hi it's katrina
number 10. secret nazi base
a group of russian scientists have made
an outrageous claim saying they found
the remnants of a secret nazi base
where did they find this mysterious base
on a random island in the middle of the
arctic circle the scientists had gone
there to do their own research when they
stumbled upon over 500 artifacts left
behind by the nazis this has led them to
believe the island was once a base
called shot scrapper or treasure hunter
there have been rumors about the base
ever since world war ii but nobody
really believed it existed
now looking at how much evidence was
discovered on an island named alexandra
land gas canisters bullets the ruined
husks of bunkers it looks like the base
may have been the real deal as far as
historical records show the base posed
as a weather station in the arctic built
in 1942 on direct orders from hitler
this was right after he invaded russia
but nobody ever found physical evidence
of it up until just now it was abandoned
just a year later in july of 1944.
stories explaining the reason it was
forsaken claimed that staff at the site
consumed undercooked polar bear meat and
they found themselves contaminated with
round worm they ended up so sick and
poisoned that they had to be rescued by
a u-boat apparently after the submarine
evacuated the soldiers the site was
abandoned and no one ever went back
number 9. disappearing shipwrecks
world war ii shipwrecks have been
disappearing without a trace according
to marine archaeologist beverly goodman
these mysterious shipwrecks are
vanishing worldwide but they aren't
simply disintegrating into nothing they
are being raided by humans it's a
practice known as metal piracy with
salvagers actually diving down and
pillaging the metal from forgotten
shipwrecks from world war ii to them
shipwrecks are great big pieces of cash
just waiting to be picked apart and sold
after all these ships are huge filled
with brass and metal and copper and
heaps of electrical equipment that can
be sold for a huge profit
to give you an example of just how much
money these shipwrecks are worth look at
just one bronze propeller it can go for
tens of thousands of dollars at a scrap
buyer a single wreck can be sold for
nearly one million dollars if picked
apart properly the result of this
thievery is that researchers have been
finding shipwrecks either cut in half or
completely gone
it's tragic because there are still
plenty of shipwreck hunters out there
trying to find lost vessels from world
war ii yet when they go down to find
them the ships are gone because
someone's already found them cut them up
and sold them for cash what do you think
of this practice let me know in the
comments
number eight secret assassins
freddie overstegen joined the dutch
resistance when she was just 14 years
old
a couple years after that she became one
of the most dangerous armed assassins in
the country
she joined forces with her sister a
younger woman by the name of hani shaft
and together they killed german nazis
but they didn't just kill them they
lured and ambushed them in a way that
had this not been war would have been
pretty disturbing it was may of 1940
when the nazis invaded the netherlands
the occupation would go on until the
very last days of the war according to
historian jeroen pleister the girls
never did admit exactly how many people
they assassinated but we do know that
they used their youth and innocence to
literally get away with murder freddie
in particular was an expert in the art
of deception she once seduced a german
officer with the ss so that another
fighter from the resistance could sneak
up and shoot him she was the real deal
hunting and killing dutch collaborators
and anyone who endangered the lives of
jewish refugees have you ever heard of
her let me know in the comments below
number 7. hitler's anti-gravity machine
hitler had a secret anti-gravity machine
that he apparently procured from space
aliens oh and the united states stole it
at least that's the legend behind the
glock the extraterrestrial weapon
developed by nazi scientists to turn the
tides of war
diglock which translates into english as
the bell is likely nothing more than the
product of a mysterious crash in the
1960s and the endlessly churning rumor
mill of online ufo enthusiasts there
aren't actually historical records of
the nazis having a wonder weapon that
could manipulate gravity the first
dimension of it appeared in a german
sci-fi book in 1960 it then came up
again in 2000 detailed in a book written
about old nazi technology by a guy named
igor witkowski but it was just shortly
after that when nick cook wrote a book
including an anti-gravitational time
machine that was part of an ss program
again all science fiction yet the rumor
of such a bizarre weapon persists today
with people even linking it to the
kecksburg incident of 1965
when a ufo supposedly crashed in
pennsylvania
number six the amber room the amber room
is without a doubt one of the most
mysterious treasures from world war ii
it was designed for charlottenburg
palace by a renowned german architect
back in 1701
construction commenced by a pair of
master craftsmen to create the most
beautiful room ever built it was
installed at the berlin city palace
where peter the great of russia saw it
during the visit in 1716.
to forge an alliance with russia against
sweden friedrich william the first
gifted it to the russian empire it took
10 years for the amber room to be
installed at the summer house of the
imperial family of course this wasn't
just any summer house it was catherine
palace the installation was such a pain
because there were over six tons of
amber with a value of over 240
million dollars that had to be moved but
the room was full of more than just
amber there were also architectural
features carvings gold leaf statues of
angels and mirrors designed to
illuminate the room in a golden glow
using nothing but candlelight when the
german forces invaded the soviet union
they disassembled the amber room and
removed it hitler felt the amber room
belonged to germany since it started out
in germany all those years ago they
transported it to konigsberg castle
where it sat for two years then hitler
gave the order to bring all that amber
somewhere deep within germany it remains
a mystery what happened to the amber
room after that the castle was fire
bombed by the royal air force in 1944
the collection of amber was allegedly on
a train back to germany when that very
train disappeared
nobody has seen the treasure in almost
80 years
where do you think it could be now tell
me your theories in the comments
number 5. the bizarre army air force
mascot in world war ii england a live
coyote became the unofficial mascot of
the army air forces but how did an
actual coyote become the inspiration for
a group of british airmen it all started
thanks to john crump an american pilot
who flew three different planes during
the war he also smuggled a live coyote
pup onto his ship when he left the us
for england the coyote's name was jeep
an orphan adopted by crump just before
he was sent to battle when they arrived
in the united kingdom jeep was welcomed
with open arms by the members of the
356th
fighter group at royal air force
martelshim heath airfield he was given
his own dog tags he flew on five
missions in krump's p-47 thunderbolt and
he became an inspiration for all the
other airmen
sadly jeep was run over by a vehicle in
ipswich after his fifth mission in
october of 1944
jeep was then given a proper burial with
full military honors a memorial plaque
was erected and it can still be found at
playford hall to this very day it goes
to show just how unlikely many of the
heroes in the war really were
number 4. operation mincemeat
operation mincemeat was a secret mission
pulled off by british intelligence
officers during world war ii it was
actually one of the most successful
deceptions ever achieved during wartime
it happened in april 1943 when a
decomposing corpse was found floating
near southern spain
personal documents revealed him to be a
man named major william martin with the
royal marines he had a black attache
case handcuffed to his wrist now keep in
mind that spain was officially neutral
but sort of pro germany during the war
it didn't take long for nazi
intelligence to learn about a mysterious
floating officer with a briefcase
chained to his wrist when the body was
searched they found a letter written by
military authorities in london meant for
a senior british officer stationed in
tunisia the letter indicated that the
allies were preparing to cross the
mediterranean from north africa to
attack greece and sardinia which were
both occupied by the nazis it was all a
trick hitler transferred german troops
from france to greece after hearing
about the letter he thought there was
going to be a massive invasion by the
enemy but the drowned man was actually a
vagrant whose body was taken out of a
london morgue the body was then
transported by a race car driver to a
royal navy submarine who dumped it off
the spanish coast that was exactly when
british authorities began a desperate
attempt to recover the body and the case
he was holding
their efforts to supposedly try and get
a hold of the case convinced the nazis
that the documents were real as a result
of the operation the nazis were
completely blindsided when 160 thousand
troops invaded sicily instead of greece
and there was no one there to stop them
this secret operation directly led to
the fall of mussolini and was one of the
first major steps in turning the tide of
war in favor of the allies
number three the freemasons
amongst the millions of people that the
nazis tried to exterminate they also
headed out for the freemasons in the
1930s the nazi regime began spreading
bizarre conspiracy theories about the
freemasons calling them liberal
intellectuals and saying they needed to
be destroyed their secretive circles of
influence would no longer be tolerated
when it came to wartime the nazis did
what they did best they began to
systematically hunt down and eradicate
the freemasons while they were
committing these heinous acts they
collected a vast trove of freemason
artifacts going back to around the 17th
century they managed to get their hands
on over 80 000 items from masonic lodges
houses of freemasons and so on it's now
according to museum specialist juliana
gracinska the biggest masonic archive
anywhere in europe and it's still full
of mysteries
but why did the nazis hate the
freemasons so much it was because of
ideology they were very
anti-intellectual and anti-elitism and
hitler loved spreading ideas of the
occult the thing is that he had to be
the one in charge of all the info and
the masons were pretty much the exact
opposite a group of intellectual elites
but the soviets also hated the
freemasons and even banned their
practice under communism
what's pretty interesting is that
freemasonry was to germany and russia
what communism was to the united states
during the exact same time
what do you think it is about the
mysterious and secretive freemasons that
appears so dangerous to certain
governments let me know your thoughts in
the comments number 2 operation
gunnerside
operation gunnerside was one of the most
incredible secret missions of world war
ii it was straight out of a james bond
movie on february 27 1943 nine norwegian
commandos went to work they infiltrated
a hydroelectric plant held by the
germans
the vimark plant was owned by a company
called norsk hydro but the germans had
taken control of it and we're trying to
keep that fact a secret but the
norwegians weren't having any of it
their mission was to destroy the water
pipes in the basement they had to
destroy them at all costs although at
the time they had no idea why
the germans were using the plant to
produce heavy water or deuterium oxide
it's a special water molecule the
germans were hoping to use instead of
graphite for creating an atomic bomb
when they had taken control of the plant
they shifted all production to heavy
water they were desperate to make the
first atomic bomb the world had ever
seen and this plant was critical for
their success the norwegian commandos
jumped from a plane under the cover of
snowfall at about midnight but they
missed their mark and had to walk for
five days through the snow just to reach
the plant they then broke in divided
into different squads and set bombs
throughout the plant to sabotage the
water pipes straight from a hollywood
movie the team escaped the building with
just seconds to spare and skied away
down the side of the mountain as the
explosion went off behind them they then
traveled over 200 miles to sweden using
nothing but their skis every single
member escaped successfully and the
water pipes were destroyed
number 1. philippine gold
there is said to be a secret treasure
hoard of gold from world war ii hidden
in the philippines but then again the
gold may not even exist
the story of the gold goes back to
general yamashita a japanese commander
who had been stationed in the
philippines and was notorious for
hoarding all the gold and valuables that
his soldiers took during raids yamashita
near the end of the war became desperate
to hide his collection of gold so that
he could come back for it later or at
least so the americans couldn't have it
he allegedly oversaw the burial of
millions of dollars worth of gold loot
that had been collected throughout asia
during the japanese offensive yamashita
then held out against the american
forces for a few weeks before being
forced to surrender in 1945.
yamashita was captured tried for war
crimes against humanity and executed in
1946
he never said where his gold was but
people are pretty sure it's in the
philippines it could be worth hundreds
of millions of dollars but nobody has
ever found it do you really think
there's a secret stash of gold hidden in
the philippines let me know your
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