We're about to find some cool Nazi shit in Poland

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several friends: Apr 7, 2015

Washinton Post did a decent write up but I'm going to bold only the juicy bits

Washington Post posted:

LONDON � When two men claimed to have found a mysterious train filled with Nazi gold last fall in Poland, it all seemed too spectacular to be true. Skepticism of the alleged finding quickly overtook the initial enthusiasm.

This week, we may finally find out whether the Nazi train has indeed been found.

One year after claiming to have traced it, a team of 35 researchers that includes Piotr Koper and Andreas Richter will start digging for it Tuesday morning. A report they worked on found that soil anomalies could hint at the train's existence, but another study � by the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland � found no evidence for that. The latter study, though, concluded that a tunnel may be at the location where Koper and Richter will now put their theory to the test.

"The train is not a needle in the haystack � if there is one, we will find it," Andrzej Gaik, a spokesman for the search committee, told the news agency Agence France-Presse. The committee consists of volunteers rather than Polish officials, who refrained from participating in the search efforts.

Gaik remains hopeful: "If we find a tunnel, then that is also a success. Maybe the train is hidden inside that tunnel." The privately funded effort will be streamed live online and could be over within two days. Using special equipment, the search team is planning to drill three holes into the ground.

The story of a Nazi-era train with valuable art, gems and gold that disappeared at the end of World War II in 1945 has circulated for decades. It is thought to have been last seen near the city of Wroclaw, which is today part of Poland, and researchers and hunters have been unable to find the tunnel complex in which it is thought to be hidden.

Speaking to WorldViews on Monday, research committee member Christel Focken acknowledged that it was uncertain whether the team would find any gold. "Our geo-radar images show that there is a train with vehicles on it," Focken said, suggesting that the vehicles could be tanks.

The tunnel system carried the name "Giant" ("Riese"), which indicates the dimensions of the underground network. The Riese tunnel network was also supposed to house a bunker for Adolf Hitler, but there are varying accounts of whether construction was ever finished. The Hitler bunker was never found, but Focken and her colleagues hope that the tunnel might lead to it.

The Polish news site Wiadomosci Walbrzyskie reported last year that up to 300 tons of gold could be hidden on the long-lost train, if it exists.

Although such claims may turn out to be incorrect, some of the history of Nazi gold is well documented. Using jewelry from Jews and other prisoners who had been sent to concentration camps, the Nazis melted the metal into ingots. When Allied forces advanced at the end of World War II, the Nazis transported that gold back to Germany amid fears that it might fall into Soviet hands. Experts say that not all of it has been found.

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I'm a newcomer to the subject but it seems like archaeologists have been busting balls over the very existence of a tunnel structure or train for decades and it's about time somebody stepped up.

the black husserl posted:

Shoulda linked the loving amazing New Yorker article on this in the OP. This poo poo is as close as you're gonna get to Indiana Jones IRL. A gigantic underground Nazi base with a mysterious purpose, sought out by what are basically the dudes from Stalker, who also believe a secret Nazi organization still exists to protect the secrets...

Read a bit but this is certainly worth your time if you're a junkie for stranger than fiction stories told good

Streaming
~~I can't find stream links but this guy's twitter seems good~~That guy is involved with the dig but apparently RT will be holding a stream from their on-air service

Some amateur drone footage of the surrounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_6MdNYTpOk

The place where we find the gold

Poland for anybody who doesn't play Paradox games like I do

We're going to bust into an old Nazi train and find tons of gold and trinkets, probably nothing supernatural but who knows. Apparently the story of the gold train has existed as folklore for a long time in this area of Poland and I truly believe top secret poo poo is hidden in a journal in a safe in a carriage next to a Nazi skeleton with the swastika all ripped up and dirty maybe, the discovery of a lifetime is happening for certain in the next few days. Don't even try and stop this hype train is all I'm saying

several friends fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Aug 16, 2016

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several friends: Apr 7, 2015

#goldtrain

I wonder what Hitler's bong looked like?

# ¿ Aug 15, 2016 21:34

several friends: Apr 7, 2015

THE DOG HOUSE posted:

i clicked that guys twitter and was thoroughly confused OP dunno what to tell ya

#goldtrain

follow the money

# ¿ Aug 15, 2016 21:40

several friends: Apr 7, 2015

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/could-nazi-gold-train-loaded-6455198#ICID=sharebar_twitter

quote:

Could Nazi 'gold' train be loaded with chemical weapons? Shocking new theory as hunt continues

Rather than being filled with gold and gems from the Second World War, a lecturer at a military university in Warsaw claims the train's cargo could be lethal

the goldtrain prospectors are goblins which adds some more coolness to this Nazi mystery

e: nm this article I was too stupid to actually read the date but drat these Nazi train stories blend together

several friends fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Aug 15, 2016

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several friends: Apr 7, 2015

the black husserl posted:

Shoulda linked the loving amazing New Yorker article on this in the OP. This poo poo is as close as you're gonna get to Indiana Jones IRL. A gigantic underground Nazi base with a mysterious purpose, sought out by what are basically the dudes from Stalker, who also believe a secret Nazi organization still exists to protect the secrets...

updated, this is dope.

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several friends: Apr 7, 2015

Looks like a pretty limited disaster zone when you consider that heavy forests offer just another obstacle to the strong but slow nazi undead guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_6MdNYTpOk

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