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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,691 --> 00:00:03,106 News Anchor: THERE HAS BEEN A FRENZY OF ACTIVITY IN POLAND 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 3 00:00:03,141 --> 00:00:07,697 AFTER THE SUPPOSED DISCOVERY OF A NAZI TREASURE TRAIN. 4 00:00:07,731 --> 00:00:10,355 Narrator: THE STORY OF THE NAZI GOLD TRAIN 5 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 6 00:00:10,389 --> 00:00:13,220 EXPLODED IN AUGUST 2015 7 00:00:13,254 --> 00:00:15,774 WHEN, IN A REMOTE CORNER OF SOUTHWEST POLAND, 8 00:00:15,808 --> 00:00:18,639 TWO LOCAL TREASURE HUNTERS DECLARED A FIND. 9 00:00:18,673 --> 00:00:19,778 Reporter: TWO MEN SAY THEY KNOW 10 00:00:19,812 --> 00:00:22,298 THE EXACT LOCATION OF THE NAZI GHOST TRAIN, 11 00:00:22,332 --> 00:00:23,678 GIVEN TO THEM... 12 00:00:23,713 --> 00:00:26,612 Narrator: THEY CLAIMED TO HAVE FOUND A HIDDEN TUNNEL 13 00:00:26,647 --> 00:00:29,753 CONTAINING A TRAIN CARRYING A MYSTERIOUS LOAD, 14 00:00:29,788 --> 00:00:31,100 HIDDEN AWAY BY THE NAZIS 15 00:00:31,134 --> 00:00:33,240 IN THE LAST THROES OF WORLD WAR II. 16 00:00:33,274 --> 00:00:34,862 Reporter: ...FILLED WITH TREASURES... 17 00:00:34,896 --> 00:00:37,485 Narrator: IT WAS A MEDIA SENSATION, 18 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:39,280 MADE EVEN BIGGER WHEN THE POLISH GOVERNMENT 19 00:00:39,315 --> 00:00:41,972 SEEMED TO CONFIRM THE DISCOVERY. 20 00:00:42,007 --> 00:00:44,699 Piotr Zuchowski: PERSONALLY, I AM 99% CERTAIN 21 00:00:44,734 --> 00:00:47,219 THAT THIS TRAIN EXISTS. 22 00:00:47,254 --> 00:00:49,394 Narrator: THE CLAIM IS TANTALIZING 23 00:00:49,428 --> 00:00:52,983 IN A REGION WHERE THE NAZIS WERE KNOWN TO HIDE TREASURES. 24 00:00:55,883 --> 00:00:57,574 [GUNFIRE] 25 00:00:57,609 --> 00:01:00,267 AS THE ALLIES ADVANCED INTO GERMANY 26 00:01:00,301 --> 00:01:02,441 IN THE LAST STAGES OF WORLD WAR II, 27 00:01:02,476 --> 00:01:05,548 THEY WERE MAKING INCREDIBLE DISCOVERIES. 28 00:01:05,582 --> 00:01:07,239 Reporter: AMERICAN ARMY INVESTIGATORS 29 00:01:07,274 --> 00:01:08,620 HAVE DISCOVERED A SECRET TREASURE TROVE 30 00:01:08,654 --> 00:01:10,518 AT CASTLE VELDENSTEIN. 31 00:01:10,553 --> 00:01:13,625 Narrator: LED BY THE FAMOUS "MONUMENTS MEN" TASK FORCE, 32 00:01:13,659 --> 00:01:17,594 THE ALLIES UNCOVERED VAST HOARDSOF LOOTED GOLD AND ART, 33 00:01:17,629 --> 00:01:22,220 STASHED IN MINES, TUNNELS, AND SECLUDED CASTLES. 34 00:01:22,254 --> 00:01:23,807 BUT NOW TWO TREASURE HUNTERS 35 00:01:23,842 --> 00:01:26,948 THINK THEY'VE DISCOVERED ANOTHER NAZI SECRET. 36 00:01:26,983 --> 00:01:29,813 SOME ARE CONVINCED THEY'RE WRONG. 37 00:01:29,848 --> 00:01:33,438 Man: THERE IS NO TRAIN AT K65. 38 00:01:33,472 --> 00:01:35,095 Man: SO WHAT DID I SEE? A MIRAGE? 39 00:01:37,718 --> 00:01:39,444 Narrator: IT'S A STORY THAT TAKES US 40 00:01:39,478 --> 00:01:42,171 TO THE DARK HEART OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. 41 00:01:44,207 --> 00:01:47,141 A CASTLE TAKEN OVER BY THE NAZIS 42 00:01:47,176 --> 00:01:49,833 AS A RETREAT FOR ADOLF HITLER, 43 00:01:49,868 --> 00:01:54,976 A VAST SECRET UNDERGROUND CITYOF TUNNELS BUILT BY SLAVE LABOR, 44 00:01:55,011 --> 00:01:58,532 AND THE HUNT FOR A GHOST TRAIN, LADEN WITH GOLD, 45 00:01:58,566 --> 00:02:04,262 DISAPPEARING INTO THIN AIR IN THE LAST MONTHS OF THE WAR. 46 00:02:04,296 --> 00:02:07,161 CRITICS HAVE ATTACKED THE TREASURE HUNTERS, 47 00:02:07,196 --> 00:02:09,577 BUT WE'LL SEE WHY THERE'S STRONG EVIDENCE 48 00:02:09,612 --> 00:02:12,615 THAT NAZI SECRETS LIE BURIED HERE, 49 00:02:12,649 --> 00:02:17,206 AND WHY WE MAY BE ON THE BRINK OF AN ANSWER TO THE MYSTERY. 50 00:02:28,838 --> 00:02:35,224 ♪ 51 00:02:35,258 --> 00:02:37,226 THIS IS WALBRZYCH, 52 00:02:37,260 --> 00:02:39,711 A FORMER MINING TOWN IN SOUTHERN POLAND. 53 00:02:43,473 --> 00:02:47,236 A FEW MILES FROM THE CITY CENTERIS A QUIET RAILWAY CUTTING 54 00:02:47,270 --> 00:02:49,479 THAT MAY HOLD THE KEY TO A LEGEND 55 00:02:49,514 --> 00:02:51,895 THAT HAS INTRIGUED LOCALS FOR DECADES. 56 00:02:53,966 --> 00:02:57,107 THIS STONE IS K65, 57 00:02:57,142 --> 00:02:59,938 MARKING 65 KILOMETERS, OR 40 MILES, 58 00:02:59,972 --> 00:03:03,666 FROM THE REGIONAL CAPITAL, WROCLAW. 59 00:03:03,700 --> 00:03:06,807 SHOWN ON THE MAP AS A BOWL-SHAPED HOLLOW, 60 00:03:06,841 --> 00:03:09,706 SOME BELIEVE THAT HERE LIES A HIDDEN TUNNEL 61 00:03:09,741 --> 00:03:13,365 THAT THE NAZIS CONCEALED AT THE END OF THE WAR 62 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,058 AND THAT INSIDE THE TUNNEL IS A TRAIN THAT COULD CONTAIN 63 00:03:17,093 --> 00:03:19,060 A FORTUNE IN NAZI GOLD. 64 00:03:21,477 --> 00:03:24,687 THE TWO MEN AT THE HEART OF THIS SENSATIONAL STORY 65 00:03:24,721 --> 00:03:26,965 ARE PIOTR KOPER, A BUILDER, 66 00:03:26,999 --> 00:03:29,070 AND HIS FRIEND, ANDREAS RICHTER, 67 00:03:29,105 --> 00:03:32,384 A GERMAN LOCAL HISTORIAN. 68 00:03:32,419 --> 00:03:33,765 THEY'RE AMATEUR RESEARCHERS 69 00:03:33,799 --> 00:03:38,287 WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS INVESTIGATING THE LEGEND. 70 00:03:38,321 --> 00:03:41,911 [SPEAKING POLISH] 71 00:03:41,945 --> 00:03:45,363 Piotr Koper: I'VE LIVED HERE IN LOWER SILESIA FOR 14 YEARS 72 00:03:45,397 --> 00:03:50,437 AND BECAME INTERESTED IN THE HISTORY OF THE REGION. 73 00:03:50,471 --> 00:03:51,748 I'VE MET A LOT OF PEOPLE 74 00:03:51,783 --> 00:03:54,095 WHO HAVE TOLD ME ABOUT VARIOUS TREASURES, TUNNELS, 75 00:03:54,130 --> 00:03:56,995 TRAINS, BURIED GOLD. 76 00:04:00,723 --> 00:04:05,486 I ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY WERE FAIRY TALES, A JOKE. 77 00:04:05,521 --> 00:04:08,834 BUT LATER, AS I WENT DEEPER INTO THE STORIES, 78 00:04:08,869 --> 00:04:11,389 IT TURNED OUT THAT A LOT OF THINGS WERE TRUE. 79 00:04:13,322 --> 00:04:14,288 [SPEAKING POLISH] 80 00:04:14,323 --> 00:04:16,670 Andreas Richter: IT'S LIKE A MAGNET. 81 00:04:16,704 --> 00:04:18,637 IT PULLS YOU IN. 82 00:04:22,676 --> 00:04:25,886 Narrator: IN MID-2014, PIOTR AND ANDREAS 83 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:30,097 FOLLOWED UP A TIP TO CHECK OUT K65. 84 00:04:30,131 --> 00:04:32,513 THEY STARTED SCANNING THE BOWL-SHAPED DIP 85 00:04:32,548 --> 00:04:36,068 WITH GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR TO SEE WHAT LAY BENEATH. 86 00:04:38,761 --> 00:04:40,935 Piotr: OVER AND OVER AGAIN, 87 00:04:40,970 --> 00:04:46,044 WE DID A SURVEY AT THE FRONT AND OVER THE OTHER SIDE. 88 00:04:46,078 --> 00:04:48,460 THE MEASUREMENTS, THE DEPTH, THE IMAGE... 89 00:04:48,495 --> 00:04:50,117 IT ALL FITS TOGETHER. 90 00:04:52,361 --> 00:04:54,397 Narrator: WHAT THEY WERE SEEING UNDER THE GROUND 91 00:04:54,432 --> 00:04:56,296 CONVINCED THEM THAT THERE REALLY WAS 92 00:04:56,330 --> 00:05:01,231 SOMETHING UNUSUAL AT THE SITE. 93 00:05:01,266 --> 00:05:06,478 AT THEIR OFFICE, THEY SHOW WHAT THE GROUND RADAR REVEALS. 94 00:05:06,513 --> 00:05:09,964 Andreas: HERE WE ARE ON THE TOP. 95 00:05:09,999 --> 00:05:11,863 WE'RE GOING DOWN, 96 00:05:11,897 --> 00:05:14,279 AND WE WILL SEE WHAT MIGHT BE BENEATH THE GROUND. 97 00:05:20,872 --> 00:05:23,633 Narrator: AS THE RADAR PENETRATES THE ROCK 98 00:05:23,668 --> 00:05:25,911 AND GOES DEEPER INTO THE EMBANKMENT, 99 00:05:25,946 --> 00:05:32,021 A STRANGE SYMMETRICAL SHAPE SEEMS TO APPEAR. 100 00:05:32,055 --> 00:05:36,853 Andreas: AND NOW YOU CAN SEE, HERE IS A SOLID STRUCTURE. 101 00:05:36,888 --> 00:05:40,063 IN NATURE, YOU NEVER SEE SUCH SOLIDNESS. 102 00:05:40,098 --> 00:05:43,377 IT'S DIFFERENT. 103 00:05:43,412 --> 00:05:45,897 Narrator: AS THE SCAN GOES EVEN DEEPER, 104 00:05:45,931 --> 00:05:49,418 THE TREASURE HUNTERS BELIEVE IT REVEALS A MAN-MADE OBJECT. 105 00:05:52,041 --> 00:05:54,733 Piotr: IT'S LEVEL, 106 00:05:54,768 --> 00:05:57,011 BOTH ON THE LEFT AND RIGHT. 107 00:05:57,046 --> 00:06:02,189 THERE IS ONE LONG, EVEN LINE RUNNING FOR 60 METERS. 108 00:06:02,223 --> 00:06:04,260 IT LOOKS LIKE A CARRIAGE. 109 00:06:07,884 --> 00:06:09,541 LOWER. 110 00:06:09,576 --> 00:06:11,025 LOOK OVER HERE. 111 00:06:11,060 --> 00:06:12,751 LOOK AT THIS HOOK. 112 00:06:12,786 --> 00:06:14,512 IT'S LIKE A COUPLING. 113 00:06:14,546 --> 00:06:15,823 LOOK AT ALL OF THIS. 114 00:06:15,858 --> 00:06:19,344 LOOK AT WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE. 115 00:06:19,379 --> 00:06:20,828 LOOK AT ONE MORE THING. 116 00:06:20,863 --> 00:06:23,037 THIS IS AN AXLE. 117 00:06:23,072 --> 00:06:26,386 IT GOES PRECISELY THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE OBJECT. 118 00:06:26,420 --> 00:06:27,835 WHAT IS IT? 119 00:06:27,870 --> 00:06:30,873 EVERYTHING'S THE SAME BOTH ON THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT SIDE, 120 00:06:30,907 --> 00:06:32,909 LIKE A MIRROR IMAGE, 121 00:06:32,944 --> 00:06:34,221 LIKE IN A CAR. 122 00:06:34,255 --> 00:06:36,741 LEFT INNER WHEEL ARCH AND RIGHT INNER WHEEL ARCH. 123 00:06:41,401 --> 00:06:44,645 Narrator: THEY'RE CONVINCED THEY'VE FOUND A TRAIN. 124 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,441 AND WHILE IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL WHAT'S IN IT, 125 00:06:47,476 --> 00:06:50,168 ANDREAS AND PIOTR HAVE STAKED A LEGAL CLAIM 126 00:06:50,202 --> 00:06:53,309 FOR 10% OF ANYTHING THEY FIND INSIDE. 127 00:06:55,829 --> 00:06:58,107 BUT THERE'S A CATCH. 128 00:06:58,141 --> 00:07:00,592 THE SITE'S NEXT TO THE MAIN LINE, 129 00:07:00,627 --> 00:07:02,974 SO THEY HAVE TO WAIT FOR PERMISSION FROM THE GOVERNMENT 130 00:07:03,008 --> 00:07:06,460 TO START DIGGING. 131 00:07:06,495 --> 00:07:09,532 AND THERE'S MORE EVIDENCE THATTHERE'S A WORLD WAR II STRUCTURE 132 00:07:09,567 --> 00:07:11,534 WHERE THEY WANT TO DIG. 133 00:07:14,503 --> 00:07:17,022 WOJTEK MALINOWSKI GREW UP IN THE AREA 134 00:07:17,057 --> 00:07:19,611 AND HAS FOLLOWED THE STORY FOR YEARS. 135 00:07:19,646 --> 00:07:20,923 [TRAIN HORN BLOWS] 136 00:07:25,065 --> 00:07:27,377 HE'S CONVINCED THERE ARE MANY OTHER CLUES 137 00:07:27,412 --> 00:07:31,174 POINTING TO NAZI ACTIVITY ON THIS SITE, 138 00:07:31,209 --> 00:07:32,486 STARTING WITH THE UNUSUAL 139 00:07:32,521 --> 00:07:34,971 BOWL-SHAPED CONTOURS OF THE GROUND 140 00:07:35,006 --> 00:07:37,940 AND THE AGE OF THE VEGETATION. 141 00:07:37,974 --> 00:07:39,735 [SPEAKING POLISH] 142 00:07:39,769 --> 00:07:42,013 Wojtek Malinowski: THERE'S LOTS OF THINGS HERE. 143 00:07:42,047 --> 00:07:43,566 IT'S AN UNNATURAL SHAPE, 144 00:07:43,601 --> 00:07:45,706 AND THERE ARE NO TREES OVER 70 YEARS OLD. 145 00:07:48,157 --> 00:07:51,781 THESE ARE YOUNG SELF-SEEDED TREES. 146 00:07:51,816 --> 00:07:54,232 OVER THERE ARE THE ORIGINAL TREES. 147 00:07:54,266 --> 00:07:58,650 AND HERE, THESE ARE TREES THAT HAVE GROWN AFTER THAT TIME. 148 00:07:58,685 --> 00:08:00,687 Narrator: AND RIGHT BY THE YOUNG TREES, 149 00:08:00,721 --> 00:08:02,620 THERE'S A STRANGE PIECE OF MASONRY. 150 00:08:07,797 --> 00:08:09,627 Wojtek: THIS IS NOT A NATURAL STONE 151 00:08:09,661 --> 00:08:12,492 THAT ONE WOULD FIND IN THE GROUND. 152 00:08:12,526 --> 00:08:15,287 AND IT'S NOT PART OF A WALL. 153 00:08:15,322 --> 00:08:18,498 IT'S MOST LIKELY THE KEYSTONE OF A TUNNEL ENTRANCE. 154 00:08:23,951 --> 00:08:26,126 Narrator: ABOUT 400 YARDS AWAY 155 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,199 ARE TWO MYSTERIOUS CONCRETE OBJECTS. 156 00:08:30,233 --> 00:08:33,513 SEEMINGLY MADE FROM NAZI-ERA CONCRETE, 157 00:08:33,547 --> 00:08:35,653 THEY ARE BELIEVED TO BE VENTILATION SHAFTS 158 00:08:35,687 --> 00:08:37,896 TO A TUNNEL BELOW. 159 00:08:37,931 --> 00:08:40,658 AND NEARBY ARE OTHER STRANGE PIECES 160 00:08:40,692 --> 00:08:43,902 OF WHAT WOJTEK THINKS ARE NAZI-ERA CONSTRUCTION. 161 00:08:48,355 --> 00:08:50,564 Wojtek: THIS PLACE IS INTERESTING 162 00:08:50,599 --> 00:08:54,085 AS IT SITS ON THE MOUND STRETCHING FROM K65. 163 00:08:57,571 --> 00:09:00,436 THESE ARE OPENINGS FOR DOWNWARD PIPES. 164 00:09:00,470 --> 00:09:03,508 THEY PROBABLY CARRY POWER CABLESBELOW THE GROUND. 165 00:09:09,618 --> 00:09:13,035 THIS IS TYPICAL OF OTHER MYSTERIOUS CONSTRUCTIONS 166 00:09:13,069 --> 00:09:15,106 THAT WERE BUILT AROUND WALBRZYCH. 167 00:09:23,493 --> 00:09:25,737 Narrator: THIS IS WHAT WOJTEK AND THE TREASURE HUNTERS 168 00:09:25,772 --> 00:09:27,567 BELIEVE THEY WILL FIND 169 00:09:27,601 --> 00:09:33,469 UNDER THE STRANGE BOWL-SHAPED DIP ALONGSIDE K65. 170 00:09:33,503 --> 00:09:36,265 THEY SAY THE EMBANKMENT COVERS A TUNNEL, 171 00:09:36,299 --> 00:09:38,785 WHICH DURING THE WAR WAS ACCESSED BY A SIDING, 172 00:09:38,819 --> 00:09:41,270 RUNNING OFF THE MAIN TRACK, 173 00:09:41,304 --> 00:09:42,754 AND THAT AT THE END OF THE WAR, 174 00:09:42,789 --> 00:09:45,826 THE NAZIS DELIBERATELY BLEW UP THE TUNNEL ENTRANCES 175 00:09:45,861 --> 00:09:48,829 AND COVERED THEM WITH RUBBLE AND SOIL. 176 00:09:48,864 --> 00:09:53,178 AND HERE, PEOPLE BELIEVE, LIES THE NAZI GHOST TRAIN. 177 00:09:57,182 --> 00:09:58,528 WHAT MAKES THEORIES 178 00:09:58,563 --> 00:10:02,187 ABOUT THE TUNNEL AT K65 IN WALBRZYCH SO COMPELLING 179 00:10:02,222 --> 00:10:04,914 IS THAT IT LIES AT THE CENTER OF A NETWORK 180 00:10:04,949 --> 00:10:08,780 OF SINISTER NAZI ENGINEERING PROJECTS. 181 00:10:08,815 --> 00:10:10,471 JUST TWO MILES AWAY 182 00:10:10,506 --> 00:10:13,060 IS A MAGNIFICENT CASTLE 183 00:10:13,095 --> 00:10:17,789 THAT WAS BEING TRANSFORMED INTO A NAZI HEADQUARTERS, 184 00:10:17,824 --> 00:10:20,516 AND DOWN THE ROAD, BURIED IN THE OWL MOUNTAINS, 185 00:10:20,550 --> 00:10:24,071 A TOP-SECRET COMPLEX OF TUNNELS, 186 00:10:24,106 --> 00:10:28,386 MANY OF WHICH REMAIN UNDISCOVERED. 187 00:10:28,420 --> 00:10:30,284 WHAT THE NAZIS WERE PLANNING 188 00:10:30,319 --> 00:10:34,047 WAS TO TURN ALL THESE INTO A VAST UNDERGROUND CITY, 189 00:10:34,081 --> 00:10:36,532 KEY TO THEIR WAR PLANS. 190 00:10:44,609 --> 00:10:46,404 THE K65 MARKER 191 00:10:46,438 --> 00:10:49,890 WHERE PEOPLE BELIEVE THE NAZI GOLD TRAIN HAS BEEN FOUND 192 00:10:49,925 --> 00:10:55,033 LIES AT THE CENTER OF A NETWORKOF MYSTERIOUS WARTIME PROJECTS. 193 00:10:55,068 --> 00:10:59,728 THE SITE HAS BEEN A MAGNET FOR RESEARCHERS FOR DECADES. 194 00:10:59,762 --> 00:11:01,212 THE MOST FAMOUS LOCALLY 195 00:11:01,246 --> 00:11:03,973 IS 85-YEAR-OLD RETIRED COAL MINER 196 00:11:04,008 --> 00:11:06,527 TADEUSZ SLOWIKOWSKI. 197 00:11:06,562 --> 00:11:11,325 HE WAS THE FIRST TO CONNECT K65WITH THE NAZI GOLD TRAIN. 198 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,120 HE HEARD STORIES FROM GERMANS 199 00:11:13,155 --> 00:11:17,884 WHO WORKED WITH HIM IN THE WALBRZYCH COAL MINES. 200 00:11:17,918 --> 00:11:19,540 [SPEAKING POLISH] 201 00:11:19,575 --> 00:11:22,543 Tadeusz Slowikowski: SO I WAS HEARING FROM THE GERMANS 202 00:11:22,578 --> 00:11:25,270 A BIT HERE, A BIT THERE. 203 00:11:25,305 --> 00:11:26,927 THEN I PIECED IT TOGETHER 204 00:11:26,962 --> 00:11:29,481 TO CHECK IF WHAT THEY WERE SAYING WAS POSSIBLE. 205 00:11:33,244 --> 00:11:34,935 Narrator: TADEUSZ BUILT A MODEL 206 00:11:34,970 --> 00:11:37,282 BASED ON AN ACCOUNT FROM A TRAIN DRIVER 207 00:11:37,317 --> 00:11:39,733 WHO WORKED ON THE RAILWAY DURING THE WAR. 208 00:11:44,324 --> 00:11:47,499 Tadeusz: HE WOULD SHUNT THESE CARRIAGES HERE. 209 00:11:47,534 --> 00:11:49,916 AND EVERY TIME HE WENT DOWN THE TRACK-- 210 00:11:49,950 --> 00:11:51,745 AND HE WAS ALWAYS CURIOUS, 211 00:11:51,780 --> 00:11:55,576 BECAUSE THERE WAS A GATE HERE, AND YOU COULDN'T SEE INSIDE. 212 00:11:55,611 --> 00:11:57,958 AND HE CLIMBED ONTO THE COAL WAGON 213 00:11:57,993 --> 00:12:00,650 AND SAW TWO CARRIAGES BEHIND THE FENCE. 214 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:05,621 Narrator: THE TRAIN DRIVER DESCRIBED HIGH WALLS 215 00:12:05,655 --> 00:12:08,417 THAT HID THE SECRET SIDING FROM ONLOOKERS 216 00:12:08,451 --> 00:12:10,591 AND SAID THAT AT THE END OF THE WAR, 217 00:12:10,626 --> 00:12:13,077 THE NAZIS BLEW UP THE TUNNEL ENTRANCE 218 00:12:13,111 --> 00:12:17,150 TO CONCEAL THE TUNNEL AND THE TRAIN WITHIN. 219 00:12:17,184 --> 00:12:22,742 BUT WHY WOULD THE NAZIS GO TOSO MUCH EFFORT TO HIDE A TRAIN? 220 00:12:22,776 --> 00:12:26,193 TADEUSZ AND OTHERS BELIEVE THAT ONE PLAUSIBLE ANSWER 221 00:12:26,228 --> 00:12:28,782 IS TO HIDE STOLEN TREASURE, 222 00:12:28,817 --> 00:12:29,921 AND AS EVIDENCE, 223 00:12:29,956 --> 00:12:32,268 THEY POINT TO THE HISTORY OF THIS AREA. 224 00:12:34,684 --> 00:12:37,929 IN 1945, THIS WASN'T POLAND. 225 00:12:37,964 --> 00:12:41,070 THE DIG SITE, WALBRZYCH, AND ALL OF LOWER SILESIA 226 00:12:41,105 --> 00:12:42,175 WAS IN GERMANY 227 00:12:42,209 --> 00:12:46,006 AND HAD BEEN FOR CENTURIES. 228 00:12:46,041 --> 00:12:49,492 THIS WAS THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNEROF THE THIRD REICH, 229 00:12:49,527 --> 00:12:51,149 AND DURING WORLD WAR II, 230 00:12:51,184 --> 00:12:53,703 IT WAS ABOUT AS FAR AWAY AS YOU COULD GET FROM THE PAIN 231 00:12:53,738 --> 00:12:56,499 THE REST OF GERMANY WAS BEGINNING TO SUFFER 232 00:12:56,534 --> 00:12:58,674 AS THE WAR SLIPPED FROM THEIR GRASP. 233 00:13:00,745 --> 00:13:04,369 IN 1942, ALLIED BOMBERS WERE LAYING WASTE 234 00:13:04,404 --> 00:13:07,372 TO THE GERMAN INDUSTRIAL HEARTLANDS IN THE WEST. 235 00:13:12,446 --> 00:13:16,381 BUT LOWER SILESIA REMAINED OUT OF RANGE OF THE BOMBERS. 236 00:13:16,416 --> 00:13:18,245 IT WAS A SAFE HAVEN 237 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,835 TO WHICH THE NAZIS MOVED THEIR INDUSTRY AND THEIR TREASURES. 238 00:13:21,870 --> 00:13:24,458 AND BENEATH THE ROLLING HILLS OF THE OWL MOUNTAINS, 239 00:13:24,493 --> 00:13:25,805 THE NAZIS LAUNCHED 240 00:13:25,839 --> 00:13:28,877 ONE OF THEIR MOST AMBITIOUS AND MYSTERIOUS PROJECTS. 241 00:13:34,779 --> 00:13:40,129 THE OWL MOUNTAINS LIE LESS THAN 10 MILES FROM K65. 242 00:13:40,164 --> 00:13:41,268 AND IT IS HERE 243 00:13:41,303 --> 00:13:42,683 THAT THE NAZIS BUILT 244 00:13:42,718 --> 00:13:46,998 A TOP-SECRET AND SINISTER COMPLEX OF UNDERGROUND TUNNELS 245 00:13:47,033 --> 00:13:49,932 CODE-NAMED RIESE, OR GIANT. 246 00:13:56,801 --> 00:13:59,804 IN THE DESPERATE FINAL DAYS OF WORLD WAR II, 247 00:13:59,839 --> 00:14:01,771 THE NAZIS WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS 248 00:14:01,806 --> 00:14:05,879 TO HIDE WHAT THEY HAD BEEN DOING HERE. 249 00:14:05,914 --> 00:14:07,950 BUT WHAT HAS SINCE BEEN DISCOVERED 250 00:14:07,985 --> 00:14:11,402 REVEALS PERHAPS THE LARGEST, MOST EXTRAORDINARY PROJECT 251 00:14:11,436 --> 00:14:13,818 EVER UNDERTAKEN BY THE NAZIS. 252 00:14:19,030 --> 00:14:25,209 LUKASZ KAZEK, A LOCAL HISTORIAN,KNOWS THE TUNNELS WELL. 253 00:14:25,243 --> 00:14:29,109 Lukasz Kazek: THIS TUNNEL IS 2.5 MILES LONG. 254 00:14:29,144 --> 00:14:32,009 IT'S THE BIGGEST OF ALL THE ONESWE KNOW IN THE OWL MOUNTAINS. 255 00:14:33,355 --> 00:14:34,494 [SPEAKING POLISH] 256 00:14:34,528 --> 00:14:37,877 THERE ARE THREE HALLWAYS PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER 257 00:14:37,911 --> 00:14:41,018 AND SIX THAT INTERSECT, MAKING IT INTO A GRID, 258 00:14:41,052 --> 00:14:42,882 A LABYRINTH, YOU COULD SAY. 259 00:14:45,643 --> 00:14:47,817 Narrator: CONSTRUCTION OF THE RIESE COMPLEX 260 00:14:47,852 --> 00:14:51,062 BEGAN IN LATE 1943, 261 00:14:51,097 --> 00:14:52,339 BUT WITHIN MONTHS, 262 00:14:52,374 --> 00:14:55,066 HITLER ORDERED HIS SUPER ENGINEERING GROUP, 263 00:14:55,101 --> 00:14:56,930 CALLED ORGANIZATION TODT, 264 00:14:56,965 --> 00:15:03,005 TO TAKE OVER AND MAKE THE WORK HERE THEIR PRIORITY. 265 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:04,351 ORGANIZATION TODT 266 00:15:04,386 --> 00:15:06,112 WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE THIRD REICH'S 267 00:15:06,146 --> 00:15:08,735 MOST IMPORTANT CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. 268 00:15:11,911 --> 00:15:16,225 THE AUTOBAHNS IN THE 1930s... 269 00:15:16,260 --> 00:15:17,847 THE SIEGFRIED LINE, 270 00:15:17,882 --> 00:15:20,402 GERMANY'S MASSIVE WESTERN DEFENSES... 271 00:15:22,231 --> 00:15:24,440 AND THE ATLANTIC WALL 272 00:15:24,475 --> 00:15:28,341 ALONG THE ENTIRE WESTERN COASTLINE OF OCCUPIED EUROPE. 273 00:15:32,379 --> 00:15:34,968 BUT HERE IN THE OWL MOUNTAINS, 274 00:15:35,003 --> 00:15:37,315 THIS VAST UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION 275 00:15:37,350 --> 00:15:39,697 WAS THE GROUP'S GREATEST CHALLENGE. 276 00:15:39,731 --> 00:15:41,664 SOME OF THE CHAMBERS ARE SO MASSIVE, 277 00:15:41,699 --> 00:15:44,978 THEY LOOK LIKE NATURAL CAVES. 278 00:15:45,013 --> 00:15:46,566 BUT THEY'RE NOT NATURAL. 279 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,018 THEY'RE THE WORK OF HUMAN HANDS. 280 00:15:50,052 --> 00:15:53,159 Lukasz: THERE WAS NEVER A NATURAL SPACE HERE. 281 00:15:53,193 --> 00:15:55,989 THERE WERE TWO HALLWAYS, ONE ABOVE THE OTHER. 282 00:15:56,024 --> 00:15:57,853 THEN THE CEILING WAS COLLAPSED, 283 00:15:57,887 --> 00:16:00,994 CREATING MASSIVE HALLS 36 FEET HIGH. 284 00:16:01,029 --> 00:16:02,720 AND THAT'S WHAT MOST OF THE TUNNELS 285 00:16:02,754 --> 00:16:04,998 WERE SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE. 286 00:16:05,033 --> 00:16:07,759 Narrator: THE NAZIS LEFT NO EVIDENCE ANYWHERE 287 00:16:07,794 --> 00:16:11,142 OF WHAT EXACTLY THEY WERE PLANNING TO DO HERE. 288 00:16:11,177 --> 00:16:13,041 BUT EXPERTS BELIEVE IT WAS CONNECTED 289 00:16:13,075 --> 00:16:17,528 WITH PROTECTING THEIR VITAL ARMS MANUFACTURING. 290 00:16:17,562 --> 00:16:19,633 Lukasz: THE GERMANS WERE MOVINGTHEIR WEAPONS INDUSTRY 291 00:16:19,668 --> 00:16:21,049 UNDERGROUND, 292 00:16:21,083 --> 00:16:22,291 SO IT'S VERY LIKELY 293 00:16:22,326 --> 00:16:25,398 THEY INTENDED TO INSTALL FACTORIES DOWN HERE. 294 00:16:25,432 --> 00:16:27,572 WE ARE 60 YARDS UNDER THE GROUND. 295 00:16:27,607 --> 00:16:29,885 AMERICAN, ENGLISH, SOVIET BOMBS 296 00:16:29,919 --> 00:16:32,163 WERE NOT CAPABLE OF DESTROYING ANYTHING DOWN HERE. 297 00:16:36,650 --> 00:16:39,446 Narrator: WE KNOW THE NAZIS WERE LOOKING FOR WAYS 298 00:16:39,481 --> 00:16:42,760 OF PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM ALLIED BOMBING. 299 00:16:44,693 --> 00:16:46,212 ELSEWHERE IN THE REICH, 300 00:16:46,246 --> 00:16:48,421 ROCKET AND FIGHTER AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION 301 00:16:48,455 --> 00:16:51,631 HAD BEEN MOVED UNDERGROUND. 302 00:16:51,665 --> 00:16:54,461 THE RIESE COMPLEX WAS BUILT TO THE SAME BLUEPRINT 303 00:16:54,496 --> 00:16:58,465 AS OTHER SUBTERRANEAN FACTORIESWE KNOW EXISTED, 304 00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:01,123 SO THERE'S STRONG EVIDENCE THAT RIESE WAS PLANNED 305 00:17:01,158 --> 00:17:05,231 AS A MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXON A MASSIVE SCALE. 306 00:17:07,405 --> 00:17:08,820 Lukasz: HAD THE GERMANS FINISHED 307 00:17:08,855 --> 00:17:11,409 AND LINKED THE COMPLEXES TOGETHER, 308 00:17:11,444 --> 00:17:13,756 THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A POWERFUL NAZI CITY. 309 00:17:16,207 --> 00:17:18,692 Narrator: ACCORDING TO NAZI DOCUMENTS, 310 00:17:18,727 --> 00:17:23,387 280,000 CUBIC YARDS OF TUNNEL WERE CREATED. 311 00:17:23,421 --> 00:17:25,872 BUT ONLY A THIRD OF THEM HAVE BEEN FOUND. 312 00:17:29,324 --> 00:17:32,154 WHATEVER THE RIESE TUNNELS WERE INTENDED FOR, 313 00:17:32,189 --> 00:17:35,054 THERE IS NO DOUBTING THEIR IMPRESSIVE SCALE. 314 00:17:35,088 --> 00:17:44,166 ♪ 315 00:17:44,201 --> 00:17:47,100 IN THE 70 YEARS SINCE THE NAZIS FLED, 316 00:17:47,135 --> 00:17:49,240 IT'S HARDLY SURPRISING THAT LOCAL RESIDENTS 317 00:17:49,275 --> 00:17:51,000 CAME UP WITH MANY WAYS 318 00:17:51,035 --> 00:17:56,040 TO EXPLAIN THIS GHOSTLY,HALF-BUILT UNDERGROUND KINGDOM. 319 00:17:56,075 --> 00:17:58,318 THESE CAVERNS HAVE BRED A WHOLE GENERATION 320 00:17:58,353 --> 00:18:01,632 OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES. 321 00:18:01,666 --> 00:18:03,323 ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL 322 00:18:03,358 --> 00:18:06,257 IS THAT THE NAZIS WERE BUILDING A MISSILE, 323 00:18:06,292 --> 00:18:07,879 THEIR "WONDER WEAPON," 324 00:18:07,914 --> 00:18:12,298 EVEN DEVELOPINGTHE GERMAN ATOM BOMB RIGHT HERE. 325 00:18:12,332 --> 00:18:18,027 BUT ALL THIS WAS ACHIEVED AT A TERRIBLE HUMAN COST. 326 00:18:18,062 --> 00:18:21,445 THIS HARD GRANITE ROCK WAS HACKED OUT BY SLAVE LABOR 327 00:18:21,479 --> 00:18:23,412 IN APPALLING CONDITIONS. 328 00:18:26,035 --> 00:18:29,487 PRISONERS WERE CONSTANTLY EXPOSED TO TOXIC FUMES 329 00:18:29,522 --> 00:18:34,423 FROM DYNAMITE USED TO BLOW UP THE ROCK. 330 00:18:34,458 --> 00:18:37,116 THEY WERE HALF STARVED AND PERMANENTLY SOAKED 331 00:18:37,150 --> 00:18:41,706 IN TEMPERATURES JUST ABOVE FREEZING. 332 00:18:41,741 --> 00:18:44,571 THOUSANDS WERE LITERALLY WORKED TO DEATH. 333 00:18:50,819 --> 00:18:53,787 MOST OF THE LABOR FOR NAZI TUNNELING IN THIS REGION 334 00:18:53,822 --> 00:18:58,930 WOULD HAVE BEEN SUPPLIED BY THEGROSS ROSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP. 335 00:18:58,965 --> 00:19:03,176 OVER THE ENTRANCE, THE GREAT NAZI LIE: 336 00:19:03,211 --> 00:19:05,351 "WORK SETS YOU FREE." 337 00:19:11,253 --> 00:19:13,911 EMACIATED PRISONERS LIKE THESE 338 00:19:13,945 --> 00:19:16,224 CARRIED OUT THE BACK-BREAKING WORK, 339 00:19:19,848 --> 00:19:23,679 THE RIESE TUNNEL LABORERS HAD THE POOREST LIVING CONDITIONS 340 00:19:23,714 --> 00:19:25,612 AND ONE OF THE HIGHEST MORTALITY RATES 341 00:19:25,647 --> 00:19:29,547 OF ALL THE NAZI FORCED LABOR CAMPS. 342 00:19:29,582 --> 00:19:32,481 LIFE EXPECTANCY WAS FIVE WEEKS. 343 00:19:35,243 --> 00:19:39,799 IF TREASURE HUNTERS DO FIND A HIDDEN TUNNEL AT K65, 344 00:19:39,833 --> 00:19:42,111 IT WOULD ALMOST CERTAINLY HAVE BEEN BUILT 345 00:19:42,146 --> 00:19:44,390 BY THESE SLAVE LABORERS. 346 00:19:49,843 --> 00:19:53,640 ANDREAS AND PIOTR ARE KEEN TO CARRY OUT FURTHER SURVEYS 347 00:19:53,675 --> 00:19:55,401 AND PLAN THE DIG. 348 00:19:55,435 --> 00:19:58,197 BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM. 349 00:19:58,231 --> 00:19:59,508 THE POLISH AUTHORITIES 350 00:19:59,543 --> 00:20:03,305 ARE TAKING THE CLAIM THAT A TUNNEL EXISTS SERIOUSLY, 351 00:20:03,340 --> 00:20:05,480 BUT THERE'S A FEAR THAT THE GERMANS 352 00:20:05,514 --> 00:20:08,103 MAY HAVE BOOBY-TRAPPED THE SITE, 353 00:20:08,137 --> 00:20:11,796 AND NOW THE ARMY MOVES IN TO ENSURE THE AREA IS SAFE. 354 00:20:13,626 --> 00:20:17,561 BUT EVEN BEFORE THEY DIG, THERE'S ONE MORE LOCATION 355 00:20:17,595 --> 00:20:18,803 THAT COULD HOLD CLUES 356 00:20:18,838 --> 00:20:21,841 TO THE NAZI GOLD TRAIN MYSTERY. 357 00:20:21,875 --> 00:20:25,120 TWO MILES AWAY IS KSIAZ CASTLE, 358 00:20:25,154 --> 00:20:31,264 THE LARGEST AND MOST STUNNING PALACE IN SOUTHWESTERN POLAND. 359 00:20:31,299 --> 00:20:35,372 NOW A MAGNET FOR TOURISTS, BACK IN 1944, 360 00:20:35,406 --> 00:20:39,065 IT WAS BEING REBUILT AS HITLER'S FINAL HIDEAWAY. 361 00:20:41,067 --> 00:20:46,935 ♪ 362 00:20:46,969 --> 00:20:52,147 KSIAZ CASTLE IS KNOWN AS THE PEARL OF SILESIA. 363 00:20:52,181 --> 00:20:54,770 IT IS THE LARGEST AND MOST STUNNING PALACE 364 00:20:54,805 --> 00:20:56,807 IN SOUTHERN POLAND. 365 00:21:04,642 --> 00:21:06,955 THE HIDDEN TUNNEL THAT THE TREASURE HUNTERS 366 00:21:06,989 --> 00:21:09,129 BELIEVE HIDES THE NAZI GHOST TRAIN 367 00:21:09,164 --> 00:21:10,407 LIES JUST TWO MILES 368 00:21:10,441 --> 00:21:13,720 FROM THE CASTLE. 369 00:21:13,755 --> 00:21:16,102 WHAT THE NAZIS WERE DOING HERE 370 00:21:16,136 --> 00:21:20,209 COULD HELP US UNDERSTAND THE MYSTERY AT K65, 371 00:21:20,244 --> 00:21:24,455 AND THAT'S BECAUSE THE NAZIS HADNOT ONLY TAKEN OVER THE CASTLE, 372 00:21:24,490 --> 00:21:26,319 BUT IN MID-1944, 373 00:21:26,354 --> 00:21:29,909 THEY BEGAN WORKING ON TURNING THIS INTO A HEADQUARTERS 374 00:21:29,943 --> 00:21:31,911 FOR THE FUHRER HIMSELF. 375 00:21:34,327 --> 00:21:38,400 THIS WOULD BE ADOLF HITLER'S FINAL RETREAT. 376 00:21:42,508 --> 00:21:44,061 AFTER STALINGRAD, 377 00:21:44,095 --> 00:21:48,237 GERMANY WAS NO LONGER WINNING THE WAR. 378 00:21:48,272 --> 00:21:52,345 HERE IN THE EAST, THE GERMANS WERE IN RETREAT, 379 00:21:52,380 --> 00:21:55,141 AND HITLER'S EASTERN REDOUBT, THE WOLF'S LAIR, 380 00:21:55,175 --> 00:21:58,178 500 MILES NORTHEAST, 381 00:21:58,213 --> 00:21:59,594 LAY RIGHT IN THE PATH 382 00:21:59,628 --> 00:22:01,665 OF THE ADVANCING SOVIETS. 383 00:22:03,598 --> 00:22:07,533 HITLER NEEDED A NEW HIDEAWAY. 384 00:22:07,567 --> 00:22:10,777 AND SO NOW, KSIAZ CASTLE WAS BEING REDESIGNED 385 00:22:10,812 --> 00:22:12,883 TO HOUSE THE NAZI HIGH COMMAND. 386 00:22:15,057 --> 00:22:16,473 IN THE EAST, 387 00:22:16,507 --> 00:22:19,614 THE GERMAN ARMY WAS SUFFERING CATASTROPHIC LOSSES, 388 00:22:19,648 --> 00:22:22,962 WHILE HERE, AT KSIAZ, NO EXPENSE WAS SPARED 389 00:22:22,996 --> 00:22:26,828 AS THE CASTLE WAS GETTING A MAKEOVER. 390 00:22:26,862 --> 00:22:31,211 ITS BEAUTIFUL GREEN AND RED ROOMS WERE PAINTED WHITE, 391 00:22:31,246 --> 00:22:34,767 ITS BAROQUE AND ROCOCO FEATURESRIPPED OUT AND REPLACED 392 00:22:34,801 --> 00:22:38,287 WITH THE NAZIS' FAVORITE NEO-CLASSICAL STYLE, 393 00:22:38,322 --> 00:22:40,600 MAKING ROOM FOR THE GREATEST ARTWORKS 394 00:22:40,635 --> 00:22:43,120 LOOTED FROM ACROSS EUROPE. 395 00:22:45,294 --> 00:22:48,643 THE CASTLE MIGHT EVEN HAVE BEENTHE INTENDED DESTINATION 396 00:22:48,677 --> 00:22:51,887 FOR ONE OF THE NAZI'SMOST INFAMOUS LOOTED TREASURES: 397 00:22:51,922 --> 00:22:57,686 THE AMBER ROOM, SHOWN IN THIS RECENT REPLICA. 398 00:22:57,721 --> 00:23:00,309 THE NAZIS HAD STRIPPED ITS GLITTERING PANELS 399 00:23:00,344 --> 00:23:05,901 AND GOLD LEAF FROM A LENINGRAD PALACE IN 1941. 400 00:23:05,936 --> 00:23:09,698 IT IS RUMORED THAT THIS HALL WASBEING PREPARED TO HOUSE IT. 401 00:23:09,733 --> 00:23:13,357 THE DIMENSIONS ARE SAID TO FIT EXACTLY. 402 00:23:13,392 --> 00:23:16,429 BUT THE AMBER ROOM NEVER MADE IT HERE. 403 00:23:16,464 --> 00:23:18,707 ITS WHEREABOUTS REMAIN UNKNOWN. 404 00:23:23,678 --> 00:23:27,785 MACIEJ MEISSNER IS A CURATOR AT THE CASTLE. 405 00:23:27,820 --> 00:23:32,100 DOWN A LONG HALL HE FINDS ONEOF ITS MOST IMPORTANT FEATURES: 406 00:23:32,134 --> 00:23:36,898 A BEDROOM FOR THE FUHRER HIMSELF. 407 00:23:36,932 --> 00:23:40,660 THE ALTERATIONS THEY MADE HERE SHOWED HOW HITLER WOULD BE 408 00:23:40,695 --> 00:23:43,663 AT THE HEART OF THE NEW NAZI NERVE-CENTER 409 00:23:43,698 --> 00:23:46,390 WHICH KSIAZ CASTLE WAS TO BECOME. 410 00:23:46,425 --> 00:23:48,323 Maciej Meissner: THEY CHANGED EVERYTHING HERE, 411 00:23:48,357 --> 00:23:49,945 BECAUSE FOR EXAMPLE, 412 00:23:49,980 --> 00:23:54,536 BEHIND ME WE HAVE THE DOOR THAT REPLACED THE FIREPLACE, 413 00:23:54,571 --> 00:23:58,851 AND BEHIND THIS DOOR THEY WANTEDTO BUILD A BATHROOM FOR HITLER, 414 00:23:58,885 --> 00:24:00,818 AND ON THE RIGHT, 415 00:24:00,853 --> 00:24:04,166 WE'VE GOT THE DOORS THAT LEADS TO THE EVACUATION ROUTE, 416 00:24:04,201 --> 00:24:06,686 BECAUSE BEHIND IT WE HAVE THE ELEVATOR SHAFT. 417 00:24:10,656 --> 00:24:13,624 Narrator: WITHIN SECONDS OF AN ALARM BEING RAISED, 418 00:24:13,659 --> 00:24:17,386 HITLER COULD LEAVE HIS BEDROOM TO BE WHISKED AWAY TO SAFETY. 419 00:24:20,010 --> 00:24:23,496 Maciej: THAT... [KNOCK KNOCK] IS THE ELEVATOR SHAFT 420 00:24:23,531 --> 00:24:25,498 THAT LEADS TO THE UNDERGROUND, 421 00:24:25,533 --> 00:24:27,466 THE SHORTEST WAY TO ESCAPE. 422 00:24:31,539 --> 00:24:33,230 Narrator: A FEW FEET ALONG THE CORRIDOR 423 00:24:33,264 --> 00:24:34,645 FROM THE FUHRER'S BEDROOM 424 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,509 WAS A COMMUNICATIONS CENTER. 425 00:24:39,029 --> 00:24:40,858 THIS PLACE WAS A HUB, 426 00:24:40,893 --> 00:24:42,895 ALLOWING FOR EFFICIENT COMMUNICATIONS 427 00:24:42,929 --> 00:24:45,932 AND A RAPID ESCAPE DOWN THESE ELEVATOR SHAFTS 428 00:24:45,967 --> 00:24:48,521 IF THE CASTLE EVER CAME UNDER ATTACK. 429 00:24:52,939 --> 00:24:55,632 Maciej: THIS INTERIOR, THIS PLACE 430 00:24:55,666 --> 00:24:58,462 USED TO BE SOME SORT OF QUICK RESPONSE CENTER 431 00:24:58,497 --> 00:25:01,741 FOR HITLER AND HIS CLOSEST OFFICIALS. 432 00:25:01,776 --> 00:25:08,403 IT'S PERFECTLY CONNECTED WITH ALL THE ROOMS IN THE CASTLE. 433 00:25:08,437 --> 00:25:11,544 Narrator: AND CLOSE BY WAS A NEWLY CONSTRUCTED STAIRCASE 434 00:25:11,579 --> 00:25:13,960 LEADING UNDERGROUND TO A NETWORK OF TUNNELS 435 00:25:13,995 --> 00:25:16,929 HEWN OUT OF THE ROCK BELOW THE CASTLE. 436 00:25:19,897 --> 00:25:23,314 THE NEW FUHRER HEADQUARTERS WOULD ULTIMATELY BE LINKED 437 00:25:23,349 --> 00:25:26,663 TO THE RIESE COMPLEX IN THE OWL MOUNTAINS 438 00:25:26,697 --> 00:25:28,527 AND CREATE A SUBTERRANEAN SHELTER 439 00:25:28,561 --> 00:25:32,565 FOR 27,000 TOP NAZI AND SS PERSONNEL 440 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,534 SPREAD ACROSS A RADIUS OF 15 MILES. 441 00:25:38,226 --> 00:25:40,884 THE RESOURCES THE PROJECT CONSUMED 442 00:25:40,918 --> 00:25:42,402 WERE STAGGERING. 443 00:25:46,096 --> 00:25:47,856 ALBERT SPEER, 444 00:25:47,891 --> 00:25:51,722 HITLER'S ARMAMENTS MINISTER ANDHEAD OF THE ENGINEERING GROUP, 445 00:25:51,757 --> 00:25:54,587 WROTE THAT BY THE AUTUMN OF 1944, 446 00:25:54,622 --> 00:25:57,072 THEY WERE USING MORE CONCRETE HERE 447 00:25:57,107 --> 00:25:58,971 THAN FOR THE BUILDING OF AIR-RAID SHELTERS 448 00:25:59,005 --> 00:26:03,009 FOR THE ENTIRE THIRD REICH. 449 00:26:03,044 --> 00:26:07,082 TOP NAZIS QUESTIONED THE SANITYOF POURING VITAL RESOURCES 450 00:26:07,117 --> 00:26:10,499 INTO THE MYSTERIOUS UNDERGROUND COMPLEX, 451 00:26:10,534 --> 00:26:13,123 BUT HITLER SPED UP THE PROJECT. 452 00:26:18,507 --> 00:26:22,546 DIRECTLY BENEATH THE CASTLE IS YET ANOTHER NETWORK OF TUNNELS 453 00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:25,791 WHERE YOU CAN SEE WHERE ALL THAT CONCRETE WENT. 454 00:26:30,416 --> 00:26:34,869 LEOPOLD STEMPOWSKI HAS LIVED INTHE CASTLE GROUNDS ALL HIS LIFE. 455 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,221 [SPEAKING POLISH] 456 00:26:42,255 --> 00:26:45,638 Leopold Stempowski: THE TUNNELSARE ENORMOUS, IMPRESSIVE. 457 00:26:45,673 --> 00:26:48,814 YOU COULD EASILY DRIVE A CAR IN HERE. 458 00:26:48,848 --> 00:26:50,125 AND THAT'S PROBABLY HOW THE INHABITANTS 459 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,438 PLANNED TO MOVE AROUND HERE. 460 00:26:57,477 --> 00:27:00,860 Narrator: WORK UNDER THE CASTLEWAS FAR MORE SOPHISTICATED 461 00:27:00,895 --> 00:27:03,552 THAN AT THE OTHER RIESE TUNNELS. 462 00:27:03,587 --> 00:27:04,933 BUT THERE'S A CLUE THAT COULD INDICATE 463 00:27:04,968 --> 00:27:08,040 THE NAZIS WERE TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING HERE. 464 00:27:12,631 --> 00:27:18,326 Leopold: WE ARE STANDING IN FRONT OF THIS MYSTERIOUS WALL. 465 00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:20,742 THE REST OF THE WALLS ARE PROPERLY FINISHED. 466 00:27:20,777 --> 00:27:23,711 BUT THIS WALL ISN'T. 467 00:27:23,745 --> 00:27:26,196 THIS WALL'S BEEN CAST IN A SLOPPY WAY, 468 00:27:26,230 --> 00:27:28,750 WHICH ISN'T WHAT GERMAN WORK LOOKS LIKE. 469 00:27:32,236 --> 00:27:36,137 THIS SLAP-DASH SHUTTERING RAISES SPECULATION 470 00:27:36,171 --> 00:27:38,346 THAT IT CONCEALS SOME MYSTERY. 471 00:27:41,694 --> 00:27:43,938 Narrator:ATTEMPTS TO DRILL INTO THE WALL 472 00:27:43,972 --> 00:27:46,388 HAVE SO FAR PROVED INCONCLUSIVE, 473 00:27:46,423 --> 00:27:47,769 AND THERE ARE MANY THEORIES 474 00:27:47,804 --> 00:27:50,634 AS TO WHAT MIGHT LIE BEHIND THE WALL, 475 00:27:50,669 --> 00:27:52,740 RANGING FROM BODIES OF DEAD WORKERS 476 00:27:52,774 --> 00:27:55,397 TO NAZI LOOT. 477 00:27:55,432 --> 00:27:57,745 BUT LEOPOLD HAS ANOTHER IDEA. 478 00:28:01,472 --> 00:28:05,235 Leopold: THERE IS A THEORY THATTHE TUNNEL WITH THE GOLD TRAIN 479 00:28:05,269 --> 00:28:09,757 WAS SOMEHOW LINKED TO KSIAZ CASTLE. 480 00:28:09,791 --> 00:28:11,620 WE DON'T RULE OUT THE HYPOTHESIS 481 00:28:11,655 --> 00:28:14,727 THAT UNDER THESE TUNNELS THERE IS A TRAIN STATION. 482 00:28:17,937 --> 00:28:19,732 Narrator: COULD THERE HAVE BEEN PLANS 483 00:28:19,767 --> 00:28:22,183 FOR A RAIL CONNECTION FROM THESE TUNNELS 484 00:28:22,217 --> 00:28:25,738 TO THE MAIN LINE A FEW MILES AWAY? 485 00:28:25,773 --> 00:28:28,499 WE KNOW THAT HITLER LOVED TRAVELING BY TRAIN 486 00:28:28,534 --> 00:28:30,294 AND THAT NO FUHRER HEADQUARTERS 487 00:28:30,329 --> 00:28:34,229 WAS EVER BUILT WITHOUT GOOD RAILWAY ACCESS. 488 00:28:34,264 --> 00:28:36,473 BUT THERE'S NO STATION AT KSIAZ. 489 00:28:38,406 --> 00:28:40,960 SOME CLAIM THERE USED TO BE A LITTLE RAILWAY 490 00:28:40,995 --> 00:28:44,067 RUNNING UP TO THE CASTLE. 491 00:28:44,101 --> 00:28:45,585 AND THE TREASURE HUNTERS SAY 492 00:28:45,620 --> 00:28:47,587 THE TUNNEL THEY THINK THEY HAVE FOUND 493 00:28:47,622 --> 00:28:50,280 DOES HAVE A CONNECTION TO KSIAZ 494 00:28:50,314 --> 00:28:51,730 BECAUSE HIGH-RANKING NAZIS 495 00:28:51,764 --> 00:28:54,422 WERE FREQUENT VISITORS TO THE CASTLE. 496 00:29:02,775 --> 00:29:05,813 Piotr: BECAUSE WHEN TOP BRASS CAME HERE, 497 00:29:05,847 --> 00:29:08,574 THEY EXITED THE TUNNEL AND HAD TO GO SOMEWHERE. 498 00:29:08,608 --> 00:29:10,507 THEY HAD TO HAVE A PLACE TO GO. 499 00:29:10,541 --> 00:29:12,474 THE CREW HAD TO BE SOMEWHERE. 500 00:29:12,509 --> 00:29:14,649 THE TRAIN HAD TO BE HIDDEN SOMEWHERE. 501 00:29:14,683 --> 00:29:17,721 IT SIMPLY COULDN'T SIT ON THE TRACKS. 502 00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:21,000 AND TRAINS WITH OFFICIALS KEPT COMING TO KSIAZ CASTLE. 503 00:29:26,903 --> 00:29:28,421 Narrator: THERE IS NO EVIDENCE 504 00:29:28,456 --> 00:29:32,287 THAT HITLER HIMSELF EVER MADE IT TO KSIAZ, 505 00:29:32,322 --> 00:29:33,806 BUT THE HIGH SECURITY AT THE SITE 506 00:29:33,841 --> 00:29:35,532 SUPPORTS THE CASE 507 00:29:35,566 --> 00:29:38,569 THAT HIS SENIOR SUBORDINATES CERTAINLY DID. 508 00:29:41,538 --> 00:29:46,992 Andreas: WE'VE GATHERED VARIOUS BITS OF INFORMATION. 509 00:29:47,026 --> 00:29:49,235 THERE WAS UNUSUAL CONSTRUCTION WORK 510 00:29:49,270 --> 00:29:52,756 CARRIED OUT HERE DURING WORLD WAR II. 511 00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:54,862 THERE WAS NET FENCING ALONG HERE. 512 00:29:58,279 --> 00:30:02,041 Piotr: THERE WAS A CAMOUFLAGE NETTING STRETCHED EVERYWHERE. 513 00:30:02,076 --> 00:30:03,871 THERE ARE OLD CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS 514 00:30:03,905 --> 00:30:08,151 FOR THE SUPPORTS OVER THERE. 515 00:30:08,185 --> 00:30:09,842 AND ACCORDING TO WITNESSES, 516 00:30:09,877 --> 00:30:13,915 WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE OF THIS AREA WAS A FORBIDDEN ZONE, 517 00:30:13,950 --> 00:30:15,917 EVEN TO THE GERMANS. 518 00:30:21,716 --> 00:30:23,891 Narrator: FOUR MONTHS AFTER THEY MADE THEIR CLAIM, 519 00:30:23,925 --> 00:30:26,686 THE TREASURE HUNTERS ARECONFIDENT THEY HAVE NEW SURVEYS 520 00:30:26,721 --> 00:30:28,792 WHICH CONFIRM THEIR FINDINGS. 521 00:30:34,039 --> 00:30:36,558 IT'S DECEMBER 2015, 522 00:30:36,593 --> 00:30:38,077 AND THEY'RE PRESENTING THEIR RESULTS 523 00:30:38,112 --> 00:30:40,977 TO A PACKED PRESS CONFERENCE IN TOWN. 524 00:30:41,011 --> 00:30:43,255 THE PLAN IS TO PRESENT A TIMETABLE 525 00:30:43,289 --> 00:30:46,603 FOR THE EXCAVATION AT K65. 526 00:30:46,637 --> 00:30:49,640 BUT THE STORY IS TURNED UPSIDE-DOWN 527 00:30:49,675 --> 00:30:52,609 WHEN ONE MAN MAKES A SHOCKING ANNOUNCEMENT. 528 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,097 IN DECEMBER 2015, 529 00:30:58,132 --> 00:31:00,582 TREASURE HUNTERS IN POLAND ARE READY TO PRESENT 530 00:31:00,617 --> 00:31:05,933 THE RESULTS OF NEW SURVEYS DONE AT K65. 531 00:31:05,967 --> 00:31:07,796 BUT BEFORE THEY CAN GET STARTED, 532 00:31:07,831 --> 00:31:09,350 THERE'S A SURPRISE. 533 00:31:11,352 --> 00:31:13,250 PROFESSOR JANUSZ MADEJ, 534 00:31:13,285 --> 00:31:15,494 HEADING A TEAM OF INDEPENDENT ACADEMICS, 535 00:31:15,528 --> 00:31:17,668 STEPS FORWARD TO SAY THAT HE, TOO, 536 00:31:17,703 --> 00:31:20,016 HAS TAKEN SURVEYS AT THE SITE, 537 00:31:20,050 --> 00:31:24,296 AND HIS TEAM HAS DRAWN VERY DIFFERENT CONCLUSIONS. 538 00:31:24,330 --> 00:31:27,678 [SPEAKING POLISH] 539 00:31:27,713 --> 00:31:31,924 Janusz Madej: WE'VE DONE TESTSAND CONCLUDE THERE IS NO TUNNEL 540 00:31:31,959 --> 00:31:33,788 AND THERE IS NO TRAIN. 541 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:40,553 [CAMERAS CLICKING] 542 00:31:40,588 --> 00:31:45,351 ♪ 543 00:31:45,386 --> 00:31:47,353 Narrator: THE MAN BEHIND THE BOMBSHELL, 544 00:31:47,388 --> 00:31:49,148 PROFESSOR JANUSZ MADEJ, 545 00:31:49,183 --> 00:31:50,874 IS A GEOPHYSICIST 546 00:31:50,909 --> 00:31:54,153 AT THE RENOWNED AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 547 00:31:54,188 --> 00:31:56,052 IN KRAKOW. 548 00:31:56,086 --> 00:31:59,055 HE WAS CONCERNED THE SURVEYS HAD NOT BEEN DONE PROPERLY. 549 00:32:04,646 --> 00:32:07,787 Janusz: THE ONLY REASON WE ENDED UP IN WALBRZYCH 550 00:32:07,822 --> 00:32:09,789 SEARCHING FOR THIS GOLD TRAIN 551 00:32:09,824 --> 00:32:12,758 WAS BECAUSE THE PREVIOUS SURVEYSWERE NOT DONE PROFESSIONALLY. 552 00:32:19,282 --> 00:32:20,697 Narrator: THE PROFESSOR'S TEAM 553 00:32:20,731 --> 00:32:24,183 USED TWO METHODS TO DO THEIR SURVEY. 554 00:32:24,218 --> 00:32:25,529 ONE MEASURED DISRUPTION 555 00:32:25,564 --> 00:32:27,497 OF THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD, 556 00:32:27,531 --> 00:32:29,809 WHICH WOULD PICK UP ANY CAVITIES UNDER THE GROUND, 557 00:32:29,844 --> 00:32:32,019 SUCH AS TUNNELS. 558 00:32:32,053 --> 00:32:34,814 THE SECOND USES A MAGNETOMETER, 559 00:32:34,849 --> 00:32:35,850 WHICH PICKS UP IRON 560 00:32:35,884 --> 00:32:37,921 BELOW THE SURFACE. 561 00:32:37,956 --> 00:32:38,922 NEITHER REVEALED 562 00:32:38,957 --> 00:32:41,028 A TRAIN OR A TUNNEL. 563 00:32:42,477 --> 00:32:45,066 FOR PROFESSOR MADEJ THERE IS A SIMPLE REASON 564 00:32:45,101 --> 00:32:47,966 WHY THEIR RESULTS DIFFERED FROMTHOSE OF THE TREASURE HUNTERS. 565 00:32:52,177 --> 00:32:54,041 Janusz: WE ARE TRAINED, 566 00:32:54,075 --> 00:32:56,905 EDUCATED WITH SCIENTIFIC DEGREES. 567 00:32:56,940 --> 00:33:01,876 WE ARE CAPABLE OF USING THESE METHODS. 568 00:33:01,910 --> 00:33:04,706 SOMEBODY WHO HAS ONLY HEARD OF GEOPHYSICS, 569 00:33:04,741 --> 00:33:07,123 SOMEBODY WHO HAS ONLY HEARD OF GEOPHYSICAL METHODS 570 00:33:07,157 --> 00:33:09,228 SHOULDN'T USE THEM, 571 00:33:09,263 --> 00:33:12,024 AND ESPECIALLY SHOULD NOT INTERPRET THE RESULTS. 572 00:33:15,269 --> 00:33:18,962 SURE, WE WOULD HAVE REALLY WANTED THE TRAIN TO BE THERE, 573 00:33:18,997 --> 00:33:22,517 BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE RESULTSDID NOT MATCH OUR EXPECTATIONS, 574 00:33:22,552 --> 00:33:25,520 SO WE SAY THE GOLD TRAIN DOES NOT EXIST THERE. 575 00:33:31,250 --> 00:33:33,045 Narrator: ACCORDING TO THE EXPERTS, 576 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:36,428 NO TRAIN, NO TUNNEL. 577 00:33:36,462 --> 00:33:38,326 COULD THE ONLY GOLD TRAIN 578 00:33:38,361 --> 00:33:42,330 BE THIS ONE ON THE PROFESSOR'S DESK? 579 00:33:42,365 --> 00:33:44,229 IT LOOKS LIKE CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE 580 00:33:44,263 --> 00:33:46,783 THAT THE TREASURE HUNTERS ARE DELUDED. 581 00:33:46,817 --> 00:33:48,405 IT'S A BLOW, 582 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,132 AND THEIR WHOLE OPERATION IS IN JEOPARDY. 583 00:33:58,484 --> 00:34:01,211 Piotr: I ADMIT THAT I WAS SHOCKED 584 00:34:01,246 --> 00:34:03,972 BECAUSE I WAS CONVINCED THAT BECAUSE THE PROFESSOR 585 00:34:04,007 --> 00:34:06,527 HAD SUCH GREAT EQUIPMENT AND A DATABASE, 586 00:34:06,561 --> 00:34:11,739 IT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A PROBLEMTO DISCOVER WHAT WE FOUND. 587 00:34:11,773 --> 00:34:13,706 BUT IT TURNED OUT TO BE A PROBLEM. 588 00:34:13,741 --> 00:34:15,467 FOR ME IT WAS A SHOCK. 589 00:34:19,126 --> 00:34:22,405 Andreas: YES, WE HAD A LOT OF SPONSORS AND INVESTORS 590 00:34:22,439 --> 00:34:23,889 WILLING TO HELP US, 591 00:34:23,923 --> 00:34:25,891 TO GIVE US MONEY. 592 00:34:31,138 --> 00:34:35,418 BUT WHEN THE AGH UNIVERSITYSAID THAT THERE'S NOTHING THERE, 593 00:34:35,452 --> 00:34:37,868 ALL THE SPONSORS RAN AWAY. 594 00:34:37,903 --> 00:34:39,249 WE'RE STILL GOING FORWARD, 595 00:34:39,284 --> 00:34:42,218 BUT WE'LL HAVE TO FINANCE EVERYTHING OURSELVES. 596 00:34:42,252 --> 00:34:44,392 Piotr: SO WHAT DID I SEE? 597 00:34:44,427 --> 00:34:47,050 AFTER ALL, WE DID SURVEYS AND HAVE RESULTS. 598 00:34:47,085 --> 00:34:49,294 SO WHAT DID I SEE? A MIRAGE? 599 00:34:53,608 --> 00:34:57,233 Narrator: ANDREAS AND PIOTR ARE NOT GIVING UP. 600 00:34:57,267 --> 00:34:58,717 THEY ARE SO CONVINCED 601 00:34:58,751 --> 00:35:00,857 THAT THEY'VE STARTED INVESTING THEIR OWN MONEY 602 00:35:00,891 --> 00:35:06,311 TO PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF A TUNNEL AND A TRAIN INSIDE. 603 00:35:06,345 --> 00:35:07,760 AND LOCAL PUBLIC OPINION 604 00:35:07,795 --> 00:35:11,730 IS ROOTING FOR THE DISCOVERY OF A NAZI GOLD TRAIN. 605 00:35:11,764 --> 00:35:15,734 FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES, THE STORYIS BRINGING A GOLD RUSH. 606 00:35:15,768 --> 00:35:19,910 HOTELS ARE FULL, AND TOURISTS ARE FLOCKING TO THE AREA. 607 00:35:19,945 --> 00:35:22,637 EVEN A NEW CAR WASH IS IN ON THE ACT. 608 00:35:30,335 --> 00:35:34,132 AND FINALLY, THE GOVERNMENT GRANTS PERMISSION FOR THE DIG. 609 00:35:37,963 --> 00:35:40,483 TREES ARE CLEARED FROM THE AREA, 610 00:35:40,517 --> 00:35:44,556 AND ON AUGUST 16, 2016, THE DIGGERS MOVE IN. 611 00:35:46,696 --> 00:35:49,423 AFTER A YEAR OF GROWING ANTICIPATION, 612 00:35:49,457 --> 00:35:51,804 THE EXCAVATION HAS FINALLY BEGUN. 613 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:08,373 ANDREAS AND PIOTR HAVE ASSEMBLED A TEAM OF 64 PEOPLE, 614 00:36:08,407 --> 00:36:09,822 MANY LOCAL VOLUNTEERS, 615 00:36:09,857 --> 00:36:11,859 TO HELP WITH THE WORK. 616 00:36:19,177 --> 00:36:21,040 THEY ARE OPENING UP SEVERAL TRENCHES 617 00:36:21,075 --> 00:36:22,766 ALONG THE TOP OF THE EMBANKMENT 618 00:36:22,801 --> 00:36:27,392 WHERE THEIR SURVEYS INDICATE THE TUNNEL IS LOCATED. 619 00:36:27,426 --> 00:36:30,291 NEW SCANS OF THE AREA, THE TREASURE HUNTERS SAY, 620 00:36:30,326 --> 00:36:32,293 BACK UP THEIR ORIGINAL FINDINGS 621 00:36:32,328 --> 00:36:35,089 AND THEY GIVE AN UPBEAT PRESS CONFERENCE. 622 00:36:37,574 --> 00:36:40,474 Piotr: WE USED ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT FROM UKRAINE, 623 00:36:40,508 --> 00:36:43,097 AND THIS IS WHAT IT SHOWS IN ONE PLACE. 624 00:36:46,652 --> 00:36:49,310 IT SHOWS THE ROOF OF A TUNNEL. 625 00:36:51,174 --> 00:36:52,417 Narrator: THE NEW SCANS 626 00:36:52,451 --> 00:36:54,660 HAVE INSTILLED CONFIDENCE IN THE TEAM 627 00:36:54,695 --> 00:36:58,457 THAT THERE WILL DEFINITELY BE A FIND. 628 00:37:02,599 --> 00:37:05,740 Piotr: WE'LL HAVE THE RESULTS OF THE TEST SOON, 629 00:37:05,775 --> 00:37:07,880 AND THEN WE'LL BE ABLE TO SAY SOMETHING MORE. 630 00:37:07,915 --> 00:37:09,848 IF THE TRAIN IS THERE AND THERE ARE TUNNELS, 631 00:37:09,882 --> 00:37:11,539 THEN WE'LL FIND THEM FOR SURE 632 00:37:11,574 --> 00:37:14,128 BECAUSE THE TRENCHES ARE SO WIDE AND DEEP. 633 00:37:17,442 --> 00:37:19,892 Narrator: AS THE WORK ON SITE CONTINUES, 634 00:37:19,927 --> 00:37:23,793 MANY BELIEVE THAT SOON THE NAZIGOLD TRAIN WILL BE REVEALED. 635 00:37:28,211 --> 00:37:30,903 THIS BELIEF IS STOKED BY A LOCAL LEGEND 636 00:37:30,938 --> 00:37:33,078 THAT TELLS OF A TRAIN FILLED WITH GOLD 637 00:37:33,112 --> 00:37:35,770 LEAVING THE REGIONAL CAPITAL, WROCLAW, 638 00:37:35,805 --> 00:37:37,807 AND DISAPPEARING INTO THIN AIR 639 00:37:37,841 --> 00:37:40,637 IN THE LAST STAGES OF WORLD WAR II. 640 00:37:43,675 --> 00:37:45,953 THE REGIONAL CAPITAL, WROCLAW, 641 00:37:45,987 --> 00:37:49,612 LIES SOME 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF WALBRZYCH. 642 00:37:49,646 --> 00:37:52,373 TODAY IT IS POLISH, 643 00:37:52,408 --> 00:37:55,238 BUT BEFORE THE WAR IT WAS CALLED BRESLAU, 644 00:37:55,273 --> 00:37:58,345 ONE OF GERMANY'S MOST BEAUTIFULAND PROSPEROUS CITIES. 645 00:38:02,383 --> 00:38:06,387 BUT IN 1945,BRESLAU FACED NEAR ANNIHILATION 646 00:38:06,422 --> 00:38:08,562 IN ONE OF THE MOST BLOODY AND DRAMATIC SIEGES 647 00:38:08,596 --> 00:38:13,567 OF THE ENTIRE WAR. 648 00:38:13,601 --> 00:38:15,569 IN BUNKERS BELOW THE PAVEMENTS, 649 00:38:15,603 --> 00:38:17,812 TO THIS DAY LIE GHOSTLY REMINDERS 650 00:38:17,847 --> 00:38:20,919 OF THE 80 DAYS OF SAVAGE AND HORRIFIC ORDEAL 651 00:38:20,953 --> 00:38:23,301 THE CITY ENDURED. 652 00:38:23,335 --> 00:38:26,442 TENS OF THOUSANDS WOULD LOSE THEIR LIVES. 653 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:32,275 THE QUESTION IS, COULD A TRAIN LADEN WITH NAZI GOLD 654 00:38:32,310 --> 00:38:34,139 HAVE SLIPPED OUT OF BRESLAU 655 00:38:34,173 --> 00:38:37,107 BEFORE THE CITY FACED ITS ARMAGEDDON? 656 00:38:43,700 --> 00:38:48,705 AFTER A YEAR OF ANTICIPATION,THE EXCAVATION AT K65 HAS BEGUN. 657 00:38:51,708 --> 00:38:54,332 FOR THE LOCALS, IF THERE IS A GOLD TRAIN, 658 00:38:54,366 --> 00:38:57,127 THERE IS ONLY ONE PLACE IT COULD HAVE COME FROM. 659 00:38:59,267 --> 00:39:01,408 TOWARD THE END OF WORLD WAR II, 660 00:39:01,442 --> 00:39:05,343 A KEY HUB OF NAZI TREASURE WAS JUST 40 MILES AWAY 661 00:39:05,377 --> 00:39:07,828 IN THE TOWN OF WROCLAW, 662 00:39:07,862 --> 00:39:11,418 KNOWN TO THE GERMANS AS BRESLAU. 663 00:39:11,452 --> 00:39:14,904 IN THE 1930sIT WAS A FERVENTLY PRO-NAZI CITY 664 00:39:14,938 --> 00:39:18,390 AND THE SCENE OF VAST RALLIES SUPPORTING THE FUHRER. 665 00:39:20,944 --> 00:39:24,327 THROUGHOUT THE WAR, BRESLAU WAS FAR FROM THE BATTLEFRONTS 666 00:39:24,362 --> 00:39:28,366 AND BEYOND THE RANGE OF ENEMY BOMBERS. 667 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,885 IT WAS A SAFE PLACE TO STOCKPILE ARTWORKS 668 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,785 AND TREASURE FROM ALL OVER THE REICH, 669 00:39:33,819 --> 00:39:37,996 ALONG WITH STOLEN NAZI LOOT PLUNDERED IN THE EAST. 670 00:39:38,030 --> 00:39:40,826 IT WAS ALSO A TRANSIT POINT FOR JEWELRY AND GOLD 671 00:39:40,861 --> 00:39:44,382 TAKEN FROM JEWS KILLED IN THE DEATH CAMPS. 672 00:39:44,416 --> 00:39:48,109 BUT BY MID-1944, THE GERMANS WERE IN RETREAT. 673 00:39:50,422 --> 00:39:54,392 IN THE WEST, D-DAY MARKED THE BEGINNING OF THE END. 674 00:39:57,429 --> 00:39:58,913 IN THE EAST, 675 00:39:58,948 --> 00:40:02,296 THE SOVIET RED ARMY WAS ADVANCING FAST. 676 00:40:02,330 --> 00:40:06,576 BY JANUARY 1945, THE ENEMY WAS AT THE GATES OF BRESLAU. 677 00:40:08,958 --> 00:40:11,616 HITLER ORDERED THE CITY TO STAND FAST 678 00:40:11,650 --> 00:40:14,653 AND DEFEND ITSELF TO THE LAST MAN. 679 00:40:14,688 --> 00:40:18,312 AS THE ENDGAME APPROACHED, THIS WAS THE LAST MOMENT 680 00:40:18,346 --> 00:40:21,557 THE NAZIS COULD MOVE OUT THEIR TREASURES AND GOLD. 681 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,734 HISTORIAN TOMASZ GLOWINSKI 682 00:40:26,769 --> 00:40:29,668 IS AN EXPERT ON THE CITY'S WARTIME FATE, 683 00:40:29,703 --> 00:40:32,395 AND HE'S BEEN INVESTIGATINGWHAT HAPPENED TO THAT STOCKPILE 684 00:40:32,430 --> 00:40:34,017 OF BRESLAU TREASURE. 685 00:40:36,088 --> 00:40:37,331 [SPEAKING POLISH] 686 00:40:37,365 --> 00:40:39,437 Tomasz Glowinski: THE FACT THAT WORKS OF ART, 687 00:40:39,471 --> 00:40:41,162 ARCHIVES, IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS 688 00:40:41,197 --> 00:40:43,441 WERE COLLECTED AND EVACUATED OUT OF THE CITY 689 00:40:43,475 --> 00:40:45,201 WE KNOW FOR SURE. 690 00:40:45,235 --> 00:40:48,584 WE HAVE WRITTEN EVIDENCE FOR THIS. 691 00:40:48,618 --> 00:40:50,344 Narrator: AND RUMORS EVEN CIRCULATED 692 00:40:50,378 --> 00:40:53,347 OF GOLD CONSIGNMENTS ALSO LEAVING THE CITY, 693 00:40:53,381 --> 00:40:56,971 AMID THE GENERAL PANIC. 694 00:40:57,006 --> 00:41:03,288 Tomasz: CERTAINLY CIVILIANS SAW CONVOYS LEAVING THE CITY. 695 00:41:03,322 --> 00:41:05,911 MAYBE THAT WAS WHEN THE LEGEND WAS BORN-- 696 00:41:05,946 --> 00:41:09,881 SOMETHING QUIETLY, SECRETLY BEING EVACUATED AT NIGHT. 697 00:41:09,915 --> 00:41:12,746 SOMEONE SAW A CRATE, A TARPAULIN-COVERED TRUCK 698 00:41:12,780 --> 00:41:16,335 AND SO THOUGHT THAT SOMETHING VALUABLE IS LEAVING THE CITY. 699 00:41:19,546 --> 00:41:21,237 Narrator: THE CITY BRACED ITSELF 700 00:41:21,271 --> 00:41:24,482 FOR THE INEVITABLE BRUTALITY OF THE SOVIET ONSLAUGHT, 701 00:41:24,516 --> 00:41:27,692 RUSHING TO HIDE VALUABLES AND THROWING UP BARRICADES. 702 00:41:31,143 --> 00:41:33,801 CHAOS DESCENDED. 703 00:41:33,836 --> 00:41:36,597 THOUSANDS TOOK TO THE ROADS IN FLIGHT. 704 00:41:39,497 --> 00:41:42,327 THE MAIN STATION WAS CROWDED WITH CIVILIANS 705 00:41:42,361 --> 00:41:45,192 DESPERATELY SEEKING TO LEAVE THE CITY. 706 00:41:45,226 --> 00:41:47,815 SO COULD A TRAIN LADEN WITH GOLD 707 00:41:47,850 --> 00:41:50,438 HAVE SLIPPED OUT OF BRESLAU AT THIS POINT, 708 00:41:50,473 --> 00:41:52,268 AMID THE CHAOS AND PANIC, 709 00:41:52,302 --> 00:41:54,822 AND HEADED SOUTHWEST TOWARDS WALBRZYCH, 710 00:41:54,857 --> 00:41:57,169 WHERE THE TREASURE HUNTERS ARE NOW DIGGING? 711 00:42:02,485 --> 00:42:06,903 IT'S A PROSPECT THAT HAS TANTALIZED LOCALS FOR DECADES, 712 00:42:06,938 --> 00:42:12,253 AND NOW, THE TWO HUNTERS ARE ON THE BRINK OF AN ANSWER. 713 00:42:12,288 --> 00:42:16,430 BUT BACK AT K65, THE NEWS IS NOT GOOD. 714 00:42:16,464 --> 00:42:19,813 WHAT ANDREAS AND PIOTR THOUGHT WAS THE TOP OF THE TUNNEL 715 00:42:19,847 --> 00:42:22,919 TURNS OUT TO BE A GLACIAL DEPOSIT. 716 00:42:22,954 --> 00:42:24,645 AND DESPITE FIVE DAYS OF DIGGING, 717 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:26,647 THEY HAVEN'T FOUND THE TUNNEL OR TRAIN 718 00:42:26,682 --> 00:42:30,064 THAT THEY SAW IN THEIR SCAN. 719 00:42:30,099 --> 00:42:31,652 TO THEIR DISMAY, 720 00:42:31,687 --> 00:42:35,380 THE HUNTERS THINK IT MUST BEDEEPER THAN THEY'RE ABLE TO DIG. 721 00:42:38,625 --> 00:42:40,765 Piotr: RIGHT HERE NEXT TO THIS HOLE 722 00:42:40,799 --> 00:42:42,560 IS THE SITE WHERE WE GOT THE BEST PICTURE 723 00:42:42,594 --> 00:42:44,872 FROM THE GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR. 724 00:42:44,907 --> 00:42:46,287 BUT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET DOWN THERE 725 00:42:46,322 --> 00:42:48,738 BECAUSE OF THE ROCK. 726 00:42:48,773 --> 00:42:50,395 HERE WE'RE TOO HIGH UP. 727 00:42:50,429 --> 00:42:54,019 WE NEED TO GO AT LEAST 10 TO 12 YARDS LOWER. 728 00:42:54,054 --> 00:42:56,090 BUT WE CAN'T BREAK THROUGH THE ROCK. 729 00:42:56,125 --> 00:42:58,645 WE NEED TO USE A DRILLING RIG. 730 00:43:02,787 --> 00:43:04,927 Narrator: ANDREAS AND PIOTR SAY 731 00:43:04,961 --> 00:43:06,514 THAT TO GET THROUGH A LAYER OF ROCK 732 00:43:06,549 --> 00:43:08,620 THAT'S BLOCKING THEIR WAY TO THE TUNNEL, 733 00:43:08,655 --> 00:43:11,105 THEY WOULD NEED HEAVY DRILLING EQUIPMENT. 734 00:43:11,140 --> 00:43:12,417 BUT TO BRING IT ON SITE 735 00:43:12,451 --> 00:43:17,353 WOULD REQUIRE PERMISSION THEY DON'T HAVE. 736 00:43:17,387 --> 00:43:21,806 FOR NOW, THEY'VE SIMPLY RUN OUT OF TIME AND MONEY. 737 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,843 BUT IN A TWIST THAT'S ALL TOO FAMILIAR 738 00:43:24,878 --> 00:43:26,811 IN THE QUEST FOR NAZI TREASURE, 739 00:43:26,845 --> 00:43:29,710 A NEW THEORY HAS EMERGED. 740 00:43:29,745 --> 00:43:33,265 LOCAL FILMMAKER WOJTEK BELIEVES ANDREAS AND PIOTR 741 00:43:33,300 --> 00:43:36,683 ARE SIMPLY DIGGING IN THE WRONG PLACE. 742 00:43:36,717 --> 00:43:39,306 FAR BETTER, HE SAYS, TO BEGIN EXCAVATIONS 743 00:43:39,340 --> 00:43:41,204 BY THE STRANGE CONCRETE STRUCTURES 744 00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,828 400 YARDS ALONG THE EMBANKMENT. 745 00:43:47,659 --> 00:43:50,213 Wojtek: I ALWAYS SUSPECTED THEREARE MORE INTERESTING THINGS 746 00:43:50,248 --> 00:43:52,319 ON THIS SIDE OF THE VIADUCT. 747 00:43:52,353 --> 00:43:55,563 IN MY OPINION, THE DIG SHOULD HAVE STARTED HERE. 748 00:43:55,598 --> 00:43:57,220 AND THESE SHAFTS ARE THE EVIDENCE 749 00:43:57,255 --> 00:44:01,466 THAT THERE MUST HAVE BEENSOMETHING UNDER THE GROUND HERE. 750 00:44:01,500 --> 00:44:03,571 BUT I DON'T THINK THE STORY IS OVER YET. 751 00:44:03,606 --> 00:44:05,919 MOST LIKELY, THE STORY WILL NEVER END. 752 00:44:09,647 --> 00:44:14,134 Narrator: AT K65, WORK STARTS ON FILLING IN THE HUGE HOLES. 753 00:44:16,723 --> 00:44:19,967 MUCH OF THE EVIDENCE FOR A HIDDEN NAZI GOLD TRAIN 754 00:44:20,002 --> 00:44:23,764 HAS CERTAINLY BEEN COMPELLING AND TANTALIZING: 755 00:44:23,799 --> 00:44:27,526 THE INCREDIBLE HISTORY OF THIS REGION OF LOWER SILESIA; 756 00:44:27,561 --> 00:44:28,907 THE RIESE TUNNELS 757 00:44:28,942 --> 00:44:30,598 AND THE SECRET NAZI SUPER PROJECT 758 00:44:30,633 --> 00:44:34,395 THEY WERE INTENDED TO HOUSE; 759 00:44:34,430 --> 00:44:36,328 A FAIRY TALE CASTLE, 760 00:44:36,363 --> 00:44:40,643 REDESIGNED AS A NEW HEADQUARTERSFOR HITLER HIMSELF; 761 00:44:40,678 --> 00:44:44,060 LOOTED NAZI GOLDSPIRITED OUT OF A BESIEGED CITY 762 00:44:44,095 --> 00:44:46,131 IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE WAR. 763 00:44:48,651 --> 00:44:50,757 AND THAT'S WHY SO MANY PEOPLE HERE 764 00:44:50,791 --> 00:44:53,691 ARE SURE NAZI TREASURE EXISTS. 765 00:44:57,556 --> 00:45:00,732 ANDREAS AND PIOTR HAVE LOST A SMALL FORTUNE 766 00:45:00,767 --> 00:45:02,769 HUNTING FOR THE GHOST TRAIN, 767 00:45:02,803 --> 00:45:04,218 BUT DESPITE EVERYTHING, 768 00:45:04,253 --> 00:45:07,497 THEY REMAIN CONVINCED IT'S SOMEWHERE OUT THERE. 769 00:45:10,224 --> 00:45:12,744 Andreas: WELL, IT'S DEFINITELY NOT THE END OF THE WORLD 770 00:45:12,779 --> 00:45:14,470 IF THE TRAIN IS NOT HERE. 771 00:45:14,504 --> 00:45:16,852 IT'LL BE SOMEWHERE. 772 00:45:16,886 --> 00:45:19,061 WE'LL THINK ABOUT HOW TO DO THIS BETTER, 773 00:45:19,095 --> 00:45:20,925 AND WE'LL DO ANOTHER DIG. 774 00:45:24,549 --> 00:45:28,656 Narrator: AND ALREADY, ANOTHER NEW LOCAL MYTH IS EMERGING. 775 00:45:30,797 --> 00:45:34,524 A WITNESS HAS COME FORWARD CLAIMING THAT, FOR SURE, 776 00:45:34,559 --> 00:45:39,288 THE MYSTERY CAN BE SOLVED AT THE K61 MARKER. 777 00:45:39,978 --> 00:45:48,090 ♪ 778 00:45:48,124 --> 00:45:58,479 ♪ 56963

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