Polish Geology Experts Find No Trace of Nazi Gold Train

Scientists rooted out Tuesday a claim by two amateur treasure hunters that they had discovered a legendary gold train hidden by the Nazis in a southern Polish railway embankment.

Walbrzych residents say the tunnels served as the flawless storehouse for billions of dollars in gold and jewels hidden in the face of a rapidly-approaching Soviet army in 1945. Now, new information from a team of experts makes it look as if the train is just a myth after all.

Last summer, officials in Poland thought they had located a long-lost Nazi train that, as legend had it, was filled with gold and hidden in an underground tunnel. But they have no evidence that the presence of a train carrying gold.

Christopher Marinello, CEO of Art Recovery Group, said: "It's encouraging that Nazi-era looting still attracts so much attention even if it has been slightly unwarranted in this case".

During the war, Walbrzych was home to a massive architectural project that would have been Adolf Hitler's headquarters in Książ Castle and a labyrinth of underground tunnels known as Project Riese.

"We believe there is a train", Koper the paper.

He explained pictures seemed to reveal a train built with gun turrets.

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"Our goal is to check whether there's any hazardous material at the site", Colonel Artur Talik, who is leading the search using ground-penetrating radar, reportedly told Agence France Presse.

Mr. Koper said the only way find out once and for all if the train was there, was to dig.

Madej spoke at the end of a month long survey of a stretch along the Wrocław-Wałbrzych railway line, during which experts employed magnetic field detectors, thermal imaging cameras and radars, according to the Times of Israel.

ReutersTadeusz Slowikowski, retired miner and explorer shows documents near an area where a Nazi train is believed to be, in Walbrzych, southwestern Poland September 4, 2015.

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