End of hope: there is no Nazi treasure buried in a town

2023-05-02T16:58:04.661Z

No Nazi treasure was buried in a village, after an excavation following the publication of a map led to a treasure hunt.

No Nazi treasure was buried

in a village in the eastern Netherlands, authorities said Tuesday, after a latest dig following the publication of a map that led to a treasure hunt.

The Dutch national archives revealed in early January a document that marked, with

a red cross drawn by hand,

the place where German soldiers would have hidden a treasure estimated at the current equivalent of about

12 million dollars

but which was never found.

They found nothing more than a tire and a rifle bullet (EFE).

Excavations were already carried out in 1947, and in recent times crowds of amateur

treasure hunters

also tried to find the loot, without success.

The searches of a group of archaeologists on Monday did not yield any results either: they found nothing more than

a tire and a rifle bullet.

The map that led to the treasure hunt (AP).

"We assume that the treasure was buried in Ommeren but that it has already been unearthed," said Birgit van Aken-Quint, spokeswoman for the Buren City Council, which the village depends on.

Local archaeologists were authorized to excavate Monday in two places, on the grounds of a fruit company and next to the parking lot of a regional museum, he explained.

No jewelry, gold and precious stones

But this last excavation was far from leading to the discovery of the

chests full of jewels

, precious stones, gold coins and music boxes, as reported by the testimony of a German soldier that was published in the archival documents.

There were no chests full of jewelry, precious stones, gold coins and music boxes (AFP).

If the treasure (which was supposedly stolen after the bombing of an Arnhem (east) bank in 1944, and buried after the Allied Market Garden offensive) had been found, it would have been turned over to the state.

Now, the City Council hopes to close this chapter, after the arrival in the town of numerous people equipped with metal detectors, something that upset more than one inhabitant and forced the authorities to intervene.

AFP Agency.

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