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Ww2 Treasure Map Released to Public
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/01/ww2-treasure-map-released-to-public/145747 ^
Posted on 01/06/2023 6:09:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A Ww2 Treasure Map Has Been Released by the National Archives, Part of the Annual Open Access Day in the Netherlands for 2023.
The Open Access Day is an unveiling of former classified or confidential documents.
This year, 1300 pages of archived documents have been made public, including minutes from meetings by senior ministers, WW2 files from the Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of War, personnel files of spies and the resistance movement, and documents investigating abuses in the internment camps where collaborators were imprisoned after the war to await trial.
Among the released documents is a map from the archives of the Netherlands Management Institute, which is said to indicate the location of a treasure stash looted from the Arnhem bank vault by German soldiers in 1944.
According to contemporary accounts by a German parachutist who served in Velp near Arnhem, the treasure contains jewellery, watches, and gems, buried in four zinc ammunition boxes in a field near Ommeren, Lienden and Meertenwei.
The map is a crude drawing of the region, marking a route in red from the village of Elst on the northern banks of the Nederrijn (the Rhine), heading south to the village of Ingen.
The route then heads further south to the village of Ommeren and a road junction, adjacent to what could be interpreted as two fields where an "X" marks the spot.
Since the map was made public on Tuesday 3rd January, Ommeren has been enveloped by metal detectorists in search of the treasure, where Dutch laws states that a treasure belongs to the finder and the landowner in equal shares.
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: arnhembank; godsgravesglyphs; kellysheroes; lienden; meertenwei; netherlands; ommeren; treasure; velp; worldwareleven; wwii
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posted on
01/06/2023 6:09:13 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
01/06/2023 6:14:03 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv; dfwgator
And “X” never, ever marks the spot.
Oops, it does.
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posted on
01/06/2023 6:36:14 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/06/2023 6:37:51 PM PST
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: SaveFerris
When I’m treasure hunting, I just look for the signpost with “Dig Here” written on it. How could it miss?
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posted on
01/06/2023 6:39:22 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
on the northern banks of the NederrijnDon't try to get to the north bank of the Nederrijn. The Brits tried, and found it was a bridge too far.
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posted on
01/06/2023 6:39:28 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: All
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posted on
01/06/2023 6:42:30 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(The party never stops until someone calls the cops.)
To: PAR35
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posted on
01/06/2023 6:45:22 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Zinc isn’t going to hold up after 70 years, so keep checking those pings...
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posted on
01/06/2023 6:48:29 PM PST
by
Does so
(It's not OUR guns...It's YOUR sons!)
To: PAR35
Don’t believe the story. I checked the map. It’s SOUTH of the Niederrijn.
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posted on
01/06/2023 6:56:12 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: Does so
I’d be surprised if the loot wasn’t dug up in 1945 or ‘46.
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posted on
01/06/2023 6:56:36 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SaveFerris
W?
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posted on
01/06/2023 6:59:51 PM PST
by
Rio
To: gundog
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posted on
01/06/2023 7:00:18 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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posted on
01/06/2023 7:05:49 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Rio
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posted on
01/06/2023 7:11:17 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
There’s gold in them thar hills.
To: SaveFerris
The smart money is selling maps, picks, shovels, metal detectors, water, and food.
To: AndyJackson
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posted on
01/06/2023 9:06:37 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SunkenCiv
Back in the days when penmanship and drafting skills mattered!
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posted on
01/06/2023 9:29:14 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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