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VariantOMEGA-11-2-3Sheet 3 of 6 of the dossier Nazi Antarctic base

Flying saucers, Highjump and the "Last Battalion"

The war-in-Antarctica version: British and US assaults on the base, Nazi saucers, nuclear strikes and a fleet waiting to return.

Black-and-white photograph of a biplane seaplane on the water in front of a grey support ship on the horizon.
A U.S. Coast Guard Grumman J2F-6 Duck seaplane taxiing during Operation Highjump, c. 1947; a US Navy support ship is behind it. U.S. Navy · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Summary

This sheet gathers the most spectacular branch of the thesis, the story of a war fought over the polar base after 1945. In this telling, Britain tried first to expel the Germans, then the United States launched Operation Highjump in 1946 to destroy the base, and the American forces were beaten back by Nazi flying saucers. The base is finally said to have been obliterated by nuclear strikes. The theory further claims that the United States and the United Kingdom have been trying to conquer the area for decades.

The branch was fed by a body of publications. In the 1970s, the books of the Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel presented flying saucers as Nazi secret weapons launched from an underground Antarctic base. In 1978, Miguel Serrano's El Cordón Dorado predicted that Hitler would lead a fleet of UFOs from the base to found a Fourth Reich, a fleet called the "Final Battalion" in popular culture. Encyclopedic sources note that this literature often follows documented history, such as the German claim to New Swabia and the 1938 expedition, before building a different story on top. The sheet records the claims and where they circulate; their assessment is in the official sheet.

What the thesis says

The sources show where these claims circulate, not that they are true.

  1. Thesis

    In one version, the British failed to expel the Germans, so the US launched Operation Highjump in 1946 to destroy the German base.

  2. Thesis

    In the story the Americans meet Nazi flying saucers, now known as the "Last Battalion", and several American planes are destroyed.

    • Hitler's Antarctic Fortress Unmasked (Skeptoid #559), Skeptoid (Brian Dunning), 21 February 2017
      The aircraft penetrated deep into the continent and engaged the Nazi flying saucers, now known as the "Last Battalion". Several American planes were destroyed in the combat.
  3. Thesis

    According to the story, the base was finally obliterated by three nuclear bomb strikes.

  4. Thesis

    The theory says the US and the UK have supposedly tried to conquer the area for decades and to have used nuclear weapons in the effort.

    • New Swabia, Wikipedia
      The US and UK have supposedly been trying to conquer the area for decades, and to have used nuclear weapons in this effort.
  5. Thesis

    Ernst Zündel, a German Holocaust denier, claimed in books of the 1970s that flying saucers were Nazi secret weapons launched from an underground base in Antarctica.

    • Nazi UFOs, Wikipedia
      When Ernst Zündel, a German Holocaust denier, started Samisdat Publishers in the 1970s
  6. Thesis

    In 1978 Miguel Serrano predicted that Hitler would lead a fleet of UFOs from an Antarctic base in New Swabia to establish the Fourth Reich; in popular culture the fleet is called "The Final Battalion".

    • Nazi UFOs, Wikipedia
      Serrano predicted that Hitler would lead a fleet of UFOs from the base to establish the Fourth Reich.
  7. Thesis

    German UFO theories assert that advanced craft and their creators survived after the war in secret underground bases in Antarctica, South America or the United States.

    • Nazi UFOs, Wikipedia
      further asserting the post-war survival of these craft in secret underground bases in Antarctica, South America, or the United States, along with their creators.

Verified facts

  1. Verified fact

    German UFO literature very often follows documented history on points such as Nazi Germany claiming the territory of New Swabia and sending an expedition there in 1938.

    • Nazi UFOs, Wikipedia
      German UFO literature very often conforms largely to documented history on the following points: Nazi Germany claimed the territory of New Swabia in Antarctica, sent an expedition there in 1938, and planned others.