A map that may reveal where the Nazis hid treasures they looted during World War II will be made public for the first time.
The treasure map is said to show the location where German soldiers buried a cache of valuable items stolen during the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands in 1944.
Among the items are jewelry, watches and diamonds, which according to the map are buried near the village of Arnhem in Halderland, a province in the eastern Netherlands.
The map was hidden in the National Archives of the Netherlands for decades, but now the public can view it, in addition to hundreds of other documents from the Second World War, as part of the archive's "Free Access Day", according to a report by the "Daily Mail".
The map that should show the location of the treasure (photo: screenshot, Twitter)
Over the years, several attempts have been made to find the treasure, but these have yielded nothing.
One possibility that treasure hunters managed to find it, reported NL "Times".
It is also possible that the treasure was found by passers-by who did not report it, or was collected by the Nazis before the end of the war.
According to Annette Velkens of the National Archives of the Netherlands, German soldiers "hid the stolen items in their coats" during a bank robbery.
"During the battle for Arnhem, there was an explosion at the Rotterdam Bank branch in Wolferbach."
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