It doesn't make sense to cross the globe just to build a secret base just for the exploration of whale oil, even more knowing that a great war was coming this was very risky and dumb
Nazis constantly kept investing in experimental technology that was doomed to fail. So it tracks they'd go to antarctica to waste time.
>>10517590Bragging rights
>>10517590There was a fuel shortage in Europe at the time and Germany has always been a country with shitty resources. They were probably hoping to stumble across some oil.
>>10517590Building their UFO base in preparation to go to the Moon.
>>10517590either hyperborea or whale oil
>>10517590what is any country doing in Antarctica to this day? it's an interesting research station, that's all