Poland Backtracks on Nazi Gold Train Find, Asks for Army Help
- Local authorities say new documents don't confirm discovery
- Army to investigate alleged find of armored train from WWII
People walk inside the Ksiaz castle in Walbrzych, near where the 'Nazi gold train' is supposedly hidden, on Aug. 28.
Polish officials are backtracking from last week’s comments over the probable discovery of a buried German Nazi train that local legend says is laden with gold and other loot. But they’re sending in the army to investigate the potential site nevertheless.
New documents about the location of the mystery train, which disappeared 70 years ago, “aren’t any stronger than similar claims made in past decades,” Tomasz Smolarz, the head of the Lower Silesia region’s administration, said at a news conference in Wroclaw, Poland on Monday. His comments come three days after Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski said a geo-radar image of the more than 100-meter-long train he saw made the discovery “more than 99 percent certain.”