Search for Nazi gold resumes in Poland
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TREASURE hunters yesterday relaunched their search for a lost Nazi gold train that is supposedly loaded with loot and buried in southwestern Poland, despite there being no scientific evidence it exists.
“The train isn’t a needle in a haystack. If it’s there, we’ll find it,” project spokesman Andrzej Gaik said.
The story sparked a global media frenzy last August when two men claimed to have discovered an armored Nazi-era train using ground-penetrating radar near the city of Walbrzych.
At the time, Piotr Koper, a Pole, and German national Andreas Richter said they had discovered several train carriages measuring a total of 98 meters buried some 8 to 9 meters underground.
They said they believed the contents were mostly weapon prototypes, though local legend spoke of artwork, jewels and gold stolen by the Nazis.
The Nazis made prisoners of war dig a network of tunnels in the area, and some locals have claimed the Germans tried to spirit the gold away as Russia’s Red Army closed in.
But so far there has been little to back up the claims, with geologists from Krakow’s prestigious AGH University of Science and Technology finding no evidence for the train’s existence during tests run in December.
Professor Janusz Madej said at the time he was “100 percent sure there is no train ... maybe a tunnel” based on magnetic, gravimetric and geo-radar studies.
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