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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. Soldiers were to have unloaded sealed containers.
01:07And entire convoys supposedly vanished into the tunnels beneath the hills, never to be 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.
01:54I'm Guy Walters. I'm a historian, I'm a journalist, and I'm a sort of explorer of all the hidden secrets
02:02of the Second World 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 rumors, 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.
02:45Since then, there have been a lot of rumors 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
03:07wartime 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. Artworks, gold, archives, all the treasures of a collapsing empire.
04:14They were loaded onto trains and headed west. Some 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.
05:28They burn the house to the ground.
05:34And that is how the legend begins.
05:43After 1945, the Soviets just combed through the entire area.
05:48And after they had done so, they sealed up several tunnels.
05:51And they never revealed what they had found.
05:59Of course, that secrecy has fuelled endless speculation.
06:05Now, in the years directly after the war, the communist authorities in Poland,
06:09I mean, they tried to silence these stories.
06:12The idea that there could be Nazi loot and treasure hidden in tunnels in mines all over Lower Silesia
06:17was deeply 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,
06:36Tadius 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
06:48exactly where two wartime witnesses, Richter and Copper, had once indicated.
06:54He claimed a retired German railway official had once given him a crucial clue,
07:01just enough to believe that somewhere beneath 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.
07:53Good old Poland.
07:54And we're going to go to a place that I can't pronounce.
07:57It'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.
08:05Nearly 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 Walbszburg railway line, where legend says a guarded train vanished in May 1945 as the Red Army
09:10was closing in.
09:12Treasure hunters still believe that there is a sealed tunnel that lies somewhere beneath these hills.
09:18Finally, Jelena Gora itself wants 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 Kopper,
09:42who surveyed the ground and announced to the world's press he had found irrefutable evidence of the existence of the
09:50famed 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?
11:18Baldenburg?
11:19Baldenburg.
11:19You see, that's nice and easy.
11:22Baldenburg.
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.
11:33Um, but 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 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.
12:53It's the kind of insane project only the Nazis could have pulled off.
13:00Absolutely 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.
13:36Standing about 20, 30 foot up, you know, in this massive subterranean complex.
13:41What is that behind me?
13:43What does that look like?
13:44That looks, to me, like a railway tunnel.
13:50This is the technical chamber, that'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 Ries was precisely the construction of headquarters for the German authorities, including Hitler himself.
14:32This complex is truly extraordinary.
14:35You've got these seven vast sites, all perhaps linked by hidden roads,
14:40maybe 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.
14:54Majestic, menacing, transformed.
14:57And here, the Nazis weren't just digging.
15:00They 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 Riesa 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, you know,
15:53the 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? This is quite a climb.
16:10And, 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 Riesa.
16:45Just one little part.
16:53This 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. I leave those tunnels behind and I climb towards Change Castle,
17:40the crown of the Riesa complex.
17:43It's here that I meet Matthieu, a local expert who has spent years
17:47unearthing 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.
18:11But, 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 a Fuhrer 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, beneath the castle
18:44into the very same network of tunnels that once fuelled the legend.
18:47Different 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.
19:22When 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.
19:56Is it always cold?
19:57It's 10 degrees here.
19:5810 degrees, all year round?
19:59All year round.
20:02Ah, okay, so an old railway line.
20:05Is 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 are many theories about that.
20:17Since early childhood we heard about the Nazi gold and about the golden train.
20:23You know, so many times on our odyssey around Europe, we sometimes find,
20:28okay, we didn't find gold, but what we've discovered is still magical, valuable.
20:33People love the mysteries, and 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, so wonder weapon that's supposed to change
20:48the outcome of the Second World War.
20:50The V1s, the V2s, so that's a theory that they were-
20:54Or even biological weapons.
21:01Even today, nobody knows what these tunnels were for.
21:06Could it have been some kind of command centre, a 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, she'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.
22:47It 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 legend 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.
23:27So 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.
23:57Right, are you all right?
23:58Come on.
23:58You're an adventure woman.
23:59I'm all right, I've got **** on me.
24:00I'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 trains.
24:23That means you've found the old train tracks.
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.
24:35The 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 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...
25:17You seem to try 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.
25:40Ooh!
25:52I don't know why you're looking all so cockettish 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 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.
26:33The 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.
26:41And a man named Herbert Close claimed he'd helped move 50 chests of gold out of Breslau in the final
26:50days of the war.
26:59It was a great nightmare, and they had a lot of people there.
27:04And so, you have to go there.
27:07You have to go there.
27:07You've got to go there a lot.
27:08You have to go there and you've got to go there.
27:10How are you going to go there?
27:34We head to the home of a man who 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 to the Nazi gold train.
27:55OK.
27:57Here we go.
28:00In every single survey, the same anomaly appears in exactly the same place.
28:06And here we have the start of the survey marked.
28:08And here the end of it.
28:10This is the train.
28:12Right here the train runs through this spot.
28:20Thank you, Piotr.
28:27Piotr revealed his groundbreaking surveys to the world.
28:31The mayor calls a press conference about the gold train.
28:34And 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.
28:50Months of rumours, radar scans and sleepless nights come down to this moment.
29:00They unveil a 3D model showing something long, something 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 Madej from Krakow.
29:23Not with a shovel, but with a contradictory geological survey compiled through magnetic,
29:29gravimetric 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.
30:02That's where we visited the first flight.
30:03That's what I thought, yeah.
30:03And this was the...
30:04Yeah, yeah, okay, perfect, yeah.
30:09So the train, when it entered the tunnel, it came through here.
30:17Look, it went this way.
30:19Right through here, straight toward the castle.
30:27You know what?
30:28Piotr's hunch may not be far off.
30:30The Nazis often expanded existing sites, whether they were mines or old tunnels.
30:39And, of course, all of these became part of the Nazi war machine.
30:45All the more so because there's something quite intriguing.
30:50It's believed that Kaziang 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.
31:08After a quick stop at his place, Piotr leads us to the spot where he believes the Nazi gold train
31:14lies buried.
31:20A quiet stretch of track, just outside Valbrzyk.
31:24You 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.
32:29All of these fields I've studied 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.
33:03Who knows?
33:05I 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, they're not exactly thrilled to see us.
33:15Maybe they're the competition, or I suspect more likely they just don't like British historians.
33:21I have a suspicion that they're up to no good and 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.
33:35Next, 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 Silona 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, is 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!
34:55Down we go!
34:55Okay, let's go!
34:58No, I hit a hurty thistle.
35:01Yajemi, yajemi, we're coming!
35:02Okay, this is it.
35:05Watch 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, because it was likely that there might be a tunnel
35:28entrance here.
35:30First and foremost, we focused on electrical methods, i.e. electroresonance surveys and electroencephalogram.
35:38Has that revealed anything?
35:40We 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 where the train could go uphill.
36:02Look how it's going, look how it's going, right?
36:09If we stand there, we'll have it coming towards us.
36:13This 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, we stretched two electrochoric strophiles.
36:3536 meters from the marker, we saw a very large anomaly in the ground.
36:42We like an anomaly.
36:44For decades, the evidence has been simply anecdotal.
36:47But for modern hunters like Piotr, it's a matter of science.
36:51And 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 is that science is going to prove what the rumors hint at.
37:06Let's not forget, geo-radar on its own is never conclusive.
37:11But of course, when anomalies appear consistently, it'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 to 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 that 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 of us being able to start digging.
38:24He 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, some are partially destroyed.
38:47But 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, oh, no, it's just, oh, I see, there's some stones in there.
39:08It's covered now.
39:09So there's one hole here, one hole over there.
39:11We were performing core drilling.
39:15We know exactly the layering and composition of the ground till 14 meters below us.
39:21Because eight and a half meters down, we got, we 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 because 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.
39:53That's a song.
40:11That's a song.
40:12With local treasure hunter Piotr Kopper as our guide, we've been searching in the forest near Walbrich
40:16for the tunnel in which the legendary Nazi gold train could 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.
40:35And, you know, it's near the railway and 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 or money and things like that.
40:46What we've learned here is that chaos of Nazi Germany's last month.
40:52This collapsing state, this empire that's moving art and gold and archives through these valleys, through these forests.
41:01And it's all about the fragility of memory and how myth can happen.
41:06This is a mystery that captures something essential about the ending of the war and about those desperate attempts to
41:13bury this dying empire's wealth.
41:17And that's why I like following these tracks, because when we walk along them, literally and metaphorically, we can start
41:24examining what is true and what is legend.
41:28The line between them blurs more with every passing year.
41:32But one thing is certain, people like Piotr will keep searching.
41:40Of course, spending time with Piotr was, you know, intense.
41:44He's a man who's lived and breathed this story for years.
41:50And you can feel the weight of his disappointment from a decade ago.
41:54But if Piotr has taught us anything, it's this.
41:57You never give up.
42:09And as long as the 50 chests of gold that Herbert Close said he moved out of Breslau at the
42:14end of the war is still out there, I'm not giving up either.
42:33Yeah, we didn't find the Nazi gold train.
42:37And you know what? We didn't even come up smelling of roses, or at least Justine most certainly didn't.
42:42But anyway, we're going to leave behind Malzik, I think I got it right, and we are going to head
42:48to Italy.
42:52It's one of everybody's favourite countries.
42:54We love the fashion, we love the food, we love the wine, you name it.
42:58But there is also a fascinating story to tell about stolen gold.
43:05Because the Nazis stole a lot of gold from the Bank of Italy.
43:09And some of that gold might still be out there.
43:13And it could well be hidden in 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.
43:39Were чет knows about Covid-19 or CCTV?
43:50What ş weg ha vun?
43:54L' overseas risk.
43:55Yeah, theyku?
44:08Hold on full time batters 1 dies.
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