The Claim:
Theres 10’s of millions worth of stolen Nazi gold on-board an armoured train sitting in a tunnel in the owl mountains in Poland.
During the 2nd world war the German forces occupied the majority of Europe and during this time, stole a huge amount of treasure. This treasure came in many different forms, such as gems and jewelry, paintings and artifacts, but most of all, gold.
An enormous amount of gold was stolen from all across Europe and stashed in various Nazi safe houses and bunkers for safe keeping. However after the war ended in 1945 and German territories were occupied by allied forces, only a portion of this gold was recovered.
The Nazi’s were well known to melt down any gold they found and cast it into their own bullion with their regime symbol on the front, so when gold was found across Europe at the end of the war it was easy to tell who it used to belong to.
The thing is that all the Nazi gold found wasn’t even close to the amount that was actually stolen from across the continent. Its known that allot of this gold made its way into various banks and was remelted and cast into normal bullion bars, forever hiding the hallmark of its previous Nazi owners, but there’s no way the amount that made it into the banks would be near the total of what the Nazi’s actually took, so wheres the rest of it?
Well a huge amount of this missing Nazi gold is though to be on board an armoured train, somewhere in the Polish mountain range west of the city of Wałbrzych.
Towards the end of the war, when the Nazis realised they were going to lose, orders were sent out from high command to hide or destroy sensitive projects, such as secret research, super weapons and stashed wealth. With the most important projects a phone call or letter telling them to destroy or hide whatever it was simply wouldn’t do, so units of SS troops were dispatched to “make sure” the orders were carried out. Because of this, and also because all records during the war were in paper and easy to destroy, there’s no actual evidence of it at all, so why do people even think it exists?
Well, apart from there still being a huge amount of lost gold still “out there” somewhere, The city of Wałbrzych was known to have housed a large amount of gold in a Nazi stronghold at “some point” during the war, and there was also a small track system going through the owl mountains to the west of the city.
The most commonly known story goes as follows. An order was sent out towards the end of the war to the Nazi stronghold in the city of Wałbrzych to clear the area of all stashed goods.
An armoured train stationed in the Wałbrzych train station was loaded with all the treasures the city had and dispatched along the track to the west.
The track itself was a single line, and had various points were it would turn off to a dead end so trains could pass one another, and some of these turns went into tunnels within the mountain side.
The train is believed to have been placed in one of these tunnels, most probably covered in traps, and then had the entrance blown up and the landscape smoothed over before finally removing the tracks from the outside, so there was no trace of there ever being a tunnel there.
The Nazi Gold Train, Could it be true?
Arguments for:
Quantity
There is still a huge amount of gold somewhere in Europe to the tune of billions that still hasn’t been recovered, and it has to be somewhere. Stockpiles of treasure would have been quite large, with it being more practical to store a large quantity in one place under heavy guard, than to have bits and pieces everywhere. The city of Wałbrzych is known to have had a stockpile of wealth and the only way to move such an amount would be by train.
Closest hiding place
With the Russian front closing in from the east and the allies attacking from the west, there really wasn’t much time to move such a valuable load many miles across the country, with bombing runs and sabotage missions being carried out constantly on German train lines, they wouldn’t have risked moving such a valuable load further than they needed to. With the tunnels already built in the mountains, they already had a place to fit an entire train without having to do any digging.
Easy to remove evidence
One of the most common questions is why the train wasn’t found soon after the war, and the answer is simply because if allied forces did come across were the entrance was and saw something such as freshly moved rubble, they wouldn’t have thought anything of it. No one was looking for the train at the end of the war since it wasn’t realised so much gold was missing until years later, and something like a collapsed tunnel entrance would have been just that, and not the hiding spot of tons of gold. The tracks would have been easy to remove and after the entrance was blown and soil smoothed over, a few years later when the ground has settled no one could tell there was ever anything there.
Arguments Against
The Gold was moved sooner
Since records about such a huge amount of wealth were kept very secret and such records would have been destroyed before the allies could get hold of them, so there’s no telling exactly when the gold was moved out of the city. There’s the very real possibility that the gold left in smaller portion’s gradually as they needed it to pay for something, or perhaps it was snook out secretly aboard a train that left the city much earlier.
There’s no proof
No there isn’t any proof, but as with all of these stories there’s at least “some” suggestion that it may be true, after all there is still an enormous amount of gold out there some where in Europe that no one has seen since the war. Some of the smaller stashes may have been found and put into private collections or passed illegally onto the world market, but with the shear amount that’s still unaccounted for, its safe to say there still a few un-found stockpiles out the somewhere, even if this isn’t one of them.
So has anything ever been found?
As with all lost treasure stories there’s been a huge amount of independent treasure hunters who’ve been looking for it for years, though no one has ever turned up anything. Claims have been made of people who say they’ve found it, but non of these have ever turned out to be true.
The Polish army is said to have carried out numerous searches after it was discovered there was still missing gold, but nothing ever came of it. The single largest search for the train happened between 2015 – 2016 when the army, national police and numerous volunteers conducted a large scale search for train, but again nothing was found.
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