1On July 5th, 2008, while celebrating the 700th anniversary of the founding of the village in Merkes, Germany, a World War II-era U.S. Army convoy drove into the village, which was a scene in which some history lovers recreated the Nazi "treasure" discovered by the U.S. military from Merkes village at the end of World War II. 1On April 4th, 945, the 90th Infantry Division of the US Army found a large number of gold and art treasures plundered by the Nazis during the war in an underground mine in Merkes village. American soldiers carried 230 tons of gold and more than ten tons of silver from this mine. Nazi Germany committed heinous crimes against many countries in the World War II. Wherever the Germans went, rivers of blood flowed. According to statistics, 5.3 million Poles and 5.7 million Jews were killed in World War II. German fascists not only killed innocent people, but also plundered the property and artistic treasures of many countries. Under the Nazi's iron hoof, the artistic treasures cherished by many countries in the world were plundered destructively, and castles, palaces and museums in many countries were looted. On the way of German trampling, Hitler carefully organized a special force, whose task was to systematically plunder precious cultural relics and gold and silver treasures of various countries on a large scale. At the same time, every time the Nazis occupied a country, their financial personnel immediately seized the country's gold, foreign securities and foreign exchange. And collect an amazing number of "occupation fees" from these countries. By the end of the war, the income from "occupation fee" alone was 60 billion marks. The Nazis also used various reasons to force the occupying power to pay "fines" and "tributes". According to the statistics of relevant American institutions, this amount alone reached 654.38+004 billion marks. After the Nazis conquered Poland, Goering, the second man, ordered the looting of Polish cultural relics. Half a year later, "all the cultural relics in this country were accepted." According to a secret German official report, as of July, 1944, 137 railway wagons, 4 174 boxes, and 20,973 cultural relics were transported from Western Europe to Germany, including 10890 paintings, most of which were masterpieces by famous artists. Only the cultural relics collected by Nazi leader Goering, according to his own estimation, amounted to 50 million German marks. Among them, there are 5,000 the world famous paintings, 65,438+600,000 pieces of jewelry and more than 2,400 pieces of ancient precious furniture. Among these items, 1500 pieces are rare treasures, which are simply museums. All the above treasures are recorded, and there are countless ones that are not recorded. As for Nazi treasures, it is said that a considerable part of them are hidden in the Austrian Alps, where allied treasure-hunting teams have searched many times. 1945, a Swiss tour guide claimed to have seen the remains of a Nazi plane and its pilot in the mountains. It turned out to be 1943, when Mussolini was at the end of his tether. In order to keep him alive, Hitler secretly ordered the transportation of gold equivalent to 1 billion dollars by plane. Later, the plane crashed in Luo Feng, Adanmo, Alps. The relevant personnel arrived here under the guidance of the guide and found that a moving glacier covered the place, and the plane, pilot and gold had long since disappeared. In 1949, Austrian police found a man named Zilan very suspicious. He was suspicious because there was a strange list sewn into his clothes, which listed Swiss francs, dollars, gold, diamonds, opium and other things with a total value of more than 1 100 million dollars. This list was signed by Stanford Floriku, a general of the former Nazi German Youth Emergency Force. Zilan is tight-lipped about the source and purpose of this list. The Austrian police tried every means to pry his mouth open, but the man would rather die than talk. 1950 in may 17, the police finally caught another person related to Stanford floriku. This man's name is Shim. In the box he hid in a temple, the police found more than 5 million yuan in dollars and gold bars. He admitted that Stanford Floriku asked him to keep it. Subsequently, the police finally arrested Stanford Floriqu, but both he and himl refused to tell the location of the hidden object. It is said that in 1954, a German named Frank was on holiday in Austria. He used his former Nazi party member status and Hitler's decorated status to try to break into the Nazi underground organization that covered up the treasure, and finally saw the treasure under close guard. Not only did he clearly see the words "500,000" and "700,000" on each crypt, but he also heard the story of many people who came to seek treasure in the name of vacation and were finally killed. But after this incident became public, many people doubted the authenticity of Frank and these treasures. A great deal of wealth plundered by the Nazis was divided and hidden, forming eight mysterious treasures, the most famous of which are: Hitler's treasure, Great Germany's treasure, Rommel's treasure, Mussolini's Lindong treasure and so on. Hitler's vault refers to the "Wolf Cave" built by Hitler in 1938. It is located in the Polish town of keitel Zan on the Grubel River. In the past, this place was also called Rastan. The "Wolf Cave" was built more than 20 meters underground, surrounded by 80 field fortifications, jagged mine nets and dead zones. During the war, Rastan was a forbidden area. From 1939 to 1944, the "Wolf Cave" was Hitler's general staff, and a series of secret military offensive plans were made here. In order to ensure the absolute secret of the "Wolf's den" project, the Nazis not only shot and killed all the 10,000 workers who participated in the project construction, but also took all the designers who developed the "Wolf's den" project on a plane, nominally transported to western Germany, but the plane suddenly exploded when landing. There is also a mint and a bank in the den. According to Nazi's later account, this mysterious underground vault contains an amazing amount of gold, silver and various treasures. However, for more than ten years after World War II, neither the Soviets nor the Poles could find this underground vault, nor did they ever find a list of this property. The so-called "treasure of great Germany" refers to a large number of German government properties that Hitler planned to hide in order to make a comeback in the future at the end of 1944, when Nazi Germany was about to collapse. This is also the first time in European history that a defeated country hides its wealth. 1April, 945, nearly a thousand trucks were found to be responsible for transferring the property of German banks. This property was then valued at 350 billion francs. In addition, there are a large number of jewels, gold bars, precious stones, rare art treasures, as well as the private property and church property of Nazi leaders. There are also properties looted from Jews in Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece and the Czech Republic, with a total value estimated at 700 billion francs. They carried out a Hitler's secret order: "in the name of' state property', hide all the treasures left in Germany at that time." This property is so huge that many people naturally covet it. After the war, many people tried to find this treasure. The allies once organized a treasure hunt. They found a batch of gold, silverware, precious stones, porcelain, statues and famous paintings worth 654.38 billion francs in a salt mine. But everyone knows that this is only the tip of the iceberg compared with all the treasures taken by the Nazis. 1960, the Israelis finally captured the man they hated most-Nazi remnant Dolf Eichmann, and found a treasure worth1900 million francs in the alpine pasture area of Blaya Ahlmer. Eichmann was later sentenced to death by the Nuremberg International Tribunal. 1946, two treasure hunters Helmut Meyer and Ludwig Petrcher entered the Austrian mountains with maps. It was not long before people found their bodies. Not far from the body, there are several hidden treasure caves that have been dug. It seems that the treasure dug up by these two men has been secretly transferred. Later, in May of this place 1952 and 1953, corpses and eight hollowed-out treasure caves were found continuously. According to the analysis of the police, all these assassinations and disappearances clearly show that the treasures hidden in the Austrian Alps are closely controlled and guarded by the former Nazi commandos. Soon, the police arrested a Nazi suspect in this area. He carried a list with the official instructions and signature of SS general F Roric: 6.6 billion Swiss francs; 9.9 billion US dollars; 14 ton gold bar; 294 diamonds and tens of thousands of works of art, but the police have never been able to open a breakthrough from him. The FBI has been searching for Nazi treasures in the Toplitz Lake area of Austria. 1959 In July, German technicians also came to this place. Using ultrasonic detectors and underwater cameras, they found 16 containers at the bottom of the lake 70-80 meters deep and salvaged some containers. People found a fake pound in the container, exactly the same as the real pound, and its value reached 65.438+000 billion francs. This batch of fake pounds came from a counterfeit master who was detained by the Germans in Saxony Hausen concentration camp. Some people think that the main treasure of the "Great German Treasure" has been transferred many times, and its main treasures are scattered around Jarstein, Salzburg and Salzburg. Some people think that the main treasure location is near the town of Ossie, because Ossie was one of the last strongholds of Nazi Germany during the war. It is estimated that Domagk's property worth 200 million yuan is hidden in Austin. The former German federal government and the Austrian government, as well as the secret agencies of France, the United States, the Soviet Union and Israel, are also trying to find this treasure here. Legally speaking, they all seem to have the right to claim this property.