Nazi Gold train found?

[Gabe]

Pics or it didn't happen. Although dig the polish law that if they have found it they keep 10% of the loot.

 

[The Franconian]

The polish professor, who searched with a magnetometer, says there is no train, not enough metal. A tunnel maybe, but no train.
The two guys who searched first, using a continuous-wave radar, still think there is one. They want permission to dig.
So, nobody knows really what there might be or not, a tunnel with some whatever in it, maybe.
If train, it does not necassarily mean gold train, that's just a hope
+
the polish military forces where there to search the ground above, for old bombs or so,
not for explosive traps inside

 

[Oort]

Bore a small hole, bung a gopro on a rope down it, jobs a good 'un

 

[Dempsey]

Has this story been updated?? xoxo

 

[Kirkymole]

Nah, it was only the strategic reserve

 

[Kirkymole]

But here's the Express's latest 'news' http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/656109/nazi-gold-train-digging-behin-this-month-Walbryzch

 

[Dragon's Lair]

Looks like they have found a train!
"The train is said to be around 500 feet long, is armored, has gun platforms, and contains precious metals."
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/nazi-treasure-train-update.html?src=fba&type=wca&page=who

 

[Oxygen Thief]

Yeah right.

 

[Dan1701]

Yeah right.

This story presupposes firstly that there ever was this amount of gold, then that the gold was collected and put onto a train, and finally that it stayed on the train and that this is the train.

The German Nazi regime was, right from the start, quite incredibly bad at running an economy quite apart from Hitler's staggering ineptitude at pretty much everything he tried. The regime invaded and looted places mostly to try to prop up their own failing economy; much of their gold was sold, often to the Swiss, to give them the currency they needed to keep a dysfunctional wreck of an economy moving. Towards the end of the war the Nazis were essentially utterly skint, and the idea that they had tonnes of gold to move about is laughable. Even more laughable is the idea that this would be moved in the direction that the Red Army would be invading from.

If gold was going to be going anywhere, it would be onto a plane and off to Argentina where a host of assorted war criminals hid for the remainder of their lives; it would not be heading straight into the hands of Joe Stalin and his manky mates.

No, this is likely a bog-standard armoured train, with the bog-standard weaponry aboard. So, some machine guns front and rear, a couple of 88mm anti-aircraft guns, plus some anti-tank ammo (88mms worked great for either task) plus cargo space. Goodness knows what was in the cargo space; men, ammunition, fuel; who knows.

Then you come to the problem of digging all of this out. It is a pretty safe bet that there'll be some explosives in the train, but until you have a look, you don't know how much. The problem with going and having a look is that you might find out how much the fatal way. Then there's the fact that this is probably going to be a war grave; you don't know if people died on the train when it got sealed in, or if there are the graves of slave workers in the tunnel complex. All in all, a difficult problem and one I'd leave well enough alone.

 

[drhowser]

by War History Online - Aug 26, 2015

Or maybe it's the same story as before and not really breaking news..

 

[Dragon's Lair]

Closer inspection of the article, suggests that it could indeed be a rerun of the original story and not the breaking news dated 3rd may 2016 as the header claims. If I find out more, I'll let you know.

 

[The Franconian]

As I will not get any little bit of the gold they eventually find,
I prefer a Tank train (Panzer Zug, gepanzerten Zug), it looks cooler

 

[Dragon's Lair]

Digging has started on the site:
https://www.rt.com/viral/356243-nazi-gold-train-dig/