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Dig For Nazi Treasure Continues
The search for looted Nazi gold and the so-called Amber Room continued on Tuesday in Deutschneudorf, a village in eastern Germany. Nothing has been found yet, but the treasure hunters remain confident.
A replica of the Amber Room is on display in the Catherine Palace, St. Petersburg.
Treasure hunters in Germany resumed their search for hidden Nazi treasureon Tuesday but progress is proving agonizingly slow and the drilling could go on for days before anything is found.
Engineers, watched by a crowd of expectant reporters and local residents, drilled several holes 10 meters deep into the ground near the village of Deutschneudorf near Germany's border with the Czech Republic, to explore a man-made vault believed to contain tons of looted gold, and possibly the legendary Amber Room.
The mayor of Deutschneudorf, Heinz-Peter Haustein, told SPIEGEL ONLINE last week he was "more than 90 percent certain" that he had found the whereabouts of amber and gold from the fabled chamber, which Nazis looted from the Soviet Union in 1941.
Haustein said electromagnetic tests conducted two weeks ago showed that the vault contained around two tons of a precious metal, probably gold, packed into crates.
The mayor, who is also a member of the federal German parliament, is convinced the Nazis hid looted treasure in an underground labyrinth near Deutschneudorf in the final months of World War II.
He's been looking for it for the past decade and started a fresh dig this year after he was contacted by Christian Hanisch, who found coordinates for the vault while going through the documents of his late father, a Luftwaffe air force signaller.
The plan now is to pass cameras through the drilled holes to explore the vault, a process which could last into next week, Haustein told reporters. "The coordinates date from the Second World War and may be inaccurate by 10 or 20 meters," he said.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,537992,00.html
The search for looted Nazi gold and the so-called Amber Room continued on Tuesday in Deutschneudorf, a village in eastern Germany. Nothing has been found yet, but the treasure hunters remain confident.
A replica of the Amber Room is on display in the Catherine Palace, St. Petersburg.
Treasure hunters in Germany resumed their search for hidden Nazi treasureon Tuesday but progress is proving agonizingly slow and the drilling could go on for days before anything is found.
Engineers, watched by a crowd of expectant reporters and local residents, drilled several holes 10 meters deep into the ground near the village of Deutschneudorf near Germany's border with the Czech Republic, to explore a man-made vault believed to contain tons of looted gold, and possibly the legendary Amber Room.
The mayor of Deutschneudorf, Heinz-Peter Haustein, told SPIEGEL ONLINE last week he was "more than 90 percent certain" that he had found the whereabouts of amber and gold from the fabled chamber, which Nazis looted from the Soviet Union in 1941.
Haustein said electromagnetic tests conducted two weeks ago showed that the vault contained around two tons of a precious metal, probably gold, packed into crates.
The mayor, who is also a member of the federal German parliament, is convinced the Nazis hid looted treasure in an underground labyrinth near Deutschneudorf in the final months of World War II.
He's been looking for it for the past decade and started a fresh dig this year after he was contacted by Christian Hanisch, who found coordinates for the vault while going through the documents of his late father, a Luftwaffe air force signaller.
The plan now is to pass cameras through the drilled holes to explore the vault, a process which could last into next week, Haustein told reporters. "The coordinates date from the Second World War and may be inaccurate by 10 or 20 meters," he said.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,537992,00.html
