Base 211 Post # 3

Admiral Byrd, who had flown across the south pole as the first human in 1929, was already at this time a living legend, a national hero to the Americans and most of the polar researchers.

"Interestingly, the Expedition seemed to have discovered ice-free areas with lakes and small signs of vegetation in the middle of the Antarctic.The geologists said that this phenomenon was due to hot sources in the ground.

"Most parts of 'NEUSCHWABENLAND' were renamed according to the Antarctic treaty in 1957. Look out for "QUEEN MAUD LAND"., "PRINCESS MARTHA COAST", "PRINCESS ASTRID COAST". On the older maps you will still find the original names. Yet, until today still many of the mountains in the northern Antarctic area carry German names like: "M_HLIG-HOFFMAN-MOUNTAINS", "WOHLTAT-MOUNTAINS", etc. These names were given according to leading Berlin bureaucrats who enabled with their policy the expedition's targets.

"In the mid of February, the 'SCHWABENLAND' again left the Antarctic. It took two months back to Hamburg and Ritscher carefully used this time to Organize the results, maps and photos. Captain Ritscher surprised by the results of the flights, immediately planned after the arrival a second, Fully civilian, expedition in use of lighter airplanes with skids. Facing the beginning of WWII, these civilian plans were said to be given up around October 1939.

"Yet, what about the military and strategic option achieved by this strike? Was it wasted resources so far? Today, all historians agree in the fact that WWII was not accidentally started but pretty well planned from the early 30's and even before.

At least since 1933 the whole German Dictatorship tried to gain war fitness within a decade or earlier. In all and I really mean all aspects of life: military, 'civilian', economic, social, private, resourcing, engineering, foreign policy, and so on, in all aspects the Germans were put straight on their way to war; more or less obviously.

Pointing to this only aim, the National socialists abused
the typical kind of German correctness and missing sense for rebellious Scrutinizing. Nothing was left to chance! And this same method was used in the Antarctic issue, which in my eyes NEVER ended with Ritscher's return in 1938 but went on during WWII.

"Unfortunately, at this point all valid information has vanished. What is
left is a scattered puzzle of hints, testimonies and reports which go up to the fifties and which cannot be verified anymore. So IF the
Germans WERE able to build up an Antarctic base on the
results of Ritscher's expedition, this would be one of the really best
Covered secrets in German history.

No question, German engineers HAD the knowledge to construct something like that as the huge underground establishments of the Nordhausen complex in the Harz as well as Kahla Complex at Thuumlringen and many more prove.

Let us see what we can chronically prove. . Nobody can say that the following really happened, so you might see it as speculation first. Yet, there is tremendous parallels on several sources from which we can only say this one thing there isn’t any evidence these various programs were aware of each other’s existence.

To be continued