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Chapter 671: Nazi Treasure
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“Authentic German dark beer! Didn’t you think they were well prepared?”
He took out a bottle of beer from the box next to him. After opening it, he took a sip of wine and a bite of meat. Sitting on the recliner, Liu Dong started eating comfortably...≦
It happened to be around noon that he was guarding two beauties, and he wasn't very full, so he would just replenish some.
"Wow, it smells so good, Liu, you are hiding here to eat by yourself without calling us!" Alyssa's character has the carelessness common among Western girls, so when she came back from the tour, she saw that Liu Dong had already
After roasting a lot of delicious food, after complaining, he picked up two barbecue sticks, put them in his mouth and started eating.
However, Mei Xue still retains the restraint common among oriental women. Although Liu Dong's barbecue makes people's lips and teeth fragrant, she still eats it in small bites and reservedly.
"Liu, thank you for your barbecue, it's really great!" Blind praised.
"You're welcome, I'm just a freeloader. When I come here, I always have to show my worth!" Liu Dong said with a smile.
Perhaps because of the short-term relationship with cannibalism, James did not target Liu Dong again this time.
"Hey, what do you think that is?" Alyssa, who was munching on a roasted chicken leg, suddenly pointed to the sea in front of her and said.
Her words suddenly drew everyone's attention away from the food.
I saw something floating on the sea more than a hundred meters away from Liu Dong, twenty or thirty meters from the coast, because the distance was too far. Except for Liu Dong, no one else could see it very clearly.
"Can't someone fall into the sea and float here?" Alyssa guessed.
Hearing this, Liu Dong glanced at the other party and realized that this woman really had a crow's mouth.
"Let's go over and take a look!" Blind said quickly.
The people who were full of curiosity glanced at each other and ran towards the coast on the right.
By the time they reached their destination, the waves had pushed what they had seen to the shore.
"Can he be saved?" James asked.
"It's been soaked in sea water like this, do you think it can be saved?" Liu Dong said.
"Humph!" James also knew that he had asked an idiot question. After glaring at Liu Dong, he looked at the body of a man lying on the shore. He was wearing a black suit but had obviously been dead for a long time!
"Hey, he seems to be holding something in his hand!" Out of curiosity, James took two steps forward and opened the right hand of the middle-aged man's corpse.
"James, you pervert, don't touch me with your hands in the future!" Alyssa complained loudly.
"Liu Dong, let's call the police!" Mei Xue, whose face turned pale, walked to Liu Dong and said.
"Xue is right, we should call the police!" Blind said after nodding.
"Alas. I originally wanted to have a relaxing island picnic, but it seems that this time it was a waste!" Alyssa complained.
"Guys, come and see, this looks like something amazing!"
James' words instantly attracted everyone's curiosity.
Although Alyssa and Mei Xue are deeply disgusted by things on dead people, women are sometimes more curious than men!
Several people gathered around James and saw clearly what he was holding. It was an animal skin about the size of an A3 paper. The skin might have turned yellow because it had been stored for a long time, but the writing on it was unknown.
What kind of writing material is used to write it? It has been soaked in sea water for such a long time and yet it has not become blurred or faded at all.
"This is the symbol of the German Nazis!"
Looking at the '10,000' symbol in the center of the animal skin, Alyssa was surprised.
There are few people in the world who don’t know the German ‘swastika’ symbol, and it often appears in the East and among Buddhists, so Liu Dong and Mei Xue are also familiar with it.
But what happens next is puzzling.
Because it is not the treasure map that everyone is expecting, but just a sentence!
"'The lovely princess has arrived, just like the morning sun shining through the dark clouds. After a long time, the bitter love they held turned into clouds in an instant...' What does this mean?" Brin
De said in surprise.
"This is a passage from Siegfried's first meeting with Clinehid in the German "Lied of the Nibelung"!" Liu Dong stared at the animal skin for a while and said.
"How do you know?" Alyssa looked at Liu Dong in surprise.
Elisa is German. She knows the "Song of the Nibelung", which is called the German epic "Iliad", but the content is not clear!
"I happened to see it some time ago!" Liu Dong smiled lightly.
Seeing that everyone was surprised by the erudition of a Chinese man, James certainly did not want his love rival to be more beautiful than before, so he quickly said: "But, why is the content of "The Song of the Nibelung" written on this obviously unusual animal skin? Is it possible that it is written on this obviously extraordinary animal skin?
Are there clues to Nazi treasure hidden in it?”
The treasures of Nazi Germany during World War II are a topic that any European is interested in and can talk about all day and all night.
Before the war began, Nazi Germany's leaders were fond of looting art through state power.
Hitler dreamed of becoming an artist, and Göring, the second-in-command of the Nazi Party, called himself a "Renaissance man". He was fond of collecting and had a wide range of interests, including paintings, jewelry, handicrafts, furniture and even rare animals. Even before the war broke out, Göring
Göring's collection "reached eight rooms." By early 1938, Göring's collection had far exceeded that of "leader" Hitler.
In Vienna, in addition to the blatant looting of Jewish shops and personal treasures by Himmler's SS and the New Austrian Nazis, the large and exquisite collections of Jewish businessmen were their first targets.
In the following year, the Nazi SS focused on 32 boxes of jewelry hidden in Vienna after the fall of the Holy Roman Empire: Charlemagne's jeweled prayer book, several scepters, globes, swords and other coronation ceremonial items.
Personal property was also constantly confiscated by the Nazi SS in the name of "protection."
Works by modern and Jewish artists like Picasso, Gauguin, Chagall and Kandinsky were labeled "degenerate art" and sold on foreign markets to enrich the treasury of the Third Reich (Nazi Germany)
.These were continuously transported to the Linz Museum, which was designed and directly controlled by Hitler.
In order to crazily plunder the world, Hitler carefully organized a special force. Their mission was to carry out large-scale robberies of precious cultural relics and gold and silver treasures from various countries.
At the same time, every time Nazi Germany occupied a country, its financial personnel immediately seized the country's gold, foreign securities, foreign exchange, etc., and levied staggering amounts of "occupation fees" from these countries. By the end of the war, the "occupation fees" alone were
The revenue was 60 billion marks. The Nazis also used various reasons to force the occupying countries to pay "fines" and "tributes." According to statistics from relevant US agencies, this amount alone amounted to 104 billion marks.
After the German "Blitzkrieg" conquered Poland, Goering ordered the looting of Polish cultural relics. Six months later, "all the cultural relics in this country have been received."
According to a secret report from German officials, as of March 1944, a total of 137 railway freight cars were loaded with cultural relics transported to Germany from Western Europe, totaling 4,174 boxes and 20,973 pieces. There were 10,890 paintings alone, most of which were masterpieces by famous artists.
.Including the famous world-class national treasure 'Amber Room'!
The cultural relics collected by Goering alone are worth 50 million marks according to his own estimation. Among them are 5,000 world-famous paintings, 160,000 jewel-inlaid treasures, and more than 2,400 pieces of ancient valuable furniture. 1,500 of these items are rare treasures.
.It’s simply a museum.
The above-mentioned treasures are all documented, and those that are not listed are countless.
After invading France, the Netherlands and other Western European countries, the Nazis created a 300-page catalog of "protected" items.
Before the Third Reich completely collapsed, the upper-level officials of the Nazi Party had formulated a careful revival plan. The Nazis had already planned to transport the wealth plundered during the war to other countries and hide it.
At the same time, the Allies were also trying their best to recover these treasures. However, they did not realize the scale of this task and the complexity of the situation until early April 1945.
Nazi gold is like a bolt of lightning streaking across the sky, giving people a chilling sense of fear.
The Second World War caused many debates and confusions, and these debates continue even more than 50 years after the war. Nazi gold is one of them.
It covers a wide range of areas and can be roughly divided into four parts: the first part is deposited in the Vatican, Switzerland, banks in South America, and even the Bank of England and the U.S. Federal Reserve; the second part was hidden during the war and used for the Nazi war effort.
After the revival; the third part was taken by senior Nazi generals who escaped sanctions; the fourth part was taken by the victorious countries.
There is considerable disagreement and much debate over the amount of this wealth. The only certainty is that the value of much of it remains difficult to estimate accurately to this day. In addition, much of the Nazi wealth may have been used for their post-war
revival.
For more than half a century from the end of World War II to now, this huge treasure, which brings together the wealth of the entire Europe, is still attracting thousands of treasure hunters. Every year, news about Nazi safeguards appears in the newspapers in various European countries. No wonder.
When James and the others see this obviously mysterious map, they will think of Nazi treasures!
"Maybe we will become great treasure hunters! In half a year, maybe a year later we will become billionaires in the eyes of the world. Blind, my friend, don't you think we should give up this damn vacation and go treasure hunting right away?
?" After James glared at Liu Dong, he stared at Blind's eyes and said excitedly.
From Blind's slightly excited look, it can be seen that he is also very interested in this map and the Nazi treasure.
But Liu Dong, who was standing next to him, shook his head secretly. Maybe this map was really related to a clue about one of the Nazi treasures, but just relying on the ghost symbols on it and going treasure hunting without any reference would be a waste of efforts.
It's very possible... to lose your life!
Thinking of this, Liu Dong subconsciously glanced at the white body that had been soaked in sea water next to him! (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!