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How to avoid reblogging the Nazi Antarctic Expedition
There are posts on this site which use images and video from the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938-1939), the most popular of these having over 22k notes.
Example:
The expedition was on the order of Hermann Göring and aimed to claim part of Antarctica for Nazi Germany, so that its fishing and whaling resources could be used by the Reich. Its logo featured a swastika and it was supported by the Nazi regime.
Additionally, members of this expedition were also members of the German armed forces during WW2. It is important to remember that Nazi Germany's war crimes were not only committed by the SS, but all members of the armed forces committed them and/or were complicit, whether they joined voluntarily or were conscripted.
Therefore, you hopefully do not want to reblog content about it without realising what it is. But how can you tell?
This is mostly concentrated on the posts of one user, but here are some things to look out for:
- anything tagged with "schwabenland" or "Third German Antarctic Expedition".
- anything mentioning that the expedition pictured took place between 1938-1939
- if there is no information, and you can't identify the expedition pictured, consider a reverse image search and/or not reblogging
- don't engage with these posts/blogs in future and if u see a beloved mutual reblogging one of these posts without realising, consider sending a DM to let them know.
antarctic exploration is so funny because you read about the endurance expedition and it’s a zany adventure with a lovable stowaway and trials and tribulations that show the indomitable nature of the human spirit without a single man lost and it ends in a thematically resonant and meaningful way with a fitting and beautiful conclusion and then you get to the belgica and the crew are running away constantly, they frame the cook for his own beatdown and get him fired, the beloved moral-boosting chipper ships boy literally falls off of the boat and drowns before they even GET to antarctica, the commandant and the captain are deliberately freezing the ship in ice to protect their beautiful belgian honor, they’re constantly falling into crevasses, and the ships pet penguin dies in what i cannot stress enough is the most narratively ominous and portentous circumstance on the morning of their imprisonment in the ice. the doctor was literally imprisoned for fraud.
magdalena bay, view from the peninsula of the tombs, northern spitsbergen, aurora borealis (painted around 1840) is at the louvre??? just saw it in person and shouted
Do you ever wonder, how many books can be written about the exact same story, over and over again?
yep. but luckily when it comes to polar exploration, I can read books about the same story over and over again!
Ignoring my own pains and struggles by reading about someone else’s pains and struggles (polar explorers)
It's time to rewatch The Terror
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getting crazy sexually aroused at the thought of sending 100 of my bravest warriors on a suicide mission. i dont even really care what theyre doing out there
currently at the airport as I’m off back to England for some polar research involving this husbird of a feller! Here’s a recent sticker design in the meanwhile 🐧 🪕 polar topical songs but make it groovy baby
Harry McNeish was a carpenter on Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition to Antarctica. He was also known as the caretaker of Mrs. Chippy, the cat that accompanied the men until the Endurance became trapped in pack ice.
To honor the brave kitty, the New Zealand Antarctic Society added a bronze statue of Mrs. Chippy to McNeish's grave in 2004, seen as she would usually lounge on his bed onboard the ship.
How incredibly delusional are some of you people to support a fraud like Cook?
Ghost of Robert Peary, is that you?
things are not going so hot for me but at least im not in antarctica rn . haha am i right? *i look at my photo of apsley cherry-garrard which i keep on me at all times. it does not respond*
i don't know how to flirt but i'll pick up cool rocks and bring them to you like a penguin attempting to court its mate
Photos taken by Harald Sverdrup of the aurora borealis as viewed from ‘Maud’, 1918-1925
I got roland huntford's the last place on earth in a charity shop and am ready to read it through gritted teeth, knowing his opinion of scott, but can we just appreciate this absolute power pose from amundsen
I've been wanting to do a full-crew Endurance illustration for a long time, and finally the gang's all here! 28 men, dogs and cat all accounted for, with every crew member referencing either a photo of them or a story about them. It's a little over two years since I first read Lansing's Endurance and I couldn't be happier to still be researching and drawing these guys :)
every day i think about silas wright’s silly little descriptions of some of the other men on the terra nova expedition
what if the solution to all your problems is to get really into the history of polar exploration. Have you tried that
rip apsley cherry garrard, you would have loved excel sheets
Close up of the black paper drawing because I still struggle to take good picture :
finished reading The Worst Journey in the World and I am not okay!!
Before and after the Winter Journey, 1911
eight successive phases of an exhibit of aurora australis, march 19 1898
from frederick cooks „through the first antarctic night“
Are you OK cherry?????
(From his introduction to birdie bowers of the antarctic)