A group of the Russian Arctic National Park scientists have found on the island of Alexandra Land, in the Arctic Circle, the traces of what could have been a Nazi base built on the orders of Adolf Hitler.
It suggests the presence of more than 500 artifacts (military uniforms, ammunition, meteorological instruments, oil milk, documents and the remains of bunkers) branded with swastikas and other Nazi
symbols, but these should be further examined with a more scientific approach.
FIRST TALLY. The discovery has raised the tales of a mysterious base of Nazi Germany in the Arctic, then abandoned: the Schatzgraber or Treasure Hunter, the construction of which is documented only in a German book of 1954 - entitled Wettertrupp Haudegen - it had been repeatedly dismissed as a war myth.
According to that source, the base, which was to serve as a weather station to help submarines who ventured into the North Sea, would enter service in 1943 but abandoned a year later, in July 1944, when the military who lived contracted trichinellosis (gastro-intestinal infection) from eating bear meat contaminated by parasites.
HISTORY AND PROPAGANDA. The name given to the base, Treasure Hunter, implied, according to legend, even a second goal, this time of the archaeological type: find in the Arctic lands evidence of ancient Nordic peoples, to justify the Nazi propaganda. But here it is likely to lead to speculation worthy of Indiana Jones.
All that remains is a careful analysis of the finds. The island of Alexandra Land, after being long been disputed, is today the Russian territory, and the site chosen for the construction of a permanent military base.
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