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To: SunkenCiv
Hiding a tunnel isn't so far fetched. This is in formerly German Silesia, which was given to Poland in compensation for the eastern lands Uncle Joe Stalin stole from the Poles at the end of WWII.

Silesia was beyond the range of our bombers for much of the war and the Germans located a lot of factories there, some in tunnels.

As the Russians advanced on Silesia Hitler declared the capital, Breslau, a "fortress" city, meaning the Germans would allow it to be surrounded and would fight it out to the end to slow the Russian advance. Hitler was a military genius, doncha know.

Anyhow, needless to say there were large scale and paniced evacuations in advance of the Russians. So, someone might have concealed a tunnel. But a gold train? The Nazis always got their loot out first. Hard to believe they would have left much behind. Our guys found several trains full of loot and they had been taken as far from the Russian front as the Germans could get.

13 posted on 12/16/2015 4:01:16 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

Playing “hide the tunnel” was commonplace in occupied countries... ;’)


14 posted on 12/16/2015 5:29:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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