- A concentration camp memorial is urging looters to stay away after a documentary claimed Nazi gold could be hidden beneath it.
- Aired in November, “The Secret Depots of Buchenwald” claimed a handwritten map revealed two sealed chambers under Buchenwald concentration camp.
- After liberating the camp in 1945, US soldiers found 21-tonnes of gold jewellery and effects at the camp, stolen from prisoners, sparking theories there could be more.
- Jens-Christian Wagner, the director of the Buchenwald memorial, said all the chambers had been opened.
- “For many years we had considerable problems there with illegal visits to the tunnel. Sometimes we also find people with metal detectors,” he told The Times of London.
A concentration camp memorial in Germany is begging treasure hunters to stay away, after a new documentary claimed Nazi gold could be buried there.
In late November, a documentary called “The Secret Depots of Buchenwald” aired by Germany broadcaster MDR claimed that a handwritten map discovered in the 1980s may reveal the location of two sealed chambers under Buchenwald concentration camp.
Buchenwald was the largest camp built inside what is now modern-day Germany and at least 56,000 people died there between 1937 and 1945, according to the memorial foundation.
Jews, Poles and other Slavs, the mentally ill and physically disabled, political prisoners, Romani people, Freemasons, and prisoners of war were all imprisoned at the camp.
Rumours of hidden treasure have followed the camp ever since US soldiers who liberated it on April 11, 1945, found a 21-tonne trove of gold fillings, teeth, rings, watches, and clocks, stolen from inmates, The Times of London reported.
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