Schatzgraber was a mysterious Arctic weather station that was built in 1942 after Hitler invaded Russia.
Its construction - and abandonment - was documented in the 1954 German book Wettertrupp Haudegen, but no one had ever found physical evidence that it existed until now, and it's often dismissed as a war-time myth.
According to the written record, Schatzgraber was serviced from 1943, but was abandoned a year later in July 1944, after the staff at the site ate undercooked polar bear meat that was contaminated with round worm and poisoned themselves.
The soldiers were rescued by a German U-boat, but the base was abandoned after that, and to this day, no one is entirely sure what the point of the base was, or, until now, where it had been located.
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