Nazi gold train found in Poland

Last week, two people in Poland said that they had found a Nazi train full of gold, gems and guns that disappeared during World War II, Polish media reported.

The train is believed to have gone missing near what is now the Polish city of Wałbrzych, as Soviet forces approached in 1945. On Wednesday, the city's authorities said at a press conference that the train was indeed found. "The find is within the administrative borders of the city. In line with the law, we are obliged to inform specific ministries, which are responsible for undertaking appropriate steps," said Zbigniew Nowaczyk, the deputy president of Wałbrzych. The media said the men want ten percent of the value of the train's contents. According to BBC, the Nazi gold train legend says that in late 1944 or early 1945, as the Red Army advanced further westwards during the final days of World War II, the authorities in the Lower Silesian capital of Breslau (Wrocław) collected several tons of gold bullion from the city's residents and deposited it in the police headquarters. The gold was then loaded on to a train that was to take it deeper into the territory of the Third Reich. But the train disappeared and when the war ended the Allies gave Lower Silesia to Poland in compensation for the larger chunk of territory it lost in the east to the Soviet Union.