Major breakthrough in search for Hitler's gold train! Signs of treasure worth billions of dollars found in..., excavation...
Archaeologists in Poland made a significant advancement in investigating a new archaeological find. It may even lead to the discovery of the famous Nazi train rumored to be carrying treasure worth £250 million. Excavation work has commenced in Poland at Dziemiany, where researchers think a late World War II bunker could have been located. Underneath it could hide a unique train and treasure. Marcin Tymiński, conservator of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, has stated that there may be an undiscovered German depot at the location.
The quest for Adolf Hitler's legendary gold-filled train has been going on for quite a while. Since 1945, governments, the Polish army, and treasure seekers have been combing the area in hopes of catching a glimpse of the train, and now they believe it is in northern Poland. According to Wirtualna Polska, Polish authorities have officially granted permission for a new search.
According to The U.S. Sun report, Gdańsk's Office for the Protection of Monuments has reportedly issued permits for exploratory drilling and archaeological examinations in Dziemiany, which is located in the Kościerzyna area of northern Poland. The investigation intends to locate a suspected World War II bunker that could be concealing the long-rumored Nazi train and its treasure. Marcin Tymiński, a spokesman for the Pomeranian Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments, stated a concealed German depot could be located in Dziemiany. 'Some speculate it could even be the lost Amber Room,' he was quoted as saying by The Sun. Who is leading the current search operation?
According to Jan Delingowski, a leader in the hunt for treasure stated that a military training ground was set up in Dziemiany for SS units in late 1943 by the Nazis. Delingowski, who used to work as a radio officer for a merchant fleet, has been searching for the mythical train in the Kashubia area for the last decade. Who was Erich Koch?
In an interview on the YouTube channel History Hiking on Sunday, he showed historical references linking the suspected treasure site to Nazi official Erich Koch, according to RMF24. Koch had been the Nazi Gauleiter in East Prussia from 1928-1945. After World War II, Koch was tried in Poland and was sentenced in 1959 for war crimes. Koch received the death sentence; however, his death sentence was never executed, officially because of ill health.
Lately, declassified materials from Poland's Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), reported by Rzeczpospolita, show that the reason the sentence was not executed was that the Polish Security Service and Soviet KGB thought he might reveal the hiding place of the Nazi gold train. A prisoner who met Koch in the 1980s claimed the Nazi official disclosed the site of the treasure shortly before he died.
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