Nazis and the Hollow Earth
The Allies are closing in. Berlin is crumbling under
the weight and impact of hundreds of Allied bombs. Deep in his fortified
bunker, Adolf Hitler, once unshakable in his confidence in Nazi world
domination, now admits that defeat is at hand. But Hitler is determined
never to suffer the humiliation of being captured by his enemies. There is
only one escape route - one he has planned for should he ever face just
such a turn of events. Suicide is out of the question. Instead, Hitler and
his corps of elite traverse through an underground tunnel to an isolated
airstrip. There they board an unmarked plane and fly south. South to the
pole. To the opening at the South Pole where they will enter the hollow
Earth and disappear from history.
This alternate scenario to history is actually accepted as fact by some
proponents of the hollow Earth theory. And as incredible as it sounds, the
genesis of this story lies in some facts that carry some merit: some of
Hitler's top advisors - perhaps even Hitler himself - believed that the
Earth was hollow; and there was at least one expedition by the Nazi
military to exploit that belief for strategic advantage during the war.
As with all such stories, it's often difficult to sort out facts,
exaggerations, and outright fabrications. But it's an intriguing tale, and
one that requires a little background.
Some believers in the hollow Earth theory hold that there are
civilizations that live there, warmed and lit by an interior sun.
There are several hollow Earth theories. The most prevalent one holds that
there are great but hidden openings at both the North and South poles, and
that it is possible to enter those holes. Some - including the respected
Admiral Byrd - claimed to have entered those holes. According to the
legends, other civilizations live within the Earth on it's inner surface,
warmed and lit by an interior sun. The idea has inspired novels by Edgar
Allen Poe (MS Found in a Bottle), Edgar Rice Burroughs (At the Earth's
Core), and Jules Verne (A Journey to the Center of the Earth).
A second theory, call the "inverted Earth" theory, claims that we - our
civilization - actually exists on the inside of the globe. We are held
fast to the ground not by gravity, but by centrifugal force as the Earth
rotates. The stars, so goes the theory, are twinkling chunks of ice
suspended high in the air, and the illusion of day and night is caused by
a rotating central sun that is half brilliant, half dark. Cyrus Teed, an
alchemist from Utica, N.Y., was one of the first people to popularize this
idea. So obsessed was he with the idea that he founded a religion based on
it, changed his name to Koresh, and established a commune for Koreshanity
in Chicago in 1888. In Germany, independently of the Koreshans, another
group also was founded that adhered to the inverted Earth idea, and it was
this concept that was accepted by some segments of the Nazi hierarchy.
The scenario told at the beginning of this article accepts one hollow
Earth theory, while the facts seem to show that some Nazis actually
believed in the other.
Hitler's Nazis were convinced that they were destined to rule the world,
and they came to this warped conclusion through the acceptance of many
occult beliefs and practices, including astrology, the prophecies of
Nostradamus and the hollow/inverted Earth theory...hohlweltlehre.
Because they suspected that our surface is on the interior of a concave
Earth, Hitler sent an expedition, including Dr. Heinz Fischer and powerful
telescopic cameras, to the Baltic island of Rugen to spy on the British
fleet. Fischer did so not by aiming his cameras across the waters, but by
pointing them up to peer across the atmosphere to the Atlantic Ocean. The
expedition was a failure, of course. Fischer's cameras saw nothing but
sky, and the British fleet remained safe.
Then there's the legend that Hitler and many of his Nazi minions
escaped Germany in the closing days of World War II and fled to Antarctica
where at the South Pole they had discovered an entrance to the Earth's
interior. According to the Hollow Earth Research Society in Ontario,
Canada, they are still there. After the war, the organization claims, the
Allies discovered that more than 2,000 scientists from Germany and Italy
had vanished, along with almost a million people, to the land beyond the
South Pole. This story gets more complicated with Nazi-designed UFO's, Nazi
collaboration with the people who live in the center of the Earth, and the
explanation for "Aryan-looking" UFO pilots.