Did Hitler's Nazis believe in a hollow Earth - and escape inside after the
war?
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.
Based in fact:
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.
Several theories:
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 Borroughs (At the Earth's Core), and Jules
Verne (A Journey to the Center of the Earth)...
America once watched Stephen
Spielberg's TV pilot, a remake of Verne' s "Journey to the Center of the Earth."
A maverick team of scientists aboard their melt-proof ship enter the inner Earth
through a bubbling volcano. When things cool off, they find themselves exploring
a vast and sunny inner landscape . . . a magical and inviting world with ample
room to fly. Their adventure resembles the real life account of a Norwegian
sailor named Olaf Jansen. His story, set in the 1800s, is told in Willis
Emerson's biography entitled "The Smoky God." Olaf's little sloop drifted so far
north by storm that he actually sailed into a polar entrance and lived for two
years with one of the colonies of the Agartha Network, called "Shamballa the
Lesser." He describes his hosts as those "of the central seat of government for
the inner continent . . . measuring a full 12 feet in height . . . extending
courtesies and showing kindness . . . laughing heartily when they had to
improvise chairs for my father and I to sit in." Olaf tells of a "smoky" inner
sun, a world comprised of three-fourths land and one-fourth water.
The Agartha Network:
Think of Shamballa the Lesser
as the United Nations of over 100 subterranean cities that form the Agartha
Network. It is, indeed, the seat of government for the inner world. While
Shamballa the Lesser is an inner continent, its satellite colonies are smaller
enclosed ecosystems located just beneath the Earth' s crust or discreetly within
mountains. All cities in the Agartha Network are physical and are of the Light,
meaning that they are tradition of the great mystery schools of the surface,
honoring such beings as Jesus/Sananda, Buddha, Isis and Osiris . . . all of the
Ascended Masters that we of the surface know and love, in addition to spiritual
teachers of their own long-standing heritage...
A U.S. scientist and a small band of believers are planning a journey to the Canadian Arctic for what they call "the greatest geological expedition in history." Are they searching for Arctic oil reserves? Documenting evidence of climate change?Not quite. They're looking for a fog-shrouded hole in the Arctic Ocean that leads -- they say -- to the centre of the Earth, where an unknown civilization is lurking inside the hollow core of the planet.This time next year, Kentucky based physicist and futurist Brooks Agnew hopes to board the commercially owned Russian icebreaker Yamal in the port of Murmansk, and to sail into thepolar sea just beyond Canada's Arctic islands."Everest has been climbed a hundred times," Mr.
Agnew says. "The Titanic has been scanned from stem to stern. [But] this is the first and only expedition to the North Pole opening ever attempted."Mr. Agnew is the latest in a long line of people to peddle the nutty, yet persistent, theory that humans live on the surface of a hollow planet, in which two undiscovered openings, near the North and South poles, connect the outer Earth with an interior realm.In the 17th century, English astronomer and mathematician Sir Edmond Halley, who calculated the orbit of Halley's Comet, advanced hollow-Earth theories, as did German scientist Athanasius Kircher.More recently the myth hasexperienced a slight revival, thanks in part to a 2006 book, by American author David Standish, titled Hollow Earth: The long and curious history of imagining strange lands, fantastical creatures, advanced civilizations, and marvellous machines below the Earth's surface.A year before the book was published, a Utah adventure guide named Steve Currey also tried to cash in on the hollow- Earth legend, by organizing an expedition to locate the North polar opening.
Underground civilizations link with the 'Hollow Earth Theory'. There are
supposedly races that exist in subterranean cities beneath planet Earth. Very
often, these dwellers of the world beneath are more technologically advanced
than we on the surface. Some believe that UFOs are not from other planets, but
are manufactured by strange beings in the interior of the Earth. In the late 17th century, British astronomer
Edmund Halley proposed that Earth consists of four concentric spheres and "also
suggested that the interior of the Earth was populated with life and lit by a
luminous atmosphere. He thought the aurora borealis, or northern lights, was
caused by the escape of this gas through a thin crust at the poles." In the early 19th century, an eccentric veteran
of the war of 1812 John Symmes promoted the idea of interior concentric spheres
so widely that the alleged opening to the inner world was named "Symmes Hole."
Jules Verne wrote Journey to the Center of
the Earth in 1864 and Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), the creator of
Martian adventures and Tarzan of the Apes, also wrote novels set in the hollow
earth. Legends often ignite the imagination of fiction writers and fiction often
ignites the imagination of the pseudoscientist. In 1869, Cyrus Reed Teed, an herbalist and
self-proclaimed alchemist, had a vision of a woman who told him that we are
living on the inside of the hollow Earth. For nearly forty years, Teed promoted
his idea in pamphlets and speeches. He even founded a cult called the Koreshans
(Koresh is the Hebrew equivalent of Cyrus). In 1906, William Reed published The Phantom
of the Poles in which he claimed that nobody had found the north or south
poles because they don't exist. Instead, the poles are entrances to the hollow
Earth. In 1913, Marshall B. Gardner privately
published Journey to the Earth's Interior in which he rejected the notion of
concentric spheres but swore that inside the hollow earth was a sun 600 miles in
diameter. Gardner, too, claimed that there were huge holes a thousand mile wide
at the poles...
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