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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.
[CAMERAS CLICKING]
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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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