I should really be working, but when life offers you learned papers on plans for secret Nazi antarctic bases and the role of same in fostering esoteric Hitlerism, then you just have to hop on the green ray and head straight for Aldebaran. Or at least, blog a bit about it.
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Well, obviously the Ahnenerbe-SS were careful to remove all traces of their presence once the moon base achieved self-sufficiency.
Posted by: Sam Dodsworth | April 18, 2012 at 04:29 PM
Eisführer's Log, Day 17: Turned out cold again.
Posted by: Alex | April 18, 2012 at 05:20 PM
"Ich könnte einige Zeit dauern..."
Posted by: Barry Freed | April 18, 2012 at 05:54 PM
sein, not dauern. he didn't say "I may last some time" - even if he meant it....
Posted by: Alex | April 18, 2012 at 05:57 PM
Damn it, I knew I'd botched it (rusty ten year old German for graduate school taken in an intensive summer course + Google translate is an untrustworthy combination).
Posted by: Barry Freed | April 18, 2012 at 06:04 PM
A friend mentioned the other day that it was the Yugoslav space programme that took Americans to the moon.
Posted by: skidmarx | April 18, 2012 at 06:15 PM
Also forgotten: The old Negro Space Program.
Posted by: Barry Freed | April 18, 2012 at 06:34 PM
So this is where the science of cryogenics was started. Soon hordes of Nazi dentists played by overacting British theatrical hams are going to be invading our shopping malls. And not before time say I.
Posted by: johnf | April 18, 2012 at 06:53 PM
Further dots that need connecting here: the Piri Reis map, Lovecraft and/or The Thing, Lake Vostok, The Bloop
Posted by: belle le triste | April 18, 2012 at 07:00 PM
A dangerous path. The Bloop will be the last thing connected. Ever.
Posted by: Barry Freed | April 18, 2012 at 07:09 PM
The Egyptians needed the map so they could find the cocaine. As John Kessel tells us in Invaders, the response to "We welcome you in the name of the United States and all humanity" is "We need cocaine. We need lots of cocaine." [From memory]
Not sure about the other four.
Posted by: skidmarx | April 18, 2012 at 07:47 PM
Alex: that's triggered a memory of the BBC news ad with the Berliner popping out the night the wall came down: "Geh mal raus, wa?"
Posted by: Jakob | April 18, 2012 at 08:09 PM
Lovecraft
Posted by: skidmarx | April 18, 2012 at 08:29 PM
Eisführer's Log, Day 517: Chilly this morning. News from Germany not as optimistic as it used to be.
Posted by: Alex | April 19, 2012 at 09:22 AM
Eisführer's Log, supplemental. I am growing increasingly convinced that many of these penguins are in fact of Jewish blood.
Posted by: ajay | April 19, 2012 at 09:27 AM
skidmarx: "But, alas, we delved too deep, and woke an ancient evil..." You could write a nice little allegory about a world in which the Resource Curse is an actual curse. As in, releases evil chthonic spirits.
Posted by: ajay | April 19, 2012 at 09:51 AM
Eisführer's Log, Day 632: Christ, it's fucking freezing. Even Smolensk wasn't this bad.
Posted by: Richard J | April 19, 2012 at 09:59 AM
Untereisfuhrer's personal diary, day 791: I'm sick of this, I'm off. Maybe I'll get a job as Pope or something.
Posted by: ajay | April 19, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Eisfuhrer's Log, Day 1,350: Received a postcard from JM and MB this am from Paraguay. "Come on in, the Stroessner's lovely!" Bastards.
Posted by: Richard J | April 19, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Eisführer's Log, Day 3,570: Ze British are comink!
Posted by: Alex | April 19, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Eisfuhrer's Log, final entry: For God's sake don't look after our Volk, who prove unworthy of surviving me.
Posted by: belle le triste | April 19, 2012 at 12:45 PM
The First Age ended when Thangorodrim reached Peak Balrog and was cast down.
Posted by: belle le triste | April 19, 2012 at 12:48 PM
Eisfuhrer's Log, penultimate entry: Gott in Himmel, nothing ever changes. It's like being trapped in a Downfall video. Why can't anyone think of new words to say?
Posted by: CMcM | April 19, 2012 at 01:29 PM
A page is found that has been torn out of the log and fashioned into a paper airplane resembling a Me 163 Komet, unfolded it reads:
Eisführer's Log, Day 2,384: Have received odd transmission in PURPLE from Japanese intelligence officer in the Philippines, something about guarding the Emperor’s gold and how he had to make his wireless from salvaged parts of a crashed Kawanishi N1K and a coconut. He asks if it’s true the war is over. Lost another toe today. Down to three on each foot.
Posted by: Barry Freed | April 19, 2012 at 01:31 PM
More log entries have been discovered.
EL 1870: I think the Untereisfuhrer is up to something. I have removed the rotor arms from both engines on the Dornier Wal.
EL 1877: This morning a member of the penguin-masonic conspiracy was discovered within the perimeter. Clearly the Untereisfuhrer is harbouring disloyal thoughts.
EL 1880: A triumph. My project to carve the likeness of the Fuhrer into the ice opposite my bunk has succeeded beyond all expectations. Decided to scale it up and do an ice cliff on the side of the Hellwig Mountains. If only Dr. Breker could be here!
EL 1881: Untereisfuhrer was noticeably sceptical of the new project this morning. Went so far as to refuse to get up and take an ice drill. Complained of low temperatures.
I have started on the moustache.
EL 1882: Convened a fliegende Standgericht with the zweite Untereisfuhrer to deal with the case of the Untereisfuhrer. Confessed after special treatment that he had made a separate peace with the black-and-white Bolsheviks.
Assigned the Funker as firing squad.
EL 1882: Brrr.
EL 1883: A certain Trubsinn descends. Snow.
Posted by: Alex | April 19, 2012 at 01:41 PM
EL 1884: Searching the former Untereisfuhrer's belongings, I have discovered further evidence of his disloyalty. He has been keeping a diary, and seems to have been mocking me and the nation itself by composing a shameful skit of my official log...
Posted by: Alex | April 19, 2012 at 01:44 PM
Am I the only one who's imagining these being read in the style of the voiceover guy in Big Brother?
Posted by: Simstim | April 19, 2012 at 02:45 PM
EL 2,075: The hairpiece is taking longer than I expected, but any activity here is welcome.
Posted by: Alex | April 19, 2012 at 02:47 PM
EL 2,100: It has become necessary to launch Fall Otzi against the Spheniscine-Jewish-Bolshevik Horde as a preemptive strike to secure the genetically pure future of the Nordic race.
Not entirely convinced that UntEisFuh has been strictly following my strict injunctions about intermingling with this degenerate rabble.
That said, one must admit that after so many verkakten Jahren in this place, the dainty curve of their win... Nein, nein, Ich muss Stark sein!
Posted by: Richard J | April 19, 2012 at 02:55 PM
"Am I the only one who's imagining these being read in the style of the voiceover guy in Big Brother?"
You were.
Posted by: ajay | April 19, 2012 at 02:55 PM
EL 3,010: The Bolshevik hordes are here! Our SS-pheniscidae has been completely overwhelmed. We are confined to the sub-surface complex, with no way to access the Rundflugzeug.
EL 3,011. Our ground-level entrance has been sealed by the enemy, using what appears to be a large marble slab. Confused reports from Weddelrobbe Aufklärung claim that the structure is topped by a human head. Morale breaking down.
EL 3,015: Wo ist Steiner?!
EL 3,020: They have failed me. Have ordered the Untereisführer to prepare my marriage with that very alluring crested penguin which we trapped in the Amundsen Sea.
EL 3,021: Götterdämmerung. Heil Hitler!
Posted by: alle | April 19, 2012 at 04:07 PM
Also, for some reason, this comes to mind.
Posted by: alle | April 19, 2012 at 04:17 PM
"The point in Antarctica most distant from any ocean...abandoned as being too far from other stations for safe operation"
trust the Russians to kick it up a notch.
Posted by: Alex | April 19, 2012 at 05:00 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3skQkPASKw
^^^More penguins
Posted by: belle le triste | April 19, 2012 at 08:08 PM
Untereisfuhrer Herzog.
Posted by: Strategist | April 20, 2012 at 01:10 AM
I recommend Jocelyn Goodwin's ARKTOS: THE POLAR MYTH IN SCIENCE, SYMBOLISM, AND NAZI SURVIVAL, by the way.
Posted by: JamesP | April 20, 2012 at 05:07 AM
"The polar myth in ... Nazi survival"? Not too sure about that preposition.
Posted by: Phil | April 20, 2012 at 02:13 PM
EL 3,020: They have failed me. Have ordered the Untereisführer to prepare my marriage with that very alluring crested penguin which we trapped in the Amundsen Sea.
EL 3,021: Götterdämmerung. Heil Hitler!
El 3,021: Uttered at moment of catastrophe or consummation?
Posted by: Barry Freed | April 20, 2012 at 03:21 PM
Neither catastrophe or consummation: just the moment the Eisführer realised he had got stuck incubating the egg for six months as his penguin bride headed for the sea...
Posted by: CMcM | April 20, 2012 at 03:37 PM
"Brunnhilde, Heilige Braut!"
Posted by: Richard J | April 20, 2012 at 03:41 PM
...where she was promptly devoured by a Bolshie leopard seal.
Posted by: Barry Freed | April 20, 2012 at 03:46 PM