World War II officially ended on September 2, 1945 - after Japan's surrender. However, even after more than 70 years of the end of the conflict, time capsules, coded messages, artwork, documents, possible treasures and a lot of things of the time are still being discovered around the world. The latter, according to Shehab Khan of the Independent portal, was a secret Nazi base in the Arctic.

Part of items discovered in ancient secret base

Shehab said the site was discovered by Russian scientists on an island called Alexandra Land, about 1, 000 kilometers from the North Pole, and was built in 1942, just a year after Adolf Hitler invaded Russia. The military base was known among the Nazis by the code name Schatzgraber - or "Treasure Hunter" in free translation - and was set up to serve as a weather station for the Germans.

Frozen in time

The secret base was intended to produce weather reports in Russia so that the Nazi Army could plan its offensives. The site retained this function until it was abandoned by the scientists occupying the facility after they suffered food poisoning and were infected with parasites after eating raw polar bear meat.

The situation got so bad that in 1944 the military had to be rescued from the base by a U-Boot, a submarine of the German fleet. The Germans left everything behind and never came back to see what had been the season. Now, 72 years later, a group of Russian researchers stumbled upon the facility - and more than 500 items, including a handful of documents, were discovered on site. Check out the following video:

Among the items the researchers found in the ruined bunkers were military uniforms, equipment scraps, empty gallons of fuel, numerous documents, rusty fragments of ammunition, stationers' personal belongings, and even a diary of one. According to the Russians, most of the specimens found are in good condition as they have been preserved by the cold climate of the region.

Russian researcher examines one of the discovered items

The items will help Russian researchers reconstruct the base's past and dispel rumors of the past - motivated by the name of the facility. Since the weather station was named Schatzgraber by the Nazis, some experts even speculated that it was supposed to support the exploration of the island in search of ancient relics. However, at the moment everything seems to confirm that this suspicion was a myth.