Lake Toplitz Gold Bar
CmdrAtticus
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Thought members might like this little tidbit I just came across in reference to Goldfinger:
The tale of a legendary Nazi ghost train carrying gold which allegedly disappeared without trace in the dying days of the Second World War has taken a new twist.
Two men have filed a “finder's claim" with a district council in Poland for an “armoured train” carrying precious metals, fuelling speculation the mysterious train has been located.
The claim was filed in the south-west Polish town of Walbrzych and could put an end to 70 years of rumour, myth and fruitless treasure hunts for the ghost train.
According to local media reports, two claimants - a Pole and a German - say they have found a 500-foot long “armoured train” with gun platforms and a cargo of “precious metals”.
The claim was lodged because under Polish law treasure finders can keep 10 per cent of the value of their find.
It is believed that towards the end of the war, as the Red Army closed in on the city of Wroclaw, Nazis loaded a train with gold and other treasure and sent it south west.
This discovery and a £12,000 gold bar once found in a lake at Adolf Hitler's hideaway has only strengthened WW2 treasure hunters' bid to find missing fortune. In Lake Toplitz in the Bavarian mountains, where the gold bar was uncovered, seven divers had died looking for the billions of pounds-worth of treasure supposedly stashed away by the Nazis at the end of the Second World War. Legend has it the Nazis stashed their loot as insurance policies for fleeing war criminals to fund new lives abroad after WW2. The treasure hunters have searched, lakes, mountains and former SS high commands' mansions in an attempt to uncover the mythical loot. Among the £20billion 'missing treasures' are tonnes of gold, thousands of work of art, gold wedding bands (top right) and the fabled £250million 'Amber Room' which was looted from a Russian palace in 1941.
The tale of a legendary Nazi ghost train carrying gold which allegedly disappeared without trace in the dying days of the Second World War has taken a new twist.
Two men have filed a “finder's claim" with a district council in Poland for an “armoured train” carrying precious metals, fuelling speculation the mysterious train has been located.
The claim was filed in the south-west Polish town of Walbrzych and could put an end to 70 years of rumour, myth and fruitless treasure hunts for the ghost train.
According to local media reports, two claimants - a Pole and a German - say they have found a 500-foot long “armoured train” with gun platforms and a cargo of “precious metals”.
The claim was lodged because under Polish law treasure finders can keep 10 per cent of the value of their find.
It is believed that towards the end of the war, as the Red Army closed in on the city of Wroclaw, Nazis loaded a train with gold and other treasure and sent it south west.
This discovery and a £12,000 gold bar once found in a lake at Adolf Hitler's hideaway has only strengthened WW2 treasure hunters' bid to find missing fortune. In Lake Toplitz in the Bavarian mountains, where the gold bar was uncovered, seven divers had died looking for the billions of pounds-worth of treasure supposedly stashed away by the Nazis at the end of the Second World War. Legend has it the Nazis stashed their loot as insurance policies for fleeing war criminals to fund new lives abroad after WW2. The treasure hunters have searched, lakes, mountains and former SS high commands' mansions in an attempt to uncover the mythical loot. Among the £20billion 'missing treasures' are tonnes of gold, thousands of work of art, gold wedding bands (top right) and the fabled £250million 'Amber Room' which was looted from a Russian palace in 1941.
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and then two trun up at once !