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Lawyer Says Alleged Nazi Train Has Precious Minerals

A lawyer for two men who claim to have found a World War II Nazi train says it's buried in the ground and might contain valuable minerals.

The Associated Press
Sep 10, 2015
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In this Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015 photo, a train passes by the site where local explorer Tadeusz Slowikowski says the Nazis hid a train from the Red Army in early 1945, in Walbrzych, Poland. Two men appeared Friday, Sept. 4, 2015 on Polish TV saying they are the finders of a Nazi train said to be laden with gold — a claim that came as the Polish military inspected the alleged site in southwest Poland. Authorities in the southwest city of Walbrzych said last month that two men had contacted them through lawyers claiming they had found an armored train that possibly contains valuables and weapons. The report sparked a gold rush around Walbrzych, where tales have circulated since World War II that the Nazis hid a train full of gold from the Soviet Army in early 1945. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A lawyer for two men who claim to have found a World War II Nazi train says it's buried in the ground and might contain valuable minerals.

A gold rush has erupted in the southwestern Polish city of Walbrzych after the men told authorities they have located a war-time train there, possibly with valuables. A deputy culture minister said he is 99 percent sure the train exists, adding fuel to a local legend about a Nazi gold train hidden since 1945 in a tunnel in Walbrzych.

But lawyer Jaroslaw Chmielewski told TVN24 on Wednesday the train is buried in the ground and probably holds no valuables except some precious minerals.

Polish military experts who saw the site said it must be cleared of trees and shrubs before any inspection.