WARSAW — The owners of a dilapidated palace in Poland have put up a security fence to deter treasure hunters after their property was named as the secret location of 28 tons of Nazi gold, buried there in the dying days of the Second World War.
Located in Roztoka, a town in south-west Poland, the palace once lay in Germany before the end of the war changed the international borders.
The claims of hidden gold were made in a diary written some 75 years ago by an SS officer. Writing under the pseudonym Michaelis, the officer detailed 11 locations where gold and artifacts owned by the Nazis were buried as Soviet forces swept in from the east.
The palace, once the home of the Hochberg family, was selected as the location for the gold, which had apparently come from banks in Breslau, now the Polish city of Wroclaw.
“The manuscript covers the last months of the war and the efforts made by the SS to hide treasure, bank deposits and valuables from advancing Soviet forces,” said Roman Furmaniak, from Silesian Bridge, a foundation based in the south-west town of Opole and the owners of the diary.
“I’m not saying it [the gold] is definitely there, but according to the information it was buried there.”
To make sure it was well hidden and protected from any fighting, the gold was apparently hidden at the bottom of a well. The well was then blown up and its entrance levelled to conceal it. Just how the foundation came into possession of the diary, which had remained secret for decades, has added a twist of mystery to the story.
The diary was handed over by a Christian lodge in the town of Quedlinburg. Composed of the descendants of former SS officers and German aristocrats, the lodge gave the diary to Silesian Bridge as an act of atonement for crimes committed by the Germans.
The owners of the palace, a couple from the northern city of Szczecin, have issued a statement on Facebook, in which they pledged to co-operate with state authorities.
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