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Scottish Sun
01-08-2025
- General
- Scottish Sun
Breakthrough in hunt for Hitler's gold with dig to begin for legendary £250m ‘Amber Room' treasure stolen by Nazis
The man leading the hunt has spent the last decade searching for the legendary train GOLD RUSH Breakthrough in hunt for Hitler's gold with dig to begin for legendary £250m 'Amber Room' treasure stolen by Nazis Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) 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. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 4 Legend has it that the train holds up to £20bn worth of Nazi treasure, including the contents of the Amber Room (pictured in 1917) 4 Poland's deputy culture minister said in 2015 that he was 99 percent sure of the existence of the fabled Nazi train 4 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. read more world news GOLD TRAIN Nazi gold train hunters uncover letter 'revealing location of Hitler's treasure' '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. Mystery of Nazi shipwreck that may hold £100million of Hitler's GOLD & the legendary 'Amber Room' treasure 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'. 4 The hunt for the Nazi gold train has lasted decades Credit: Getty Images - Getty 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.'
Scottish Sun
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
‘Kim Kardashian 12' to face justice over ‘heist of the century' after megastar robbed at gunpoint over $10m jewellery
It comes nearly a decade after the biggest robbery of an individual in France for more than 20 years GOLD RUSH 'Kim Kardashian 12' to face justice over 'heist of the century' after megastar robbed at gunpoint over $10m jewellery THE trial for the 'heist of the century' starts today with Kim Kardashian set to come face to face with the 'Grandpa robbers' who held her at gunpoint in Paris. Nine years after the reality star had $10million (£7.5m) worth of jewellery stolen - including her $4million (£3m) engagement ring - the men behind the raid are finally being brought to justice. 12 Brave Kim Kardashian will face her attackers nine years on since a 2016 jewellery raid in Paris 12 The terrifying ordeal saw Kim bound and gagged in by an armed robbery gang Credit: E! Entertainment 12 Kardashians viewers saw Kim emotionally recount the incident Credit: refer to caption. 12 The armed robbers escaped with expensive jewellery, targeting her $4million [£3m] engagement ring Credit: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Kim was left pleading for her life during the 2016 robbery after they bound her hands and feet, taped over her mouth - known as sausaging someone in French. They then carried her to the bathtub wearing only her dressing gown. She will give evidence in person at the trial and previously said of the raid: 'I thought they were terrorists who had come to kidnap me, I thought I was going to die.' The terrifying ordeal led to the Kardashian family changing how much they share of their lavish lifestyles on social media. The elderly gang - now in their 60s and 70s - had been inspired by Kim's flashy posts online showing off her bling and had been allegedly tipped off by a chauffeur that she was alone in her secluded hotel room in the 8th arrondissement during Fashion Week. It was supposed to be one final job for the veteran robbers who each had a string of convictions. They claimed to not know who the social media influencer was but instead demanded the concierge take them to 'the rapper's wife'. One defendant said he only realised the scale of her celebrity when his wife was watching the news about the raid on TV the next morning. Having pointed a gun at Kim while forcing her to hand over the jewels they made a clumsy escape on foot and by bike, leaving behind a £30,000 diamond necklace in the street, cable ties covered in DNA, and their fingerprints all over the apartment. Brave Kim Kardashian to face Paris attackers and reveal the true horror of jewel heist While they argued about how to split to loot and sell it onto Belgian diamond experts on the terrace of a bistro, top French cops had enlisted the help of the FBI to track them down and had already bugged their phones. None of the jewels have ever been recovered with many believed to have been melted down and sold in Antwerp. Her diamond engagement ring from her marriage to Kanye West was believed to be too distinctive to fleece. Police believe that Kim's chauffeur's brother was in on the heist but the burglars argue that everything they needed to carry out the raid was posted online publicly. Their trial has been delayed by Covid and by a backlog of high profile cases in the French justice system. 12 Kim Kardashian pictured with her engagement ring on Instagram Credit: Refer to Caption 12 Chilling images showed inside Kim's Paris hotel after robbery 12 Kim was gagged by the assailants, who feared she was screaming too loudly 12 She said that her mouth and legs were taped up In total 10 people will be tried, five for armed robbery and kidnap charges and the rest for complicity in the heist or possession of a weapon. One woman is among those charged. One member Yunice Abbas, 71, is expected to apologise to Kardashian in court having already penned a memoir titled 'I kidnapped Kim Kardashian'. He fled on his bike, spilling the loot on the floor as he fell over in the rush. What happened to Kim Kardashian? by Harvey Geh Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in Paris, 2016, marking the biggest robbery of an individual in France for more than 20 years. At the time the reality icon was in the French capital for Paris Fashion Week with her former husband Kanye West - before the rapper returned to the US to pick up his Saint Pablo tour. Now left in Paris along with her sister Kourtney and various other entourage members, Kardashian stayed in an exclusive set of apartments so secret they are dubbed the No Address Hotel. The penthouse suite Kardashian was staying in at the chic Hotel de Pourtalès - which is popular with celebrity A-listers - costs an eye-watering £13,000 per night. On the evening of October 3, after the star had attended a fashion show with her sister, Kardashian decided to stay in the apartment alone while the rest of her crew - including bodyguard Pascal Duvier - went out for the night. At around 2:30am, three armed men donning ski masks and dressed as police burst into the apartment block and threatened the concierge at gunpoint. Two of them are alleged to have forced the concierge to take them to the reality icon's suite - with the worker later telling police that they yelled: "Where's the rapper's wife?" Kardashian said she was "dozing" on her bed at the time, after uploading social media posts telling viewers that she was home alone, which she believes gave the robbers a "window of opportunity". The star said the robbers grabbed her, tied her up with plastic cables and taped her mouth and legs before dropping her in the bathtub. Before locking her in the bathroom they had held her at gunpoint and demanded specifically for her ring and also money. Cops said the robbers left the room after seizing the jewels and escaped on bikes - while carrying a haul estimated to be worth about $10million including a $4million 18.88-carat diamond engagement ring from West. Kardashian said she then managed to free herself from the restraints and rushed to help. Marceau Baum-Gertner - nicknamed Rough Diamond - died aged 72 just days before the trial was due to start. Aomar Ait Khedache - known as Old Omar - has written a letter to Kim from jail apologising for the trauma he caused. Most of the ageing defendants are now on bail but are expected to receive lengthy jail sentences if found guilty. The trial, in front of three judges and six jurors, will start at the Palais de Justice in Paris on Monday afternoon (1.30pm UK time). 12 Gang member Yunice Abbas, 72, has confessed to his role and even written a book about the incident Credit: EPA 12 Marceau Baum-Gertner, a key suspect in Kardashian's robbery, died suddenly on March 6 Credit: France 2 12 Kim was robbed at gunpoint by assailants while staying at a luxury hotel in Paris Credit: AFP or licensors
