History also records that the U-boat, U-977, left Kristiansand in Norway on 2nd May 1945 for combat patrol in the
English Channel. After Germany's surrender, Captain Heinz Schaffer decided to
head for the South Atlantic but he first gave the married men on board the
chance to go ashore; 16 of them took Schaffer up the offer. After a 66 day submerged trip, and a further run on the
surface, U-977 arrived in Mar del Plata, Argentina on 17th August,
and later surrendered to the US in Boston on 13th November 1945
three months later. Its activities during this period are unknown. This incident occurred shortly after the end of the war,
however, there continued to be accounts of German activity for a considerable
post-war period. The French Agence France Press on 25th
September 1946 stated "the continuous rumours about German U-boat activity in
the region of Tierra del Fuego ['Feuerland' in German] between the southernmost
tip of Latin America and the continent of Antarctica are based on true
happenings."
Then the French newspaper, France Soir gave the
following account of an encounter with such a German U-boat. "Almost 1.5 years
after cessation of hostilities in Europe, the Icelandic Whaler Juliana
was stopped by a large German U-boat. The Juliana was in the Antarctic region
around Malvinas Islands [The Falklands] when a German submarine surfaced and
raised the German official Flag of Mourning - red with a black edge. "The submarine commander sent out a boarding party, which
approached the Juliana in a rubber dingy, and having boarded the whaler demanded
of Capt. Hekla part of his fresh food stocks. The request was made in the
definite tone of an order to which resistance would have been unwise. "The German officer spoke a correct English and paid for his
provisions in US dollars, giving the Captain a bonus of $10 for each member of
the Juliana crew. Whilst the foodstuffs were being transferred to the submarine,
the submarine commander informed Capt. Hekla of the exact location of a large
school of whales. Later the Juliana found the school of whales where
designated."
Could it be possible that other German U-boats, in addition to U-530
and U-977 were continuing to operate in the area following the war? There are no
formal records of such activity, however it is known that 54 German U-boats
'disappeared' during the war, of which only 11 are likely to have met their fate
at the hands of mines (see appendix II). The future may
well reveal that fate of more of these submarines, however given the French and
South American reports, and the number of missing U-boats, it
may not be unreasonable to conclude that at least some of them relocated to the
South Polar area. History also gives us further clues as to a Nazi-Antarctica
connection, for it records that Hans-Ulrich Rudel of the German Luftwaffe
was being groomed by Hitler to be his successor. It is known that Rudel
made frequent trips to Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America nearest
Antarctica. And one of Martin Bormann's last messages from the bunker in Berlin
to Donitz also mentioned Tierra del Fuego.
Then there are claims about Rudolph Hess, Hitler's best
friend who went to England and was arrested as a war criminal on 10th
May 1941. Following his arrest, Hess was held in Spandau Prison in
isolation until his death.
Such unique treatment is suggestive that he had
information that the Allies considered dangerous. Indeed, in his book Secret
Nazi Polar Expeditions Christof Friedrich states Hess "was entrusted with
the all-important Antarctic file ... Hess, himself, kept the Polar file." (15)
However, for Operation Highjump to have been an attempt to ferret
out a remaining Nazi base on the Antarctic continent, there would have been two
prerequisites. Firstly, Operation Highjump would have to provide evidence that
the mission included a reconnaissance of Neu-Swabenland and secondly, there
would have to be an area of the frozen continent that could allow such a base to
exist throughout the year. And indeed both criteria are met. Both the Eastern and Western Groups of Operation Highjump had
been active around Neu-Schwabenland. So was a Russian boat that "proved to be
unfriendly" (16). The Eastern group were frustrated in their efforts to make
a reconnaissance of the area, despite incredible efforts to secure photographs
for later examination. However by then "it was very late in the season ... The
sun had only been briefly glimpsed in the past few weeks, but everyone could
tell that the continually grey skies and clouds were darkening daily.
In another
month all light would be gone from Antarctica. The waters girdling the
continent would begin to freeze rapidly, binding unwary ships in a crushing
embrace ... Dufek [the commander] was loath to surrender.He ordered his ships
northwards away from the pack. Perhaps one or two more flights might be
possible. But on the morning of 3 March ... virgin ice was seen to be forming on
the water's surface [and the] Eastern group steamed out of Antarctica. (17)"
The Western Group, however, were to make a remarkable
discovery. At the end of January 1947 a PBM piloted by Lieutenant Commander
David Bunger of Coronado, California, flew from his ship, the Currituck
and headed towards the continent's Queen Mary Coast.
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