A deputy mayor in Poland says lawyers for two men who claim to have found a Nazi gold train have told him that it is somewhere in the southwestern city of Walbrzych.

Two people in Poland say they have found a Nazi train which was cloaked in mystery since it was rumoured to have gone missing near the end of World War Two while transporting gems and guns ahead of advancing Soviet Red Army forces.

HOTEL POLONIA is a depressing, Soviet-era hotel of cell-like rooms, high ceilings, camp-like beds and a security guard inside the front door. A short distance away is the Monopole, an elegant building despite its ground floor being leased to overpriced international clothes chains.

Marek Krajewski