Nazi Germany's Antarctic Colony

Today's post is a chance for me to point out one of my favorite snippets of Web-strangeness. Strange Maps has a wonderful 1930's map of Neu-Schwabenland.

The 1938-1939 expedition in which Germany surveyed and claimed this swath of the frozen southern continent has led many of the more conspiracy-minded to believe that the Third Reich lived on (and may yet still live on) in secret bases beneath Antarctic glaciers. Supposedly the massive 1946 survey and training exercise Operation Highjump was an effort by the United States to find and defeat these Aryan hold-outs.

Regardless of Nazi penguin aficionados, the Strange Maps site also holds several other WWII era gems, such as Nazi propaganda claiming secret plans to dismember post-war Germany, actual Dutch plans to expand into German territory, and the Czech aerial threat to the Nazi regime.