Just found this in the War Studies Daily. Don't know how I missed it in the DM "A group of businessmen are to trawl a lake near Berlin in search of almost £1billion worth of Nazi gold allegedly dumped by Hermann Goering. The Luftwaffe chief is said to have disposed of the treasure in the spring of 1945 to stop the Soviet Red Army getting their hands on it as they closed in on the German capital. Up to 18 boxes of gold were apparently thrown in Stolpsee Lake, about an hour’s drive north of Berlin in the former Communist East Germany." Adventurers search for dumped Nazi gold worth a billion pounds in German lake | Mail Online
....and then they're going to turn their attention to the legendary six Lancasters in airworthy condition, buried at Elsham Wolds.....
I bet there are several nazi gold treasure maps being sold all around the world all the time... Just pick a new lake in the map...
What is the depth of the lake and how dark is the lake? I think I watched something on 60 minutes in the United States about Nazi gold in an Austria lake and it was suppose to be a legend and they find some gold. It could be possible to find something with the more modern day technology since the last time they looked in 1986.
Skipper, hope you don't mind, I have a strange sense of humor, I guess, and this made me laugh - I believe things until I find out different, too. David Kenyon Webster mentioned a rumor about Nazi gold in his book "Parachute Infantry." He didn't go into detail, just a passing remark he made while they were swanning about Germany or Austria when the war was over, or all but over.
We have these stories in the pacific too, not Nazi gold, Yamamoto's gold. These stories are very disruptive and can cause civil unrest. I first heard of the rumours of gold in 1998 while working on the far north - west coast of Papua New Guinea after an earthquake and tsunami had gone through and killed between three and five thousand people around Sissano. The people were desparate to try and rationalise why this calamity had occurred. They came up with a lot of wild theories but one was that a Japanese submarine had been sunk not far off the coast during the war, it was loaded with gold being shipped from Rabaul back to Tokyo. By 1998 the Americans knew of the gold and wanted to recover it so they let off a small nuclear bomb which caused the tsunami. They did this to get everyone away from the coast so they could do the recovery and get away before anyone knew what was happening. Sounds crazy to us but the people at Aitape / Sissano were deeply traumatised and trying to explain what happened to them, beyond that, some people just want to believe. Recently we had a rumour sweep through Honiara that expatriates were secretly working to recover gold left by the Japanese on Tulagi.
A new book about Rommel's treasure which sheds new light into the whole affair... http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Gold-Finding-Rommels-Treasure/dp/1507871791/ref=cm_sw_em_r_dpcop_gOx2ub1CVNCMP_im
