Radar detects object believed to be missing Nazi gold train
Source: AP
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
WARSAW, Poland (AP) A Polish official said Friday he has seen an image made by ground-penetrating radar that seemed to prove the discovery of an armored Nazi train missing in southwestern Poland since World War II.
Local lore says a German train filled with gold, gems and armaments went missing around the city of Walbrzych while it was fleeing the Red Army in the spring of 1945. Fortune-hunters have looked for the so-called "gold train" for decades, and in the communist era, the Polish army and security services carried out apparently fruitless searches for it.
During the war, the Germans built a system of underground tunnels in the mountainous region of Walbrzych and the city of Wroclaw, from where the train is believed to have departed. The area was German territory at the time, but became part of Poland when the war ended.
Recently, a Pole and a German, acting through lawyers, told local authorities they had found an armored train with valuables in a disused tunnel and demanded a financial reward.
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The potencial site where a Nazi gold train is believed to be hidden, near the city of Walbrzych, Poland, Friday, Aug. 28, 2015. Poland's Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski said Friday he has seen an image made by ground-penetrating radar that seemed to prove the discovery of an armored Nazi train missing in southwestern Poland since World War II, and is more than 99 percent certain that this train exists.. (AP Photo/Str)--POLAND OUT
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I found it first, only to have it stolen from me...
jwirr
(39,215 posts)in this story.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)Rather than looted by amateurs and government personnel.
Cool find if true!
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Laf.La.Dem.
(2,943 posts)homegirl
(1,429 posts)Amber Room. Do you have more photos of this lost masterpiece?
Laf.La.Dem.
(2,943 posts)good luck - it is a masterpiece!
wordpix
(18,652 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)dbackjon
(6,578 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)doesn't bode well for those standing nearby!
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Top experts.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)
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douggg
(239 posts)is involved.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)Professor Indiana Jones....
Actually, somebody should call Spielberg. This would be a far better story than that last horror he turned out.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)It would not show a train in a tunnel.