Waiting for the train
Is one of the last mysteries of the Nazi era about to be solved?
THE hills surrounding Walbrzych, an old mining town in south-west Poland, have been a hive of activity since two men claimed last month to know the underground whereabouts of a train missing since the second world war. According to legend, the Nazis dispatched it laden with gold from the then-German city of Breslau (now called Wroclaw and in Poland) farther west in the final months of the war. It then apparently vanished near Walbrzych.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Waiting for the train”
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