Nazi Gold
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 4:05 pm
At Least Fourteen Divers Have Died Trying to Find Hitler’s
Secret Gold Stash in Lake Toplitz!
Since the end of WW2, many expeditions and illegal salvage
hunts have claimed the lives of at least fourteen treasure
hunters searching for the lost gold of the Third Reich.
Archival reports document the final days of the Second World
War, during which the Allies forced Hitler into submission.
Those days in May of 1945 saw a number of National Socialist
leaders head out into the Austrian wilderness and dump what
is thought to be lost "Nazi gold" into Lake Toplitz.
History records many metal crates were submerged under the
mud below 103 meters of log-infested lake water, which once
served as a National Socialist naval base, deep in the forest
61 miles from Salzburg. But nobody knows what exactly was
contained in the mysterious boxes, which were transported to
the Toplitz by military vehicles as well as horse-and-wagon.
Some theorists believe they contain gold collected by the SS
across Europe. Others believe they contain documents showing
where assets confiscated from Jewish banksters were hidden
in Swiss bank accounts, according to The Guardian. Explorers
have spent over 60 years trying to recover the fabled artefacts
and in 2005 the state company which controls the lake,
Bundesforste AG, signed a contract with Norman Scott, an
American treasure hunter, who had hoped to solve the mystery.
Irwin Klissenbauer, a director of Bundesforste AG:
"This is a beautiful area. You have heard of Loch Ness. For
Austrians this has been a bit like Loch Ness. Lots of people
come here. And whether there is gold down there or not, the
mystery has been very good for tourism. I really don’t know
if there is anything down there, but we want to resolve the
mystery once and for all. The aim at first is to measure the
lake. Obviously if they recover anything which has an
identifiable owner, under Austrian law we have to give it back."
But amid the explorations, treasure hunters have died seeking
their loot, including an unnamed US navy diver who died in 1947
when he became entangled in Lake Toplitz’s many submerged logs
and drowned. Albrecht Syen, whose family run a restaurant on
the banks of Lake Toplitz, knows the legends well, and said:
"Dozens of local people claim a number of crates were hidden
in the Toplitzsee during the last days of the Second World War.
Since then there has been repeated speculation that those crates
contained the last gold reserves of the Third Reich. Over the
years some treasure hunters have paid with their lives for their
carelessness, while trying their luck in this lake, where diving
is actually prohibited."
£72 million of bank notes have been discovered in Lake Toplitz on
a mission funded by German magazine Stern. The stash of cash was
part of a counterfeiting plot called Operation Bernhard hatched
by the National Socialists to try and destabilize Britain and the
U.S. Other missions have simply thrown up a load of old, sodden
logs from the murky depths, as well as a crate of beer bottle lids,
dropped down there as an apparent practical joke. Theorists and
hopeful divers alike believe there could be more treasure in the
lake, including the "Nazi gold", which is said to total millions
in notes, as well as the treasures collected from Jewish banksters. Wade says, "What the hell? They didn't need it anyway!"
Secret Gold Stash in Lake Toplitz!
Since the end of WW2, many expeditions and illegal salvage
hunts have claimed the lives of at least fourteen treasure
hunters searching for the lost gold of the Third Reich.
Archival reports document the final days of the Second World
War, during which the Allies forced Hitler into submission.
Those days in May of 1945 saw a number of National Socialist
leaders head out into the Austrian wilderness and dump what
is thought to be lost "Nazi gold" into Lake Toplitz.
History records many metal crates were submerged under the
mud below 103 meters of log-infested lake water, which once
served as a National Socialist naval base, deep in the forest
61 miles from Salzburg. But nobody knows what exactly was
contained in the mysterious boxes, which were transported to
the Toplitz by military vehicles as well as horse-and-wagon.
Some theorists believe they contain gold collected by the SS
across Europe. Others believe they contain documents showing
where assets confiscated from Jewish banksters were hidden
in Swiss bank accounts, according to The Guardian. Explorers
have spent over 60 years trying to recover the fabled artefacts
and in 2005 the state company which controls the lake,
Bundesforste AG, signed a contract with Norman Scott, an
American treasure hunter, who had hoped to solve the mystery.
Irwin Klissenbauer, a director of Bundesforste AG:
"This is a beautiful area. You have heard of Loch Ness. For
Austrians this has been a bit like Loch Ness. Lots of people
come here. And whether there is gold down there or not, the
mystery has been very good for tourism. I really don’t know
if there is anything down there, but we want to resolve the
mystery once and for all. The aim at first is to measure the
lake. Obviously if they recover anything which has an
identifiable owner, under Austrian law we have to give it back."
But amid the explorations, treasure hunters have died seeking
their loot, including an unnamed US navy diver who died in 1947
when he became entangled in Lake Toplitz’s many submerged logs
and drowned. Albrecht Syen, whose family run a restaurant on
the banks of Lake Toplitz, knows the legends well, and said:
"Dozens of local people claim a number of crates were hidden
in the Toplitzsee during the last days of the Second World War.
Since then there has been repeated speculation that those crates
contained the last gold reserves of the Third Reich. Over the
years some treasure hunters have paid with their lives for their
carelessness, while trying their luck in this lake, where diving
is actually prohibited."
£72 million of bank notes have been discovered in Lake Toplitz on
a mission funded by German magazine Stern. The stash of cash was
part of a counterfeiting plot called Operation Bernhard hatched
by the National Socialists to try and destabilize Britain and the
U.S. Other missions have simply thrown up a load of old, sodden
logs from the murky depths, as well as a crate of beer bottle lids,
dropped down there as an apparent practical joke. Theorists and
hopeful divers alike believe there could be more treasure in the
lake, including the "Nazi gold", which is said to total millions
in notes, as well as the treasures collected from Jewish banksters. Wade says, "What the hell? They didn't need it anyway!"