Chapter 803 Nazi Treasures
According to Yang Jing's analysis, the 1,100 tons of gold in Kolchak's hand is 70% likely to be transported by a transport ship transformed from an inland gunboat to a place upstream of the Ertzis River and hidden.
Gold is an extra weighing scale. The actual volume of so much gold is not much. According to the proportion of gold, one thousand and one hundred tons of gold is only about 4 meters * 4 meters * 4 meters, but in fact, because these golds are all gold bricks, the volume must be larger than this one, but it is definitely not much larger.
If Kolchak uses the transport ship that should be equipped with gunboats, three 400-ton inland gunboats can definitely transport the gold.
If it is safer, send four gunboats to be installed and more than 100 elite soldiers can escort this thousand, one hundred tons of gold directly upstream, and unconsciously enter the mountainous area at the junction of China and Russia.
After passing the Osk Gate, whether it is the Altai Mountains on the northeast bank of the river, the Narem Mountains or the Karba Mountains on the southwest bank of the river, they are all excellent places to hide gold.
The most important thing is that the Zhaisang Lake from Omsk to the Ertzis River is only a voyage of 1,500 kilometers. Even if these military gunboats are fully loaded, they can run at least 20 kilometers per hour. It only took a little more than six days to arrive at Zhaisang Lake from Omsk.
"If Kolchak is smart enough, he will choose this route as the most suitable one!" Yang Jing looked at the huge map and thought silently in his heart.
It’s a very simple truth. If you calm down and think about it from the perspective of others, you can actually guess Kolchak’s final choice.
Some experts in later generations have also said that in the mountainous areas on the border between China and Russia, it is very likely that the gold of the last tsar was hidden.
It is estimated that these experts made such inferences based on the situation at that time and the speculation of Kolchak's psychology.
No matter whether these experts were puzzled or how they came to this conclusion, Yang Jing was preparing to collect some relevant information and clues before slowly searching for this batch of gold.
There are many clues of these information that Niam has searched for. Yang Jing only reads a small part of them. Perhaps some exact information can be found in the remaining information clues.
Don't worry, just look for it slowly. The whole world has been searching for Nicholas II's gold for a century, but I haven't even found a P. Why should I be so anxious?
Of course, there are many other information and clues collected from Eastern Europe in these materials, but most of these information and clues are clues about **gold.
During World War II, the crazy Sittler not only attacked the entire Europe, but also crazily plundered the wealth of the occupied areas everywhere.
One of the big reasons why Germany dared to fight against the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union was that Shitler plundered a large amount of wealth from the areas occupied by the German army in the early stages of the war, and its madness was no worse than that of Japan.
War requires financial support, which is an eternal truth. In order to obtain sufficient war funds, every time the German army occupied a country, they would plunder the country under the order of Sitler and transport the stolen property to Germany in preparation for future emergencies.
Of course, this did play a great role in the early stages of the war, otherwise, a small Germany would have come from so much money to invade so many countries. However, Sittler later aroused public outrage and was defeated, which led to many of the property he plundered, including some rare treasures, and died in a life without spending it.
But later the Victory Kingdom discovered that the whereabouts of the property he had plundered were unknown and did not know where he went. This once became a mystery and troubled the whole world. So, how much wealth did Sittler plunder? I'm afraid only those who were very close to him knew about it.
Anyway, during World War II, Germany not only killed innocent people, but also plundered many countries' property and artistic treasures. Sitler once carefully organized a special force, whose mission was to carry out large-scale robbery of precious cultural relics, gold and silver treasures from various countries in a planned manner.
At the same time, for every country occupied, its financial personnel immediately seized the country's gold, foreign securities, foreign exchange, etc. and levied an astonishing number of "occupation fees" from these countries. By the end of the war, the income of the "occupation fees" alone was 60 billion marks, which was about 24 billion US dollars. ** also used various reasons to force the occupying countries to pay "finishments" and "tributes". According to statistics from relevant American institutions, the amount of this item alone reached 104 billion marks, which was about 40 billion US dollars!
The wealth plundered by these two openly is as high as 64 billion US dollars!
This is $64 billion during World War II, not $64 billion now. You should know that in 1940, Germany's annual GDP was only $56.1 billion, the Soviet Union's GDP was only $43.3 billion, and the UK's GDP was only $38 billion.
By comparison, you can tell how crazy the ** back then was.
It was as if after conquering Poland, his second figure, Hermann William Goring, ordered the plunder of Polish cultural relics. Half a year later, it would be enough to describe it in one sentence - all cultural relics in this country have been accepted.
This is a sentence Goring said when he reported to Sitler.
According to a secret report from Germany, by July 1944, a total of 137 railway trucks were loaded with cultural relics transported from Western Europe to Germany, totaling 4,174 boxes and 20,973 pieces, and 10,890 paintings alone, most of which were masterpieces of famous artists. The total value of cultural relics collected by Goering alone was 50 million German marks. Among them, there were 5,000 world-famous paintings, 160,000 jewelry-inlaid treasures, and more than 2,400 ancient precious furniture. Among them, 150 of these items are rare treasures, which is simply a museum.
The above treasures are all available for investigation, and countless of them are not listed.
However, except for a small number of these wealth, which were found by various countries after Germany's surrender, most of them were unknown.
Therefore, from the end of World War II to the present, the clues of ** treasures have become the most concerned thing for treasure hunters all over the world.
Treasure hunters around the world pay far more attention to the ** treasure than other legendary treasures, because there are too many ** treasures, and Shitler would definitely not have concentrated so much wealth in one place to hide. Therefore, in Europe alone, there are few hundred places to guess about the ** treasures!
Although most of these speculated locations have been proven to be fictitious, people are still happy to continue searching. Even when an expert or treasure hunter claims to have deciphered a certain password and then get the exact coordinates of a certain location, the German government will raise their hands to welcome these people to dig...
Of course, after so many years of search, there is no gain.
After the war, many treasure hunters did find some hidden treasures, but the number was very small, more of them were false places, and some were clearly touching the edge of the treasure, but the treasure that was about to appear would disappear in a blink of an eye.
Therefore, many people speculate that these treasures are still under guard.
For example, after the war, many experts suspected that a considerable number of them were hidden in the Alps in Austria, where Allied treasure hunters had searched many times.
In 1945, a Swiss guide claimed that he had seen the remains of a ** plane and the pilot in the mountains. It turned out that in 1943, Mussolini had reached the end of his life. In order to allow him to continue to survive, Hitler issued a secret order to use an aircraft to transport gold worth 100 million US dollars, but the plane crashed into the mountain on the Adenmero Peak in the Alps. Under the guidance of the guide, the relevant personnel arrived here and found a moving glacier covering the location. The plane, the pilot, and the gold had long disappeared.
However, in 1949, the Austrian police found a man named Rands very suspicious. The reason why he was suspicious was that he had a strange list sewn in his clothes, which contained Swiss francs, US dollars, gold, diamonds, and other items worth about 100 million US dollars. The person who signed the list was Stefanfer Floresch, the general of the former ** German Young Stormtrooper.
But Landz kept his mouth shut about the origin and purpose of this list. The Austrian police tried every means to pry open his mouth, but the man committed suicide the next day after he was arrested. It can be seen that for a long time after the war, there were still no loyalists guarding some treasures.
Of course, there are more treasures that you know that you are hiding a lot of wealth but will never find, such as the legendary "wolf cave"! Of course, this "wolf cave" does not refer to the "wolf cave" in Sittler's secret base camp, but a hidden place specially used to store wealth.
Legend has it that in 1938, a "wolf den" was built in a small town called Ketterzan on the banks of the Gruber River in Sitterland. This "wolf den" is located more than 20 meters underground, surrounded by more than 80 wild fortifications and intertwined mines and death zones.
**In order to ensure the absolute secret of the "Wolf Knot" project, not only did the more than 10,000 workers involved in the construction of the project, but even all the designers who formulated the "Wolf Knot" project plan were sent to a plane, nominally saying that they were transported to western Germany, but the plane suddenly exploded when it landed, and none of the people on the plane survived.
It is said that there is a mint and a bank in the "Wolf's Knot", which store a surprising amount of gold, silver and various treasures.
However, in the more than ten years after World War II, neither the former Soviets nor the Poles could find this mysterious "wolf cave" built by Hitler, nor did they find a list of compiled properties. French archaeologist Hans agreed with the statement of history expert Hauls, pointing out that this "wolf cave" is the underground vault that many historians call "Sitler's treasure".
According to information, since April 1945, nearly a thousand trucks have been responsible for transferring German banks' property to the mysterious "wolf den". Among these transferred properties are huge amounts of gold and silver jewelry, gold bars, gems, rare art treasures, as well as private and church property of the bosses, as well as property plundered from Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece and the Czech Republic. The total value is estimated to be 700 billion francs, which is approximately US$140 billion!
But whether it is the "Wolf's Knot" or the famous "Amber Palace", they are places that have not been found until now.
Of course, not only all the treasure hiding places have not been found. People all over the world have been searching for more than 70 years, and some of them have been found...
Chapter completed!