Originally posted by St Udio
interesting,
did the novel and then the movie 'Lost Horizon' with a tropical climate
city 'Shambala'/or/'Shan-gra-La', which was hidden in the recesses of the glaciered & snowbound Himilayas....
actually have its beginnings intertwined with the myth of a Nazi Garden of Eden, hidden in the recesses of Antartica?
or are Both, just flights-of-fantasy?
if there were a pocket of a short-sleeve-shirt environment, isolated in Antartica.....possibly from hot springs or whatever....then right about
now
the survivors would be in their 3rd generation of captivity. any original settlers (Nazis or Gestapos et al) would be nearing the century mark in
age.
Futhermore, any machines or '40s technology would have long been discarded
as there are not machined parts available for replacing worn out ones'
or even cannabilizing parts like the Cubans have done, for their autos, since the late '50s.
NO, if there were/are Nazis and their grandchildren in their own Antarctic Shangra-La, they have all regressed into a paleolithic culture, a peaceful
tribe, & not a Warrior Class of supermen...imo
so based on the premise you just layed out...
one of the most advanced .. if not THE most advanced armies at the time.. goes to set up base in the one place on earth nobody's going to suspect..
and they kinda .. just.. "forgot" to bring all the materials to mine ores and metals and casting factories for parts etc.. they went alll that way..
escaped the hague.. escaped project paperclip.. etc.. jussst to go down there and knowingly run out of supplies.
if IIII were a german genius in a group of other german geniuses... i'd probably find a way to tunnel-bore and create hydrothermal power or
hydroponic growing in heated enclosed underground bases.
and i'd bring the infrastructure that would allow me to develop further and update my surroundings.. and i'd have outside help... JUST like i did
with funding from SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS during the war.
i dunno bout youuuu but that's what i would do if i was a group of the highest intellectual minds of my time.
just sayin.
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[edit on 29-12-2008 by prevenge]
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