Historian Konstantin Zalessky, in an interview with Zvezda, doubted the reliability of the information from the diary of SS officer Egon Ollenhauer about the places with the treasures hidden by the Nazis. He noted that not the manuscript itself was published in the press, but only a few photographs of its pages.
“This should be treated very carefully. Those who presented these documents stated that they had passed five examinations, but it is not known who carried out these examinations,”Zalessky warned.
He sees the very story of the appearance of the diary as strange: in his opinion, there are a lot of questions to it, for example, why he was kept in a Masonic lodge in German Quedlinburg and why there is no information about officer Egon Ollenhauer in the SS documents. "Such a person has never been in the SS troops at all," the historian emphasized.
Zalessky also drew attention to information from the diary about 260 trucks, which allegedly transported treasures. Such a quantity of equipment and cargo, according to his calculations, would require the involvement of more than a thousand of service personnel.
On March 8, the British tabloid Daily Mail wrote about the publication of information from Ollenhauer's diary. It follows from the manuscript that after the Soviet troops went on the offensive in the Great Patriotic War, the Fuhrer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler ordered the SS to hide 260 trucks with treasures in 11 places on the territory of modern Poland - gold and gold coins, medals, jewelry and works art. Part of the wealth was plundered by the Nazis, some other values were allegedly transferred to them by local aristocrats who wished to protect their property from the Red Army. One of the caches, located in Breslau (now Wroclaw), is said to contain 28 tons of gold from the Polish branch of the Reichsbank, while the other holds 47 paintings, including works by Rubens, Caravaggio and Rembrandt.
In 2015, in Poland, on a tip from two people, they were looking for a train with Nazi-owned weapons, equipment and precious stones, which allegedly disappeared without a trace in 1945. An underground tunnel was found at the place indicated by the treasure hunters, but after three months of searches, it was not possible to find traces of the "golden train". Despite this, excavations continued there.
