News: Missing Nazi 'gold train' found

karma police

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Radar Detects Object Believed to Be Missing Nazi Gold Train

WARSAW, Poland — A Polish official said Friday he has seen an image made by ground-penetrating radar that seemed to prove the discovery of an armored Nazi train missing in southwestern Poland since World War II.

Local lore says a German train filled with gold, gems and armaments went missing around the city of Walbrzych while it was fleeing the Red Army in the spring of 1945. Fortune-hunters have looked for the so-called "gold train" for decades, and in the communist era, the Polish army and security services carried out apparently fruitless searches for it.

During the war, the Germans built a system of underground tunnels in the mountainous region of Walbrzych and the city of Wroclaw, from where the train is believed to have departed. The area was German territory at the time, but became part of Poland when the war ended.

Recently, a Pole and a German, acting through lawyers, told local authorities they had found an armored train with valuables in a disused tunnel and demanded a financial reward.

Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski told reporters the lawyers had been informed the train was over 100 meters (109 yards) long and called it an "exceptional" discovery.

He said he was shown an image — albeit blurred — from a ground-penetrating radar that showed the shape of a train platform and cannons, and added he was "more than 99 percent certain that this train exists."

"We will be 100 percent sure only when we find the train," Zuchowski added.
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Walbrzych regional authorities will conduct the search, using military explosives' experts, in a procedure that will take "weeks," Zuchowski said.

A person who claimed he helped load the gold train in 1945 said in a "deathbed statement" the train is secured with explosives, Zuchowski said. The person, who was not identified, had also indicated the probable location of the train, he said.

source: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015...azi-train.html

it's supposed to be located in a close vicinity of Ksiaz castle or in a tunnel leading up to it:

EdgeOfAddiction

I love stories like this! So exciting.

Solar

The wait for a train that just aint comming might come to an end

jpow

Is there really filled with gold and gems?

Amoeba

Watch how it'll be donated to Israel which is already caking off of its apartheid-like system anyway

Zoraluv

I don't what to say or think really. Whats going to happen to the gold when it is found? Who , if profits are made, will these profits go to? These kinds of things are really interesting to me

DancingShoes

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Originally posted by Zoraluv

I don't what to say or think really. Whats going to happen to the gold when it is found? Who , if profits are made, will these profits go to? These kinds of things are really interesting to me

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karma police

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Originally posted by jpow

Is there really filled with gold and gems?

No one really knows, could be everything or nothing, from just documents, through looted art to

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The train was rumoured to have been carrying gold from what is now the Polish city of Wroclaw as the Soviet army closed in at the end of World War Two.

Local folklore said it went missing near Ksiaz castle, 3km (two miles) from Walbrzych.

In a statement earlier this week, Mr Zuchowski warned the public to stop searching for the train until official procedures to secure the find were completed.

He said there could be "hazardous substances" and there was a "huge probability that the train is booby-trapped".

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34090165

Skywalker

I hope it is discovered and for it to go safely and smoothly (regarding the bombs).

Caesar

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Originally posted by Amoeba

Watch how it'll be donated to Israel which is already caking off of its apartheid-like system anyway

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karma police

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Originally posted by Meowster

I hope it is discovered and for it to go safely and smoothly (regarding the bombs).

the entrance to the tunnel where this train is buried is supposed to be here: https://goo.gl/maps/t55YG
it's also supposed to be trapped with undetectable anti-personnel glass mines Glasmine 43.

I've also found unofficial information that those two finders estimated the worth of this train for about 5 000 000 000 PLN which is equal to 1,326,896,998.29 USD

edit: or 33 tons of gold

Temporal

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Originally posted by karma police

the entrance to the tunnel where this train is buried is supposed to be here: https://goo.gl/maps/t55YG
it's also supposed to be trapped with undetectable anti-personnel glass mines Glasmine 43.

I've also found unofficial information that those two finders estimated the worth of this train for about 5 000 000 000 PLN which is equal to 1,326,896,998.29 USD

Maybe they can donate it to the US to pay off <10% of our debt!

But that's an INSANE amount of money

stevyy

so indiana jones really made it.

vamp

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Originally posted by Amoeba

Watch how it'll be donated to Israel which is already caking off of its apartheid-like system anyway

That's not going to happen, but the gold was made from blood so I think they should just let it be.

karma police

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Originally posted by Zoraluv

I don't what to say or think really. Whats going to happen to the gold when it is found? Who , if profits are made, will these profits go to? These kinds of things are really interesting to me

from what I've found, according to the polish law, if there's no proof of ownership everything will belong to the Polish state (finders can get up to 10% of the worth)

allegedly these are the most possible localisations of the tunnel (red lines):

there are reports that area is already surrounded by army

More info on Monday.

also:
I am going to be massively disappointed if the Nazi Gold Train isn't a new character in Thomas the Tank Engine