Polish Geology Experts: No Hidden Nazi Train

The claim that the train was at the site gained traction when a Polish culture ministry official said he had seen a ground-penetrating radar image of the alleged train, on which he could make out platforms and cannons.

Andreas Richter, another explorer and Koper, told authorities that were Walbrzych before this year they had found an armored Nazi train concealed in a secret tunnel by railway tracks in the city. Historians vary in opinion whether they were intended as shelters or secret weapons factory.

The head of the team, Janusz Madej, said that “according to our examination, there might be a tunnel there but there is no train there”. Madej spoke at a news source conference in Walbrzych. “The readings [by the scientists] are different because the methodological approach was not the same as ours”.

The exploration was carried out for the city hall of Wałbrzych who has not decided what to do about the research results.

But in a blow to those searching for the train, it now seems that, while there is a secret tunnel, it contains no such vehicle.

But researchers have weighed in saying there is no evidence that a Nazi train was there.

Hitler’s command centre, known as Riese, did exist in the Owl Mountains, though it is not clear that it was ever used.

“We discovered a tunnel”. Thousands of prisoners of war died in the excavation work to create the tunnel network. The area was in Germany at the time but became part of Poland when borders were redrawn after the war.

People in the town say that in the communist era, amateur treasure hunting was banned.

Information about the train’s location was reported to have come in a deathbed confession from a person who claimed they had helped to hide it.

The men claim they are not interested in the cargo aboard the train.

Through lawyers, they said that they wanted 10% of the value of anything that was found.