Twenty-eight tonnes of
Nazi gold worth more than £1billion may have been traced to the grounds of a palace in
Poland after the location was mentioned in an SS diary.
The stash of gold bars, jewellery and coins is believed to be sitting 200ft down at the bottom of a destroyed well shaft in the grounds of the Hochberg Palace, near the city of Wroclaw.
Researchers from the Polish-German Silesian Bridge Foundation, who claim to have acquired the diary from a masonic lodge, say the treasure was buried in the final days of the Second World War along with the corpses of several witnesses.
The hunts for Forrest Fenn’s treasure and other hidden or lost caches of wealth pale in comparison to the 80-year search for vast quantities of gold allegedly sequestered away for safekeeping by the Nazis during World War II. Often referred to as ‘Hitler’s gold’, it’s a collection of treasures looted from lands conquered by the Nazis and rumored to have been taken to South America or buried somewhere in Europe. That “somewhere” has been narrowed to Minkowskie, a village in southwestern Poland in the historical region of Silesia, and pinpointed to an abandoned palace based on a treasure map that once belonged to a senior SS officer who gave it to a girl working in the brothel at the palace.