Hiked down 4 miles, 500 steps, and 600 feet in elevation, and somehow stumbled upon an abandoned Nazi camp in Santa Monica! Thank-you to Californiathroughmylens.com for providing us with the information to get to this amazing site.
History of the abandoned Nazi camp:
"In the early 1900’s, during the second world war, Winona and Norman Stephens were convinced by a German named Herr Schmidt that when Germany ultimately won the war, the American government would not be able to stay afloat thus leading to a time of anarchy in the United States. During that time they would be able to live in their self-sustaining community and then come out when the opportunity presenting itself to help with the German take over. So with that convincing they set out to build a massive area they could use to keep them safe during the war.
As we all know that didn’t happen and around the time of Pearl Harbor they were taken into custody from their home. All in all it is said that over 4 million dollars was invested into this ranch and they were able to create a pretty amazing set of structures with that money. Among what they made was a power station, machine shed, fully irrigated hillside for growing food, raised gardens, a massive water tank and even a place to store diesel fuel. They also built multiple cement stairs up the side of the neighboring hill to help with the farming and to patrol the area. They planned to build a four story mansion here as well but it was said to have fallen through.
All that is left standing today is the power station, water tank, gardens and the collapsed machine shed."
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The ruins are located on the Murphy's Ranch trail!
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