Poland’s deputy culture minister, Piotr Zuchowski, said in August that he was “more than 99 per cent sure” one train was there after seeing ground-penetrating radar images.
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Two independent teams have been given permission to try and pinpoint the location of what they believe is an armored Nazi train, possibly buried with a cargo of gold and other valuables, PAP reports.
They claimed in August to have discovered a 98 metre long train carriage buried eight to nine metres underground in a railway tunnel after using ground-penetrating technology to scan the area.
Claims that the train had been found this summer sparked a frenzy of interest, both within Poland and overseas, capturing the imagination of treasure-hunters.
The Nazi train was located in a place near the town of Walbryzych in Poland.
The Nazi gold train has never been proven to have existed, but it is said to carry gold, jewels, and other Nazi treasures that were hidden after World War II.
The strategic area includes Hitler’s command post at the grandiose Ksiaz castle (formerly known as Fürstenstein) and Project Riese, a suspected secret weapons program that includes a network of underground tunnels and chambers dug out beneath the Owl Mountains by an estimated 30,000 prisoners of war and concentration camp prisoners.
Koper said in a press conference of the hunt for the Nazi gold train: “We already know, namely, that under the earth there is a train”.
A number of trains are believed to have been used by the Nazis in the 1940s to transport goods stolen from people in Eastern Europe back to Berlin.
In October, the military declared the area free of hazardous material paving the way to this week’s search operations. The Nazi gold train has yet to be discovered, but predictions suggest this could be a groundbreaking find.
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Polish media said the men who made the discovery want 10 percent of the value of the train’s contents. “We have worked for four years to get to the bottom of legends that have flown around our city for 70 years”.
