Mystery of the 'Werewolf' unit's lost horde

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Mystery of the 'Werewolf' unit's lost horde: How a Nazi ghost train packed with treasures and a gold bar found in a lake at Hitler's hideaway are shining spotlight on the race to find $30BILLION fortune hidden by the Third Reich

• Train packed with Nazi treasures, gems, money, gems and gold reportedly uncovered in a mountain in Poland

• £12,000 gold bar was discovered in a lake near Hitler's mountain hideaway
• Discovery fuelling the pursuit of up to £20billion worth of missing treasure
• Includes silverware the Nazis stole from Jews and gold from bank vaults
• At least seven people have died looking for treasure in freezing LakeToplitz

Seventy years since the Third Reich was consumed in blood and fire the hunt is on for the loot that the Nazis left behind.

The reported discovery of a legendary Nazi 'ghost' train packed with gold and money by two treasure hunters hidden in a long-forgotten tunnel in the Polish mountains will only serve to fuel what has become an obsession for many Germans.

The hunters claim they have uncovered the train, packed with guns and gems, that became the stuff of local legend as the Nazis hid their treasures from the advancing Soviet Red Army.

Legend has it that the Germans hid their treasures as insurance policies to help fleeing war criminals escape and set up new lives at the end of the Second World War.

Added to the intrigue is the recent find of a £12,000 gold bar in a lake near Hitler's mountain hideaway in Berchtesgaden, high up in the Bavarian mountains.

The ingot in question was not from the Nazi era, but that matters little to the fortune hunters who now access state-of-the-art equipment in their quest for the billions of pounds worth of art, gold and jewellery the regime's henchmen secreted away in the dying days of the war.

Some of it was meant to finance the escape routes of war criminals: other caches were intended to fund 'Werewolf' resistance units intended to carry out guerilla warfare against the occupying Allies until a new Fourth Reich could rise again.

Now unfavourable bank interest rates combined with websites stoking fantasies of striking it rich have set Teutonic Indiana von Jones' upon the quest of finding a chunk of the estimated $30billion-worth of missing treasure.

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