Didn't see a thread on this, so...
Here's an interesting article from the Vancouver Sun (but perhaps better sourced in the Telegraph) about the possibly imminent vindication of an old WWII legend in Poland - a buried Nazi train filled with stolen gold.
What makes it most interesting is that the find has only been partly verified - what appears to be a train discovered in an underground chamber - and the gold has yet to be confirmed.
Anyway, some interesting Sunday morning reading for those interested in this kind of stuff. I spent a few days in Wroclaw - a beautiful little college town nearby - so have some extra affinity for this news, but hopefully others find it interesting too.
Link to article
Quote:
The waterlogged tunnel threading its way beneath the hills of Lower Silesia amounts to a relic of one of Hitler’s most grandiose and futile projects.
This subterranean passage, reached through a pair of black gates, was hacked out of the ground by prisoners and slave labourers.
Their task was to build bunkers and factories under the pine forests of what is today southern Poland, constructing a hiding place where a collapsing Third Reich might secrete its war industries – and its treasures.
A tunnel similar to this one may conceal a train laden with looted gold. Last week, the Polish government said that a man who helped bury the train had disclosed its location shortly before his death. The authorities took a ground-penetrating radar to this spot and, sure enough, a train was detected deep beneath the soil.
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