The diary, written by SS officer named Egon Olenhauer, claims that Adolf Hitler ordered 260 trucks full of treasure to be hidden at 11 locations in Poland so that the Soviet army would not find them. Olenhauer was a key figure in the operation, acting as a “link” between SS officers and local aristocrats who wanted to hide the treasure. Judging by the diary, which spent decades in a 1,100-year-old Masonic lodge in the German city of Quedlinburg, only one location has 28 tons of gold from the bank of the Third Reich, which was in Breslau, today's Worchlav.
Other sites contain gold coins, medals, jewelry and other treasures that the rich gave to the local Nazis for safekeeping. The diary says that the entire collection of paintings stolen from France, from Botticelli, Rubens, Caravaggio, Monet, Dürer, Rafael and Rembrandt, is in one place.
For the third booty, he claims that the religious buildings in question were stolen around the world to be evidence of Hitler's racial theories.
Roman Furmaniak of the Schlesische Brücke Foundation, which now owns the diary, said that "ten years ago, after much negotiation, they agreed to give us the diary from the lodge."
We had to wait with the publication of the data because we were waiting for everyone who had anything to do with the diary or what he was talking about to be dead, that was an agreement with the Freemasons - said Furmaniak.
Five different institutions verified the authenticity.
The foundation now monitors all the places listed in the diary to stay safe. Darius Franc Dzieviatek, the foundation’s founder, says one of the locations is a well in the palace park and the other at the bottom of the palace lake. Other locations include a sarcophagus at the bottom of the river, a secret room and between the two walls of a palace.
Historian Joanna Lamparska says that "the diary is very interesting because it contains many details about what happened at the end of the war in Silesia, as well as information where they plan to hide things," Express.hr reports.
- In my opinion, he will not find the treasure. If these people really knew where a treasure was, they wouldn't act like this. Although the diary may not be fake, a lot of work still needs to be done - says Lamparska.
According to British media, a group of divers from the British Navy discovered a chest in the wreck of a World War II ship that had been lying intact for almost 78 years. The suitcase, writes the Metro portal, could contain four tons of gold worth 130 million dollars.
Allegedly 'Hitler's treasure' is in the wreck of the German cargo ship 'SS Minden' which was sailing towards Germany in September 1939 when it was spotted by the British Navy, so the Nazi leaders ordered the ship to sink about 190 kilometers southeast of Iceland.
British researchers have applied to the Icelandic government for permission to open the coffin, and officials there have yet to decide who owns the wreck in the Atlantic.
The so-called mystery is still active. amber rooms that were dismantled by German forces during the occupation of Russia, taken away and hidden in a secret location. Today there is a replica of that room and it is located in St. Petersburg.