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00:04Spring 1945. Germany is crumbling. The Allies advance from the west, the Soviets from the east, and the Nazi Empire
00:13begins to implode.
00:15But even in defeat, one obsession remains. The Reich's looted treasure.
00:25As Soviet troops close in, orders go out from Berlin. Evacuate everything of value. Gold from the Reichsbank, art from
00:34across Europe, crates of jewels, silver, priceless archives.
00:40All of it is to be moved west, away from the Red Army and into the mountains of Lower Silesia.
00:49Today, that's southwestern Poland, near the Czech border.
00:53And it's here, in the forests and valleys, around Walczyk, it's said that trains arrived under the cover of darkness.
01:00Engines were cut. Headlights blacked out.
01:04Soldiers were to have unloaded sealed containers, and entire convoys supposedly vanished into the tunnels beneath the hills, never to
01:12be seen again.
01:15When the war ends, the Soviets sweep through the region, and they find the tunnels, but they never report what
01:22was inside.
01:23The records vanish. The witnesses fall silent. And the story of a missing train begins.
01:30A train said to be filled with stolen Nazi gold, hidden deep beneath the earth.
01:37A legend is born from the chaos of war, and it is one that still grips the world, 80 years
01:43later.
01:53I'm Guy Walters.
01:56I'm a historian, I'm a journalist, and I'm a sort of explorer of all the hidden secrets of the Second
02:02World War and the Nazi period.
02:07Hi, I'm Justine. I'm the international woman of adventure. I speak many languages. I'm the perfect person to hunt for
02:16some Nazi gold.
02:23Together we've crossed borders, tracked rumours, and dug through more than our fair share of cold mud and even colder
02:30archives.
02:32But now we are on the trail of one of the most enduring of all World War II legends.
02:39The Nazi gold train that was last seen in May 1945.
02:44Since then, there have been a lot of rumours that anybody who's been involved with that train has either disappeared
02:53or they die under mysterious circumstances.
02:57Our mission? Follow the trail, test the evidence, and discover whether the Nazi gold train was real or just another
03:06wartime myth.
03:22Summer, 1944. Hitler knows that the Allies are closing in.
03:27The landings in France have opened a huge new front in the west, and in the east the Red Army
03:33is surging towards Germany.
03:38The once mighty Third Reich is beginning to crumble.
03:44Orders go out from Berlin, evacuate everything of value, gold, art, archives, before it all falls into enemy hands.
03:55Entire trainloads of looted treasure are said to roll westward under cover of darkness, guarded by soldiers and marked only
04:03with numbers.
04:06As the Allies closed in, panic followed.
04:10Artworks, gold, archives, all the treasures of a collapsing empire.
04:15They were loaded onto trains and they headed west.
04:18Some reached their destinations, others simply vanished.
04:23Many of those trains passed into Lower Silesia, a place of mountains, forests and deep mines.
04:30Perfect places to hide a fortune.
04:46According to the story, in May 1945, there was this man in his house which overlooks the railway tracks in
04:53Walbsk.
04:54And he heard the sound of a train in the middle of the night.
05:01Curious, he goes to the window and he sees lots of SS men accompanying this train into a tunnel.
05:11The train was never seen again.
05:19The following day, the SS men turn up at this man's house.
05:23They not only kill him, they kill his wife, they kill his two children and they burn the house to
05:30the ground.
05:34And that is how the legend begins.
05:42After 1945, the Soviets just combed through the entire area.
05:47And after they had done so, they sealed up several tunnels and they never revealed what they had found.
05:59Of course, that secrecy has fueled endless speculation.
06:04Now, in the years directly after the war, the communist authorities in Poland, I mean, they tried to silence these
06:11stories.
06:12The idea that there could be Nazi loot and treasure hidden in tunnels in mines all over Lower Silesia was
06:18deeply problematic.
06:22But in the 1970s, there was a miner called Tadius Slavikovsky who revived the legend.
06:29Where others saw myth, he saw a map.
06:33Armed with wartime German charts and sheer conviction, Tadius Slavikovsky set out to uncover the truth about the gold train.
06:41He studied old railway maps obsessively and he became absolutely convinced the train was buried exactly where two wartime witnesses,
06:51Richter and Copper, had once indicated.
06:54He claimed a retired German railway official had once given him a crucial clue, just enough to believe that somewhere
07:03beneath these tracks, the lost train was still waiting.
07:10He was convinced that the train was real.
07:13He was a tenacious sort and that tenacity inspired subsequent generations to continue the search.
07:21And so, of course, the legend carries on.
07:49We're going to go to your native country.
07:52Fantastic.
07:52Good old Poland.
07:54Good old Poland.
07:54And we're going to go to a place that I can't pronounce and it's called something like Walbszburg.
07:59Say again?
08:00Well, it was called Waldenburg.
08:02I think it's called Walbszburg.
08:03Walbszburg.
08:04Walbszburg.
08:05Nearly there.
08:06Okay, one day, perhaps on this tour, I'll be able to pronounce my first Polish town name.
08:10Okay.
08:11Fingers crossed.
08:12Somewhere outside Walbszburg is, some people say, a whole train full of gold.
08:22The Nazi gold train.
08:23Now, I've written quite a lot about this.
08:25And, you know, some people say, no, there's no chance of it being there.
08:28But recently, some people think actually it really is there and it's just in a slightly different location.
08:33First stop, the Reza complex.
08:36It's deep in the Owl Mountains of Silesia and it's a vast network of tunnels carved by forced labourers in
08:44the dying days of the war.
08:46Now, its purpose remains completely unknown.
08:49Weapons, bunkers, Hitler's last command post, whatever the truth, these tunnels were built to last.
08:56And for some, they're the perfect hiding place for Nazi gold.
09:01Next stop, the Walbszik railway line.
09:05Where legend says a guarded train vanished in May 1945 as the Red Army was closing in.
09:12Treasure hunters still believe that there is a sealed tunnel that lies somewhere beneath these hills.
09:18Finally, Jelena Gora itself, once a crucial escape route for the collapsing Reich.
09:25Trains laden with looted gold, cash and priceless art rumbled westward through its valleys.
09:32Now, along these same tracks, a legend was born.
09:36A legend which, in 2015, was revived by local treasure hunter, Piotr Koper, who surveyed the ground and announced the
09:44world's press he had found irrefutable evidence of the existence of the famed Nazi gold train.
09:53Three locations, three shadows from the dying days of Nazi Germany.
09:58To uncover the legend, we have to follow the trail underground.
10:03So you're not as sceptical as I thought you would be?
10:06No, I'm keeping my very open mind about all this, a very open mind.
10:11So we're going to go and look for the Nazi gold train.
10:35I'm here right in the heart of the Owl Mountains in southwestern Poland.
10:40And during the war, it was a place that the Nazis turned into a landscape of secrecy, if you like.
10:48Because it's deep in these mountains that the most extraordinary project was undertaken.
10:55A huge complex of seven different sites known as the Reza Project were excavated right below here.
11:03So it turned a kind of place that looks like a fairy tale into a place of nightmares.
11:15Do you know what the Germans called it?
11:18Valdemburg?
11:19Valdemburg.
11:19You see, that's nice and easy.
11:22Valdemburg.
11:23That's a proper way.
11:24I'm not advocating German takeover of Poland again.
11:28They've done that.
11:29It didn't work out.
11:30I think, you know, Poland for the Poles, I'm all for it.
11:34But I don't know.
11:36Your mother tongue is ridiculous.
11:47As we arrive, the air cools and the forest grows dense.
11:54Beneath our feet lie miles of tunnels.
11:59And somewhere among them, legend says, the gold train still rests.
12:17Our guide Marcin is waiting inside one of the old Reza tunnels, buried deep beneath Changes Castle.
12:25He knows every twist of this place.
12:29For years, he's studied how the Nazis carved their empire under these mountains.
12:37Now he's taking us down into the cold, dripping heart of it.
12:40To show how it was built and why some believe it was meant for something far more secret than weapons.
12:52It's the kind of insane project only the Nazis could have pulled off.
12:59Absolutely no way that anybody can get past this place.
13:11Look at that behind me.
13:14That is the size of a railway tunnel.
13:17It looks like a railway tunnel.
13:19It feels like a railway tunnel.
13:20You could put a train in there.
13:26This place has become the subject of so many conspiracy theories.
13:29It's one of those insane projects that only the Nazis could have done.
13:50This is the technical chamber.
13:52That's what we call it.
13:54Also because of the channels we have here.
13:56On the right and on the left.
13:58And above us there's also a technical and ventilation section.
14:01The assumption is that this chamber was meant to provide underground emergency power supply.
14:07So without a doubt this was a very important part of the facility.
14:11One that allowed it to function and even accommodate a certain number of people for some time.
14:19The main objective of Project Rees was precisely the construction of headquarters for the German authorities.
14:25Including Hitler himself.
14:32This complex is truly extraordinary.
14:35You've got these seven vast sites.
14:37All perhaps linked by hidden roads.
14:39Maybe secret railway lines and tunnels that plunge deep into the Sovy Mountains.
14:49And at its very heart, as we've seen, stood Changes Castle.
14:55Majestic.
14:55Menacing.
14:57Transformed.
14:58And here the Nazis weren't just digging.
14:59They were dreaming on a monstrous scale.
15:21Is it always this damp?
15:23At this time of year the most…
15:27So there could be something behind there?
15:32The Risa complex stretches for miles.
15:34It's just too big, too secret if you like, for us to work together.
15:38So what we're going to do is we're going to split up.
15:40Justine is going to stay in the tunnels.
15:42She's going to trace all those rumours of gold and trains buried in the dark.
15:48I'm going to go to the surface and I'm going to be following paper trails and stories.
15:52You know, and the kind of whispers that never make it onto maps.
15:56Okay, we may be on different paths but we're following the same obsession.
15:59And we're going to see which one leads to the truth.
16:08Do you know what?
16:09This is quite a climb.
16:11And, you know, I'm glad that Justine's not with me because she hates a hill.
16:15And what's worse is I'm not entirely sure I'm going the right way.
16:23If you wanted a further proof of the scale of this complex,
16:28this here, which is about the size of like an entire football pitch,
16:34half a football pitch, is just the ventilation shaft for that network that is below me.
16:39It is staggering and this is just one part of Project Risa.
16:45Just one little part.
16:52This is the mess hall of this complex and it's absolutely vast.
16:58And you can imagine it during the war really easily just crammed full of German troops,
17:04you know, laughing, drinking, doing whatever it is they did.
17:07And it's still here, you know, and it's in really good condition.
17:11And now it's a kind of rallying point for neo-Nazis.
17:15There is, you know, fascistic graffiti all over the walls.
17:19And so, in a way, there's a direct link between this place today
17:22and what it's used for as a kind of neo-Nazi hangout
17:25and what it was used for during the war.
17:28In some ways, the war has never ended.
17:34Next, I go higher.
17:36I leave those tunnels behind and I climb towards Change Castle,
17:40the crown of the Risa complex.
17:43It's here that I meet Matthieu,
17:45a local expert who has spent years unearthing the castle's buried secrets.
17:57We are on the first floor where the Princelli family used to live until 1943.
18:02But in 1944, we know that in this particular room,
18:07they were preparing a bedroom for adult Hitler.
18:10But, thanks God, this was not completed.
18:13The elevator shaft from the Second World War times, from 1944,
18:18in the case of emergency, if Führer had to evacuate,
18:24he could use the elevator that was here and go straight to the underground.
18:29And from there, according to legend, Hitler could take a golden train
18:33and go all the way to Berlin.
18:39Next, Matthäus takes me back underground.
18:42Beneath the castle into the very same network of tunnels
18:46that once fueled the legend.
18:48Different entrance, same mystery.
18:56We are under the main courtyard of the Książ Castle in Wałbrzych,
19:01minus 50 meters below the main square.
19:04It was built by the prisoner of the Arbeitslager, Fierstenstein.
19:12We don't know what was the goal of this structure.
19:18There is many different theories.
19:21When the Soviets came here, it was basically a disaster.
19:26It was the place that people were digging this tunnel in the horrific conditions.
19:35Many of them are the victims of Holocaust, and we never forget that.
19:39We believe that over 1,000 died here.
19:49You've never got lost down here, Matthäus.
19:51No, I'm coming here since early childhood.
19:55Is it always cold?
19:57Ten degrees here.
19:58Ten degrees, all year round?
19:59All year round.
20:02Ah, okay, so an old railway line. Is that original?
20:05A part of the original railway line that was here.
20:11Not necessarily big enough for a whole Nazi gold train, Matthäus.
20:15There's many theories about that.
20:17Since early childhood, we heard about the Nazi gold and about the golden train.
20:23There's so many times on our odyssey around Europe, we sometimes find,
20:27okay, we didn't find gold, but what we've discovered is still magical, valuable.
20:33People love the mysteries.
20:35And here we still have certain areas that they are grey.
20:40We don't know what was the purpose of this underground.
20:43But there is a theory about the Wunderwaffe,
20:46so wonder weapon that's supposed to change the outcome of the Second World War.
20:50The V1s, the V2s, so that's a theory that...
20:53Or even biological weapons.
21:01Even today, nobody knows what these tunnels were for.
21:06Could it have been some kind of command centre,
21:09a factory for building secret weapons,
21:11or maybe even a kind of last refuge for Adolf Hitler himself?
21:17Nobody knows.
21:19But at the end of the war, some of these tunnels were sealed off,
21:23and there are still undiscovered parts of the whole Reza complex.
21:28And as a result, that allows rumours to never die.
21:43After hours beneath the castle, I realise it's time to head back.
21:47Back to Justine.
21:49She's still in the tunnels where we started.
21:52While I've been chasing theories and ghosts,
21:55she's been chasing something real.
21:59Is there any hint or suggestion or legend that there's ever been gold or treasure hidden in these tunnels?
22:08There is no evidence that any gold was ever stored in bank reserves.
22:12Of course, we're talking about the reserves of the German state.
22:15There is absolutely no proof of that.
22:18Like every region in the world, this area has its own stories that remain partly unexplained,
22:25around which many legends have grown.
22:35What a place.
22:37It's captivating.
22:38It's mysterious.
22:40Project Reza stands as a monument to Nazi ambition and madness.
22:46It is impossible to ignore the human cost behind it,
22:50or the whole kind of web of conspiracy and mystery that it still fuels.
22:57No wonder so many link it to the gold train.
23:01But that kind of is our legends start, right?
23:04There's a whisper.
23:05Did you hear about the train?
23:06And what train was that?
23:07You know, the armoured one.
23:14I think we've learnt a lot.
23:16I mean, we've learnt a lot about, you know, what the Nazis were doing here.
23:19We've learnt a lot about the kind of fortifications they were building,
23:23the tunnels they were building, the infrastructure.
23:26So, we haven't found any gold here, but, you know, we keep trying.
23:37So, we decide to grab a couple of metal detectors,
23:40and we head to line 65 of the railway network around the Reza complex,
23:45and we start our own hunt.
23:51Maybe we'll find a clue.
23:53Or maybe just another empty tunnel.
23:56Right, are you all right?
23:58Come on.
23:58You're adventure woman, I've described you as a woman of adventure.
24:03So, just get adventuring.
24:07One sec.
24:08This is a tough bit.
24:10This is it.
24:11This is where there's meant to be billions of pounds worth of bullion.
24:16Do you know how this works?
24:17More or less.
24:18Do you?
24:18Yeah.
24:19OK, brilliant.
24:19OK, you get to that.
24:20If it starts beeping a lot, that means we've found gold train.
24:23That means you've found the nasty gold train.
24:24The old train tracks.
24:26There is the old train tracks, yeah.
24:27The old train tracks running through here.
24:29OK, here we go.
24:30Right, right, right, right.
24:34The line once ran from Breslau to Valtic, a lifeline in the dying days of the war.
24:40You had trains thundering through here, packed with soldiers, refugees, treasure perhaps.
24:47Then, in the spring of 45, apparently one train, very long, sealed up, heavily guarded, was seen heading into these
24:57hills.
24:57It supposedly went in and never came out.
25:02Oh.
25:03Does that mean you've found gold when it makes that noise?
25:06If people hadn't left a Nazi gold train there, they'd certainly left something else.
25:11I think that's human.
25:12Trousers.
25:13Oh, your trousers.
25:14But this is what you do.
25:15That is horrible.
25:16For the sake of...
25:17She tried to make me go deeper in, but you know what?
25:20I mean, this was smelling like a medieval cesspit.
25:23No thanks.
25:24I wasn't going there.
25:25If one of us was going to come up smelling of roses, it was going to be me.
25:29And I'll try and make my way up without stepping into more.
25:34Whether the tunnel runs under that field or not, we had to get out.
25:39Right.
25:40Oh!
25:52I don't know why you're looking all so coquettish and happy,
25:56because that's your fault that this car doesn't smell that nice.
26:01And we've got your pooey trousers and shoes wrapped in a bag on the front of the Jeep.
26:07So, yeah.
26:09It's a good sign, though.
26:10If you step and poo, or a poo falls on you, that's a bird,
26:15that means you're going to have luck.
26:20Luck is what we need as we head deeper into Lower Silesia.
26:28We're heading to a quiet town not far from Line 65.
26:32The reason?
26:34Well, I remembered an old interview I came across during my research.
26:38There was this old Polish security service recording from the 1970s,
26:42and a man named Herbert Close claimed he had helped move 50 chests of gold out of Breslau in the
26:49final days of the war.
27:02The first time in the new city, he was a regiment, the first character,
27:08and there was a lot of information.
27:10The way to the army was gone, and he went away from the army by the army.
27:12and the name was the name of the army,
27:12and he had to go to Djiro.
27:16And he went to Djiroi to Leningor.
27:20And he went to Djiro.
27:33We head to the home of a man
27:35who spent years chasing the legend himself.
27:43Piotr Koppa, a local treasure hunter and engineer.
27:48He's the one who believes he found the entrance
27:50to the Nazi gold train.
27:55Okay.
27:57Here we go.
28:00In every single survey, the same anomaly
28:03appears in exactly the same place.
28:06And here we have the start of the survey marked.
28:09And here the end of it.
28:10This is the train.
28:12Right here the train runs through this spot.
28:24This was the first time Piotr revealed his groundbreaking surveys to the world.
28:31The mayor calls a press conference about the gold train
28:33and suddenly this sleepy Polish town is swarming with TV crews.
28:40Everyone is here for the same reason.
28:43To see if the legend is real.
28:46Piotr and Andreas Richter take the stage.
28:49Months of rumours, radar scans and sleepless nights
28:53come down to this moment.
29:00Downvale, a 3D model showing something long,
29:04something metallic, buried in the hill.
29:06To them, it is clear.
29:09They have found a train.
29:12And for a moment, the whole world believes it too.
29:19Then enters Professor Janusz Maddej from Krakow.
29:23Not with a shovel, but with a contradictory geological survey
29:27compiled through magnetic, gravimetric and georadar methods.
29:32And very calmly, he dismantles the dream.
29:36His verdict?
29:37It's simple.
29:38There's nothing there.
29:40No train.
29:41No gold.
29:42No legend.
29:47The room falls silent.
29:50A polite handshake.
29:51The crowd drifts away.
29:53But how about Piotr and Andreas?
29:56They're not done.
29:57Not yet.
29:58That's where the police are, you think.
29:59Yeah, yeah, yeah.
30:00That's where we parked up.
30:01That's where we visited the first flight.
30:03That's what I thought, yeah.
30:04And this was the...
30:04Yeah, yeah, okay, perfect, yeah.
30:09So the train, when it entered the tunnel,
30:11it came through here.
30:17Look, it went this way.
30:19Right through here, straight toward the castle.
30:26You know what?
30:28Piotr's hunch may not be far off.
30:30The Nazis often expanded existing sites,
30:33whether they were mines or old tunnels.
30:40And of course, all of these became part of the Nazi war machine.
30:44All the more so, because there's something quite intriguing.
30:50It's believed that Kaziain was being prepared to serve as one of Hitler's headquarters.
30:57And that would have made it the only one of Hitler's headquarters in the world without a direct railway connection.
31:07After a quick stop at his place,
31:10Piotr leads us to the spot where he believes the Nazi gold train lies buried.
31:19A quiet stretch of track, just outside Valbrzyk.
31:24You'd pass it without a second look, but the forest crowds in and the ground rises up on both sides.
31:30And it feels like the land itself is hiding something.
31:40Justine's jumped in the car with Piotr.
31:42I mean, that is a brave move, if you ask me.
31:45I'm following behind, just in case she strikes gold before I do.
31:51We're heading to the vicinity of the Wrocław-Zelenia Góra railway line.
31:56That's where I'm currently conducting my research.
31:59And I think we've had a lot of success.
32:11If I found the entrance of the tunnel, I've also tried determining where is it leading.
32:19The tunnel has to be going in some direction in this area.
32:23And all of these fields I've examined with the electrical measurements.
32:33But just as Piotr is preparing to take us further along the track that he believes could be the railway
32:40line,
32:40we get an unexpected visit from some angry-looking locals.
32:45So, basically, there's some guys here who said we shouldn't be here.
32:50He's calling the police.
32:52I didn't like the look of these guys.
32:53Fair to say, they didn't like the look of us either.
32:57It means you can die if you're standing at home.
32:59Yes, it's fine.
33:01You look at the track.
33:03Who knows?
33:04I mean, at one point, I think they could be our competitors.
33:07I mean, were these other gold train hunters trying to stake their claim?
33:12One thing's clear.
33:13They're not exactly thrilled to see us.
33:15Maybe they're the competition.
33:17Or, I suspect more likely, they just don't like British historians.
33:20You know, I have a suspicion that they're up to no good.
33:24And they said they'll call the police on us.
33:27Or, they could have been people trying to stop us finding the Nazi gold train.
33:36Next, we keep following Piotr to a site he believes marks the very beginning of the tunnel.
33:42The point where the Nazi gold train first supposedly disappeared underground.
33:54I'm 99.9% sure it's where the tunnel begins.
34:00Most likely connecting the railway line with the Keziyang castle.
34:21Piotr had driven us out to some woods in the middle of nowhere.
34:25I was really starting to wonder what he had in store for us.
34:32We are at a point on the railway line that connects Zilona Góra with Wrocław.
34:37Here, we were doing our private research.
34:40And I am fortunate and confident that this place, as it looks now,
34:44is the place that will be realized.
34:50Do you think there's a gold train somewhere in this general area?
34:54Let me show you.
34:55Let's go!
34:55Okay, let's go!
34:57No, I hear a hurty thistle.
35:01Ydeme, ydeme, we're coming!
35:02Okay, this is it.
35:04Watch out for the nettles.
35:07Mozzies.
35:07This feels intrepid.
35:09The things we do for a chance to find some Nazi gold.
35:17We're going deeper, deeper, deeper into the woods.
35:20This is quite a ravine we're going into now.
35:23I did some research here as well to make sure,
35:26because it was likely that there might be a tunnel entrance here.
35:30First and foremost, we focused on electrical methods,
35:33i.e. electroresonance surveys and electroencephalogram.
35:38Has that revealed anything?
35:39We did not detect any annuals in the soil.
35:44Let's go, let's go.
35:51That's where the ravine goes, right?
35:53There's a railroad track there, and there used to be a ravine.
35:56Well, it was very likely that this was the place
35:59where the train could go uphill.
36:02Look how it's going.
36:03Look how it's going, right?
36:09If we stand there, we'll have it coming towards us.
36:12This is the place where it was going to catch up.
36:16They started from that tree, and that's the marker in the field.
36:21This is our little witness, so to speak.
36:23We call it a marker, a repert, or various other names.
36:27In any case, from this point, 230 meters away,
36:31we stretched two electrochoric strophiles.
36:3536 meters from the marker,
36:39we saw a very large anomaly in the ground.
36:42We like an anomaly.
36:43For decades, the evidence has been simply anecdotal,
36:47but for modern hunters like Piotr, it's a matter of science,
36:50and he feels he's got the data, the graphs, the scans.
36:55These, if you like, they're his weapons.
36:57So what people like Piotr hope for
36:59is that science is going to prove what the rumors hint at.
37:06Let's not forget, georadar on its own is never conclusive.
37:11But of course, when anomalies appear consistently,
37:15it's going to fuel speculation.
37:18With two methods on both sides, we noticed an anomaly.
37:26And two ways of examining the vector of agreement.
37:33I brought a ground-penetrating radar here
37:36to confirm it with a second method.
37:39We spent the whole day researching this place.
37:42We did it in different steps, using different methods.
37:50Each profile created here shows us a clear ground anomaly
37:54that perfectly coincides with the electroresonance survey.
37:58Finally, we're getting somewhere.
38:00Could this be the tunnel where the gold train is hidden?
38:07That seems really pretty suspicious in my eyes.
38:11Here I have a geodetically marked area to start digging.
38:15And I have to remove one, two, three, four trees.
38:19And that's the only thing standing in the way
38:22of us being able to start digging.
38:25He hasn't stopped. He still wants to dig here.
38:27He has the look of a man who's never going to stop digging.
38:32The evidence of the existence of the tunnels is undeniable.
38:37The Germans did build vast underground complexes during the war.
38:43Some are complete, some are incomplete,
38:45some are partially destroyed.
38:46But the real question is whether one of those tunnels hides a train.
38:52And not only a train, a train full of gold.
38:56But that's not all.
39:03So this is your...
39:05Oh, no, it's just...
39:06Oh, I see. There's some stones in there.
39:08It's covered now.
39:09So there's one hole here, one hole over there.
39:12We were performing core drilling.
39:15We know exactly the layering and composition of the ground
39:18till 14 meters below us.
39:21Because eight and a half meters down, we got...
39:23We had so-called cherry clay for a meter.
39:27After this, we have very much of shattered stone, rumos.
39:34This is shattered stone.
39:38We didn't extract any core from the three meters
39:40because the rock was so broken.
39:43So it doesn't suggest anything.
39:45It's just a fill.
39:49This tunnel was filled with material and filled to the end.
39:52That's a song.
40:11With local treasure hunter Piotr Kopper as our guide,
40:14we've been searching in the forest near Walbrick
40:16for the tunnel in which the legendary Nazi gold train
40:19could have been hidden.
40:27Well, I think this has been absolutely fascinating here
40:29and we've learnt a hell of a lot.
40:32I'm convinced there's probably a tunnel under here
40:34and, you know, it's near the railway
40:36and you could see, you know, 80 years ago,
40:39this is a very natural place to put a tunnel.
40:41The gold train story, it's more than a hunt for gold
40:44or money and things like that.
40:46What we've learned here is that chaos
40:49of Nazi Germany's last month,
40:52this collapsing state, this empire
40:55that's moving art and gold and archives
40:58through these valleys, through these forests.
41:01And it's all about the fragility of memory
41:03and how myth can happen.
41:06This is a mystery that captures something essential
41:09about the ending of the war
41:10and about those desperate attempts
41:13to bury this dying empire's wealth.
41:17And that's why I like following these tracks
41:19because when we walk along them,
41:21literally and metaphorically,
41:23we can start examining what is true
41:26and what is legend.
41:28The line between them blurs more with every passing year,
41:32but one thing is certain,
41:33people like Piotr will keep searching.
41:40Of course, spending time with Piotr was,
41:42you know, intense.
41:44He's a man who's lived and breathed this story for years.
41:49And you can feel the weight of his disappointment
41:52from a decade ago.
41:54But if Piotr's taught us anything,
41:56it's this, you never give up.
42:09And as long as the 50 chests of gold
42:11that Herbert Close said he moved out of Breslau
42:14at the end of the war is still out there,
42:16I'm not giving up either.
42:33Yeah, we didn't find an arty gold train.
42:37And you know what?
42:37We didn't even come up smelling of roses,
42:39or at least Justine most certainly didn't.
42:42But anyway, we're going to leave behind Malzik.
42:45I think I got it right.
42:46And we are going to head to Italy.
42:52It's one of everybody's favourite countries.
42:54We love the fashion.
42:55We love the food.
42:56We love the wine.
42:58You name it.
42:58But there is also a fascinating story
43:02to tell about stolen gold.
43:04Because the Nazis stole a lot of gold
43:08from the Bank of Italy.
43:10And some of that gold might still be out there.
43:13And it could well be hidden
43:15in a bunker somewhere in northern Italy.
43:19And we are going to look for it.
43:24I just hope I don't get a bad case of bunker mentality.
43:58We'll see you next time.
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