1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from how 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com. Hello and welcome to the podcast. 3 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: I'm editor Candid Gibson, joined by step writer Jane McGrath. 4 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: Hey there, candas Jane. Have you ever wanted to go 5 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: out and search for very treasure? Yeah? When I was 6 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 1: a kid, definitely detector. No I didn't find any. Were 7 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: you one of those cool people on the beach with 8 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: the thin oxide from the detect that's even less cool 9 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: that you wanted to be one of those people. I 10 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: still kind of feel sad when I see these people 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: even today. I feel like that was a fad and 12 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: it shall have passed. I mean, searching on the beach 13 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:43,560 Speaker 1: for shark teeth will never be uncool or ever go 14 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 1: out of style. But it's the metal detector. Although I 15 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: don't know with a recession now, people might be that 16 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: hardhead up. That's true, we'll save. But the coolest thing 17 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: about searching for buried treasure is the prospect of keeping 18 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: what you find. But right now there's actually a scandal 19 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: with very treasure being waged in the world, and the 20 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 1: question on everyone's minds is if you have an ethical 21 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: obligation to return it and you don't who's going to 22 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: make you. That's true, and it gets into the question 23 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: of international diplomacy and laws, especially when it when it 24 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: comes to things like past wars and heinous crimes that 25 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 1: have been done in order to obtain the treasure. And 26 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: we know from the Geneva Convention that if you take 27 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 1: something valuable from a nation, that's a cultural artifact or 28 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: something of great monetary worth, you have to return it. 29 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 1: It's written there in black and white. But when you 30 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: take something from individuals, it's a little bit stickier because 31 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: then who does the restitution power fall to the country 32 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: in which the treasure is discovered, the people to whom 33 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: it is owed. And to be a little bit less vague, 34 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: what we're talking about specifically is Nazi gold. And this 35 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: is a really cool story I actually didn't know about 36 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 1: until recently, about how um if you remember or back 37 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: in history class, uh Germany UM, right before World War Two, 38 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: was actually suffering from a depression. They their economy was 39 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: not doing very well, and so in order to fund 40 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: their plans for war, obviously they wanted to invade Poland 41 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 1: and everywhere else. They needed money to do this. They 42 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: actually ended up plundering the gold supply of of other countries. 43 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: They took about four hundred million from nations proper and 44 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: one hundred forty million in gold from individuals. And to 45 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 1: make matters worse, the gold they got from individuals was 46 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 1: primarily from Jewish people who had been sent to concentration camp, 47 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 1: so they got into their safety deposit boxes their homes, 48 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: and even at the camps themselves, they would go into 49 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 1: their mouths and take gold fillings from their teeth. Yeah, 50 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: it's really horrifying to hear the stories of people watching. 51 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 1: They remember people Nazis uh ordering that they take the 52 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: gold fillings out, or taking them out after after death 53 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: and crying them out. It's really yeah. So for a 54 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: time this gold was stored in the Reich Bank, which 55 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: was the storage bank of the Third Reich. Then in 56 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: there was a bombing raid and the Nazi decided that 57 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:05,679 Speaker 1: it wasn't safe there anymore, so they moved it to 58 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: a potassium mine about two miles from Berlin. That's right, 59 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: And this wasn't too hard to find they did. They 60 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 1: did try to hide it very well, but um Americans 61 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:16,519 Speaker 1: were able to find out where it was and relatively 62 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: quickly recovered. And this was part of an operation called 63 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:24,519 Speaker 1: Operations Sunset, and I think that's when Hitler realized, oh, hey, 64 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: I think we're gonna lose the war. Let's take all 65 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: of our valuable art and gold and money and stash it. 66 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,079 Speaker 1: They did, and the German Alps. But when we the 67 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: Allies at least found this gold um, we eventually realized 68 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: that it wasn't all of it. A lot of it 69 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: was still missing, and even to this day it still is. 70 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: And not just the gold from individuals and not just 71 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: the gold from different nations treasuries than perhaps missed famously 72 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: the Amber Room, which, for those of you who aren't familiar, 73 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: this was a room from Russia's Catherine Palace and it 74 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: was just beautiful. It was called the Eighth Wonder of 75 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: the World. It was solid gold panels and they were 76 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: elaborately carved with filigree and just gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous, and 77 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: Germany came in and took them and they were last 78 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: seen in an art exhibition, and then they vanished for 79 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: all intents and purposes. And some people think that the 80 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: Allied bombs ultimately destroyed them, but some people think that 81 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 1: you can still find the Amber Room somewhere, and this 82 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: is the case with the Amber Room, would be very 83 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: clear cut. If it were actually found today, it would 84 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 1: go to um Russia because it counts as a cultural 85 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 1: artifact basically as per the Geneva Convention. But as for 86 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,799 Speaker 1: the individual gold, that's what's up for grabs. And there's 87 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 1: a couple of key players who came about really recently, 88 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: as recently as February two thousand eight, because just prior 89 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: eight years prior, rather in two thousand some German treasure 90 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: hunters that that they had found the gold and the 91 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: German Alps, but because the terrain is so rocky and 92 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: rough there, they couldn't get their hands on it, that's right, 93 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: and they just gave up because it was much too hard. Well, 94 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: enter the mirror of this little bity town called Deutsch Noydoff, 95 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 1: and his name is Heinz Peter Haustein, and he thought 96 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: that he knew where he could get his hands on 97 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: the gold. That's where he thought it was, in a 98 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: nearby area known as Deutge Catherineenberg and um So in 99 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, actually the excitement got to a 100 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: fever pitch because this other fellow um named Christian Heinisch. 101 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 1: I believe it's pronounced um. He was the son of 102 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 1: a German soldier and he found his father's journal and 103 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: he believes that it indicates where the gold is, and 104 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: that's where you know, that's where they believe it is. 105 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: He went Hunish went so far as to say that 106 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 1: they were actual coordinates and his father's journal that pointed 107 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: him to the same spot. So you have to imagine 108 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: the favor pitch because here's the mayor uh Haustein and 109 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,799 Speaker 1: here's this other guy, Hannish, and all of a sudden 110 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: they're both in the same place pointing for gold, and 111 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 1: they say it's there, So we assume that it really 112 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,720 Speaker 1: must be there. So they hire the help of some 113 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: geophysicists depend point exactly where it is because they know 114 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: that it could very well be booby trapped by the Nazis, 115 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: and they get an electromagnetic metal detector, probably more powerful 116 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: than the ones on the beach from well, I mean, 117 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,040 Speaker 1: now we're sad than mine and when the money, when 118 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: the economy gets really rough. But they think that the 119 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: gold is about sixty ft below the mountains East German 120 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: mountain side, and they started digging, but then they stopped, 121 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: that's right, and they actually they believe they are about 122 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: two tons there. So the question is like, why did 123 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:24,679 Speaker 1: they stop And the answer is, um, because they believe 124 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: it's actually booby tripped. I mean, they knew. The Nazis 125 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 1: were not dumb, and Um, it's quite possible that they 126 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: could have left explosives where they hid the gold. If so, 127 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: if they weren't careful when they start digging, um, you know, 128 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: some disaster could happen. So at what expense go after 129 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: this gold? And that's actually a very complicated answer, and 130 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw some numbers at you, guys. Um, since 131 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 1: ninety six, the gold has been recovered from the Nazis 132 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: hiding places, has been redistributed to the countries from him 133 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,840 Speaker 1: it was taken. And then there's this commission called the 134 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: Triparteche Commission. This is Britain, France and the United States 135 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 1: and they're the ones dolling it out and making sure 136 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: that it goes to the countries that lost it and 137 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: more specifically, hopefully eventually to the individuals from him it 138 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: was taken, or at least their descendants exactly. But there's 139 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 1: five and a half tons that haven't yet been returned. 140 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: And here's where things start to get fishy. The archives 141 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: of this commission have been closed and the Vaticans have 142 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: to so we're not really sure what's going on with 143 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: this gold. And there's accusations that maybe the Vatican was 144 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: laundering gold that was stolen by Croatia. And there's some 145 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: countries for sure that are refusing to return gold that 146 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: they have. And here is where it gets really really 147 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: dark and twisted. Switzerland, which for all intents and purposes 148 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: we've always heard was a neutral country, has been accused 149 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: of playing a really really menacing role in all of this. 150 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: That's right, And like speaking of treasure hunting, I mean 151 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: since world we're two, actually plenty of people have been 152 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: doing hunting in Swiss banks. If you can imagine, Um, 153 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: that's where a lot of the Nazi gold ended up. 154 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: And to explain why, um Hitler when he first plundered 155 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: this gold, he needed to be able to turn it 156 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: into usable currency. And uh so he actually chose Swiss 157 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 1: banks to do this in because they had very secure laws, 158 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: like secrecy laws, and and they were a neutral country 159 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: and they promised, you know, very secure money. So he 160 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: exchanged his gold for for their currency, and that's why 161 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: he was able to fund a lot of his a 162 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: lot of his military maneuvers. So basically one stack. Once 163 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: that UM says that they shipped six billion dollars into 164 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: the end UH sixty billion in today's money actually in 165 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:46,319 Speaker 1: assets through Switzerland, and UH. It kind of calls into 166 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: question how neutral Switzerland was in the war, if they 167 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: were able to comply with the Nazis so much. There's 168 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 1: even talk that Switzerland agreed to a few things in return, 169 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: such as agreeing not to give Jews refuge when they 170 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 1: were fleeing from the Nanties and letting trains full of 171 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 1: Jews going to concentration camps through Switzerland, and that, as 172 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: far as I know, is is up for debate. I 173 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: don't think scholars are really sure whether these trains carrying 174 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 1: prisoners to concentration camps passed through. But we do know 175 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: for a fact the trains taking people to slave labor 176 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:21,079 Speaker 1: camps for the Germans, those definitely went through, that's right, 177 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 1: and so it's caused a lot of problems. Actually, one 178 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: interesting development is that investigations into some Swiss coins have 179 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: actually found some evidence of mercury in them, and it's 180 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: really interesting because this suggests possibly that that gold actually 181 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: came originally from the fillings from some of the Jews 182 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: and the concentration camps. If you remember Candice mentioned UH 183 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: that they stole fillings from the Jews teeth and that 184 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: in Soviet a presence of mercury would suggest that that's 185 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,559 Speaker 1: originally where the gold came from. It's just so wild 186 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 1: to think about. And of course we have people today 187 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: who are saying that ultimately who needs restitution are the 188 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: um the families of Holocaust victims or the Holocaust survivors. 189 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: Their families are due restitution for this, and by the 190 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: Swiss at least agreed to UH one point to five 191 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: I think billion dollars in reparations for Jewish survivors and descendants. 192 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 1: And then Washington actually held a conference on Holocaust era assets. 193 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: And it's not just gold, it's art, it's silver, it's 194 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: other forms of wealth that's missing. And I think that 195 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:30,959 Speaker 1: they've tried to put a ballpark number on this anywhere 196 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 1: from seventy million, of which less than twenty million has 197 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: been recovered, and that doesn't necessarily mean returned, it means recovered. 198 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: And the nations in which this gold and wealth is 199 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: sometimes found are hesitant to redistribute it because they're not 200 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: sure what parties should go to, or they're not quite 201 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,559 Speaker 1: true how to manage it. But something that really struck 202 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: me as powerful when I was reading about Nazi Golden 203 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 1: reparations Ben Meade, who was a Holocaust survivor advocate and 204 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 1: who actually form the Alliance of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. He 205 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 1: said about the Holocaust and about the situation not too 206 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: gold that the biggest murder of the century was also 207 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: the biggest robbery in history. It's true considering, and it 208 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:16,559 Speaker 1: really is. And I've never thought about it like that before, 209 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: because you know, you think about these German treasure hunters 210 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,199 Speaker 1: and it seems very Indiana Jones to an extent. But 211 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: then you think that in the end, all this money, 212 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a moot point. Who gets to 213 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: keep it? To me, it seems that it should go, 214 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 1: you know, in terms of reparations families. But we shall, 215 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: we shall have to hang on and see what happens. 216 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: And we know that as of late February how Stein 217 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 1: told Hanish to get out of dortsch Off, so they 218 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: had a little you know, about where to dig. How 219 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,679 Speaker 1: much further to dig. So to date, if the gold 220 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 1: really is there in the Amber room too, it hasn't 221 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: been recovered, so we'll have to I don't think I'm 222 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,199 Speaker 1: going to go digging, considering there might be movie trips 223 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: now and there is a love replica of the Amber rooms. 224 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: Or even if it's not the real thing, you can 225 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:04,559 Speaker 1: you can still see you know what it would have 226 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: looked like, and whether or not it exists is a 227 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:10,319 Speaker 1: mystery for the ancients or for the next brave adventurer. 228 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:12,719 Speaker 1: So if you want to learn more about World War Two, 229 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: the Nazis and the Allied forces, you can read can 230 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: Treasure Hunters have Discovered Nazi Gold on how staff works 231 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: dot com for more on this and thousands of other topics. 232 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 1: Does it how stuff works dot com. 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