorers sometimes used it to shelter from bad weather. In the local living quarters, up to two dozen people could calmly wait out any blizzard.
Then, in 1974, even before their visit, the Soviet polar explorers learned that the Belgian expedition included several specialists from Holland, who, under the leadership of the deputy head of the Donne station, just a week ago went to the area of Cape Sedov to conduct scientific research and almost died during a blizzard. They were saved in some miraculous way. The Belgians did not tell us what. But during the meeting, it did not escape the attention of our polar explorers that the Dutch had faces tired of their long stay in the snowy kingdom. And everything fell into place.
After the New Year celebrations at the abandoned station were over, Soviet polar explorers were invited to the already inhabited Belgian station “King Baudouin”. She was also under the snow. Only the chimneys looked out and there were three strange pavilions on legs.
Compared to what I had just seen, this station had a completely different appearance.
Here, even in the corridors, there is light, warmth, and a sense of home everywhere.
We go to the wardroom. This is a long room with columns in the middle: they serve as supports for the ceiling arches, on which a multi-ton mass of snow presses.
Under the snow there is a whole series of rooms: the diesel room is the energy heart of the station; Pierre's property is a radio center; a number of laboratories, including the ionospheric one.
It was here, under the influence of the famous Russian drink, which, depending on the amount drunk, loosens the tongues of any person on earth, the Belgians let it slip that the first of the stations they showed was once... a German Antarctic station.
But let's go back to the years of World War II.
Preparations for the Third German Antarctic Expedition, planned for the winter of 1939–1940, were stopped and then completely curtailed: the English Royal Navy blocked the English Channel and the Northern Passage to the Atlantic. The route to Antarctica was closed for fascist transport ships. Now only a few armed raiders and submarines could break through to the Antarctic shores, but it was difficult to connect their trips with cargo transportation. The holds of the former were filled with numerous supplies for long-term autonomous navigation, while the capacity of the compartments of the latter was very limited. Due to the fact that the opportunity to secretly build enrichment plants in the Antarctic oases disappeared, Hitler quickly lost interest in the expensive atomic project and forbade any development here for the time being. The polar explorers who moved from Base 211 to New Swabia, as well as the miners who arrived here during 1940, were left out of work.
New Swabia is a section of Antarctica that Nazi Germany laid claim to during World War II. The territory is located in Dronning Maud Land and is actually the property of Norway, but German society still argues that this area should belong to Germany. There are rumors that Nazi adherents transported to the base during the war still live inside the ground.
New Swabia – myth or reality?
There is no exact data as to whether life exists underground in Antarctica, but evidence constantly emerges that the territory was actively explored by Hitler during his military campaigns. Although aerial photographs show that the area claimed by Germany is covered in thick ice and appears completely uninhabited.
For the first time, active talk about the existence of the so-called base 211 began after a German researcher published a book called “Swastika in the Ice.” In his work, he described in great detail all the research that was carried out on Hitler’s orders in Antarctica, and also mentioned the results achieved. 
Adolf Hitler believed that the structure of the Earth is not at all similar to what is described in textbooks. He was of the opinion that there were several layers, each of which contained civilizations, and perhaps some of them much more advanced than humanity. During the exploration of the underwater depths, it was possible to discover a huge network of caves, in which, according to Hans-Ulrich von Kranz, an alleged eyewitness, signs of intelligent abodes were found:
- cave drawings;
- landscaped steps;
- obelisks.
Speculation about Hitler's activities
It is believed that explorers of Nazi Germany discovered underground caves suitable for life with fresh, warm lakes in which one could even swim. In connection with this discovery, a project was prepared to populate the unique territory, according to which a group of scientists was sent into the underground caves with food and the necessary tools. This was the birth of New Swabia.
Their goal was to study places and prepare territory for the life of the “chosen” people. With the same submarines, minerals were supplied to Germany, which were not enough on the territory of the country for the successful conquest of Europe and the USSR. This was further proof that Hitler had a backup source for the extraction of rare metals, because Germany’s own reserves, according to experts, should have run out back in 1941. 
According to Kranz, in 1941 alone, the population of the underground city was over 10 thousand people. The best scientists of the country were sent there: biologists, doctors, engineers, who were supposed to become the genetic fund for the development of the new state.
Post-war expeditions to Antarctica
There were talks about the existence of base 211 even during the war, so immediately after its completion the American government sent a military expedition, the purpose of which was to study Nazi possessions in Antarctica and destroy New Swabia if it existed. The operation was called “High Jump,” but it was not possible to jump high.
The entire crew of military equipment was destroyed by planes under the banner of the Nazi cross. In addition, eyewitnesses claim that among ordinary planes, flat ships similar to saucers hovered in the air. The very first attempt to discover the mysterious place took place in 1946, the expedition failed, but the desire to follow the trail of refugees from Germany only increased. 
The Soviet Union also organized a trip to Antarctica, for which enormous funds were allocated. According to the diaries of Arkady Nikolaev, it is known that the entire operation was carried out quickly and with great risk, which is not typical for the usual study of natural locations. However, it was not possible to provide unique data, or they are simply not reported to anyone. Government measures to search for the state underground are shrouded in strict secrecy, so the truth is unlikely to reach mass society.
