A hand-drawn map with a red letter X purportedly showing the location of a buried stash of precious jewelry looted by Nazis from a blown-up bank vault has sparked a modern-day treasure hunt.
By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA, Associated Press OMMEREN, Netherlands — A hand-drawn map with a red letter X purportedly showing the location of a buried stash of precious jewelry looted by Nazis from a blown-up bank vault has sparked a modern-day treasure hunt in a tiny Dutch village more than three quarters of a century later.
He said that"all kinds of people have been spontaneously digging in places where they think that treasure is buried — with a metal detector." "We're quite astonished about the story itself. But the attention it's getting is as well," National Archive researcher Annet Waalkens said as she carefully showed off the map.
German soldiers stationed nearby"pocket what they can get and they keep it in ammunition boxes," Waalkens said. As World War II nears its end in 1945, the Netherlands' German occupiers were pushed back by Allied advances. The soldiers who had been in Arnhem found themselves in Ommeren and decided to bury the loot.
After the unsuccesful attempts, the German soldier said"he believed that someone else has already excavated the treasure," she added.
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