In late 1947, only months after the
famous Roswell Incident, then Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal
sent a naval task force to Antarctic including Admiral Nimitz,
Admiral Krusen and Admiral Byrd, called “Operation Highjump”. It was
touted to be an expedition to find “coal deposits” and other
valuable resources, but... the facts indicate otherwise... In
actuality they were apparently trying to locate an immense
underground base constructed by the Germans, before, during and
immediately after the Second World War, with the aid of Alien
Entities, which were described as “Aryans”.
This base was allegedly located in
Neuschwabenland, an area of Antarctica which Germany explored, and
claimed, before the outbreak of the Second World War... In fact,
Germany had done a very detailed study of Antarctic and were alleged
to have built a small underground base there before the War.
At this point, one must ask why, exactly, the United States, and, in
fact, her allies, suspected that German activity at the pole was
continuing, after the conclusion of the Second World War... The
answer, quite honestly, has nothing at all to do with Unidentified
Flying Objects... That part of the story came to light from a
completely different set of sources...
The fact is that there was plenty of
evidence, at the time, to indicate that as late as 1947, elements of
the Kriegsmarine, or German Navy, were still very much active in the
South Atlantic, operating either out of South America, or some base,
previously unsuspected, in the Antarctic. Many stories were
circulating at the time...
One of which even has a German U-boat
stopping an Icelandic whaler named Juliana in Antarctic waters, in
1947 and insisting that its captain, named Hekla, sell the U-boat
crew supplies from her available stores. In exchange for the
supplies (which had been paid for in U.S. dollars, along with a ten
dollar bonus to each member of Juliana’s crew... ) the U-boat
commander told the whaler where a large school of whales were to be
found. Hekla and his crew later found the whales in the exact
position claimed by the U-boat commander.
The presence of such boats, all late construction Type XXI and Type
XXIII U-Boats, with the “snorkel” that allowed them to make the
entire passage from Germany submerged... was no secret.
Many were thought to be operating out of
Argentina, possibly under the Argentine flag, but crewed by German
crew.
The fact that in the dying moments of
the Second World War, ten U-Boats, based in Oslofjord, Hamburg and
Flensburg, were made available to transport several hundred German
officers and officials to Argentina to found a new Reich is widely
accepted. These officers, mostly involved in “secret” projects, and
many of whom were members of the SS and Kriegsmarine, itself, sought
to escape the “vengeance” of the Allies, and continue their work,
abroad.
The U-boats were filled with their
luggage, documents and, more than likely, gold bullion, to finance
their efforts. All the U-boats departed their home ports between 3
and 8 May 1945. They were to proceed to Argentina where they would
be welcomed by the friendly regime of Juan Peron and his charismatic
wife Eva Peron. Seven of the ten of the U-Boats, based on the
German/Danish border, set off for Argentina through the Kattegat and
Skagerrak. None were ever seen again... “officially”.
It has been, however, documented that
three of the boats did, in fact, arrive in Argentina... These were
U-530, U-977 and U-1238. U-530 and U-977 surrendered to the
Argentine Navy at Mar del Plata in early July and August, 1945...
U-1238 was scuttled, by her crew, in the waters of San Matias Gulf,
off Northern Patagonia.
Seven boats are as yet unaccounted
for... and... Kriegsmarine archives, recently discovered, indicate
that a total of more than forty boats are completely unaccounted
for... all of which were late construction, state-of-the-art craft,
and could have made either Argentina or Antarctica, completely
submerged... and completely unnoticed by existing “allied”
technology of the time... for the entire duration of their crossing.
The question arises, of course, why these men would make such a
perilous crossing. It must surely be seen as a act of either
desperation or fanaticism, or both... and such men as crewed U-Boats
were neither. Nor, were the scientists and military officers who
were their passengers. The fact is, it would seem that most of those
who fled the ruin of Germany to the far South, were scientists and
engineers, and their dedication sprang from the project on which
they were working.
It seems incredible that so shortly after a war that had decimated
most of Europe and crippled global economies, an expedition to
Antarctica was undertaken with so much haste (it took advantage of
the first available Antarctic summer after the war), at such cost,
and with so much military hardware - unless the operation was
absolutely essential to the security of the United States.
Although Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, on 8 May
1945, events after that date suggested something was happening that
did not form a part of recognized world history. Something fueled
by a statement made by German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz...
Dönitz (16 September 1891 b 24 December
1980) had become Commander of the German Kriegsmarine (Navy),
on 31 January 1943 and he led the German U-Boat fleet until the end
of the Second World War. He also has the distinction of briefly
becoming head of the German state for 20 days after Hitler’s death
until his own capture by the Allies on 23 May 1945. His contribution
to the mystery of post-war Antarctic activity came in a statement he
made in 1943 when he declared that a substantial portion of the
German submarine fleet had rebuilt “in another part of the world a
Shangri-La land... an impregnable fortress.”
Hundreds of thousands of Germans
and a minimum of forty (40) U-boats were missing at the end
of the war. Documentation and eyewitness accounts prove that
at least a portion of these craft made it as far as South
America, in some cases, several months after the end of the
war in Europe.
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