Last Secrets of the Third Reich: The Nazi Gold Train | Free Documentary History

Since the end of the second world war there have been rumors about hidden treasures, the legendary Nazi

gold

, rumors attract treasure hunters, they can find fame, adventure and perhaps wealth, it has a romantic and adventurous air, and it takes hold. Of you in 2015 there was a rumor that surpassed them all: the Nazi

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was said to have disappeared without a trace in the

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months of the second world war in Europe if the

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had been discovered now in Poland it all started in the summer 2015 volik is a town in Lower Alia Poland it was there, near the line to rosar, where the golden train was said to be hidden could there be an international sensation buried here?

The highest protector of Poland's monuments had no doubt that this statement really aroused people's conjectures. It became an almost definitive fact that the golden train fever broke out. The buried train was said to lie beneath an embankment right next to the tracks. It was great fun for the holidays, especially for the hordes of tourists. It has all the elements of a good thriller, you're good, adventure, eh, you have to do old hidden trains Nazis the story of the golden train was ideal for the silly season, but at the 65 km marker in volik journalists from all over the world waited and watched to see if there was anything Furthermore, the area was sealed and guarded 24 hours a day, even the Polish Minister of Culture allowed herself to dream that the Nazis were looting art collections in museums and art dealers throughout Europe;

The most brazen looter of all was Hitler's deputy, Heron Ging, and he said that he planned to loot a lot, even items that were not in circulation. and so he did it. The selection of European art

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decorated Kenal at his country house in Shaider Heath, near Berlin. Guring was constantly competing with his warlord, Adolf Hitler, another great art thief who stole works for a huge museum he had in mind for his hometown of Lin, in May 1945, friendly American troops seized an entire train full of works of art. Treasures in Hitler's retreat. Bea's garden was only part of Ging's loot and only a small part of what the Nazis had looted.

Overall, American experts began a systematic search for looted art and found 5 million items of which 4 million had been stolen or extorted from their owners. The room was worth billions and some of it has not been found to this day. Today an example is the legendary Amber Room of the Catherine Palace near St. Petersburg, it is priceless, the palace now has an exact replica in its original location, but where is the real Amber Room? What we definitely know about the Amber Room is that the Germans captured the Amber Room outside Leningrad in 1941 and brought back the Amber.

Room um to Kix B and there at the end of 44 autumn 44 disappeared, so we know that in August 1944 there was a strong b

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at kckb by the Royal Air Force and there are rumors that it was destroyed in the The Amber Room in this specific attack others said no, um, it was um, it was safe, he was no longer in the castle and was evacuated to the western parts of the r. Was the Amber Room destroyed or transported further west? Theories abound more than about any other Nazi treasure it's a never ending story uh well it certainly will never end because it's been going on for the last 70 years uh that's the first thing the second thing is even in the 40 years that I had an interest in this area in which I could say I've probably come across I don't know between 15 and uh 20 different scenarios where it was found or almost found, we should say the last scenario is that the Amber Room was on a train, a train that We ended up on the Lower Silesia, possibly here near the railway line at kilometer 65 in Val.

You can even write a book about the search for the Amber Room. It's such a complete story and of course anything is possible. I mean, we. I have to see that in 1945, in the Reich there was chaos and it is very, very difficult to exclude a specific option, a specific solution, that this does not exist, it is very difficult, but, on the other hand, it is very interesting to see that. um since the 1940s nothing had been found, I mean in 1940 the allies um found a lot of treasures, they beat gold, they beat art, whatever you want, call it, but after that time nothing was found and even after German reunification, when, when, hundreds of new treasure hunters.

Nothing larger than the rusted steel hull was found in the tunnels of the former GDR immediately after the Allied victory in May 1945. American specialists began searching the stolen treasures for Nazi gold. American forces spent a lot of time searching for gold that had been hidden there by Um Verar and SS troops. Some of them were found in the mountains. Some of them had been placed in lakes. Some of them had been hidden in farms and in many places, few people are as well informed about Nazi treasures. Like British author Ian Sa, he is probably the only individual to have gotten his hands on Nazi gold in recent decades.

He discovered it not in some dark hiding place, but in a bank safe deposit box. I contacted the US State Department. and suggested they start investigating a bank account in Munich. It took them 13 years, but in the end they found two gold bars that had disappeared, let's say, in quotes. And they had disappeared since 1945. This was not the only one. For example, in 1945, a train full of treasure stolen by the SS from Hungarian Jews was confiscated by the American army in Austria. This truly was a golden train. He carried 52 boxes of gold and diamonds. 1,560 silver boxes.

The gold and cash reserves of a bank and many paintings a large part of the treasure disappeared after the Americans confiscated it. It took the US government 60 years to reach an agreement. Not everyone who found such a treasure proved to be honest. The temptation was certainly great given the value of the loot today. It seems very likely that almost all documented holdings of Nazi gold were recovered soon after the war, but who can personally be sure? I guess you could say that a small amount of Nazi gold may have been found. This is probably gold that was hidden by people who died before being able to access it; otherwise, you'll appreciate that if you hide Nazi gold and you don't die under unforeseen circumstances, you'll probably want to turn it into something like um cars, uh, houses and various other things, so, um, there could still be something there, but there could be hundreds of tons buried beneath this railway line?

Treasure hunter Andreas rer would be delighted if he and his partner received a 10% finder's fee in September. In 2015 they issued a statement prepared by his lawyer Richa and Copper did not say much more than that nor did they make public any evidence they had of his alleged F said that they had found the train with a device like this a frequency modulated continuous wave. radar system, i.e. ground radar, the technology has several advantages that individuals can afford and the testing method is simple Ascend it as several academic experts Andreas oberholtz was cautious about the reliability of 3D images Rish and coper were not the only ones in vuk who dreamed of finding the golden train the retired minor tados schakowski had spent half his life under its spell, acquired german wartime maps and even without the geo radar came to the conclusion that the train lay hidden in the same place where Risha and Copper said it was according to Para slov, a German railway official gave him crucial advice decades ago and that advice convinced him that the train was there.

One of the many people interested in the location of the train is Crystal Fulin, she advises the V council and has been trying to resolve. The region's underground puzzles for 15 years for Crystal works with satellite images that clearly show any irregularities in the terrain. From the images, she concluded that the dead-end track once ran between the suspected location of the gold train and the most important construction building in Vfonstein. Castle now known by its Polish name Zamek In 1943 the castle was requisitioned to become a regional headquarters for Hitler under the code name Rhea or Giant. It was one of 20 fura headquarters located throughout Europe.

Nobody asked about the money. Do you win anything? sense, it was Hitler's decision in some way, he was a traveling emperor like in medieval times, if you want, Hitler did not run the armed forces and politics from the capital, which is the normal way it was done, remember the rooms from the cabinet in London or other things in Washington and so on, but he let the war and the

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conduct from various headquarters, so this is the reason why we have so many big headquarters, many bankers' tunnels, whatever throughout Europe . The elevator shafts descend 50 MERS from the castle to the depths of the mountain, at the bottom there is a labyrinth of corridors and rooms, on the next level there is an extensive network of tunnels that were to house the logistics of the fura headquarters , but in some places the tunnels end in rubble and rubble.

What's behind. What

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does Z still hide? Could the closed part of the tunnel complex contain a railway connection to the outside or even a complete railway station? Crystal Faulin suspects that Hitler's zund Tu is her special train. At times during the war, it was his most important means of transportation and it was more than that. The Furus train was a special design, um, a mobile headquarters if you will, and this is very much a design of the early stage of the war, Hitler. I used it massively in 1939 in Poland and also in 1940 and in this idea that the leader has to be close, go to the front, he is not very far away in the capital and he goes to the Opera and whatever, but somehow So you have to share the experience and you have to be close to your headquarters um and because it's a move, it's modern moving warfare um, you have to use a mobile headquarters if you want it to always be ready to go, so you could there had been a service. center for Hitler's train here where the golden train is said to be one thing is for sure Hitler's train itself is definitely not here we know it was based in a tunnel at Templehof airfield and was later moved out of the capital, out of Berlin to Austria and was blown up at Salam in Austria.

Individual carriages of the train have survived elsewhere and were used by the Federal Republic of Germany and others, but the entire train ended, it is very certain that it ended in Taam in May 1945. In late September 2015, the Polish Army took over the suspicious location of the gold train. Sappers moved in search of booby traps, mines or unexploded bombs. One of the two hopeful gold train hunters was disappointed and thought that searching at a depth of one meter would get nowhere. Almost all they would find would be terrestrial copper, and Risher believed his Geo radar modeling had identified a train like this.

A German armored train of the type used to patrol railway lines during the war. Some of these trains are still missing to this day. One can now be found in Vset, of course, it is possible that someone brought the train shortly before Breesa was completely surrounded by the Red Army and surrounded by the Red Army outside Brlo to protect the train tracks and, in any case, this is possible. I don't know, it's not safe, but it's still an option. Mobile turrets. These armored trains were built in Breslau. Some of these trains survived and they had weapons, they had anti-aircraft weapons, anti-tank weapons and obviously we know that.

I am sure that one of these trains ended up in Brastow and it was because their weapons were used against the Redar. At the end of January 1945 the Red Army prepared its assault on Silesia and closed the circle around the capital of Silesia, Breslo, today known as Rof. a railway line ran from the capital to Vol, then known by its German name of Venburg, on that line not far from Gold Enborg Gothard Veltz, 15, saw something one January night that he will never forget because what Adelt saw that night Was it a train carrying tanks or was it an armored train like the one said to be hidden in V?

The problem with witnesses is not that they are deliberately lying and telling you some story, but you know, we know how human memory works. and human memory always, you know, fits together bits and pieces of the past and since very recent times I saw a train and I still believe it, therefore it is an eyewitness memory that just pushes us in the direction and we have to verify , check again if this can really be the case in January 1945 the fate of Breslau hung in the balance the Nazis declared the city a fortress despite its obvious lack of defenses gaer kyl Hunker demanded total resistance until the end it was supposed trams overturned to contain the tanks of the Red Army, the most powerful land force in the world, by mid-February the Red Army had completely cut off Breau inname of self-defense.

Breau committed suicide, buildings were blown up so Red Army soldiers could occupy them, G Hunka blew up a corridor through the city center to build a landing strip while they were strafed by low-flying planes. Senseless deaths. The airstrip was only used once by Hunker himself, on May 6, 1945, he disappeared from Breslo, it is a sad part of

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to put it that way that these agitators who always make these hate speeches and never give up speeches and presented himself as a core of the defense that these Gigh tried to escape from and obviously managed to get out of. from brlo this is what we know for sure that came out of brl and then disappeared Did Hunker make plans to after Germany's defeat had valuables taken from Breslau before works of art were cut off gold did he have the authority?

This is another angle that has treasure hunters speculating. After the war, Polish intelligence interrogated a former Breslau police officer who had remained in Poland rather than fleeing to Germany as most other Germans did. from initially denying that at the end of the war the SS and the police had accumulated a large amount of gold in the central police station in Breslau, the gold came mainly from the city's banks and was stored in dozens of large boxes, He only found out later. What the boxers had in their hands, the so-called Breslau gold treasure, has never been found, could it be another piece of the gold train puzzle or is it just a persistent rumor, rumors start a kind of rumor, did you see that train, what train, oh, that armored train, oh?

So, and it grows like Topsy, it gets bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and more valuable and of course then there's the kind of well, there's still um, there's tunnels there and there's "you can." I can't get to them anymore, they blew them up, they blew up the tickets so well, do you think any of those trains are still okay, could there be? Know? And do you think those trains could have a treasure? Why else would they blow you up and suddenly you have this kind of question and answer with people saying well, that's right, that could have happened, this could have happened suddenly, all of that is no longer a guess, it's a made.

Vuk November 2015, once the Polish army declared the area safe geophysicists from the Kau University of Technology examined it closely look there said toos sokovi the first treasure hunter the points for the train were in that depression about 100 were found Along this is what supposedly happened the train deviated from the main line and entered the tunnel, the entrance to the tunnel was blown up to seal it but if it happened light would soon be shed. An object as large as a train undiscovered for more than 70 years would be a real sensation, but why did no one mention this operation in 1945?

You have a train driver, you have very marked officers, you have people guarding the treasure so that everyone gets out safely before it is dynamited and no one says anything at the end of the day, seven decades later, everyone else has said. nothing and one person has said well, look, I just want to tell you where he is now before he dies. Is it feasible? My answer would be not at all, besides, there were more logical places to hide a train. Kilometers south of Valik is the Ox Head Tunnel, located on the outskirts of the city.

It was intended to be a shelter for Hitler's special train. Behind that, in the former Charlotten Bron military train station, there is a 200 S km area full of underground puzzles here in the owl. In the mountains, the Nazis built gigantic tunnel systems as part of the Rhea fura headquarters project. Rhea is first and foremost a headquarters, a headquarters for Hitler, so many tunnels are shelters, facilities for Hitler himself, but also for his staff, his political staff and for the entire Armed Forces, so it is a complex huge, but there is an advantage on top of this, as an add-on was the idea of ​​relocating the German industry below ground level, so due to the Allied air raids they became worse and worse.

Worse still, the decision was made to relocate key industries into tunnels, as in the final years of the war the Luft wafer was becoming less and less capable of countering Allied bomber offensives. During the day, the Americans systematically destroyed German industry, while at night the British razed Germany's major cities, virtually all of which were burned down in the final years of the war. In mid-1943, a huge construction project was launched. hundreds of German arms companies were moved to underground bomb-proof galleries like these in schvatz in troll today these places are monuments to homicidal megalomania, then they were top priority sites for the construction of fighter aircraft and long-range missiles .

New advanced weapons that were supposed to turn the tide of the war in Germany's favor. Rocket production and development was part of Hinrich Himmler's ever-growing SS empire; most rocket assembly was done by slave laborers from concentration camps like these at the m b Dora underground factory in Thuringia. A bomb-proof bunker complex was also built for Himler himself and the other SS leaders near Haline in Austria; Himler would never use it. If the power of Hinrich Himler and the SS was based primarily on the unlimited supply of slave labor from the concentration camps, the workers who built the tunnel complexes were worked to death, replaced by new workers from the fields, what was called Annihilation by Labor in the owl mountains of Loa salesia the tunnel systems were never finished sometimes it is not clear what the tunnels were, even for the Germans, tunnels like vs there, so there are so many facilities, um and The problem is that we don't have a final report from the Germans, it would have been really brilliant to have a report from May 1945, the day before the Red Army entered the complex.

We have this many tunnels and they should be used for this and that and we have that type of facility. If we don't have that weapon, the only thing we have for sure is a report by Albert Spar from 1944. Albert Spar reported that he used 257,000 cubic meters of concrete and excavated 213,000 cubic meters of tunnels, figures that far exceed what is known today. . You always know a policy, you make a policy within the system with your reports to present yourself in the best possible light or the second option is that many tunnels were destroyed by the Germans or the Russians, we don't know or even by the poles, so just We don't know and very little is open to the public.

We know of half a dozen tunnel systems south of Bike, but there are more. Nobody is willing to rule it out. It's very possible even. Owl Mountain likely still has a few more surprises in store. Tunnel entrances that have been filled in or closed by explosions are being discovered all the time. Crystal Fulan alone reported on four suspected tunnel sites at the end of 2015. She has recruited two spelunkers from Munich Andrea's Villa and norber hunt mode frequency are well equipped and very experienced um down they enter a Nazi underworld that has been closed for 70 years the purpose of the complex is still unknown Andreas cautiously checks the site but there seems to be no way in and then his gas monitor beeps it's not here here it is methane is produced in tunnels like this when the wooden supports are broken. rot okay, he's a fool Hardy treasure hunter threw himself to his death in the region in September 2015 the sealed tunnels of the Rhea project still keep many

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the most mysterious part is the UA complex from the surface a shaft descends 50 m towards the depths and a secret document from the last days of the war states that weapons and ammunition for a strong point would be stored here, so it is very possible that the Vuk train was headed there and that the train was transporting only weapons, not gold. , the director of the UA complex estimates that only half of what is hidden in the inaccessible areas has been explored, many of the tunnel ceilings are as high as On the roof of a cathedral there is enough space to house large equipment or even entire trains.

Plans for which Mr. Lozanovski, the museum director, has a surprising hypothesis. After Germany's surrender, the Soviets evidently sought here precisely those facilities associated with German atomic research decades later. Physicist Deogi Ferof, one of the fathers of the Soviet atomic bomb, mentioned the help of German scientists during a private conversation, but what did the Soviets find at Ovka? It is still not known for sure. These foundations on the surface of the complex are particularly notable until now, no one has known about it. was able to explain them, so the cargo on the Valuk train, if the train ever existed, could have been high technology rather than gold or weapons.

The Soviets clearly hoped to find materials for German atomic research; However, Russian files that could shed light on this are not yet available. available, we don't know for sure what kind of facilities, what kind of research was done at least in parts of the tunnels of the Rhea complex, but it is very likely that the Russians, very soon after the first soldiers arrived there, had a scientific base and academic committee and try to get everything and bring it back to the Soviet Union, but this part of the story can only be told if you have Russian documents, but we don't have access to these sources yet, so there is still a story that will be told in the future vuk on December 15, 2015 the mayor called a press conference on the gold train the city has probably never seen so many camera crews today will be the moment of truth for the first time P copper and Andreas rer will present publicly the results of its geographic radar tests.

Professor M from Kau University of Technology will discuss the results of his working group. Risha and Copper show a 3D computer model that they have superimposed on an aerial photograph of the location where they are. convinced that it probably shows a hidden armored train, it shows regular rectangular structures, but then it is Professor M's turn, with scientific rigor, he presents the test methods that he and his work group used and the results they arrived at, and he dedicates a lot of time to the magnetometer. tests that he and his colleagues carried out make it exciting finally he leaves the conclusion to a journalist in the room Richa and Copper's expressions speak for themselves is this the end of the vuk gold train The crucial point is that the scientists could not detect enough metal on the hill so that there is a train inside and that's it there is a handshake for piot copper like after a tennis match but who is right copper and rsta are not ready to give up is it really worth spending so much money looking for a train?

That may not even exist at least not here. They have a good conscience. I'm sure there may be something there now. Okay, there might be something there, but I think they'll be very disappointed with what they find, things like German army helmets. or gloves or supplies or things they have Rusty, I mean, you see, or maybe a knife or a gun or something, that's the kind of thing they might run into, but even if that turns out to be the case, they still There are many undiscovered sealed tunnels in the region where the train could finally be.

I'd just like to say that there will always be stolen Nazi treasure waiting. Discovery at the end of the rainbow. The story of the Salesian gold train is not over yet.