During World War II, Nazi Germany plundered a large amount of wealth on the battlefields of Europe, and at the end of the war, seeing no hope of overturning, in order to wait for an opportunity to make a comeback, the Germans hid their huge wealth like hamsters. After the war, the Nazis were completely liquidated, and the wealth they left behind became the object of the attention of various countries and many treasure hunters.
According to the statistics of relevant agencies, during the entire war, the German army plundered more than 6,000 tons of gold throughout Europe. You know, the gold reserves of the United States are now 8,000 tons. And this is only gold, not including those precious treasures and historical relics. Because this wealth is so huge, even the superpowers have to join the ranks of "digging treasure". In those days, a treasure hunt set off by Nazi legacies swept the world.
Unlike other treasure rumors, the "Nazi treasure" was actually placed there for others to dig. The discovery of the Americans further confirms its authenticity.
In the European theater of 1945, American troops entering Germany learned a secret story among the local population in Thuringia: in a village called "Mox", the German army hid a huge amount of wealth in a salt cave. When the U.S. army rushed to the target site to dig, it found hundreds of sacks, all filled with banknotes, and when they broke a heavy iron gate, they were greeted by a total of 8,000 yellow gold bricks, 50 boxes filled with gold bars, 1,000 woven bags containing gold coins, and various diamonds, jewelry, famous paintings, royal heritage, and so on. In later handling, the treasure filled dozens of trucks.
After Germany's formal surrender, rumors of various treasures were so widespread that even as far north and south as the Arctic and Antarctic Continents became treasure sites. Later, the US military did indeed find the "treasure under the mountain" in the Philippines, although these treasures were confirmed to be the result of the Japanese army plundering in Southeast Asia, but this did not affect people's enthusiasm for treasure hunting, but there was a growing trend.
Of all the "undiscovered" treasures, the most anticipated was the looting of the Nazis on the battlefields of Europe. The riches of the European continent and the official confirmation convinced people that there must be a huge amount of wealth hidden under the continent. The legend of the "Golden Train" is the hottest of many rumors.
Legend has it that when the Third Reich collapsed, the Nazi high command decided to secretly transfer the remaining assets, so they loaded some of the 1,000 tons of gold they had looted from the bank vaults and royal treasury on a train and drove all the way southwest. There are also rumors that the gold was sent to the southeastern state of Bavaria. The first to confirm the existence of the "Golden Train" was an old man who claimed to have participated in the hidden train operation, and he handed over a "treasure map" before his death. With more and more statements and eyewitness records, it seems that it is a matter of time before the golden train is discovered.
The Soviets were also anxious, so they interrogated the German prisoners one by one, but no one could provide any useful evidence. In desperation, the Soviets launched an almost carpet search of the Battlefield in Eastern Europe, especially in Poland, which was most rumored to point to, but in the end found nothing.
It wasn't until the end of the Cold War that a complaint confirmed the nazi legacy. In 1990, an investigative body claimed that Nazi gold was not buried somewhere, it was in the vaults of Swiss banks. During World War II, Nazi Germany and Switzerland had ambiguous relations, and the two sides secretly cooperated to exchange large amounts of plundered gold into foreign currency to buy war resources. More than 40 anonymous accounts at Swiss banks were allegedly used to preserve Nazi assets, but the true identities of the heads of the households were kept strictly confidential by Swiss banks. A few years later, Holocaust survivors joined forces with the United States to file a claims lawsuit against Swiss banks, and UBS ended up awarding $1.2 billion in compensation, but refused to make the accounts public. This practice is also tantamount to a disguised recognition of the fact that the "Nazi legacy" exists in Swiss banks.
Although the "truth has come out", the rumors about the "golden train" are still continuing, and some undead treasure hunters are still tirelessly digging three feet into the land of Europe in the hope of becoming rich overnight.
Surprisingly, in 2015, Poland's deputy minister of culture publicly confirmed the existence of the "Golden Train", claiming to have seen the mysterious train hidden underground in the map of the penetrating radar. In August of the following year, the excavation of the golden train was officially launched, but the matter was eventually lost.