Abandoned secret Nazi Arctic base found.

Come on, don’t make this easy for me.  A ‘secret Arctic Nazi base’ is already enough.  You don’t have to spot me this:

It was codenamed “Schatzgraber” or “Treasure Hunter” by the Germans and was primarily used as a tactical weather station.

The base was abandoned when the scientists stationed there were poisoned by polar bear meat in 1944 and had to be rescued by a German U-boat.

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Russia is thought to be looking to build its own permanent military base there today.

Seriously, if you can’t write an adventure around that then you… probably just need to get a good night’s sleep or a hot meal, or something.  I don’t want people to feel bad if they don’t come up with four ways to run this one right away. Everybody can have a bad creative day, every once in a while.

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9 thoughts on “Abandoned secret Nazi Arctic base found.”

    1. Flying saucers, Wendigo/Lomar, Aurora Borealis (there’s an old radio program that can be usefully mined for that), and of course straight-up secret Nazi biochemical research taken over by the Soviets and now being revisited by the Russians who have yet to ask why the base was abandoned twice.

  2. Just the name “Schatzgraber”… Man, I love me some Germanic code names.
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    Also: “Tactical Weather Station”? [Dick Cheney joke limited for respect to posting rules.-NL86]

  4. I’m not sure how new this really is, Clive Cussler wrote about it over 20 years ago. They may be the first people to actually go there since the war, but it’s existence was never secret or in doubt.

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