Top 5 German Nazi secrets have been discovered

The collection with more than 1,200 paintings of world-famous famous artists worth one billion USD is one of the newly discovered German fascist treasures.

The biggest secrets about Nazi Germany were discovered

Polish Deputy Minister of Culture Piotr Zuchowski on August 28 confirmed 99% of the existence of the German Nazi gold tanker buried in the city of Walbrzych , southwestern Poland , based on the evidence that photos from radar through the ground. The train, rumored to carry 300 tons of gold and many diamonds and jewels, was mysteriously missing at Walbrzych while fleeing the Soviet Red Army in the spring of 1945.

In fact, the stories of finding treasures and relics related to Nazi Germany are not new. Newsweek, USA, reviewed the five biggest discoveries about Nazi secrets .

217 gold coins

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Florian Bautsch, an amateur archaeologist in Germany discovered 217 gold coins buried from the Nazi period.(Photo: Bild)

In July 2015, 217 Nazi gold coins were displayed at Luneburg museum, Germany.

In October 2014, Florian Bautsch, an amateur archaeologist, found 10 gold coins buried in a 50-year-old pine tree root in the town of Luneburg. He then mobilized local archaeologists to assist in excavation and found another 207 gold coins.

These coins originated in France, Belgium, Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire , cast from 1831 to 1910. Hidden with them are two aluminum seals engraved with eagle and swastika and the words " Reichsbank Berlin 244 " (name of German central bank during World War II).

The expert said that these 217 gold coins were buried during the Nazi period or shortly after the end of the Second World War.

The total value of 217 gold coins is 45,000 euros. These gold coins are added to the public fund. Florian Bautsch only received a bonus amount of 2,500 euros thanks to the discovery. However, Florian said he was not disappointed because the more important thing was that he had more archaeological knowledge thanks to this discovery.

1,280 art paintings

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Some of the 1,280 art paintings were seized at Mr. Cornelius Gurlitt's house.(Photo: AFP)

In November 2012, during a tax evasion investigation, authorities seized 1,280 art paintings at the apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt collector, 80, in the city of Munich, Germany. These include works by famous artists like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall and Paul Klee. According to the German Focus magazine, the value of the paintings is up to a billion dollars.

This number is believed to have been destroyed in the bombing campaign of American and British planes in Dresden during World War II. However, it is only a fabricated story from the previous owner of the said collection, Mr. Hildebrand Gurlitt, Cornelius Gurlitt's father.

Most of the paintings in the collection are derived from the campaign to confiscate the "decadent art paintings " of Jewish families conducted by Nazi Germany. Mr. Hildebrand Gurlitt could accumulate this massive collection during the time he worked for the Nazi minister of mass media and propaganda Joseph Goebbels.

After Hildebrand died in 1956, the collection was transferred to his son but the authorities were unaware.

In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine after the collection was confiscated, Cornelius Gurlitt said: " Nothing in my life is more beloved than these paintings" . He hoped the authorities would return the collection to him.

Investigators are clarifying the origins of paintings to give back to legitimate employers. Cornelius Gurlitt died in May 2014. He wrote the will to all of the above pictures for Bern Museum of Fine Arts, Switzerland.

Deck test the atomic bomb

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Nazi Germany's secret underground bunker complex in Austria.(Photo: Daily Star)

At the end of 2014, a large underground underground complex consisting of many tunnels and bunkers was discovered in the town of Georgen an der Gusen, Austria.

The tunnel construction complex, built at the end of World War II, spread over an area of ​​nearly 30 hectares. This is considered the place where Nazi Germany experimented with weapons of mass destruction , including atomic bombs.

Austrian documentary filmmaker Andreas Sulzer is the one who found the consortium. He spoke of the consortium for the first time when he read a report from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1944. He tracked down the exact location of the complex using a launcher measuring device. radiation in the area. When he discovered unusually high levels of radioactivity in one location, he hired a machine to dig and find this secret underground facility .

Sulzer noted that the combination could be "Nazi's most secret weapons production base".

Secret sanctuary in Argentina

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Remnant remains at the secret sanctuary of Nazi Germany in Argentina.(Photo: AFP)

In March 2015, a group of archaeologists discovered the remains of a secret Nazi sanctuary in a forest in the Misiones region, north of Argentina, bordering the Paraguay border. Here, besides a dilapidated building, archaeologists also found 5 German money coins cast from Nazi Germany and a porcelain plate printed with the words "made in Germany".

Archaeological team leader Daniel Schavelzon said that in the middle of World War II, Nazi Germany carried out a project to build secret, hard-to-access shelters for senior leaders in the case of Nazi Germany lost to the Allies. The location selected to build these structures is mountains, deserts or deep forests.

In 1998, Argentina officially admitted helping Nazi war crimes warriors to take refuge. Among these were Adolf Eichmann, a member of Nazi SS's armed forces, and one of the organizers of the slaughter of Jews. In 1960, Israeli task forces arrested Adolf in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, then sent him to Israel for trial and sentenced to death.

Tank in the cellar

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Panther tanks produced during the Nazi period were hidden by an old man in a cellar.(Photo: Telegraph)

In July 2015, police received word that a 78-year-old old man had hidden Nazi weapons in his warehouse in the town of Heikendorf, Germany. Upon the search, police discovered weapons including a Panther tank , an anti-aircraft cannon and a torpedo.

Authorities must mobilize 20 soldiers and two modern tanks to pull the old tank and cannon off the old house. Prosecutors said they were investigating whether the old man violated the War of Arms Control Law. His lawyer said the weapons were no longer in operation, so they were not restricted by law.