On this episode of The Sofa King Podcast, we go to the most remote part of planet Earth and talk about the lonely continent of Antarctica. Oh, and Nazis. We talk about Antarctica and a secret Nazi base that survived the fall of the Third Reich and existed until it was Nuked in the late 1950s when Hitler finally actually died. Yes, for real.

So, the theorists maintain that the Nazis first visited the Antarctic in 1938 on a ship called the Schwabenland. Within a year—the theory goes—they had established a base called New Berchtesgaden or Base 221. At this base, the Nazi scientists discovered underground thermal vents and tunnels and, of course, an ancient alien base filled with UFOs and technology that they back engineered (called Wunderwaffen or “wonder weapons”). Next, Britain discovered the base in 1943, and the combined assaults of their military and the US military in 1946 failed to topple the base. This base was filled with alien wonders, Hitler himself escaped there instead of dying in a bunker, and they had UFOs. Lots of UFOs.

So, at the end of the day, what truths may tie to these bizarre alternate history facts? Actually, a surprising amount. There were British and US operations in Antarctica that supposedly connect here. The nuclear bombs that supposedly ended the Third Reich in 1958 were actually detonated by the US. Various German military personnel claimed that there was a secret submarine fleet hidden in the world, and U-boats arrived in Argentina months after the war ended, supposedly fresh from missions at the new Antarctic base. This episode was going to cover other conspiracy theories about Antarctica (such as Hollow Earth), but we get so carried away with Nazi UFO madness that we have to put them on hold until a future episode.

Scholarly Article about Nazis in Antarctica: http://www.histarmar.com.ar/Antartida/Base-Hitler/LaBaseAntarticadeHitler.pdf