Poland looking into report of Nazi treasure train find
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Two people in Poland say they have found a Nazi train which was cloaked in mystery since it was rumoured to have gone missing near the end of World War Two while transporting gems and guns ahead of advancing Soviet Red Army forces.
Authorities in Poland’s south-western district of Walbrzych said they had been contacted by a law firm representing a Pole and a German who said they had located the train and were seeking 10% of the value of the findings.
“Lawyers, the army, the police and the fire brigade are dealing with this,” Marika Tokarska, an official at the Walbrzych district council, told Reuters.
“The area has never been excavated before and we don’t know what we might find.” Local news reports said the train in question went missing in 1945, packed with loot from the-then eastern German city of Breslau, now called Wroclaw and part of Poland, as the Red Army closed in at the end of World War Two.
One local media report said the train was armoured and belonged to the Wehrmacht (Nazi Germany’s military).
Radio Wroclaw cited local folklore as saying the train entered a tunnel near Ksiaz Castle in the mountainous Lower Silesian region and never emerged. According to that theory, the tunnel was later closed and its location long forgotten.
According to Radio Wroclaw, the 150m-long train was carrying guns, “industrial equipment”, gems and other valuable treasure. Tokarska said she did not have any details on the location or the contents of the missing train. Some sceptics say there is no evidence that it ever existed.
“A handful of people have already looked for the train, damaging the line in the process, but nothing was ever found. But the legend has captured imaginations,” said Radio Wroclaw quoted Joanna Lamparska as saying, describing her as a connoisseur of the region’s history
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