during the late 1950s as coming from a forgotten German facility
called "Beaver Dam" in Eastern Greenland. According to these
writers, this base did not surrender with the fall of Germany but
continued to function. It was from this base that flying saucers
were directed to the USA on spy missions, especially toward our
nuclear facilities in New Mexico. Additionally, one wonders if
this base was the real origin of the ghost rockets seen moving
south from Northwestern Europe immediately after the war. The
status of this base today is unknown.
There is no doubt that the Germans had bases in the Arctic.
German bases were located on Soviet soil, as well as the soil of
Greenland which belonged to Denmark. Denmark had been overrun by
the Germans early in the war. What is most surprising is that
Landig's claim that the Germans maintained a base in the high
Canadian arctic right under the noses of Canada and the USA (19).
Is this all fantasy? Is there any hard evidence for secret postwar German bases? Has a post-war German base ever been
discovered? Yes, one has. New evidence for this exodus theory
comes to us from the discovery of a German U-boat way-station in
the Atlantic which had a hand in moving this clandestine cargo
from Europe to the austral world well after the war, right into
the 1950s. This information is revealed in an article in the
July, 1984 issue of Nugget magazine titled "Der U-Boot Bunker von
Fuerteventura" (20). Fuerteventura is the eastern most island of
the Canary Island chain and lies just out of sight off the west
coast of North Africa.
Geologically, the base was formed by an huge, ancient volcanic
bubble around which the molten rock solidified in the center of
the island. According to the article, the Germans brought in
excavation equipment and bored out three tunnels for underwater
access by U-boats. On top of the island, directly over the
bubble and the military facility rested a villa with a stairway
leading down to the base from the cellar. The villa was owed by
a respectable German family, named Winter. This base functioned
during the war as a secret U-boat base for the Germans. It
continued this function after the war as a way-station for
transport U-boats.
In our modern world of science and academic history this claim of
lost islands and hidden bases sounds like something out of a
Jules Verne fantasy. If such a base really existed, would we all
not be aware of its existence above and beyond an obscure
reference in a publication which mainly deals with treasure
hunting?
Actually, most readers are already quite familiar with this
particular base. This base was the truth behind the visual
images of the German U-boat base situated in the volcanic island
off the coast of Africa in the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
In fact, this aspect of the story was the only part of the movie
which was factual.
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