Nazi gold train

[Snookie]

Has anyone heard anymore on the possible site of a lost treasure train? I saw an article a week or so ago about it and have seen nothing since. Supposedly it could hold the Amber Room.

 

[UnderMiner]

There are a few rumored "Nazi gold trains". As the story goes, in the twilight days of Nazi Germany, as the allies closed in on all sides, the inner circle of political elites began hoarding and in some cases overtly stealing massive quantities of treasure from the government coffers and loading them onto trains, planes, boats, submarines, and automobiles. With the stated goal of keeping the wealth away from the allies they had free reign to hide the treasure essentially anywhere they wanted. Some trains were said to have been driven into tunnels and the openings destroyed sealing the trains and their valuable cargo inside never to be seen again. Fleeing SS units were documented as robbing German banks of gold and then fleeing to Spain and then later to South America. Rumor has it Martin Bormann, though present in the Fuhrerbunker with Hitler and Eva during the Battle of Berlin, escaped with tremendous embezzled wealth.

The Western Allies ended up finding alot of the hidden treasure throughout Germany, strategically hidden in massive caches- far larger than any amount of gold that could fit on a single train. And it wasn't just gold bars they found, they also found thousands upon thousands of cases of silver treasure - the looted silverware of civilian homes taken from all across Europe as well as the gold wedding rings, watches, glasses, and even dental fillings of murdered civilians collected from concentration camps. These type of treasure undoubtedly were not just present in one centralized giant cache but hundreds of caches of varying size - some, perhaps, consisting of just a single briefcase of loot buried a few feet under the soil - others being in mine shafts, bunkers, wells, some documented to have even been hidden under flowing rivers.

 

[Red-Coat]

You need to be more specific since there are several such claims relating to hidden treasure trains, all regarded as urban myths with no substantiation.

If you mean the co-called “Wałbrzych gold train” claimed to have been hidden in a sealed-up tunnel by the Nazis in Poland, no evidence has ever been found of its existence, nor even the tracks it was supposed to have run on.

In 2015 two Polish treasure-hunters claimed to have located it using ground-penetrating radar. The subsequent excavations undertaken jointly with the Polish military and state support, were abandoned when the GPR anomaly was found to be a natural geological phenomenon.

The so-called “Hungarian Gold Train” did exist, but was not hidden. It was captured by allied troops in Werfen, Austria nine days after Germany surrendered. Some of its gold had already been transferred to trucks, but what happened to it is not known.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I knew a WW2 vet that was an army ranger. In the closing days of the war his group was running a road block. They stopped a car with SS officers fleeing. They were executed on the spot. The car was loaded with loot and they helped themselves to it. The guy I knew walked away with $30,000 in US cash. He managed to wire the money to his home bank through Western Union. And he lived happily ever after.😄 I’m sure similar scenarios played out all over Europe.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Don't forget all the gold given to the Vatican to help relocate Nazi officers and their families. That pipeline has been heavily examined and investigated.

 

[AstralDruid]

Can you imagine the bad vibes attached to such a "treasure" i mean even if you don't believe in that sort of thing, there has to be some part of human nature that would just say no.. i don't want to find that !!
In the same vein, I am pretty sure that I know where there is a stash of gold, two actually, but it is not for us to find, for it is Faerie gold !! and I will not take that chance, nothing can buy you out of that deal.
AstralDruid