Race on to find Nazi gold

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The protagonist of the Rommel story is clams by Peter Fleigh aka Walter Kirner. We have question his motives? He told three different story versions to french, Italian and then the English.

Even confuse the issue even more we have would be book authors making all sort of claims.

In 2004 a book was published by Peter Haining called MYSTERY OF ROMMELS GOLD

The whereabouts of a stolen hoard of treasure knowns as "Rommel's Gold" is one of the most elusive and enduring mysteries of World War II. The fabulous cashe, mainly comprising gold ingots and believed to be worth millions of pounds, was first heard of in 1941 following the German Blitzkrieg of Yugoslavia.

Rumours have abounded regarding what actually happened to the missing gold, and where it might be. These include claims that it was seized by a renegade Panzer unit and hidden in the North African desert for reclamation after the war; that it was despatched to Germany as a gift for Hitler but never reached its destination; or that it was taken by Italian prisoners who set sail for Corsica, where their boat mysteriously sank just offshore.

"The Mystery of Rommel's Gold" examines all the various theories, tracking down the route taken by the missing treasure and reviewing the searches that have taken place since the mid-20th century.

The late Peter Hanning a good friend Ian Flemming Famous for his game bond stories. Wrote novel blending fact with fiction to the point you are not sure if the story they are telling in real or not?

Courtisey of James bond archives.

The story goes, that this a hoard of gold en route from North Africa to Berlin in 1942 on a ship, sunk off the coast of Corsica. German looting was rife and Fleming was well placed working in intelligence, to learn such cases, especially with the set up his 30AU commandos unit, charged with recovering German equipment and secret intelligence.

After a raid on the Tambach Castle in Bavaria by three of his 30AU commandos, they miraculously came across the complete German Naval Archives dating back to 1870 that was in the process of being burned by the Germans. There was so much of it, that Fleming had to charter a fishing boat to get it all back to London. This was where he discovered about Rommel’s gold.

Fleming tried in vain to persuade the Sunday Times to fund an expedition to hunt for Rommel’s treasure as it was deemed too expensive, but he did not give up, and found a way to use briefly this story in his own novel On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. In the novel, Bond meets the Corsican ‘Capu’ of the Union Corse Marc-Ange Draco and they discuss the Corse’s bloody history. In particular, Bond references two unlucky souls that were poking around the “mysterious business of Rommel’s treasure” off the Corsican coast. One was a Czech diver called Fleigh and the other a French diver called Andre Mattei found “riddled with bullets.”

The discussion between Fleming and Haining at Mitre Court was to change Haining’s life. Over 40 years later, he published a book called ‘The Mystery of Rommel’s Gold: The Search for the Legendary Nazi Treasure’ and would dedicate it to Fleming:

Here is problem when fictional novel writer take over and try to write a non fiction book they add things promoted as fact that are speculation.

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By 1955 movies was already being plugged on the topic of Rommels treasure.

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Peter Fleigh aka Walter Kirner. in one version claimed Fleig On September 16, 1942, he received covert orders from a captain by the name of Ludwig Dahl arrived at Bastia Corsica under the cover of darkness and was taken by Captain Dahl to an all but abandoned German barracks. There, he was introduced to three lieutenants—Gunther Cranz, Hans Schaub and Albert Hoffmeyer.” The trio had been tasked with moving six metal crates off the island.

Whats interesting there was possibly Captain Dahl

Source: Deutschland, im Kampf gefallene Soldaten, 1939-1948

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As for the other men mentioned in this mission he mentioned Gunther Cranz below killed on the Russian front

Hans Schaub killed on the Russian front.

Albert Hoffmeyer Sounds like Jewish name? He is not recorded killed in action in WW2.

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The Rothchilds hold ALL of the NaZi Gokd!

 

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To get to truth behind Peter Fleigh aka Walter Kirner's claims

The place to start is The German Naval Archives: Tambach

Sonia Kahn in the National Archives History Office. It is part four of a series on the history of some of the seized foreign records housed at the National Archives.

Imagining Germany in April 1945 conjures up images of destruction and despair as the war in Europe drew to a close and the Nazi war machine gasped its final breaths.

That April, Allied troops seized documents of the German Naval Archives, also known as the Tambach documents, named after Tambach Castle in northern Bavaria, where they were captured.

The records found at Tambach Castle included German Navy documents from World War II but also some dating back as far as 1850. The Nazis had moved the documents from their home in Berlin to the rural safe haven in November 1943.

After Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945, the U.S. and British forces moved to London the seized documents that they could use for naval intelligence purposes.

They split the documents—some went to the British Admiralty while others were sent to 20 Grosvenor Square, the American military headquarters in London.

U.S. and British officials planned to jointly organize, catalog, and film the intelligence records at each location.

In the midst of filming, Commodore Dudley Knox of the Office of Naval Records and Library, recognizing the great academic and research value of the Tambach records, sought to film the entire collection and to maintain a copy.

Knox persuaded the Director of Naval Intelligence to film the additional documents—a mighty accomplishment considering the postwar reduction in military funds.

Documents that had remained at Tambach Castle after the seizure—which were now deemed worth filming for historic value—were swiftly shipped to join the rest of the collection in London.

Knox eventually realized that it would be a logistical and costly nightmare to truly film every document of the German Naval Archives. Rather than let his dream of filming a greater portion of the Archive fall apart, he made the call to film only what he deemed the most historically valuable documents.

Microfilming the collection began in London in August 1945.

British naval staff first registered the documents, giving them a “PG” designation followed by a unique number identifier.“PG” reportedly stood for “pinched from the Germans.”

Once the documents were registered, American translators listed and detailed the items in the series. The documents were then filmed.

In 1946, while the staff were filming records from 1930-45—those considered most vital to be duplicated—they began the additional task of filming some of the more historic, older records.

By July 1947, filming was complete, resulting in 3,905 reels of film, of which 40 percent concerned material from before 1930.

The question remain is there evidence that some documentaion of navel movements that support Walter Kirners claims?

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The problem is Peter Fleigh aka Walter Kirner's claims every time he retells the story he gives different version.


Walter Kirner's below

This is picture of him as older man.

He gave five different versions of the story about his involvement. He was incredibly unreliable. Yet there was two difference sources that claimed what he said in part was true. but was they credible?

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