As the old saying goes: "The three armies have not moved, and the grain and grass have gone first." It means that no matter what you do, you must make relevant preparations in advance, for war, you must be prepared, it must be grain and grass, no matter how strong soldiers, without grain and grass, you will definitely not be able to win the battle. And with the progress of the war, the cost of all aspects is very huge, money, become the basic guarantee to support the battle, it is no exaggeration to say that after the war, money is spent like flowing water.
On September 1, 1939, Germany suddenly concentrated a large number of troops, carried out a lightning raid on Poland, the Polish army was defeated and retreated, and soon fell into the hands of the German army, Britain and France saw the situation, declared war on Germany, on this, the Second World War broke out in full swing, in the next few years, 61 countries and regions around the world, more than 2 billion people were forced into the war, countless people died, and World War II became the largest world-class war in human history.
As the initiator of World War II, Germany was bound to win victory, and Hitler knew very well that in order to move toward victory, money must keep up, so Hitler ordered the formation of a "special force" early on, and their only duty was to rob everywhere, and wherever the team hit, they would grab it, and the hard currency of gold and jewelry was their main target.
After the war, the United States published a set of data, that is, during the war, the Nazis plundered a total of 20,926 cultural relics from Western European countries, a total of 4,166 boxes, boxes stuffed with 136 train cars, of which 10,890 were celebrity calligraphy paintings alone, and any one of them was worth a lot.
And these, just the tip of the iceberg looted by Nazi Germany, there are hundreds of tons of gold piled up, has not yet been discovered, according to the data, Nazi Germany excavated a total of 8 treasure sites, the most famous of which are: wolf's den (also known as Hitler's vault), Mercks treasure and Rommel treasure, the latter 2 of the reason for the discovery, or the hidden treasure of the relevant personnel surrendered, took the initiative to confess.
Let's start with this mercks treasure that shocked the world. In 1945, when World War II was coming to an end, Nazi Germany knew that it was bound to lose, so it immediately decided to transfer the treasure that had been looted for many years, and in the future it would be a good "comeback", but the US army had already targeted them, just when the Nazis were busy hiding treasures, Patton came with people and successfully found the treasure point.
However, even the well-informed Patton was stunned after entering the treasure cave - only to see that in the 23-meter-wide and 45-meter-long vault in front of him, there was a mountain of gold, shining in the light, and the jewelry, which was almost piled up to the top of the cave, and there were countless unopened treasure chests (more than 7,000), presumably all gold and silver treasures inside.
According to incomplete statistics, there are 250 tons of gold and 110 boxes of diamond jewelry in the treasure cave, including a magnificent Hungarian crown, hundreds of boxes of antique calligraphy and paintings, the most impressive of which are several boxes of gold rings and gold teeth, it is not difficult to imagine that these are all peeled off from innocent people.
According to conservative estimates, the value of the Mercks treasure was between 350 billion francs, and later the treasure was handed over to the Allied War Reparations Commission, then to the Gold Return Committee of the United States, Britain and France, and finally to the banks of the victim countries, but the specific amount of treasure given is not stated.
The excavation of mercks's treasure has undoubtedly stimulated people all over the world, and countless people want to find several other treasure points, but unfortunately, they are extremely secretive, and it is said that the "wolf's den" (Hitler's treasure house) with the most treasures is built more than 50 meters underground, covering an area of thousands of square meters, and it is unimaginable how much treasure such a large treasure house can hold.
However, to this day, no one has yet discovered the "wolf's den", but tens of thousands of treasure hunters around the world will not give up, and perhaps one day in the future, it will reappear and shock the world.