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Nazi leaders intended fleeing to Greenland
● We are fast approaching
the 60th anniversary of the
end of World War II, where
Greenland played an important
role, not least for the
Americans, who used bases
in Greenland as stepping
stones to Europe for troops,
supplies and weapons in the
fight against Nazism.
Greenland also provided
the cryolite used in the American
aircraft industry to manufacture
warplanes and this
led to armed confrontations
in East Greenland, where the
Germans had set up meteorological
stations in order to
obtain more precise weather
forecasts for Europe. The war
led to a series of changes in
Greenland. It was during the
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● Nazisti nuimasoq Hermann Gøring
Kalaallit Nunaannut qimaaniat
allattorsimaffianniissimavoq.
● Topnazisten Hermann Gøring stod
på listen, der ville flygte til
Grønland.
● Top Nazi Hermann Göring was on
the list of those who intended to
flee to Greenland.
war years, that the population
of Greenland experienced
serious contact with the
outside world for the first
time. This development was
the beginning of modern
Greenland.
But Greenland was also
in the firing line, although to
a lesser degree. German
mines drifted into Godthåb's
Fjord and Nazi submarines
attacked the allied ships as
they crossed the North Atlantic.
Greenland could even
have become the Nazi leaders'
final place of refuge.
Escape to Greenland
This was the plan, at least,
claims 94 year-old Ernst
König, who was navigator
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and harbour master in
Travemünde during the war.
He was given the assignment
of getting two enormous,
specially-built seaplanes ready
to transport the Nazi leaders
to Greenland. Hitler intended
to stay in Berlin, but Hermann
Göring, Heinrich Himmler
and other prominent Nazis
were on the list, says Ernst
König, who has revealed
these spectacular claims to
the British newspaper the
Sunday Times.
Ernst König is supported
by war historian Terry Charman
of the Imperial War
Museum in London. Charman
considers the information to
be trustworthy because
others, such as Hitler's archi-
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tect Albert Speer, have also
mentioned an aborted attempt
to flee to Greenland.
In any event, the escape
plan floundered, when the
two seaplanes at the defence
research centre in Travemünde
were destroyed during an
American bombing mission.
At the time, the aircraft were
loaded with skis, tents, sleds
and supplies of food, says
Ernst König. A third aircraft
was hastily made ready, but
when Travemünde shortly
afterwards was cut off from
Berlin by British and Soviet
troops, the Nazi leaders' last,
desperate plan of escape was
thwarted.