Thanks dware. I'm going to ping this, even though it's a little off track.
Posted on 08/19/2015 12:38:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Two people in Poland say they have found a Nazi German train cloaked in mystery since it was rumoured to have gone missing near the end of World War Two while carrying away gems and guns ahead of advancing Soviet Red Army forces.
Local authorities in Poland’s southwestern district of Walbrzych said they had been contacted by a law firm representing a Pole and a German who said they had located the train and were seeking 10 percent of the value of the findings.
“Lawyers, the army, the police and the fire brigade are dealing with this,” Marika Tokarska, an official at the Walbrzych district council, told Reuters. “The area has never been excavated before and we don’t know what we might find.”(continued)
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The spoils of war...good luck sorting that mess out. The original victims families will be the last to see anything left, after the government vultures are done feeding.
10% why should the governments take anything in the first place?
Hope they share pics soon!
It is really likely the stolen goods of millions of war victims, so I don’t see these guys getting one penny before all of the people it belonged to gets their clams dealt with.
In fact they may actually get a face full of the business end of machine guns from the Polish government if they don’t turn over the location.
Yeah - because hiding a treasure train is easy to do for 70 years...
It’s being held in Nigeria. They want the ten percent as good faith money and to pay for getting the train through customs. It’s perfectly legit. Just ask them.
Shoot, shovel and shut up.
90% of the value is better than 100% of nothing if these guys didn't find it.
You would be surprised. Having spent a lot of time between Germany and Poland you can go for a hike in the woods and still run in to some collapsed old bunker that still have old military gear that no one has known about for ages. Heck, there was even a major crisis in Berlin a few years back when an unexploded bomb was found in the basement of a brothel and they had to shut down the red light district. Talk about Mayhem.....
Except that a train would be on rails. Hard to hide for 70 years.
“In fact they may actually get a face full of the business end of machine guns from the Polish government if they don’t turn over the location.”
Sounds very,,, 1943. You’d think the Poles would see that such behavior isn’t cool.
“The same sort of laws apply in the United States as well. If you find buried treasure on your land, you do not own all of it.”
You most certainly do. You do not usually own stolen property. But if someone hid their own treasure there, you do indeed own it.
They really don’t play around when it comes to Nazi loot. It isn’t seen as the same as some archeological find. It’s seen as stolen property by war criminals whose owners are in many cases still alive, and anyone seen as trying to scalp even a tiny bit off as payment for it’s return might not get a welcome reception.
Much of the loot has owners other than governments - descendants of the people from whom it was stolen in the first place, insurance companies that paid out on losses, etc. That is why they’d ask for their 10%. Take their cut, run like heck and let everyone else fight it out in court.
I want to know where and how the train was hidden that it was not found for almost 70 years!
My question too. I have always wondered about how much treasure is out there, from pirates like Captain Kidd to the Nazis, hell the knights Templar treasure could be out there too and lets not forgot about all the ships carrying gold from the new world.
I think it is in my uncle’s basement.
Thanks dware. I'm going to ping this, even though it's a little off track.
“hell the knights Templar treasure could be out there too”
The Gates family with the assistance of Mr. Riley Poole found that about 10 years ago.
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