Posted on 12/12/2016 6:43:34 AM PST by Red Badger
HITLER'S GHOST ISLAND Secret Nazi ‘Treasure Hunter’ base in Arctic found by Russian scientists after being abandoned over 70 years ago when crew was poisoned by polar bear meat
Ruined bunkers, rusted bullets and even documents among 500 objects found on remote island that may have been used as an outpost to search for mythical treasure trove
The mysterious site is located on a remote island in Russian territory – more than 600 miles from the North Pole.
Set up in 1942, a year after Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, the military outpost on Alexandra land was christened “Schatzgraber” or “Treasure Hunter”.
The island was strategically vital to both sides during the Second World War because of its value in producing weather reports, according to the Daily Mail.
The information that it produced was crucial for the movement of troops and equipment in the frozen north of the USSR.
This was especially true as the brutal Russian winter set in that year, causing the relentless German advance to grind to a halt in the snow.
And the island was all the more important because most of the other potential sites capable of producing polar weather reports in the region were held by the Allies.
But the name given to the base suggests the Nazis may have had another, more secret, mission – possibly searching for a mythical treasure trove or ancient artefacts.
A detachment of soldiers was dropped off on the island that year, establishing a base on the barren, rocky isle.
The men were re-supplied by air drops until the base was suddenly evacuated in 1944.
All of the outpost’s inhabitants were poisoned that year after eating polar bear meat contaminated with roundworms.
The survivors were rescued by a German U-boat and the base abandoned.
Since then, there was no fixed presence on the island until 1990, after the fall of the Soviet Union.
And now, more than 70 years later, the location of the Nazi base has finally been discovered by Russian scientists.
Images showed rusted bullets, shells, and patrol cans scattered across the rocky, frozen ground.
The team also found the remnants of bunkers and even 70-year-old papers, all remarkably well preserved by the intense cold.
In total, more than 500 objects were recovered from the site.
Russia is now establishing its own military base on Alexandra Land.
Could have been hypervitaminosis A caused by polar bear liver. A more likely cause is trichinosis which is carried by all bear species and kills you in 3-4 weeks. I once diagnosed a case in Alaska in an unfortunate young man who had consumed undercooked grizzly bear. He spent 3 weeks in hospital and damn near died. He started out as a strapping 6’4” 250lb. sheetrock hanger and when I encountered him at a local grocery store 6 months later he had lost 100 lbs of muscle and looked about 40 years older.
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Guess he missed that epi of “Emergency” in which a couple of guys come in and .... “Oh yeah, we like our hamburgers rare, and Joe got ahold of some bear meat a couple of weeks ago...”
I had a room mate in the early 1980s. He went on Accutane, and gave me his Centrum as a result, but the worst for him was having to give up real milk for the treatment cycle.
Hmmm, perhaps lead bullets have some sort of sealing problem in extreme cold?
I had an old neighbor that was a US Coastguardsman. Early in WWII, he went on one Greenland raid to take out a German weather station.
He said it turned into a rescue mission. The Germans were quite happy to be captured, and be given three hots and cot back at Portsmouth (Kittery, ME) Naval Prison.
“Jaeger” has the connotation of being a hunter of game. The use of “hunter” in this context is more that of “seeker” or “searcher,” and German is a very precise language that makes those subtle distinctions.
The “Weather War” was an important part of WWII - the allies wanted to know the weather for bombing, and the Germans for UBoat operations.
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