followers in Germany but not more than in any other Western country during that time. In 1838, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, telling us of an awe-inspiring voyage inside the earth by a ship that entered through an alleged hole in the South Pole; in 1871, Edward Bulwer-Lytton published his famous fiction called The Coming Race about some superior creatures, called Vril-ya, that dwelled in the subterranean world; in 1864 Jules Verne wrote of A Journey to the Center of the Earth where prehistory still existed; in 1922 Ferdinand Ossendowski mentioned in his Beasts, Men and Gods the existence of an underground kingdom, with Agarthi as their capital city ... the very residence of the King of the World.
According to the book written by Pauwels & Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians (1960), German scientists were testing life inside a hollow universe on Rugen Island of the Baltic Sea. They even tried to use infrared rays to detect British navy ships, since the alleged inverted curvature of the Earth would have permitted the monitoring of their whereabouts. One does not wonder anymore why it failed so miserably.
The only proven link with Nazis is their fondness for tunnels, including underground bases and bunkers, that stretched sometimes for hundreds of kilometers, like those close to the Dora concentration camp in the Harz Mountains of Germany, or in the huge complex called Der Riese (The Giant) in what today is southwestern Poland.
World Ice Theory
The World Ice Theory (WEL or Welteislehre in German) is a cosmological theory coming straight from the mind of Hanns Hörbiger, an Austrian mechanical engineer whose daily work was far away from astronomy.
Hanns Hörbiger (1860 – 1931)
Hörbiger got his knowledge from "visions" that he had seen around 1894 while sleeping. His theory states that ice is the base material of all events in the universe. Ice allegedly determined the shape our planet through the influence of "ice moons" that fell on Earth at various times throughout history, causing floods that wiped out entire ancient civilizations like Atlantis.
Himmler and Hitler were first enthusiastic about the WEL theory because of its alleged weather forecasting abilities. The Führer went so far as to adopt it as the Nazi Party's cosmology, but later the Propaganda Ministry ordered Hörbiger to stop all related publications. WEL did not survive WWII except among some minor neo-Nazi groups.
Neuschwabenland
New Swabia (Neuschwabenland in German) is the region of Antarctica under Norwegian influence, which was named after the boat Schwabenland of the German Antarctic Expedition of 1938-1939. This boat could carry and catapult two aircrafts.
The Schwabenland ship
There were two German expeditions before 1938 with the idea of crossing right through Antarctica: the Gauss expedition from 1901 to 1903 and the Filchner expedition from 1911 to 1912.
Germany decided in 1937 to put a whaling fleet to sea for economic reasons. After successfully returning home to Nazi Germany, which was in dire need of whale fat for its industry, they launched their infamous 1938-1939 expedition. Their hidden agenda was to find a good location for a German naval base.
Because of the initial lack of information and the secrecy of the operation, conspiracy theories emerged about the Nazi survival bases under the ice in New Swabia and their subsequent destruction by the British and American troops (the notorious High Jump Operation led by Admiral Byrd). One enigmatic clue comes from two statements made by Admiral Dönitz, first after the expedition returned in 1939 and then later in 1944; he allegedly claimed, "My U-boat operators discovered a real earthly paradise" and then that "Germany's submarine fleet is proud that it created an unassailable fortress for the Führer on the other end of the world...." During the Nuremberg Trials, Dönitz would have spoken of "an invisible fortification, in