A Nazi surveillance Post in North America was discovered in 1981.Now, while German U boats would occasionally shoot at ships off the coast of North Carolina during WWII, you can imagine how surprising it was when Canada found out in the early 80s that Germans once mounted a fully armed expedition into their country without anyone even noticing.In 1943, Germany was hoping to get a heads up on weather patterns originating in the west by dispatching a U boat to set up an Automated Weather Station in Newfoundland. Knowing weather patterns was a crucial advantage to the allies and the Germans knew that if they were going to stand a chance, they absolutely needed to be able to predict storms. So to keep this invaluable station safe in an enemy country they went to extraordinary lengths to disguise it! Specifically, they marked it as property of the Canadian Weather Service, and thats it. Apparently this complex camouflaging strategy was more than enough because they fooled every Mountie that ever encountered the station for almost forty years.It wasnt until the late 70s that a retired engineer stumbled onto evidence of its existence while working on a book about, of all things, Nazi weather stations! The Canadian authorities located the station in 1981 based on his evidence, almost 40 years after it was erected and the whole thing has become a highlight of the Canadian War Museum based in Ottawa .
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 02:20:09 +0000
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