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The problems involved in the construction of a base in the Antarctic continent are huge. The harsh climate conditions during the Antarctic winter leave only a brief period of time every year when the technicians can work.
the nazi base 211
To make the story of "The Zurvan Club" more credible, some questions must be answered. First of all, the base has to be energetically autonomous. Oil wells and the subsequent refinery process seem too complex to keep hidden or operative in the ice, while nuclear reactors also need enriched uranium as fuel, so the most convincing theory may be that they could have found a source of geothermal heat that would have had two functions. On one hand, it would have provided an inexhaustible source of energy using the hot pressurized steam in electric generators while, on the on the other hand, it would have provided a way to heat the environment.
If the base situation had to be kept secret, it must have been placed underground and due the scale of the complex it must have been housed inside huge natural caves that would have minimized the excavation works. In the same way, the docking areas for the cargo ships couldn't have been placed on the surface as they would have been visible and vulnerable to enemy attacks or to the weather conditions. So, another natural cave with access to the ocean seems again the better option. Once again the geothermal heat would have played a vital role, stopping the water from freezing in winter.
Could the Nazis have built the Antarctic base 211?
However, self-sufficiency is almost impossible to achieve in those conditions, especially if you need to develop high technology. Spare parts, new components, raw materials couldn't be extracted and manufactured in a single place, so further contact with the outside world would have been mandatory with the risk it imposed..
Food supplies would have been another problem. Underground facilities could have been created using hydroponic crops lit with special lamps to emulate solar light. Part of the harvest could have been used to feed animals, farmed in order to provide meat and dairy products for the colony but again, the logistics would have been quite involved.
In any case, a base of this type probably couldn't prosper for more than few decades as an isolated colony, and it doesn't represent an option for the future, so in the case that it really existed, it would have been just a transit stage while finding a more permanent safe place.
Food supplies would have been another problem. Underground facilities could have been created using hydroponic crops lit with special lamps to emulate solar light. Part of the harvest could have been used to feed animals, farmed in order to provide meat and dairy products for the colony but again, the logistics would have been quite involved.
In any case, a base of this type probably couldn't prosper for more than few decades as an isolated colony, and it doesn't represent an option for the future, so in the case that it really existed, it would have been just a transit stage while finding a more permanent safe place.
At the end of WWII. more than 100 German submarines were reported missing, with no records from either side that suggests they were sunk. A huge flotilla of submarines could have been using some underwater entrance to access the underground docks. (Maybe a kind of natural siphon). It would have allowed the crew to download the cargos and perform the maintenance of the ships completely covered from prying eyes.
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