Madej spoke at a news source conference in Walbrzych.
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Koper & another explorer, Andreas Richter, told Walbrzych authorities earlier this yr in that that they had located an armored Nazi train hidden in a secret tunnel by railway tracks within the city.
“According to our research there perhaps is a tunnel, but there is no train in this area”, Madej said.
There is no evidence that a Nazi train carrying gold and diamonds was buried in Poland at the end of the Second World War, according to experts.
In the case of the so-called “Gold Train”, Nazi forces sent 24 freight carriages from Budapest towards Germany filled with family treasures including gold, silver and valuable paintings seized from Hungarian Jews and estimated to be worth up to United States dollars 200 million.
“There is no train”, Prof Janusz Madej of the Polish mining academy told a press conference in the city of Wałbrych attended by dozens of journalists and television crews who began following the gold train story after the treasure hunters made their claim in August.
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In August, Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski stated that ground-penetrating radar pictures had left him “99% convinced” that the German military train was hidden near Walbrzych. Historians disagree as to whether they were intended as shelters or for weapons production.
He explained pictures seemed to reveal a train built with gun turrets. “The readings [by the scientists] are different because the methodological approach was not the same as ours”.
They demanded 10 per cent of the value of the train’s contents if searches turned anything up. The area was German territory at the time, but became part of Poland when the war ended.
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He said information about the train had come from a deathbed confession of someone who knew about it.
