Nazi gold train 'found in Poland'

[Ian Sayer]

There's nothing like a good mystery story especially when it involves buried trasure!!!

[stello]

link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05 ... -for-trea/

[Xavier]

any updates..?

[wm]

They say they are ready to start digging in two/three weeks' time, the planning has been completed and approved.
The places where the excavations will be made:

It has to be said - it's not readily apparent, the embankment or whatever it is, is enormous. Similarly the railway cutting is very deep. One false move and they will obliterate a very busy railway line with hundreds tons of dirt.

[OpanaPointer]

It's 2-3 weeks later.

[wm]

Those impatient folks from the land of Big Digs and F-35s

The most recent news is the actual digging will start on 16.08.2016 (using Post-Soviet states/German time notation).
It will take five to fourteen days to finish.

[wm]

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to H-Hour.

[wm]

It's

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to H-hour, but site preparation work has begun today. Piotr Koper seems to be very confident of success.

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[uloveme]

So help me, if this contains the Amber Room I'm going to crap my pants because I've wondered so much where it might be, and I stated confidently that it was pieced up and is in a thousand pieces all over the world today.

[wm]

A first-time published GPR scan showing the rear end of the train:

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[wm]

Gold train with Christel Focken:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFk1RlKD2po

[Christian Ankerstjerne]

So help me, if this contains the Amber Room I'm going to crap my pants because I've wondered so much where it might be, and I stated confidently that it was pieced up and is in a thousand pieces all over the world today.

The chance of it being scattered around the world is quite slim; some of those pieces would undoubtedly have been known at this point. It's bound to either have been completely destroyed (amber burns well), or be covered by a lot of dirt or a lot of water.

[uloveme]

So help me, if this contains the Amber Room I'm going to crap my pants because I've wondered so much where it might be, and I stated confidently that it was pieced up and is in a thousand pieces all over the world today.

The chance of it being scattered around the world is quite slim; some of those pieces would undoubtedly have been known at this point. It's bound to either have been completely destroyed (amber burns well), or be covered by a lot of dirt or a lot of water.

I have to agree with you on all of that, I think it's an amazing artifact and I only wish we had more pictures of it because there is only a few (maybe even only one) that I know of. I think everyone (except us of course) forgets that the NAZI's in general stripped so much from Europe's great works that it is STILL a great and achievable goal to search and find them to this very day. The art is often shown to be the most stolen but there is so much more that was stolen and can possibly be recovered. Sitting in attics, behind fake walls in old houses, especially in underground caverns (that is dangerous to explore due to possible explosives still being there, which my friend was warned about when he went splunking in Europe lol). But the Amber Room is a great artifact and I just want closure on it, but you are probably right it was burnt or melted or just lost in time forever. Like the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of jewelry, gold bullion, art, and objects that would be worth money just because they are from NAZI Germany. They are out there somewhere, but probably not where we think they are. Things will be recovered slowly, but nonetheless recovered, I just wanna find an intact FG-42 to smuggle over here lol only in my dreams...

[Larry D.]

How could it be that the relatively large "collection" commonly referred to as the Amber Room is missing without a trace? In the closing days of the war and for years after the war, the Allies (including the USSR) and other countries assigned thousands and thousands of military and civilian investigators loose on recovering the lost treasures of the war, much of which was scooped up the Nazi Party and the Wehrmacht. There are almost countless boxes of these investigation reports sitting in Archives around the world, including in the U.N. Archives in New York City. We are left to believe, it seems, that no one knows anything about what happened to this collection. That no one who ever handled it was ever tracked down and interrogated. That the Soviets never found any Russian civilian laborers that might have been used to help crate and load the collection aboard trucks and/or trains. That no railway workers, assuming rail was the means of transportation, were ever found who knew anything about it. That here in the year 2016 the conventional wisdom is that it all just disappeared into thin air. Something about all this stinks and the smell is coming from Russia. This is just exactly the sort of thing that the Russians are (or were) famous for - recovered the goods in secrecy and never saying a word about it, even 71 years later.

L.

[Christian Ankerstjerne]

This is just exactly the sort of thing that the Russians are (or were) famous for - recovered the goods in secrecy and never saying a word about it, even 71 years later.

To what end?