Nazi ghost train filled with gold ‘found in Poland’

Polish authorities are looking into claims that two people had found a Nazi German train said to have been carrying gems and guns and rumored to have gone missing near the end of WWII.

However, they won’t reveal the location of the train until they are given a guarantee that they will be awarded 10 percent of the value of the treasure inside, she told CNN.

It is believed to have been dispatched by the Nazis from the formerly German city of Breslau (now called Wroclaw and part of Poland) as the Soviet Red Army made its final march toward Berlin. According to that theory, the tunnel was later closed and its location long forgotten.

Authorities are taking the pair’s claim so seriously that the leader of Walbrzych district council has already met with the heads of the local military, police and fire service, as well as the prosecutor’s office, to discuss their next steps, said Tokarska.

Could two treasure hunters have found a legendary Nazi train packed with gold that vanished 70 years ago? The train supposedly entered a tunnel near a cliff-top mediaeval castle, however it never emerged, as the Soviet army approached on May 8, 1945, halting its progress.

Another media report said the train belonged to the German army.

“The area has never been excavated before and we don’t know what we might find”.

But some sceptics say there is no evidence that the train ever even existed. Taduesz Slowikowski, a treasure hunter who has searched for the missing train, said he was sceptical that the discovery would lead to the Nazi loot. Local historian Joanna Lamparska told TVN24 that although the story of the train is a popular topic, “no one has ever been able to confirm the existence of this train”.

“But the legend has captured imaginations”, she added.

The train was intercepted by US soldiers who, according to a subsequent US investigation, helped themselves to some of the loot.