Treasure Hunt Through History: Hunt for Nazi Gold Train to Resume

Piotr Koper and Andreas Richter said they discovered a train loaded with gold during their research in Walbrzych.

Two treasure hunters claimed to have discovered a Nazi-era train loaded with gold. (Photo Courtesy: History Bytes)

Two treasure hunters, who claimed to have knowledge of a Nazi gold train buried in Southwestern Poland, are set to resume their search. Piotr Koper and Andreas Richter kicked up a media storm last August when they said they discovered a Nazi-era train loaded with gold and treasures underground in Walbrzych.

According to them, their research using ground-penetrating radar led them to believe that such a train was buried inside a tunnel nine metres under the ground.

There has been no backing for their claim and in December, geologists from Krakow’s AGH University of Science and Technology ran tests at the site and found no evidence of the existence of any such train.

Treasure Hunters Promise to Live Stream Search

Koper and Richter said that even finding the tunnel would be a success and the train could be in it. The lack of scientific evidence has not deterred the two, who say that it’s more than just a treasure hunt. They believe that the site could also have been used to hide the bodies of thousands of forced labourers.

The Nazis made prisoners of war dig a network of tunnels in the area, and some locals have claimed the Germans tried to spirit the gold away as Russia’s Red Army closed in.

They have said they will live-stream the entire process online, so that there are no doubts about the dig and people can see it themselves. They will start digging on Tuesday.

The curiosity has been further fuelled by the site being in the vicinity of a massive network of underground tunnels built by the Nazis.

(With inputs from AFP)