The Claim
Theres a hidden bunker full of treasure within a west Austrian mountain range
The Alpine fortress wasn’t a single structure, but more a fortified area within a mountain range to be used as a national redoubt. After the Allied invasion of main land Europe in 1944, Heinrich Himmler began to accelerate his plan of completing the fortress, something he’d originally thought of in November of 1943.
The idea was that in the event of a successful Allied invasion of Germany and its surrounding territories, a force made up of the most loyal and fanatical Nazi soldiers, along with various high ranking personnel and scientists who worked on sensitive projects would retreat to the Alpine fortress and resist the Allies from there for some time.
Hitler was never completely on board with the plan, which made progress on completing it very slow for Heinrich, but 6 months after the first landings on Normandy beach, the Allies were closing in on the Rhine and Hitler himself, which saw the plan get a major boost to completing it.
The British gathered a number of intelligence reports about the fortress and found that large amounts of food products and military arms and equipment had been moved to the area starting shortly after the first beach landings.
Information on exactly how established the fortress was is unclear, as Joseph Goebbels, the minister of propaganda started a special unit with the sole purpose of spreading lies about the fortress, both as a moral boost to the troops and to confuse Allied intelligence reports.
It seems the fortress would have been reasonably well established as even though Hitler never fully believed in the plan, he gave an order on April 24th, 1945 for the evacuation of the remaining Nazi government members to the fortress. This order never materialised though as the Allied forces were already deep in German territory and cut off the evacuation of the government personnel.
There were a few other documented evacuations to the fortress, with the SS forcibly evacuating scientists that worked on the V2 rockets there, and SS Generalleutnant Gottlob Berger claimed Hitler gave an order himself to move 35,000 prisoners to the fortress to act as a deterrent from an Allied attack, but Berger failed to carry out the order.
So What about the Treasure
After the war ended, claims of how trillions of dollars worth of art, jewelry, gold and various other valuables were still missing, and the Nazi’s were well known to hide their loot.
In the event that the fortress ever going to be occupied, the remaining Nazi government members will need some kind of wealth to pay for anything, being well away that almost any bank in the world will take gold no questions asked.
The Alpine fortress is believed to have been one of the stash places for all this still missing wealth that was looted during the war. The Nazi’s also frequently moved their wealth away from the front line as the Allies advanced and placed it in the most secure locations they had, and what better place than an fortified mountain range.
Of course there isn’t any proof of any hidden treasure here, all of the claims of there being some kind of buried wealth in the area mostly comes from speculation, and the fact various orders were given to move high ranking personnel here, which is something that wouldn’t have happened if there wasn’t anything there.
When the American forces captured the area they found no such fortress as described in the reports they received. The area apparently had nothing more in it than a few gun emplacements and dirt tracks, but people visiting the area since have claimed to find more than described in the American reports.
Perhaps there is a bunker somewhere in the mountain range that contains looted gold from the war, or perhaps this is nothing more than a series of propaganda stories to confuse the Allies, but until something is found, if ever, i guess we’ll never know.
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