Andrzej Galik, a spokesman for the search team, said six independent companies using various radar devices have detected anomalies indicating the shape of a tunnel underground.
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As a Polish search committee started digging this week for a train presumably filled with Nazi gold taken from Jews, the country’s lawmakers debated a ban of terms such as “Polish concentration camps” and “Polish death camps“.
“We need to find a train track and an entrance to a tunnel”, their spokesperson told Polish media.
Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said the three-year prison terms would be reserved for those “who intentionally slander Poland’s good name by using terms like “Polish death camps” or ‘Polish concentration camps.'” Those who use such language unintentionally will face lesser punishments, including fines.
A government official initially said he was “99 per cent sure” the train was there, but geological experts using magnetic equipment found no train at the spot. Richter and Koper, joined by several other volunteers, expect the search to last several days. According to their research, the train was hidden in a tunnel in 1945.
A train travels in an area where a Nazi train is believed to be, in Walbrzych, southwestern Poland August 30, 2015.
Should the explorers turn out to be correct, the World Jewish Congress has reminded the Polish authorities that any valuables belonging to Jewish people killed in the Holocaust must be returned to their rightful owners or their heirs.
Local folklore said an armoured train had been carrying gold from what is now the Polish city of Wroclaw as the Soviet army closed in.
Koper insists that “there is a tunnel and there is a train”, and that the results are skewed because of different technology used, The Telegraph reports.
It seemingly includes 300 tons of priceless gold, jewels, weapons and artworks looted by Nazis and buried in the area during World War 2.
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Below the castle, the Germans built a system of secret tunnels and bunkers, called “Project Riese”.
