Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "The Real Secrets Hidden in Antarctica... Revealed" video.
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Very entertaining.
A point: German battleships were very difficult to provide suitable anchorages for, due to their length and displacement depth of 30' or more. Even France had few bases capable of supporting battleship operations . . . and France had battleships of her own. Google "St Nazaire Raid."
There were coaling stations around the world since the late 1800s, but few "off the beaten track" fueling stations for modern (i.e.: oil burning) capital ships. Neu Schwabenland had exactly zero such facilities. Antarctica still does . . . er doesn't . . . whatever. You get my meaning. ;-) Further, battleships do not go willingly into extensive ice fields, even though the Germans dabbled with disaster in the North sea on three notable occasions. Does anyone else remember Hitler's impossible orders to Lutjens and others to "avoid combat with superior enemy fleet elements at all cost"? Going into the Antarctic ice maze is one of those places a major commander does not take his ships, unless ordered by either an idiot, or someone deciding strategy by map alone in a warm, well lit, conference room with plenty of beer and chips.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid
The loss of this single anchorage and drydock (down for repairs) seriously affected German naval strategy afterward. But, even bombed constantly by the UK day and night, the farthest the Kriegsmarine retreated to was Trondheim in Norway. At least from there the fuel penalty to reach the allied shipping lanes wasn't as terrible as it would've been to run fuel and equipment daily to Antarctica in order to build and preserve and maintain a capital ship anchorage, or even a more generic bunker refueling facility.
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