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The Nazi gold train or Wałbrzych gold train is an urban legend about a train laden with gold and treasure that was hidden by the Nazis in southwest Poland during the last days of World War II. The apocryphal tale claims the train full of valuables, including artwork, was concealed in a sealed-up rail tunnel or mine in the Central Sudetes by ...
During the war, Portugal was the second largest recipient of Nazi gold, after Switzerland. Initially the Nazi trade with Portugal was in hard currency, but in 1941 the Central Bank of Portugal established that much of this was counterfeit and Portuguese leader António de Oliveira Salazar demanded all further payments in gold. [22]
Last August two treasure hunters said they had "irrefutable proof" of the existence of a World War II-era Nazi ghost train filled with stolen gold.
Nazi plunder (German: Raubkunst) was organized stealing of art and other items which occurred as a result of the organized looting of European countries during the time of the Nazi Party in Germany. Jewish property was looted beginning in 1933 in Germany and was a key part of the Holocaust .
Two treasure hunters began detailed tests Tuesday in the hope of revealing a fuller picture of a Nazi train they claim is buried in a hillside.
Hungarian Gold Train; Kolchak's gold train, a train with Russian Imperial gold supply last held by Admiral Kolchak; Nazi gold train, a rumored armored train full of treasures that left Breslau (now Wrocław) in late 1944 and was lost
General map of deportation routes and camps. Holocaust trains were railway transports run by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and other European railways under the control of Nazi Germany and its allies, for the purpose of forcible deportation of the Jews, as well as other victims of the Holocaust, to the Nazi concentration, forced labour, and extermination camps.
Some theories circulating on Internet conspiracy sites claim that Die Glocke is located in a Nazi gold train that is buried in a tunnel beneath a mountain in Poland. [9] Duncan Roads, editor of Nexus , has pointed out that the "Nazis on the Moon trope" is linked to wild speculations about Nazi anti-gravitational technology, such as Witkowski's ...