Breakthrough in hunt for Hitler's gold with dig to begin for legendary £250m ‘Amber Room' treasure stolen by Nazis
GOLD RUSH Breakthrough in hunt for Hitler's gold with dig to begin for legendary £250m 'Amber Room' treasure stolen by Nazis
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A BREAKTHROUGH may have been made in the hunt for Hitler's legendary gold train - said to be packed with jewels, gold and the lost £250m Amber Room.
Since 1945, governments, the Polish Army and treasure hunters have scoured the terrain searching for the train - and now they believe its location may be in northern Poland.
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Legend has it that the train holds up to £20bn worth of Nazi treasure, including the contents of the Amber Room (pictured in 1917)
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Poland's deputy culture minister said in 2015 that he was 99 percent sure of the existence of the fabled Nazi train
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Polish authorities have officially granted permission for a new search, according to Wirtualna Polska.
Gdańsk's Office for the Protection of Monuments has reportedly approved drilling and archaeological surveys in Dziemiany - located in the Kościerzyna district of northern Poland.
The search aim to uncover a suspected WWII-era bunker, which could conceal the fabled train and its valuable artefacts.
Marcin Tymiński, spokesperson for the Pomeranian Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments, said there might be a hidden German deposit in Dziemiany.
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'Some speculate it could even be the lost Amber Room,' he added.
The Nazis established a military training ground in Dziemiany for SS units at the end of 1943, according to Jan Delingowski who is leading the treasure hunt.
Delingowski, a former merchant fleet radio officer, has spent the last decade searching for the legendary train in the region of Kashubia.
In an interview on the YouTube channel History Hiking on Sunday, he pointed to historical evidence linking the suspected treasure site to Nazi official Erich Koch, RMF24 reports, RMF24 reports.
Erich Koch was a Gauleiter of the Nazis in East Prussia from 1928 until 1945.
After WWII, Koch was tried in Poland and convicted in 1959 for war crimes - including responsibility for the deaths of around 400,000 Poles.
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Koch was sentenced to death, but the sentence was never carried out - officially due to his poor health.
However, according to declassified files from Poland's Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), cited by Rzeczpospolita, the real reason was that the communist-era Polish Security Service and the Soviet KGB hoped he would reveal the location of the Nazi gold train.
An inmate who met Koch in the 1980s claimed the Nazi official revealed the treasure's hiding place before his death.
Citing the inmate's account, Delingowski says the convoy veered off the road 'somewhere between Czersk and Człuchów, heading toward the Oder'.
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The hunt for the Nazi gold train has lasted decades
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The crates are said to be stashed in a bunker disguised and hidden 'on a hill near a lake, at the site of former SS barracks'.
Previous explorations of the region led to the discovery of a brick tank, Wirtualna Polska reports.
Based on the testimony and Delingowski's decade-long research, authorities have granted permission to investigate the site.
The official decision reads: 'Based on findings from prior heritage surveys, there is reason to believe that a World War II-era slit bunker is located on the plot (...), which may qualify as a historical monument.
"Furthermore, historic material - including archaeological artefacts - may be present inside and around it.'
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