These are all secret treasures worth billions of dollars but are being buried in an unknown place since the second world war.
In the history of war, stories like looting happened all the time, especially when invaders went to conquer new lands. World War II was no exception. Even this war caused many valuable historical artifacts and treasures to be lost and cannot be found to this day.
According to Warhistoryonline, the antiques not only carry cultural and artistic values of that period but are also made from rare materials such as gold, silver, currency, and precious stones. It is difficult to enumerate all of them, but the value of antiques lost due to the second world war can be up to trillions of dollars.
Of course, many countries have made unremitting efforts to find and successfully reclaim many antiquities, relics or treasures thanks to the legal basis. However, there are also things that can’t be found until now. No one knows if they were stolen or destroyed, and obviously no one knows where they are.
Amber Room in Russia, which is known as the “8th Wonder of the World”
The Amber Room is also known by many as the “8th Wonder of the World”. This room is special in that the whole room is surrounded by pure amber panels, gold leaf, mirrors, carvings, gilded candles, precious stones.
Former Amber Room
This room was born at the hands of Prussian amber craftsmen and the room is located near the city of St. Petersburg, Russia.
However, after the Second World War, all the valuable artifacts of the room completely disappeared. At that time, Hitler mobilized 3 million soldiers and launched a war to invade the Soviet Union with Operation Barbarossa since 1941.
At the end of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi army is said to have robbed all the treasures in the amber room.
A replica of the amber room was reconstructed in the Catherine Palace, Pushkin in the south of St. Petersburg in 2003. The interior is decorated exactly like the old amber room but all the treasures have been lost no longer.
Replica of the current amber room
The room contained more than 400kg of amber. The estimated value of this room is around $500 million in 2016.
Nazi gold train
The story of the Nazi gold train dates back to just before the end of the Second World War.
In 1943, at the height of the war, Adolf Hitler ordered the start of a secret project called Project Riese. This project aims to create seven underground structures in the Owl Mountains in Lower Silesia, Germany.
One of the unfinished tunnels in the Nazi Project Riese project
However, by January 1945, the war had a great turn and Hitler could not take his hand. According to a legend in the Lower Silesian region, a train carrying gold and countless treasures left Breslau, now the Polish city of Wrocław, to the tunnels and unfinished mines in the range. Owl Mountain.
This train is said to carry about 300 tons of gold, masterpieces of art, jewelry and weapons. However, for more than 74 years, Lower Silesia is now part of Poland and the story of the Nazi gold train is still unsolved.
Area 65, near the intersection of Uczniowska Street, Wałbrzych, where the gold train is believed to be buried.
In August 2015, two explorers Piotr Koper and Andreas Richter published images from a ground-penetrating radar system showing the possibility of a train hundreds of meters long hidden underground. 99%.
Countless treasure hunters then flocked here to search but so far none have succeeded. However, Koper claims to keep looking for more. Koper recently found 24 Renaissance portraits dating back up to 500 years in the village of Struga, in the city of Wrocław.
Alpine Fortress – The place where Hitler’s treasure is hidden
At the end of 1943, SS commander Heinrich Himmler planned to build a backup base for the Nazi army. The location of the fortress, called Alpenfestung (Alpine) in German, is located in the mountains of southern Germany and borders Austria. However, Hitler did not support this plan.
SS Commander Heinrich Himmler
However, towards the end of the war, allied intelligence revealed that many Nazi officials had been evacuated to a fortified area in southern Germany.
The Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, spread many rumors about the Alpine fortress. This move was intended to distract allied troops about the situation of the Nazi government.
The Alpine Fortress is said to contain a huge treasure of supplies, weapons, and jewelry such as diamonds and gold bullion. After decades of war, rumors persisted that the Alpine fortress was one of Hitler’s colossal treasures.
Many rumors claim that this is the place to store treasures worth more than 1 million USD. Since then, the mountains of southern Germany have become a hunting ground for treasure hunters.
6,000 tons of gold of the Japanese fascist general Yamashita
Like the Nazi gold ship, the gold treasure of the Imperial Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita is also one of the unsolved historical mysteries.
During World War II, Japan sent invaders across Asia, destroying many cities and plundering valuable possessions. According to some historians, the emperor of Japan appointed a special group called Kin no yuri, to preserve the treasures robbed by the Japanese army in Asia.
General Tomoyuki Yamashita
According to many rumors, General Tomoyuki Yamashita hid many treasures in underground tunnels in the Philippines before surrendering to the Allies. Previously, Yamashita was ordered to bring these treasures back to Japan but failed due to allied siege.
In 1988, Yamashita’s gold was once again mentioned in a lawsuit between treasure hunter Rogelio Roxas and former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos. Roxas alleges Marcos got his hands on a treasure map of shogun Yamashita from the son of a former Japanese soldier during World War II.
In 1992, widow Imelda Marcos reconfirmed that her husband Ferdinand Marcos had found 4,000 tons of gold from the Yamashita gold vault. Previously, Roxas led a treasure search team and discovered some evidence of the treasure’s viability.
Following some clues, they found bayonets, samurai swords and skeletons of Japanese soldiers. In addition, they also found a gold Buddha statue 1 meter high and 1 kg weight. In addition, Roxas also discovered some gold bars.
According to many history experts, Yamashita’s treasure remains a mystery. But according to treasure hunters, it’s still out there somewhere. Even according to the sources of many American spies located in the Philippines, the amount of gold that General Yamashita keeps in many mines can be up to trillions of dollars.
$5 trillion treasure on board Awa Maru
The Japanese ocean liner Awa Maru is built and operated by Nippon Yusen Kaisha. During World War II, this shipping company lost a Japanese navy ship. It is worth mentioning that the ship was converted to use instead of carrying passengers, it was requisitioned for combat.
In 1945, when the Imperial Japanese army gradually lost its position and surrendered to its allies, the ship Awa Maru was responsible for transporting hundreds of Japanese military personnel, diplomats and civilians from Singapore back to Japan.
But late at night on April 1, while sailing from Singapore, the ship was stopped by the US Navy in the Taiwan Strait. The US Navy ship USS Queenfish mistook Awa Maru for a destroyer even though it was only serving relief purposes. Queenfish then attacked and sank Awa Maru with a barrage of torpedoes. Of the 2,400 passengers on board, only one survived.
Before the trip, many observers said the ship was laden with treasure and contraband from Singapore. There are rumors that the ship hides a treasure worth up to 5 trillion USD including gold, platinum and diamonds. Japan then asked the US to pay $52.5 million for the sinking of the Awa Maru but did not mention that the ship contained treasure.
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