In the victorious 1945, the allies of the anti-Hitler coalition managed to find at the bottom of the Alt-Aussee salt mine a huge cache of valuables worth about 100 billion Reichsmarks. At the same time, a treasure belonging to Kaltenbrunner worth a billion Reichsmarks was found in the garden of the Villa Kerry, and Goering's personal treasures were discovered in the cemented basements of the Feldenstein castle near Nuremberg: 36 massive golden candlesticks, a silver bath, paintings by famous artists, boxes of old cognac. But such successes stopped there, and most of the treasures of the Reich have not yet been found. The search for them sometimes leads to mysterious tragedies.
Stomach in a backpack
In February 1946, a mysterious incident occurred in Austria. Three experienced climbers - Helmut Mayer, Hans Haslinger and Ludwig Pichler - went on an expedition to Mount Rauchfang to find the treasure hidden at the end of the war by the Nazis. Haslinger never made it to the search site. He returned from half the way, as he had attacks of seemingly unmotivated fear, and Hans decided not to risk it. His friends continued to climb and disappeared. No information about them was received for a whole month. Then a team of rescuers went to Mount Rauhfang, who found a hut made of snow blocks in one of the hollows. Beside her lay the bodies of Mayer and Pichler, and Pichler was gutted like a pig by unknown villains. Even the stomach was removed from the ripped stomach, which, for no reason, was put into a backpack. The police carefully documented all these strange circumstances of the crime in the protocol of the inspection of the scene, but why the criminals needed it remained unknown. And this was only the first in a series of similar ones.
A similar event took place in the summer of 1952 in the Styrian Alps, Austria. Someone Jean de Souz, who lives in France, got hold of a map somewhere, with the help of which he hoped to find * the Nazi treasure. Jean was a teacher of geography and a great lover of walking along mountain paths, and therefore was confident in the success of his endeavor. But the path that led to the treasure turned out to be the last one in his life. Again, first the treasure hunter disappeared, and then the rescuers went in search, which this time lasted several weeks. They found only the corpse of Monsieur de Sousa, while the equipment for the search for gold and the aforementioned map disappeared without a trace. Is that next to the lifeless body the police managed to find a very deep hole. A certain sergeant ordered to fill up the hole. When the order was executed, another curious fact was revealed: there was not enough earth from the dump,to level the pit with the surrounding soil. From this it could be concluded that Jean de Sauze had found something after all. But what exactly - it will remain a mystery.
Lake Toplitz mystery
In the fall of 1952, a very mysterious story took place on Lake Toplitz, which later, thanks to the pen of the researcher of the secrets of the Third Reich Julius Madera, became, albeit sadly, famous. That year, a Hamburg engineer named Keller and an experienced rock climber Gert Gerns set out in search of Nazi treasures, hidden somewhere in the depths of the lake, or on its rocky shores. Just a few days after the start of the expedition, Gerns suddenly fell into the abyss and died. Engineer Keller returned and gave detailed testimony to the police about the incident, but soon disappeared himself. Concerned relatives began their own private investigation and managed to find out that during the Second World War, engineer Keller was a member of the SS and served as the head of a secret submarine base that transported treasures of the Reich to caches. And just a few weeks after the death of Guerns, the bodies of two former officers of the SS Special Forces for underwater operations and three officers of the US Navy were found on the shores of Lake Toplitz. It is very likely that they killed each other during the fight between the treasure seekers and its defenders.
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Rumors of invisible treasure guards continued to circulate in the future. And these rumors were by no means unfounded. In the fall of 1961, an experienced diver died while diving in the lake. The circumstances of the death were very strange. The police found that someone had cut his signal rope underwater. The following fall, 19-year-old German Alfred Egner found his death in the waters of the lake, and a year later, in the neighboring lake Alat, 17-year-old Walter Niggl was killed.
Serious results in the search for the treasures of Lake Toplitz were achieved only in 2001 thanks to the use of the American deep-sea submersible Phantom, which had previously proven itself brilliantly in the search for the wreckage of the Challenger space shuttle in the Atlantic and on the filming of the Titanic lying at the bottom. This time, the invisible guards, if they still exist, could not oppose anything to the brainchild of high technologies. With the help of an apparatus with cluttered aircraft wreckage, missile bodies, mutilated remains and concrete structures of the lake bottom, nine oblong galvanized boxes were lifted, each weighing about 100 kilograms. The place on the coast, where the cargo was delivered, was securely cordoned off by the police, and onlookers could only see how the boxes were loaded into armored vehicles and escorted to Salzburg. However,as it turned out later, there were ten billion counterfeit francs in the boxes. Earlier, fishermen have repeatedly fished out fake dollars and pounds sterling from the lake water during the war. Really, instead of the coveted gold treasure hunters in the waters of Toplitsa, such a banality will always wait?
Burnt out psychic
Some of the stories associated with Nazi treasures smell like blatant devilry. According to a number of researchers, the Nazis hid at least seven tons of gold bullion in the Canary Islands. Repeatedly enthusiasts made attempts to find this grandiose treasure, but they all turned out to be in vain and even tragic. Their lives were suddenly cut off by landslides, people drowned, suddenly went crazy, suddenly lost their speech and hearing. There is a well-known story of a treasure hunter who suddenly went blind and numb, and could only scribble two words on paper: "Burning treasures." Needless to say, the treasures hidden on these paradise islands have not yet been found? They are often quite seriously considered damned.
Another mysterious story is connected with SS Hauptsturmführer Hugo Kurmis. He was considered a very strong psychic and clairvoyant. In 1943, he was sent to Iran at the head of a reconnaissance and sabotage group. Kurmis' group was supplied with a large amount of gold and jewelry, which was intended to bribe Iranian officials and tribal leaders from the south of the country. However, this time the British Intelligence service worked clearly, and soon the reconnaissance and sabotage group found itself in a dangerous position.
But it was not for nothing that among the SS men there were legends about the unprecedented intuition of Hugo Kurmis. She did not disappoint him this time either. Sensing something was wrong, the Hauptsturmführer took the entire load of gold and jewelry, transferred it to a certain place and hid it in a cache. They say that Kurmis cast a spell on his treasure, after which he disappeared without a trace. Even his SS colleagues could not find any information about him. Since then, tourists have often come to visit that area. Despite the fact that the place where the treasure is buried is approximately known, it has not been possible to find it so far. Once a European psychic tried, as they say, to find a Nazi treasure in the astral body, but lost consciousness. When the unfortunate man was taken to the hospital, then, barely recovering from his senses, he tried to speak, but just as suddenly, in the truest sense of the word, caught fire and burned to ashes. The Iranians told with horror that the clothes remained untouched by the fire. The Iranians also talk about a photographer who took several pictures at the place sworn by Kurmis, after which he turned gray and went crazy, and the developed film disappeared without a trace.
It is very likely that these treasures were needed by the Nazis in order to eventually create the Fourth Reich. To protect them, they used guards from among the former military personnel of special forces and even some dark occult forces. But time passes, and no one needs fake banknotes of potential opponents. But gold … It is still waiting for its discoverers.
Valdis Peipinsh. Secrets of the 20th century magazine