A team of Russian scientists discovered a Nazi base and found around 500 items left by Germans. The items found included some personal items, bullets and tent scraps - most of them with the Nazi swastika symbol.
According to Evgeny Ermolov, senior researcher at the National Park, the place was only heard of from written sources and was even dismissed as a wartime myth, but now, they have real proof. The military base, which was called 'Schatzgraber' or 'Treasure Hunter', was said to have been constructed in 1942 - a year after Adolf Hitler invaded Russia.
Reports say that the scientists in the base camp left on a German U-boat in 1944 due to poisoned polar bear meat. At the time, some people suggested that the meat was deliberately poisoned to kill the Nazi scientists. Another theory was the polar bear meat had gone bad and infected the people in the camp. In reality, though, the scientists were infected by parasitic worm called trichinella which was on the meat that they consumed.
The items found in the supposed weather station will be studied and eventually be put on public display. "Now we can enter this data in the scientific revolution, and, referring to the evidence, to expand and clarify the idea of the German army operations in the Arctic region during the Second World War," Ermolov said.
The secret military base is situated in Alexandra Land 1,000 km from the North Pole 0150 and was used by the Nazis as a tactical weather station. The place has been disputed for years, but is now a part of the Russian Federation. Yulis Petrova, the press secretary of National Park said that all of the 500 items found are of historical value. These have been preserved, thanks to the arctic's very cold weather.
