Nazi Graveyard in Amazon Rainforest
Tuesday November 11, 2008
In 1935, the Nazi government sponsored an expedition of three Nazi researchers to Brazil. Their mission was to explore the area and determine the feasibility of establishing a Germany colony there so that the "super race" would have room to expand.
One of the three researchers never made it back home to Germany because he died of "fever" and was buried. His grave is just one of many found deep in an Amazon rainforest. For more about the graveyard (plus pictures) as well as more information about the Nazi scheme to colonize Brazil, read this interesting article in The Mail Online.
Comments
Interesting. An exercise: What if these scientists found ‘Lebensraum’ in the rainforest? What if hundreds of thousands of young german settlers were to colonize this jungle land? Then maybe there wouldn’t be enough young men to make up a Wehrmacht. Then maybe it wouldn’t be that easy to convince the german public that Poland and later on the Sovjet Union should be invaded for ‘Lebensraum’. It would be so much easier to resettle in a nice climate with lots of opportunities. Maybe it is a pity that history didn’t work out in this way.