Locals And Tourists Flock To Walbrzych, Poland As Engineers Begin Studying A Railway Embankment In Search For The Legendary ‘Nazi Gold Train’
The hunt for the legendary "Nazi gold train" is set to be conducted by engineers as they examine a railway embankment in Walbrzych, Poland in order to uncover one of the biggest mysteries of World War II, with some historians believing that three trains filled with gold, weaponry and historical archives vanished unexplainably in an 18-square-mile network of underground tunnels, reported Daily Mail Nov. 9.
"In the past 70 years, three cold war secret services - the United States, the Russian, then the Polish - carried out searches," noted Piot Koper, who will be joining the upcoming study of the railway embankment. "We succeeded because we are local people."
"Four years ago, we were given information by a witness who was in Walbrzych at the time the train disappeared in April 1945," Koper added. "Radar technology has become affordable so we were able to check the information. The Nazis dug out the embankment, created a junction and laid track to divert the train off to the side. Then they parked the train, which is 90 meters long, removed the rails and put back the soil.'
Independent noted Nov. 9 that the new search will commence next week in the area where the trains are believed to have vanished, with evidence of one train's existence based on ground-penetrating radar images.
Experts are set to utilize radars, thermal imaging cameras and magnetic field detectors on their "non-invasive" ground search.
"The experts will be able to use different measuring equipment and detectors but are not allowed to touch the ground," said municipal spokesman Arkadiusz Grudzien. "They won't be able to dig, or drill or introduce cameras into the ground. They're only allowed to perform a non-invasive search."
Project Riese, belived to be Hitler's secret weapons program, is made up of a network of underground tunnel and chambers dug out by around 30,000 prisoners of the Second World War.
With the recent buzz on the alleged discovery of a "Nazi gold trains" in August, many locals and tourists are now flocking over to the area carrying with them metal detectors in hopes of finding breakthrough discoveries themselves.
Despite collaborating on their missions, treasure hunters Koper, Richter and Szpakowski each have different opinions on what really lies inside the mysterious gold train.
