The search for Nazi gold

It is said that Adolf Hitler ordered his henchmen to smuggle looted gold and art treasures out of Germany in submarines. Treasure hunter Roger Miklos has claimed to have discovered one in the past. But he died four years ago, and now other treasure hunters are trying to decipher his legacy.

The looted Nazi gold is said to be hidden on a wrecked submarine in the Caribbean. At least that's what treasure hunter Roger Miklos claims. In 1981, he said he found one of the wartime submarines. But Miklos died four years ago, taking the secret of the Nazi treasure to his grave.

German submarines plied the Atlantic during World War II. They used torpedoes to sink not only warships but also merchant ships heading from the US to the UK and the former Soviet Union. Shortly before the end of the war, Adolf Hitler is said to have ordered the use of submarines to smuggle looted artwork and gold out of Germany. But the submarines have since disappeared.

Scientists are now trying to unravel the clues from Roger Miklos, and The History Channel UK is making a documentary about it. Miklos never told anyone the exact location of his find before he died, but he did leave a trail.

He said the vessel was one of nine cargo submarines in the Turks and Caicos Islands. UK consisting of two groups of tropical islands in the Caribbean, south-east of the Bahamas).

Treasure hunter Roger Miklos' papers were obtained by diver and explorer Mike Fletcher. "We know there are billions of dollars in looted personal effects. Gold, all kinds of valuable items that were lost during the war. It's quite possible that some of it was loaded onto submarines to smuggle it out of Europe to safe harbor," Fletcher believes.

A team led by Mike Fletcher is now piecing together the clues Miklos left behind and launching a search for Nazi gold. However, all the sketches and codes are very mysterious and cannot be easily deciphered. The deceased treasure hunter was probably afraid that one of his rivals would steal his find.

The desire of some searchers to find Nazi treasure is still great more than 70 years after the end of World War II. Four years ago, for example, we wrote that a British crew had found a chest that could contain 100 million pounds of Nazi gold.

We wrote about it here: Nazi gold found...

Sources: www.news.de, www.express.co.uk