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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 REICH STUFF
Inside global hunt for Hitler’s lost £20BILLION Nazi gold horde with sunken ships, hidden bunkers & a buried train
Adrian Zorzut
Updated: Apr 30 2021, 9:26 ET
TREASURE hunters the world over are scrambling to uncover the secret locations believed to have been used by Nazi officers to hide stolen loot in the dying days of World War 2.
From sunken shipwrecks, to buried trains, and hidden bunkers - the global gold rush for the rumoured Nazi fortune spans from Argentina, to Europe, to the depths of the Atlantic.
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Adolf Hitler and the Nazis are believed to have stolen billions of pounds worth of treasures in a bid to fund the creation of a Fourth ReichCredit: Getty - Contributor
Worldwide hunt for Adolf Hitler s secret £20billion fortune still goes on to this day
An SS officer tasked with hiding priceless art and artefacts in the closing days of World War Two is said to be the key to the hiding places of some of some of Hitler s most prized treasures
Hitler s reign of terror was characterised by an orgy of looting (Image: Roger Viollet/Getty Images)
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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.