Treasure hunters kept from site of Nazi ‘gold train’

Polish authorities have blocked off a wooded area near a railway track after scores of treasure hunters swarmed south-west Poland looking for an alleged Nazi gold train.

Treasure hunters kept from site of Nazi ‘gold train’

The city of Walbrzych and its surrounding wooded hills are experiencing a gold rush after two men, a Pole and a German, informed the authorities through their lawyers that they have found a Nazi train with armaments and valuables that reportedly went missing in the spring of 1945.

Inspired by a local legend since the Second World War, people with metal detectors are combing the area and its still-used railway tracks.

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