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By Robert Wilde, About.com Guide to European History since 2001

Treasure Hunters Confident

Saturday February 23, 2008
With the new Indiana Jones film coming out soon, what better time for a story about lost treasure. Christian Hanisch believes he has discovered the location of looted Nazi treasures – he has speculated gold or even the Amber Room – in a cavern sixty foot down near the town of Deutschkatharinenberg in Germany near the Czech Republic. He has joined forces with the town’s mayor, also an opposition member of Germany’s Parliament, Hans-Peter Haustein, and scanned the area revealing that there is something metallic down there, although it could just as easily be non-precious metals. An application has been filed for permission to drill, and it’s expected to be passed shortly. Experts are, as you’d expect, rather sceptical… Hanisch chose the current location, now under guard, after finding co-ordinates for hidden treasure listed in his papers belonging to his father, a signaller in the Luftwaffe.

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