A Buried Train Full of Nazi Gold

According to the deathbed confession of a Nazi soldier, there is a buried train full of Nazi gold somewhere in the mountains of south-west Poland. Two men decided to find it.

On the morning of April 6th 1945, two American soldiers were patrolling a road outside Merkers, central Germany, having recently helped their comrades take the town. They met two women, one of whom was pregnant and looking for a doctor. They took them to Pfc. Richard C. Mootz, who could speak German. As Mootz escorted them into town, they passed the entrance to the town salt mine, which the women told him the German army had used to store valuables.

Upon further examination, the mine turned out to contain exactly 3,682 bags of German currency, 80 of foreign currency, 8,307 gold bars, 55 boxes of gold bullion, 3,326 bags of gold coins, 63 bags of silver, one bag of platinum bars, eight bags of gold rings and 207 containers of other looted items, including valuable artworks.

The Allies had known for a while that the Nazis had looted currency and assets from all over Europe. Much of it…