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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Nazi gold train

A sign warns against 'trespassing,' as heavy machinery begins the search to find a legendary Nazi train laden with treasure and armaments in Walbrzych, Poland, August 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Dariusz Gdesz)
August 24, 2016, 11:32 pm
After days of digging, treasure hunters say no Nazi gold train found
Hopes of uncovering legendary treasure in Poland appear dashed after explorers say no train or tunnel uncovered at site
By AP
A sign warns against 'trespassing,' as heavy machinery begins the search to find a legendary Nazi train laden with treasure and armaments in Walbrzych, Poland, August 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Dariusz Gdesz)
August 22, 2016, 5:26 pm
Rain delays search for legendary Nazi train in Poland
Explorers to resume digging near the city of Walbrzych no sooner than Wednesday
By AP
A sign warns against 'trespassing,' as heavy machinery begins the search to find a legendary Nazi train laden with treasure and armaments in Walbrzych, Poland, August 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Dariusz Gdesz)
August 16, 2016, 5:06 pm
Search resumes for Nazi gold train that might not even exist
Explorers refuse to give up despite decades of fruitless probes and warnings by historians that the rumors are bogus
By Vanessa Gera
File: (L-R) Swiss politician Bernhard Pulver, Christoph Schaeublin, president of the Foundation of the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern, Swiss diplomat Tim Guldimann attend a press conference on the late German Cornelius Gurlitt 's looted Nazi-era art collection on November 24, 2014 in Berlin. (photo credit: AFP/RONNY HARTMANN)
January 14, 2016, 6:58 pm
German team probing stolen Nazi art defends slow progress
Only one percent of paintings hoarded by Cornelius Gurlitt ‘without doubt’ were stolen from Jewish families, task force says
By AFP
File: A reconstructed view of the fabled Amber Room (photo credit: jeanyfan, public domain/Wikimedia Commons)
December 15, 2015, 8:29 pm
Polish scientists quash rumors of Nazi ‘gold train’
Disputing fortune-hunters, experts say there may be a tunnel, but no mythical locomotive filled with treasure
By Sue Surkes
This photo from March 2012, shows a part of a subterranean system built by Nazi Germany in what is today Gluszyca-Osowka, Poland. According to Polish lore, a Nazi train loaded with gold and weapons vanished into an underground mountain tunnel like this one at the end of World War II. (AP)
September 28, 2015, 7:15 pm
Polish army begins inspection at alleged site of Nazi gold train
Army conducting safety check at site where treasure hunters claim discovery of a WWII rail car rumored full of riches
By AFP
The underground galleries, part of the Nazi Germany 'Riese' construction project under the Ksiaz castle in the area where the 'Nazi gold train' is supposedly hidden underground, in Walbrzych, Poland, on August 28, 2015. (AFP/Janek Skarzynski)
September 4, 2015, 4:56 pm
Men claiming discovery of Nazi ‘gold train’ go public
German and Pole insist they have ‘irrefutable’ evidence of WWII-era treasure; local authorities doubt its existence
By AFP
A German tourist takes picture of Ksiaz Castle, under which the Nazi gold train is said to be hidden, in Walbrzych, Poland, on Wednesday, September 2, 2015. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP Photo)
September 3, 2015, 8:19 pm
‘Gold rush’ hits Poland with possible discovery of Nazi train
Tourist swarm to Polish woodlands to join search for rumored treasure-filled WWII-era locomotive
By Monica Scislowska
The underground galleries, part of the Nazi Germany 'Riese' construction project under the Ksiaz castle in the area where the 'Nazi gold train' is supposedly hidden underground, in Walbrzych, Poland, on August 28, 2015. (AFP/Janek Skarzynski)
September 1, 2015, 11:18 pm
Polish military to look for fabled Nazi ‘gold train’
Army called in to help locate locomotive purportedly filled with riches, though some complain of wasted tax money on quixotic treasure hunt
By AFP
Part of the Ksiaz castle under which the 'Nazi gold train' is supposedly hidden underground is pictured, on August 28, 2015 in Walbrzych, Poland. (AFP PHOTO / JANEK SKARZYNSKI)
August 31, 2015, 5:53 pm
Gold hunters blocked from site of alleged Nazi gold train
People with metal detectors combing the area and railway tracks in search of WWII-era treasure
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
The underground galleries, part of the Nazi Germany 'Riese' construction project under the Ksiaz castle in the area where the 'Nazi gold train' is supposedly hidden underground, in Walbrzych, Poland, on August 28, 2015. (AFP/Janek Skarzynski)
August 31, 2015, 4:58 pm
Poland backtracks on Nazi ‘gold train’ claims
Regional governor says no proof for discovery of WWII-era loot, days after minister claimed rail cars almost certainly found
By AFP
The underground galleries, part of the Nazi Germany 'Riese' construction project under the Ksiaz castle in the area where the 'Nazi gold train' is supposedly hidden underground, in Walbrzych, Poland, on August 28, 2015. (AFP/Janek Skarzynski)
August 30, 2015, 3:18 am
Polish ‘Nazi gold train’ city basks in ‘Loch Ness Monster effect’
As rumors fly over alleged find, Russia and the World Jewish Congress lay claims to valuables, and Walbrzych gears up for tourism boom
By AFP and ToI Staff
This photo from March 2012, shows a part of a subterranean system built by Nazi Germany in what is today Gluszyca-Osowka, Poland. According to Polish lore, a Nazi train loaded with gold and weapons vanished into an underground mountain tunnel like this one at the end of World War II. (AP)
August 28, 2015, 8:05 pm
Missing Nazi gold train ‘discovered’ by Polish radar
Official says he saw shape of underground platform, claims to be ‘more than 99 percent certain’ that rail cars exist
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
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