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News Anchor: THERE HAS BEEN A FRENZY OF ACTIVITY IN POLAND

AFTER THE SUPPOSED DISCOVERY OF A NAZI TREASURE TRAIN.

Narrator: THE STORY OF THE NAZI GOLD TRAIN

EXPLODED IN AUGUST 2015

WHEN, IN A REMOTE CORNER OF SOUTHWEST POLAND,

TWO LOCAL TREASURE HUNTERS DECLARED A FIND.

Reporter: TWO MEN SAY THEY KNOW

THE EXACT LOCATION OF THE NAZI GHOST TRAIN,

GIVEN TO THEM...

Narrator: THEY CLAIMED TO HAVE FOUND A HIDDEN TUNNEL

CONTAINING A TRAIN CARRYING A MYSTERIOUS LOAD,

HIDDEN AWAY BY THE NAZIS

IN THE LAST THROES OF WORLD WAR II.

Reporter: ...FILLED WITH TREASURES...

Narrator: IT WAS A MEDIA SENSATION,

MADE EVEN BIGGER WHEN THE POLISH GOVERNMENT

SEEMED TO CONFIRM THE DISCOVERY.

Piotr Zuchowski: PERSONALLY, I AM 99% CERTAIN

THAT THIS TRAIN EXISTS.

Narrator: THE CLAIM IS TANTALIZING

IN A REGION WHERE THE NAZIS WERE KNOWN TO HIDE TREASURES.

[GUNFIRE]

AS THE ALLIES ADVANCED INTO GERMANY

IN THE LAST STAGES OF WORLD WAR II,

THEY WERE MAKING INCREDIBLE DISCOVERIES.

Reporter: AMERICAN ARMY INVESTIGATORS

HAVE DISCOVERED A SECRET TREASURE TROVE

AT CASTLE VELDENSTEIN.

Narrator: LED BY THE FAMOUS "MONUMENTS MEN" TASK FORCE,

THE ALLIES UNCOVERED VAST HOARDSOF LOOTED GOLD AND ART,

STASHED IN MINES, TUNNELS, AND SECLUDED CASTLES.

BUT NOW TWO TREASURE HUNTERS

THINK THEY'VE DISCOVERED ANOTHER NAZI SECRET.

SOME ARE CONVINCED THEY'RE WRONG.

Man: THERE IS NO TRAIN AT K65.

Man: SO WHAT DID I SEE? A MIRAGE?

Narrator: IT'S A STORY THAT TAKES US

TO THE DARK HEART OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

A CASTLE TAKEN OVER BY THE NAZIS

AS A RETREAT FOR ADOLF HITLER,

A VAST SECRET UNDERGROUND CITYOF TUNNELS BUILT BY SLAVE LABOR,

AND THE HUNT FOR A GHOST TRAIN, LADEN WITH GOLD,

DISAPPEARING INTO THIN AIR IN THE LAST MONTHS OF THE WAR.

CRITICS HAVE ATTACKED THE TREASURE HUNTERS,

BUT WE'LL SEE WHY THERE'S STRONG EVIDENCE

THAT NAZI SECRETS LIE BURIED HERE,

AND WHY WE MAY BE ON THE BRINK OF AN ANSWER TO THE MYSTERY.

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THIS IS WALBRZYCH,

A FORMER MINING TOWN IN SOUTHERN POLAND.

A FEW MILES FROM THE CITY CENTERIS A QUIET RAILWAY CUTTING

THAT MAY HOLD THE KEY TO A LEGEND

THAT HAS INTRIGUED LOCALS FOR DECADES.

THIS STONE IS K65,

MARKING 65 KILOMETERS, OR 40 MILES,

FROM THE REGIONAL CAPITAL, WROCLAW.

SHOWN ON THE MAP AS A BOWL-SHAPED HOLLOW,

SOME BELIEVE THAT HERE LIES A HIDDEN TUNNEL

THAT THE NAZIS CONCEALED AT THE END OF THE WAR

AND THAT INSIDE THE TUNNEL IS A TRAIN THAT COULD CONTAIN

A FORTUNE IN NAZI GOLD.

THE TWO MEN AT THE HEART OF THIS SENSATIONAL STORY

ARE PIOTR KOPER, A BUILDER,

AND HIS FRIEND, ANDREAS RICHTER,

A GERMAN LOCAL HISTORIAN.

THEY'RE AMATEUR RESEARCHERS

WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS INVESTIGATING THE LEGEND.

[SPEAKING POLISH]

Piotr Koper: I'VE LIVED HERE IN LOWER SILESIA FOR 14 YEARS

AND BECAME INTERESTED IN THE HISTORY OF THE REGION.

I'VE MET A LOT OF PEOPLE

WHO HAVE TOLD ME ABOUT VARIOUS TREASURES, TUNNELS,

TRAINS, BURIED GOLD.

I ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY WERE FAIRY TALES, A JOKE.

BUT LATER, AS I WENT DEEPER INTO THE STORIES,

IT TURNED OUT THAT A LOT OF THINGS WERE TRUE.

[SPEAKING POLISH]

Andreas Richter: IT'S LIKE A MAGNET.

IT PULLS YOU IN.

Narrator: IN MID-2014, PIOTR AND ANDREAS

FOLLOWED UP A TIP TO CHECK OUT K65.

THEY STARTED SCANNING THE BOWL-SHAPED DIP

WITH GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR TO SEE WHAT LAY BENEATH.

Piotr: OVER AND OVER AGAIN,

WE DID A SURVEY AT THE FRONT AND OVER THE OTHER SIDE.

THE MEASUREMENTS, THE DEPTH, THE IMAGE...

IT ALL FITS TOGETHER.

Narrator: WHAT THEY WERE SEEING UNDER THE GROUND

CONVINCED THEM THAT THERE REALLY WAS

SOMETHING UNUSUAL AT THE SITE.

AT THEIR OFFICE, THEY SHOW WHAT THE GROUND RADAR REVEALS.

Andreas: HERE WE ARE ON THE TOP.

WE'RE GOING DOWN,

AND WE WILL SEE WHAT MIGHT BE BENEATH THE GROUND.

Narrator: AS THE RADAR PENETRATES THE ROCK

AND GOES DEEPER INTO THE EMBANKMENT,

A STRANGE SYMMETRICAL SHAPE SEEMS TO APPEAR.

Andreas: AND NOW YOU CAN SEE, HERE IS A SOLID STRUCTURE.

IN NATURE, YOU NEVER SEE SUCH SOLIDNESS.

IT'S DIFFERENT.

Narrator: AS THE SCAN GOES EVEN DEEPER,

THE TREASURE HUNTERS BELIEVE IT REVEALS A MAN-MADE OBJECT.

Piotr: IT'S LEVEL,

BOTH ON THE LEFT AND RIGHT.

THERE IS ONE LONG, EVEN LINE RUNNING FOR 60 METERS.

IT LOOKS LIKE A CARRIAGE.

LOWER.

LOOK OVER HERE.

LOOK AT THIS HOOK.

IT'S LIKE A COUPLING.

LOOK AT ALL OF THIS.

LOOK AT WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE.

LOOK AT ONE MORE THING.

THIS IS AN AXLE.

IT GOES PRECISELY THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE OBJECT.

WHAT IS IT?

EVERYTHING'S THE SAME BOTH ON THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT SIDE,

LIKE A MIRROR IMAGE,

LIKE IN A CAR.

LEFT INNER WHEEL ARCH AND RIGHT INNER WHEEL ARCH.

Narrator: THEY'RE CONVINCED THEY'VE FOUND A TRAIN.

AND WHILE IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL WHAT'S IN IT,

ANDREAS AND PIOTR HAVE STAKED A LEGAL CLAIM

FOR 10% OF ANYTHING THEY FIND INSIDE.

BUT THERE'S A CATCH.

THE SITE'S NEXT TO THE MAIN LINE,

SO THEY HAVE TO WAIT FOR PERMISSION FROM THE GOVERNMENT

TO START DIGGING.

AND THERE'S MORE EVIDENCE THATTHERE'S A WORLD WAR II STRUCTURE

WHERE THEY WANT TO DIG.

WOJTEK MALINOWSKI GREW UP IN THE AREA

AND HAS FOLLOWED THE STORY FOR YEARS.

[TRAIN HORN BLOWS]

HE'S CONVINCED THERE ARE MANY OTHER CLUES

POINTING TO NAZI ACTIVITY ON THIS SITE,

STARTING WITH THE UNUSUAL

BOWL-SHAPED CONTOURS OF THE GROUND

AND THE AGE OF THE VEGETATION.

[SPEAKING POLISH]

Wojtek Malinowski: THERE'S LOTS OF THINGS HERE.

IT'S AN UNNATURAL SHAPE,

AND THERE ARE NO TREES OVER 70 YEARS OLD.

THESE ARE YOUNG SELF-SEEDED TREES.

OVER THERE ARE THE ORIGINAL TREES.

AND HERE, THESE ARE TREES THAT HAVE GROWN AFTER THAT TIME.

Narrator: AND RIGHT BY THE YOUNG TREES,

THERE'S A STRANGE PIECE OF MASONRY.

Wojtek: THIS IS NOT A NATURAL STONE

THAT ONE WOULD FIND IN THE GROUND.

AND IT'S NOT PART OF A WALL.

IT'S MOST LIKELY THE KEYSTONE OF A TUNNEL ENTRANCE.

Narrator: ABOUT 400 YARDS AWAY

ARE TWO MYSTERIOUS CONCRETE OBJECTS.

SEEMINGLY MADE FROM NAZI-ERA CONCRETE,

THEY ARE BELIEVED TO BE VENTILATION SHAFTS

TO A TUNNEL BELOW.

AND NEARBY ARE OTHER STRANGE PIECES

OF WHAT WOJTEK THINKS ARE NAZI-ERA CONSTRUCTION.

Wojtek: THIS PLACE IS INTERESTING

AS IT SITS ON THE MOUND STRETCHING FROM K65.

THESE ARE OPENINGS FOR DOWNWARD PIPES.

THEY PROBABLY CARRY POWER CABLESBELOW THE GROUND.

THIS IS TYPICAL OF OTHER MYSTERIOUS CONSTRUCTIONS

THAT WERE BUILT AROUND WALBRZYCH.

Narrator: THIS IS WHAT WOJTEK AND THE TREASURE HUNTERS

BELIEVE THEY WILL FIND

UNDER THE STRANGE BOWL-SHAPED DIP ALONGSIDE K65.

THEY SAY THE EMBANKMENT COVERS A TUNNEL,

WHICH DURING THE WAR WAS ACCESSED BY A SIDING,

RUNNING OFF THE MAIN TRACK,

AND THAT AT THE END OF THE WAR,

THE NAZIS DELIBERATELY BLEW UP THE TUNNEL ENTRANCES

AND COVERED THEM WITH RUBBLE AND SOIL.

AND HERE, PEOPLE BELIEVE, LIES THE NAZI GHOST TRAIN.

WHAT MAKES THEORIES

ABOUT THE TUNNEL AT K65 IN WALBRZYCH SO COMPELLING

IS THAT IT LIES AT THE CENTER OF A NETWORK

OF SINISTER NAZI ENGINEERING PROJECTS.

JUST TWO MILES AWAY

IS A MAGNIFICENT CASTLE

THAT WAS BEING TRANSFORMED INTO A NAZI HEADQUARTERS,

AND DOWN THE ROAD, BURIED IN THE OWL MOUNTAINS,

A TOP-SECRET COMPLEX OF TUNNELS,

MANY OF WHICH REMAIN UNDISCOVERED.

WHAT THE NAZIS WERE PLANNING

WAS TO TURN ALL THESE INTO A VAST UNDERGROUND CITY,

KEY TO THEIR WAR PLANS.

THE K65 MARKER

WHERE PEOPLE BELIEVE THE NAZI GOLD TRAIN HAS BEEN FOUND

LIES AT THE CENTER OF A NETWORKOF MYSTERIOUS WARTIME PROJECTS.

THE SITE HAS BEEN A MAGNET FOR RESEARCHERS FOR DECADES.

THE MOST FAMOUS LOCALLY

IS 85-YEAR-OLD RETIRED COAL MINER

TADEUSZ SLOWIKOWSKI.

HE WAS THE FIRST TO CONNECT K65WITH THE NAZI GOLD TRAIN.

HE HEARD STORIES FROM GERMANS

WHO WORKED WITH HIM IN THE WALBRZYCH COAL MINES.

[SPEAKING POLISH]

Tadeusz Slowikowski: SO I WAS HEARING FROM THE GERMANS

A BIT HERE, A BIT THERE.

THEN I PIECED IT TOGETHER

TO CHECK IF WHAT THEY WERE SAYING WAS POSSIBLE.

Narrator: TADEUSZ BUILT A MODEL

BASED ON AN ACCOUNT FROM A TRAIN DRIVER

WHO WORKED ON THE RAILWAY DURING THE WAR.

Tadeusz: HE WOULD SHUNT THESE CARRIAGES HERE.

AND EVERY TIME HE WENT DOWN THE TRACK--

AND HE WAS ALWAYS CURIOUS,

BECAUSE THERE WAS A GATE HERE, AND YOU COULDN'T SEE INSIDE.

AND HE CLIMBED ONTO THE COAL WAGON

AND SAW TWO CARRIAGES BEHIND THE FENCE.

Narrator: THE TRAIN DRIVER DESCRIBED HIGH WALLS

THAT HID THE SECRET SIDING FROM ONLOOKERS

AND SAID THAT AT THE END OF THE WAR,

THE NAZIS BLEW UP THE TUNNEL ENTRANCE

TO CONCEAL THE TUNNEL AND THE TRAIN WITHIN.

BUT WHY WOULD THE NAZIS GO TOSO MUCH EFFORT TO HIDE A TRAIN?

TADEUSZ AND OTHERS BELIEVE THAT ONE PLAUSIBLE ANSWER

IS TO HIDE STOLEN TREASURE,

AND AS EVIDENCE,

THEY POINT TO THE HISTORY OF THIS AREA.

IN 1945, THIS WASN'T POLAND.

THE DIG SITE, WALBRZYCH, AND ALL OF LOWER SILESIA

WAS IN GERMANY

AND HAD BEEN FOR CENTURIES.

THIS WAS THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNEROF THE THIRD REICH,

AND DURING WORLD WAR II,

IT WAS ABOUT AS FAR AWAY AS YOU COULD GET FROM THE PAIN

THE REST OF GERMANY WAS BEGINNING TO SUFFER

AS THE WAR SLIPPED FROM THEIR GRASP.

IN 1942, ALLIED BOMBERS WERE LAYING WASTE

TO THE GERMAN INDUSTRIAL HEARTLANDS IN THE WEST.

BUT LOWER SILESIA REMAINED OUT OF RANGE OF THE BOMBERS.

IT WAS A SAFE HAVEN

TO WHICH THE NAZIS MOVED THEIR INDUSTRY AND THEIR TREASURES.

AND BENEATH THE ROLLING HILLS OF THE OWL MOUNTAINS,

THE NAZIS LAUNCHED

ONE OF THEIR MOST AMBITIOUS AND MYSTERIOUS PROJECTS.

THE OWL MOUNTAINS LIE LESS THAN 10 MILES FROM K65.

AND IT IS HERE

THAT THE NAZIS BUILT

A TOP-SECRET AND SINISTER COMPLEX OF UNDERGROUND TUNNELS

CODE-NAMED RIESE, OR GIANT.

IN THE DESPERATE FINAL DAYS OF WORLD WAR II,

THE NAZIS WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS

TO HIDE WHAT THEY HAD BEEN DOING HERE.

BUT WHAT HAS SINCE BEEN DISCOVERED

REVEALS PERHAPS THE LARGEST, MOST EXTRAORDINARY PROJECT

EVER UNDERTAKEN BY THE NAZIS.

LUKASZ KAZEK, A LOCAL HISTORIAN,KNOWS THE TUNNELS WELL.

Lukasz Kazek: THIS TUNNEL IS 2.5 MILES LONG.

IT'S THE BIGGEST OF ALL THE ONESWE KNOW IN THE OWL MOUNTAINS.

[SPEAKING POLISH]

THERE ARE THREE HALLWAYS PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER

AND SIX THAT INTERSECT, MAKING IT INTO A GRID,

A LABYRINTH, YOU COULD SAY.

Narrator: CONSTRUCTION OF THE RIESE COMPLEX

BEGAN IN LATE 1943,

BUT WITHIN MONTHS,

HITLER ORDERED HIS SUPER ENGINEERING GROUP,

CALLED ORGANIZATION TODT,

TO TAKE OVER AND MAKE THE WORK HERE THEIR PRIORITY.

ORGANIZATION TODT

WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE THIRD REICH'S

MOST IMPORTANT CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.

THE AUTOBAHNS IN THE 1930s...

THE SIEGFRIED LINE,

GERMANY'S MASSIVE WESTERN DEFENSES...

AND THE ATLANTIC WALL

ALONG THE ENTIRE WESTERN COASTLINE OF OCCUPIED EUROPE.

BUT HERE IN THE OWL MOUNTAINS,

THIS VAST UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION

WAS THE GROUP'S GREATEST CHALLENGE.

SOME OF THE CHAMBERS ARE SO MASSIVE,

THEY LOOK LIKE NATURAL CAVES.

BUT THEY'RE NOT NATURAL.

THEY'RE THE WORK OF HUMAN HANDS.

Lukasz: THERE WAS NEVER A NATURAL SPACE HERE.

THERE WERE TWO HALLWAYS, ONE ABOVE THE OTHER.

THEN THE CEILING WAS COLLAPSED,

CREATING MASSIVE HALLS 36 FEET HIGH.

AND THAT'S WHAT MOST OF THE TUNNELS

WERE SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE.

Narrator: THE NAZIS LEFT NO EVIDENCE ANYWHERE

OF WHAT EXACTLY THEY WERE PLANNING TO DO HERE.

BUT EXPERTS BELIEVE IT WAS CONNECTED

WITH PROTECTING THEIR VITAL ARMS MANUFACTURING.

Lukasz: THE GERMANS WERE MOVINGTHEIR WEAPONS INDUSTRY

UNDERGROUND,

SO IT'S VERY LIKELY

THEY INTENDED TO INSTALL FACTORIES DOWN HERE.

WE ARE 60 YARDS UNDER THE GROUND.

AMERICAN, ENGLISH, SOVIET BOMBS

WERE NOT CAPABLE OF DESTROYING ANYTHING DOWN HERE.

Narrator: WE KNOW THE NAZIS WERE LOOKING FOR WAYS

OF PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM ALLIED BOMBING.

ELSEWHERE IN THE REICH,

ROCKET AND FIGHTER AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION

HAD BEEN MOVED UNDERGROUND.

THE RIESE COMPLEX WAS BUILT TO THE SAME BLUEPRINT

AS OTHER SUBTERRANEAN FACTORIESWE KNOW EXISTED,

SO THERE'S STRONG EVIDENCE THAT RIESE WAS PLANNED

AS A MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXON A MASSIVE SCALE.

Lukasz: HAD THE GERMANS FINISHED

AND LINKED THE COMPLEXES TOGETHER,

THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A POWERFUL NAZI CITY.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO NAZI DOCUMENTS,

280,000 CUBIC YARDS OF TUNNEL WERE CREATED.

BUT ONLY A THIRD OF THEM HAVE BEEN FOUND.

WHATEVER THE RIESE TUNNELS WERE INTENDED FOR,

THERE IS NO DOUBTING THEIR IMPRESSIVE SCALE.

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IN THE 70 YEARS SINCE THE NAZIS FLED,

IT'S HARDLY SURPRISING THAT LOCAL RESIDENTS

CAME UP WITH MANY WAYS

TO EXPLAIN THIS GHOSTLY,HALF-BUILT UNDERGROUND KINGDOM.

THESE CAVERNS HAVE BRED A WHOLE GENERATION

OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES.

ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL

IS THAT THE NAZIS WERE BUILDING A MISSILE,

THEIR "WONDER WEAPON,"

EVEN DEVELOPINGTHE GERMAN ATOM BOMB RIGHT HERE.

BUT ALL THIS WAS ACHIEVED AT A TERRIBLE HUMAN COST.

THIS HARD GRANITE ROCK WAS HACKED OUT BY SLAVE LABOR

IN APPALLING CONDITIONS.

PRISONERS WERE CONSTANTLY EXPOSED TO TOXIC FUMES

FROM DYNAMITE USED TO BLOW UP THE ROCK.

THEY WERE HALF STARVED AND PERMANENTLY SOAKED

IN TEMPERATURES JUST ABOVE FREEZING.

THOUSANDS WERE LITERALLY WORKED TO DEATH.

MOST OF THE LABOR FOR NAZI TUNNELING IN THIS REGION

WOULD HAVE BEEN SUPPLIED BY THEGROSS ROSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP.

OVER THE ENTRANCE, THE GREAT NAZI LIE:

"WORK SETS YOU FREE."

EMACIATED PRISONERS LIKE THESE

CARRIED OUT THE BACK-BREAKING WORK,

THE RIESE TUNNEL LABORERS HAD THE POOREST LIVING CONDITIONS

AND ONE OF THE HIGHEST MORTALITY RATES

OF ALL THE NAZI FORCED LABOR CAMPS.

LIFE EXPECTANCY WAS FIVE WEEKS.

IF TREASURE HUNTERS DO FIND A HIDDEN TUNNEL AT K65,

IT WOULD ALMOST CERTAINLY HAVE BEEN BUILT

BY THESE SLAVE LABORERS.

ANDREAS AND PIOTR ARE KEEN TO CARRY OUT FURTHER SURVEYS

AND PLAN THE DIG.

BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM.

THE POLISH AUTHORITIES

ARE TAKING THE CLAIM THAT A TUNNEL EXISTS SERIOUSLY,

BUT THERE'S A FEAR THAT THE GERMANS

MAY HAVE BOOBY-TRAPPED THE SITE,

AND NOW THE ARMY MOVES IN TO ENSURE THE AREA IS SAFE.

BUT EVEN BEFORE THEY DIG, THERE'S ONE MORE LOCATION

THAT COULD HOLD CLUES

TO THE NAZI GOLD TRAIN MYSTERY.

TWO MILES AWAY IS KSIAZ CASTLE,

THE LARGEST AND MOST STUNNING PALACE IN SOUTHWESTERN POLAND.

NOW A MAGNET FOR TOURISTS, BACK IN 1944,

IT WAS BEING REBUILT AS HITLER'S FINAL HIDEAWAY.

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KSIAZ CASTLE IS KNOWN AS THE PEARL OF SILESIA.

IT IS THE LARGEST AND MOST STUNNING PALACE

IN SOUTHERN POLAND.

THE HIDDEN TUNNEL THAT THE TREASURE HUNTERS

BELIEVE HIDES THE NAZI GHOST TRAIN

LIES JUST TWO MILES

FROM THE CASTLE.

WHAT THE NAZIS WERE DOING HERE

COULD HELP US UNDERSTAND THE MYSTERY AT K65,

AND THAT'S BECAUSE THE NAZIS HADNOT ONLY TAKEN OVER THE CASTLE,

BUT IN MID-1944,

THEY BEGAN WORKING ON TURNING THIS INTO A HEADQUARTERS

FOR THE FUHRER HIMSELF.

THIS WOULD BE ADOLF HITLER'S FINAL RETREAT.

AFTER STALINGRAD,

GERMANY WAS NO LONGER WINNING THE WAR.

HERE IN THE EAST, THE GERMANS WERE IN RETREAT,

AND HITLER'S EASTERN REDOUBT, THE WOLF'S LAIR,

500 MILES NORTHEAST,

LAY RIGHT IN THE PATH

OF THE ADVANCING SOVIETS.

HITLER NEEDED A NEW HIDEAWAY.

AND SO NOW, KSIAZ CASTLE WAS BEING REDESIGNED

TO HOUSE THE NAZI HIGH COMMAND.

IN THE EAST,

THE GERMAN ARMY WAS SUFFERING CATASTROPHIC LOSSES,

WHILE HERE, AT KSIAZ, NO EXPENSE WAS SPARED

AS THE CASTLE WAS GETTING A MAKEOVER.

ITS BEAUTIFUL GREEN AND RED ROOMS WERE PAINTED WHITE,

ITS BAROQUE AND ROCOCO FEATURESRIPPED OUT AND REPLACED

WITH THE NAZIS' FAVORITE NEO-CLASSICAL STYLE,

MAKING ROOM FOR THE GREATEST ARTWORKS

LOOTED FROM ACROSS EUROPE.

THE CASTLE MIGHT EVEN HAVE BEENTHE INTENDED DESTINATION

FOR ONE OF THE NAZI'SMOST INFAMOUS LOOTED TREASURES:

THE AMBER ROOM, SHOWN IN THIS RECENT REPLICA.

THE NAZIS HAD STRIPPED ITS GLITTERING PANELS

AND GOLD LEAF FROM A LENINGRAD PALACE IN 1941.

IT IS RUMORED THAT THIS HALL WASBEING PREPARED TO HOUSE IT.

THE DIMENSIONS ARE SAID TO FIT EXACTLY.

BUT THE AMBER ROOM NEVER MADE IT HERE.

ITS WHEREABOUTS REMAIN UNKNOWN.

MACIEJ MEISSNER IS A CURATOR AT THE CASTLE.

DOWN A LONG HALL HE FINDS ONEOF ITS MOST IMPORTANT FEATURES:

A BEDROOM FOR THE FUHRER HIMSELF.

THE ALTERATIONS THEY MADE HERE SHOWED HOW HITLER WOULD BE

AT THE HEART OF THE NEW NAZI NERVE-CENTER

WHICH KSIAZ CASTLE WAS TO BECOME.

Maciej Meissner: THEY CHANGED EVERYTHING HERE,

BECAUSE FOR EXAMPLE,

BEHIND ME WE HAVE THE DOOR THAT REPLACED THE FIREPLACE,

AND BEHIND THIS DOOR THEY WANTEDTO BUILD A BATHROOM FOR HITLER,

AND ON THE RIGHT,

WE'VE GOT THE DOORS THAT LEADS TO THE EVACUATION ROUTE,

BECAUSE BEHIND IT WE HAVE THE ELEVATOR SHAFT.

Narrator: WITHIN SECONDS OF AN ALARM BEING RAISED,

HITLER COULD LEAVE HIS BEDROOM TO BE WHISKED AWAY TO SAFETY.

Maciej: THAT... [KNOCK KNOCK] IS THE ELEVATOR SHAFT

THAT LEADS TO THE UNDERGROUND,

THE SHORTEST WAY TO ESCAPE.

Narrator: A FEW FEET ALONG THE CORRIDOR

FROM THE FUHRER'S BEDROOM

WAS A COMMUNICATIONS CENTER.

THIS PLACE WAS A HUB,

ALLOWING FOR EFFICIENT COMMUNICATIONS

AND A RAPID ESCAPE DOWN THESE ELEVATOR SHAFTS

IF THE CASTLE EVER CAME UNDER ATTACK.

Maciej: THIS INTERIOR, THIS PLACE

USED TO BE SOME SORT OF QUICK RESPONSE CENTER

FOR HITLER AND HIS CLOSEST OFFICIALS.

IT'S PERFECTLY CONNECTED WITH ALL THE ROOMS IN THE CASTLE.

Narrator: AND CLOSE BY WAS A NEWLY CONSTRUCTED STAIRCASE

LEADING UNDERGROUND TO A NETWORK OF TUNNELS

HEWN OUT OF THE ROCK BELOW THE CASTLE.

THE NEW FUHRER HEADQUARTERS WOULD ULTIMATELY BE LINKED

TO THE RIESE COMPLEX IN THE OWL MOUNTAINS

AND CREATE A SUBTERRANEAN SHELTER

FOR 27,000 TOP NAZI AND SS PERSONNEL

SPREAD ACROSS A RADIUS OF 15 MILES.

THE RESOURCES THE PROJECT CONSUMED

WERE STAGGERING.

ALBERT SPEER,

HITLER'S ARMAMENTS MINISTER ANDHEAD OF THE ENGINEERING GROUP,

WROTE THAT BY THE AUTUMN OF 1944,

THEY WERE USING MORE CONCRETE HERE

THAN FOR THE BUILDING OF AIR-RAID SHELTERS

FOR THE ENTIRE THIRD REICH.

TOP NAZIS QUESTIONED THE SANITYOF POURING VITAL RESOURCES

INTO THE MYSTERIOUS UNDERGROUND COMPLEX,

BUT HITLER SPED UP THE PROJECT.

DIRECTLY BENEATH THE CASTLE IS YET ANOTHER NETWORK OF TUNNELS

WHERE YOU CAN SEE WHERE ALL THAT CONCRETE WENT.

LEOPOLD STEMPOWSKI HAS LIVED INTHE CASTLE GROUNDS ALL HIS LIFE.

[SPEAKING POLISH]

Leopold Stempowski: THE TUNNELSARE ENORMOUS, IMPRESSIVE.

YOU COULD EASILY DRIVE A CAR IN HERE.

AND THAT'S PROBABLY HOW THE INHABITANTS

PLANNED TO MOVE AROUND HERE.

Narrator: WORK UNDER THE CASTLEWAS FAR MORE SOPHISTICATED

THAN AT THE OTHER RIESE TUNNELS.

BUT THERE'S A CLUE THAT COULD INDICATE

THE NAZIS WERE TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING HERE.

Leopold: WE ARE STANDING IN FRONT OF THIS MYSTERIOUS WALL.

THE REST OF THE WALLS ARE PROPERLY FINISHED.

BUT THIS WALL ISN'T.

THIS WALL'S BEEN CAST IN A SLOPPY WAY,

WHICH ISN'T WHAT GERMAN WORK LOOKS LIKE.

THIS SLAP-DASH SHUTTERING RAISES SPECULATION

THAT IT CONCEALS SOME MYSTERY.

Narrator:ATTEMPTS TO DRILL INTO THE WALL

HAVE SO FAR PROVED INCONCLUSIVE,

AND THERE ARE MANY THEORIES

AS TO WHAT MIGHT LIE BEHIND THE WALL,

RANGING FROM BODIES OF DEAD WORKERS

TO NAZI LOOT.

BUT LEOPOLD HAS ANOTHER IDEA.

Leopold: THERE IS A THEORY THATTHE TUNNEL WITH THE GOLD TRAIN

WAS SOMEHOW LINKED TO KSIAZ CASTLE.

WE DON'T RULE OUT THE HYPOTHESIS

THAT UNDER THESE TUNNELS THERE IS A TRAIN STATION.

Narrator: COULD THERE HAVE BEEN PLANS

FOR A RAIL CONNECTION FROM THESE TUNNELS

TO THE MAIN LINE A FEW MILES AWAY?

WE KNOW THAT HITLER LOVED TRAVELING BY TRAIN

AND THAT NO FUHRER HEADQUARTERS

WAS EVER BUILT WITHOUT GOOD RAILWAY ACCESS.

BUT THERE'S NO STATION AT KSIAZ.

SOME CLAIM THERE USED TO BE A LITTLE RAILWAY

RUNNING UP TO THE CASTLE.

AND THE TREASURE HUNTERS SAY

THE TUNNEL THEY THINK THEY HAVE FOUND

DOES HAVE A CONNECTION TO KSIAZ

BECAUSE HIGH-RANKING NAZIS

WERE FREQUENT VISITORS TO THE CASTLE.

Piotr: BECAUSE WHEN TOP BRASS CAME HERE,

THEY EXITED THE TUNNEL AND HAD TO GO SOMEWHERE.

THEY HAD TO HAVE A PLACE TO GO.

THE CREW HAD TO BE SOMEWHERE.

THE TRAIN HAD TO BE HIDDEN SOMEWHERE.

IT SIMPLY COULDN'T SIT ON THE TRACKS.

AND TRAINS WITH OFFICIALS KEPT COMING TO KSIAZ CASTLE.

Narrator: THERE IS NO EVIDENCE

THAT HITLER HIMSELF EVER MADE IT TO KSIAZ,

BUT THE HIGH SECURITY AT THE SITE

SUPPORTS THE CASE

THAT HIS SENIOR SUBORDINATES CERTAINLY DID.

Andreas: WE'VE GATHERED VARIOUS BITS OF INFORMATION.

THERE WAS UNUSUAL CONSTRUCTION WORK

CARRIED OUT HERE DURING WORLD WAR II.

THERE WAS NET FENCING ALONG HERE.

Piotr: THERE WAS A CAMOUFLAGE NETTING STRETCHED EVERYWHERE.

THERE ARE OLD CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS

FOR THE SUPPORTS OVER THERE.

AND ACCORDING TO WITNESSES,

WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE OF THIS AREA WAS A FORBIDDEN ZONE,

EVEN TO THE GERMANS.

Narrator: FOUR MONTHS AFTER THEY MADE THEIR CLAIM,

THE TREASURE HUNTERS ARECONFIDENT THEY HAVE NEW SURVEYS

WHICH CONFIRM THEIR FINDINGS.

IT'S DECEMBER 2015,

AND THEY'RE PRESENTING THEIR RESULTS

TO A PACKED PRESS CONFERENCE IN TOWN.

THE PLAN IS TO PRESENT A TIMETABLE

FOR THE EXCAVATION AT K65.

BUT THE STORY IS TURNED UPSIDE-DOWN

WHEN ONE MAN MAKES A SHOCKING ANNOUNCEMENT.

IN DECEMBER 2015,

TREASURE HUNTERS IN POLAND ARE READY TO PRESENT

THE RESULTS OF NEW SURVEYS DONE AT K65.

BUT BEFORE THEY CAN GET STARTED,

THERE'S A SURPRISE.

PROFESSOR JANUSZ MADEJ,

HEADING A TEAM OF INDEPENDENT ACADEMICS,

STEPS FORWARD TO SAY THAT HE, TOO,

HAS TAKEN SURVEYS AT THE SITE,

AND HIS TEAM HAS DRAWN VERY DIFFERENT CONCLUSIONS.

[SPEAKING POLISH]

Janusz Madej: WE'VE DONE TESTSAND CONCLUDE THERE IS NO TUNNEL

AND THERE IS NO TRAIN.

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Narrator: THE MAN BEHIND THE BOMBSHELL,

PROFESSOR JANUSZ MADEJ,

IS A GEOPHYSICIST

AT THE RENOWNED AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

IN KRAKOW.

HE WAS CONCERNED THE SURVEYS HAD NOT BEEN DONE PROPERLY.

Janusz: THE ONLY REASON WE ENDED UP IN WALBRZYCH

SEARCHING FOR THIS GOLD TRAIN

WAS BECAUSE THE PREVIOUS SURVEYSWERE NOT DONE PROFESSIONALLY.

Narrator: THE PROFESSOR'S TEAM

USED TWO METHODS TO DO THEIR SURVEY.

ONE MEASURED DISRUPTION

OF THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD,

WHICH WOULD PICK UP ANY CAVITIES UNDER THE GROUND,

SUCH AS TUNNELS.

THE SECOND USES A MAGNETOMETER,

WHICH PICKS UP IRON

BELOW THE SURFACE.

NEITHER REVEALED

A TRAIN OR A TUNNEL.

FOR PROFESSOR MADEJ THERE IS A SIMPLE REASON

WHY THEIR RESULTS DIFFERED FROMTHOSE OF THE TREASURE HUNTERS.

Janusz: WE ARE TRAINED,

EDUCATED WITH SCIENTIFIC DEGREES.

WE ARE CAPABLE OF USING THESE METHODS.

SOMEBODY WHO HAS ONLY HEARD OF GEOPHYSICS,

SOMEBODY WHO HAS ONLY HEARD OF GEOPHYSICAL METHODS

SHOULDN'T USE THEM,

AND ESPECIALLY SHOULD NOT INTERPRET THE RESULTS.

SURE, WE WOULD HAVE REALLY WANTED THE TRAIN TO BE THERE,

BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE RESULTSDID NOT MATCH OUR EXPECTATIONS,

SO WE SAY THE GOLD TRAIN DOES NOT EXIST THERE.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO THE EXPERTS,

NO TRAIN, NO TUNNEL.

COULD THE ONLY GOLD TRAIN

BE THIS ONE ON THE PROFESSOR'S DESK?

IT LOOKS LIKE CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE

THAT THE TREASURE HUNTERS ARE DELUDED.

IT'S A BLOW,

AND THEIR WHOLE OPERATION IS IN JEOPARDY.

Piotr: I ADMIT THAT I WAS SHOCKED

BECAUSE I WAS CONVINCED THAT BECAUSE THE PROFESSOR

HAD SUCH GREAT EQUIPMENT AND A DATABASE,

IT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A PROBLEMTO DISCOVER WHAT WE FOUND.

BUT IT TURNED OUT TO BE A PROBLEM.

FOR ME IT WAS A SHOCK.

Andreas: YES, WE HAD A LOT OF SPONSORS AND INVESTORS

WILLING TO HELP US,

TO GIVE US MONEY.

BUT WHEN THE AGH UNIVERSITYSAID THAT THERE'S NOTHING THERE,

ALL THE SPONSORS RAN AWAY.

WE'RE STILL GOING FORWARD,

BUT WE'LL HAVE TO FINANCE EVERYTHING OURSELVES.

Piotr: SO WHAT DID I SEE?

AFTER ALL, WE DID SURVEYS AND HAVE RESULTS.

SO WHAT DID I SEE? A MIRAGE?

Narrator: ANDREAS AND PIOTR ARE NOT GIVING UP.

THEY ARE SO CONVINCED

THAT THEY'VE STARTED INVESTING THEIR OWN MONEY

TO PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF A TUNNEL AND A TRAIN INSIDE.

AND LOCAL PUBLIC OPINION

IS ROOTING FOR THE DISCOVERY OF A NAZI GOLD TRAIN.

FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES, THE STORYIS BRINGING A GOLD RUSH.

HOTELS ARE FULL, AND TOURISTS ARE FLOCKING TO THE AREA.

EVEN A NEW CAR WASH IS IN ON THE ACT.

AND FINALLY, THE GOVERNMENT GRANTS PERMISSION FOR THE DIG.

TREES ARE CLEARED FROM THE AREA,

AND ON AUGUST 16, 2016, THE DIGGERS MOVE IN.

AFTER A YEAR OF GROWING ANTICIPATION,

THE EXCAVATION HAS FINALLY BEGUN.

ANDREAS AND PIOTR HAVE ASSEMBLED A TEAM OF 64 PEOPLE,

MANY LOCAL VOLUNTEERS,

TO HELP WITH THE WORK.

THEY ARE OPENING UP SEVERAL TRENCHES

ALONG THE TOP OF THE EMBANKMENT

WHERE THEIR SURVEYS INDICATE THE TUNNEL IS LOCATED.

NEW SCANS OF THE AREA, THE TREASURE HUNTERS SAY,

BACK UP THEIR ORIGINAL FINDINGS

AND THEY GIVE AN UPBEAT PRESS CONFERENCE.

Piotr: WE USED ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT FROM UKRAINE,

AND THIS IS WHAT IT SHOWS IN ONE PLACE.

IT SHOWS THE ROOF OF A TUNNEL.

Narrator: THE NEW SCANS

HAVE INSTILLED CONFIDENCE IN THE TEAM

THAT THERE WILL DEFINITELY BE A FIND.

Piotr: WE'LL HAVE THE RESULTS OF THE TEST SOON,

AND THEN WE'LL BE ABLE TO SAY SOMETHING MORE.

IF THE TRAIN IS THERE AND THERE ARE TUNNELS,

THEN WE'LL FIND THEM FOR SURE

BECAUSE THE TRENCHES ARE SO WIDE AND DEEP.

Narrator: AS THE WORK ON SITE CONTINUES,

MANY BELIEVE THAT SOON THE NAZIGOLD TRAIN WILL BE REVEALED.

THIS BELIEF IS STOKED BY A LOCAL LEGEND

THAT TELLS OF A TRAIN FILLED WITH GOLD

LEAVING THE REGIONAL CAPITAL, WROCLAW,

AND DISAPPEARING INTO THIN AIR

IN THE LAST STAGES OF WORLD WAR II.

THE REGIONAL CAPITAL, WROCLAW,

LIES SOME 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF WALBRZYCH.

TODAY IT IS POLISH,

BUT BEFORE THE WAR IT WAS CALLED BRESLAU,

ONE OF GERMANY'S MOST BEAUTIFULAND PROSPEROUS CITIES.

BUT IN 1945,BRESLAU FACED NEAR ANNIHILATION

IN ONE OF THE MOST BLOODY AND DRAMATIC SIEGES

OF THE ENTIRE WAR.

IN BUNKERS BELOW THE PAVEMENTS,

TO THIS DAY LIE GHOSTLY REMINDERS

OF THE 80 DAYS OF SAVAGE AND HORRIFIC ORDEAL

THE CITY ENDURED.

TENS OF THOUSANDS WOULD LOSE THEIR LIVES.

THE QUESTION IS, COULD A TRAIN LADEN WITH NAZI GOLD

HAVE SLIPPED OUT OF BRESLAU

BEFORE THE CITY FACED ITS ARMAGEDDON?

AFTER A YEAR OF ANTICIPATION,THE EXCAVATION AT K65 HAS BEGUN.

FOR THE LOCALS, IF THERE IS A GOLD TRAIN,

THERE IS ONLY ONE PLACE IT COULD HAVE COME FROM.

TOWARD THE END OF WORLD WAR II,

A KEY HUB OF NAZI TREASURE WAS JUST 40 MILES AWAY

IN THE TOWN OF WROCLAW,

KNOWN TO THE GERMANS AS BRESLAU.

IN THE 1930sIT WAS A FERVENTLY PRO-NAZI CITY

AND THE SCENE OF VAST RALLIES SUPPORTING THE FUHRER.

THROUGHOUT THE WAR, BRESLAU WAS FAR FROM THE BATTLEFRONTS

AND BEYOND THE RANGE OF ENEMY BOMBERS.

IT WAS A SAFE PLACE TO STOCKPILE ARTWORKS

AND TREASURE FROM ALL OVER THE REICH,

ALONG WITH STOLEN NAZI LOOT PLUNDERED IN THE EAST.

IT WAS ALSO A TRANSIT POINT FOR JEWELRY AND GOLD

TAKEN FROM JEWS KILLED IN THE DEATH CAMPS.

BUT BY MID-1944, THE GERMANS WERE IN RETREAT.

IN THE WEST, D-DAY MARKED THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

IN THE EAST,

THE SOVIET RED ARMY WAS ADVANCING FAST.

BY JANUARY 1945, THE ENEMY WAS AT THE GATES OF BRESLAU.

HITLER ORDERED THE CITY TO STAND FAST

AND DEFEND ITSELF TO THE LAST MAN.

AS THE ENDGAME APPROACHED, THIS WAS THE LAST MOMENT

THE NAZIS COULD MOVE OUT THEIR TREASURES AND GOLD.

HISTORIAN TOMASZ GLOWINSKI

IS AN EXPERT ON THE CITY'S WARTIME FATE,

AND HE'S BEEN INVESTIGATINGWHAT HAPPENED TO THAT STOCKPILE

OF BRESLAU TREASURE.

[SPEAKING POLISH]

Tomasz Glowinski: THE FACT THAT WORKS OF ART,

ARCHIVES, IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS

WERE COLLECTED AND EVACUATED OUT OF THE CITY

WE KNOW FOR SURE.

WE HAVE WRITTEN EVIDENCE FOR THIS.

Narrator: AND RUMORS EVEN CIRCULATED

OF GOLD CONSIGNMENTS ALSO LEAVING THE CITY,

AMID THE GENERAL PANIC.

Tomasz: CERTAINLY CIVILIANS SAW CONVOYS LEAVING THE CITY.

MAYBE THAT WAS WHEN THE LEGEND WAS BORN--

SOMETHING QUIETLY, SECRETLY BEING EVACUATED AT NIGHT.

SOMEONE SAW A CRATE, A TARPAULIN-COVERED TRUCK

AND SO THOUGHT THAT SOMETHING VALUABLE IS LEAVING THE CITY.

Narrator: THE CITY BRACED ITSELF

FOR THE INEVITABLE BRUTALITY OF THE SOVIET ONSLAUGHT,

RUSHING TO HIDE VALUABLES AND THROWING UP BARRICADES.

CHAOS DESCENDED.

THOUSANDS TOOK TO THE ROADS IN FLIGHT.

THE MAIN STATION WAS CROWDED WITH CIVILIANS

DESPERATELY SEEKING TO LEAVE THE CITY.

SO COULD A TRAIN LADEN WITH GOLD

HAVE SLIPPED OUT OF BRESLAU AT THIS POINT,

AMID THE CHAOS AND PANIC,

AND HEADED SOUTHWEST TOWARDS WALBRZYCH,

WHERE THE TREASURE HUNTERS ARE NOW DIGGING?

IT'S A PROSPECT THAT HAS TANTALIZED LOCALS FOR DECADES,

AND NOW, THE TWO HUNTERS ARE ON THE BRINK OF AN ANSWER.

BUT BACK AT K65, THE NEWS IS NOT GOOD.

WHAT ANDREAS AND PIOTR THOUGHT WAS THE TOP OF THE TUNNEL

TURNS OUT TO BE A GLACIAL DEPOSIT.

AND DESPITE FIVE DAYS OF DIGGING,

THEY HAVEN'T FOUND THE TUNNEL OR TRAIN

THAT THEY SAW IN THEIR SCAN.

TO THEIR DISMAY,

THE HUNTERS THINK IT MUST BEDEEPER THAN THEY'RE ABLE TO DIG.

Piotr: RIGHT HERE NEXT TO THIS HOLE

IS THE SITE WHERE WE GOT THE BEST PICTURE

FROM THE GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR.

BUT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET DOWN THERE

BECAUSE OF THE ROCK.

HERE WE'RE TOO HIGH UP.

WE NEED TO GO AT LEAST 10 TO 12 YARDS LOWER.

BUT WE CAN'T BREAK THROUGH THE ROCK.

WE NEED TO USE A DRILLING RIG.

Narrator: ANDREAS AND PIOTR SAY

THAT TO GET THROUGH A LAYER OF ROCK

THAT'S BLOCKING THEIR WAY TO THE TUNNEL,

THEY WOULD NEED HEAVY DRILLING EQUIPMENT.

BUT TO BRING IT ON SITE

WOULD REQUIRE PERMISSION THEY DON'T HAVE.

FOR NOW, THEY'VE SIMPLY RUN OUT OF TIME AND MONEY.

BUT IN A TWIST THAT'S ALL TOO FAMILIAR

IN THE QUEST FOR NAZI TREASURE,

A NEW THEORY HAS EMERGED.

LOCAL FILMMAKER WOJTEK BELIEVES ANDREAS AND PIOTR

ARE SIMPLY DIGGING IN THE WRONG PLACE.

FAR BETTER, HE SAYS, TO BEGIN EXCAVATIONS

BY THE STRANGE CONCRETE STRUCTURES

400 YARDS ALONG THE EMBANKMENT.

Wojtek: I ALWAYS SUSPECTED THEREARE MORE INTERESTING THINGS

ON THIS SIDE OF THE VIADUCT.

IN MY OPINION, THE DIG SHOULD HAVE STARTED HERE.

AND THESE SHAFTS ARE THE EVIDENCE

THAT THERE MUST HAVE BEENSOMETHING UNDER THE GROUND HERE.

BUT I DON'T THINK THE STORY IS OVER YET.

MOST LIKELY, THE STORY WILL NEVER END.

Narrator: AT K65, WORK STARTS ON FILLING IN THE HUGE HOLES.

MUCH OF THE EVIDENCE FOR A HIDDEN NAZI GOLD TRAIN

HAS CERTAINLY BEEN COMPELLING AND TANTALIZING:

THE INCREDIBLE HISTORY OF THIS REGION OF LOWER SILESIA;

THE RIESE TUNNELS

AND THE SECRET NAZI SUPER PROJECT

THEY WERE INTENDED TO HOUSE;

A FAIRY TALE CASTLE,

REDESIGNED AS A NEW HEADQUARTERSFOR HITLER HIMSELF;

LOOTED NAZI GOLDSPIRITED OUT OF A BESIEGED CITY

IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE WAR.

AND THAT'S WHY SO MANY PEOPLE HERE

ARE SURE NAZI TREASURE EXISTS.

ANDREAS AND PIOTR HAVE LOST A SMALL FORTUNE

HUNTING FOR THE GHOST TRAIN,

BUT DESPITE EVERYTHING,

THEY REMAIN CONVINCED IT'S SOMEWHERE OUT THERE.

Andreas: WELL, IT'S DEFINITELY NOT THE END OF THE WORLD

IF THE TRAIN IS NOT HERE.

IT'LL BE SOMEWHERE.

WE'LL THINK ABOUT HOW TO DO THIS BETTER,

AND WE'LL DO ANOTHER DIG.

Narrator: AND ALREADY, ANOTHER NEW LOCAL MYTH IS EMERGING.

A WITNESS HAS COME FORWARD CLAIMING THAT, FOR SURE,

THE MYSTERY CAN BE SOLVED AT THE K61 MARKER.

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