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I know about a nazi expedition to antartica in 1938,what happened there after it? Had They estabilished something there? Are they still there nowdays? Please If you know the answer help me to know the truth !

Regards : Jeno

2007-03-07 21:51:58 · 4 answers · asked by jenokellner 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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They established the Alfred Wegner Neumeyer Station.
In germany the Alfred Wegener Institute it is a big and fat research institute see:

http://www.awi.de/uk/

The Alfred Wegener Institute carries out research in the Arctic and Antarctic as well as in the high and mid latitude oceans. The institute coordinates German polar research and makes available to national and international science important infrastructure, e.g. the research ice breaker “Polarstern” and research stations in the Arctic and Antarctic.

2007-03-07 21:56:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

The Nazis certainly had an unusual high interest in the Antarctican continent. Throughout the war, men and equipment were sent to Antarctica, and the Germans mapped the continent better then anyone up until then. They renamed the whole area Queen Maude Land as Neu Schwabenland, claiming it for the Reich.

There are a number of otherwise sane people who subscribe to the theory that the Nazis established some kind of top secret base at Antartica from where they tested top-secret UFOs.

In 1938, Hitler apparently did send an expedition headed by Captain Alfred Richter to the part of Antarctica just opposite the tip of South America to choose a site for a base, which would be completed by 1945.

After the war was over, the Allies concluded over 250,000 Germans were unaccounted for - likely casualties of war included. Most of those were either scientists, engineers, of members of the SS.

Several U-Boat submarines were missing, including several of the state-of-the-art ocean-going Type XXIII U-Boats. Most notably, the U-977 and the U-530 sailed for open sea, shortly before the war officially ended. Both surrended in Argentina a few months after the war ended.

The question is, had the base actually been completed by 1945, and what happened to it afterwards?

It is claimed that following the second world war in 1947, the United States launched Operation High Jump under command of Admiral Richard E. Byrd in 1947, ostensibly to map the entire Antartic coastline. The expedition consisted of thirtheen ships, two seaplane tenders, an aircraft carrier, twelve other aircraft, six helicopters, and a force of 4000 men. They took 70,000 aerial photographs, but having planned the operation to last several months, it was cut short after a few weeks.

Some people choose to believe that they were defeated by the Nazis and various top-secret military projects and that Nazism is alive and well in Antartica. Me personally - I don't believe a word of it!!! It would make a good movie or thriller novel though, wouldn't it?

2007-03-08 00:08:15 · answer #2 · answered by Mental Mickey 6 · 2 0

There was certainly an interest in discovering a 'lost' Ayran race that was assumed to have disappeared in the Arctic. The Nazi's funded several expeditions trying to prove links between various races, most notably one to the Himalayas that was the basis for the film 'Seven years in Tibet'

Like most research the Nazi's undertook it turned out to be complete nonsense.

If there was a place that the Nazi hierarchy fancied decamping too, there is plenty of evidence that some Nazi officials in the last stages of the war where urging a flight too Madagascar on a Focke Wolfe condor. Hitler rejected it out of hand preferring to commit suicide in the Bunker. There seems to have been a fascination with Madagascar by certain parts of the Nazi party for some reason. Like everything else they did it would probably be for some totally bizarre ideology that any sane person would laugh at.

2007-03-08 03:34:17 · answer #3 · answered by Corneilius 7 · 1 0

they drilled down deep and are half way to argentina now but they are very old and will run out of sausage monday afternoon

2007-03-07 21:55:16 · answer #4 · answered by q6656303 6 · 1 0

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